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A Hong Kong court on Friday dismissed an appeal by an activist jailed for secession under a China-imposed security law to gain early release from prison. Ma Chun-man, convicted under the city's 2020 national security law (NSL), is the first such NSL defendant to lodge a legal challenge to a fresh national security law this year that gives the city's head of Correctional Services the right to reject early release of prisoners who committed national security crimes from prison for good behaviour. The new national security law, known as Article 23, states that a prisoner "must not be granted remission" unless the Commissioner of Correctional Services "is satisfied that the prisoners being granted remission will not be contrary to the interests of national security".
A group of climate vulnerable nations is using a U.N. meeting this week to push for a credit ratings overhaul, arguing ratings should reflect climate resilience measures, an advisor to the group told Reuters. The U.N. meeting in New York is the second of four to set goals for a major finance conference in Spain next year, where heads of state will look to step up efforts to meet the world's climate and sustainability targets. Proponents of the initiative say the current ratings system undermines their ability to raise funds because it focuses on the potential economic damage from their exposure to the effects of climate change.
As part of the U.S. Postal Service's "Operation Santa" program, individuals and families can write to Santa and have their Christmas wishes granted.
The state is home to nine packs and about 70 wolves, marking a triumph for nature but a challenge for ranchers
Indian police on Friday used tear gas against hundreds of farmers taking part in a march to New Delhi to demand guaranteed crop prices in a repeat of 2021 protests. Clashes broke out near Shambhu, a border crossing between northern Punjab and Haryana states, where multiple entry points into the capital have been sealed with metal barricades and barbed wire. The authorities also suspended internet service in some districts of Haryana to prevent communication among the protesters.
Armed with a growing file of clues, New York police on Friday were scouring surveillance videos and asking the public for help in their search for the masked assailant who gunned down a UnitedHealth executive on a Midtown Manhattan sidewalk. Brian Thompson, 50, the CEO of UnitedHealth's insurance unit and a father of two, was shot from behind early on Wednesday in what police described as a brazen and targeted attack. Police have released multiple photos of the suspect that were captured by security cameras from around town during his stay in New York.
In the groundswell of fury and defiance that erupted among South Koreans after their president declared martial law, curtailing the country's hard-won freedoms, it was perhaps the iconic moment. Video of the encounter quickly went viral and became a social media rallying cry that helped fuel the six-hour outburst of protest before President Yoon Suk Yeol was forced to rescind the martial law order early Wednesday morning. “For example, the citizens who couldn’t enter the National Assembly were outside, blocking the armored vehicles and showing such courage,” she said.
Activists and government officials have raised concerns about the ritualistic slaughter of thousands of animals at the temple in Nepal.
Ancient ancestors of Native Americans, known as the Clovis people, mostly ate mammoths and other large animals during the most recent ice age, according to a new study.
One protester said his jaw was broken as masked men threw him to the ground, stood on his face and jumped. Another man told CNN he had a bone fractured at the top of his spine. Some, trying to document the violence, said they had their cameras smashed or stolen, before being beaten themselves.
A Hamas official says international mediators have resumed negotiations with the militant group and Israel over a ceasefire in Gaza, and that he is hopeful a deal to end the 14-month war is within reach. Ceasefire negotiations were halted last month when Qatar suspended talks with mediators from Egypt and the United States because of frustration over a lack of progress between Israel and Hamas.
Syrian insurgents entered two central towns early Friday just north of the central city of Homs, bringing them closer Syria’s third largest city, an opposition war monitor and pro-government media both reported. The break into Rastan and Talbiseh came a day after opposition gunmen captured the central city of Hama, Syria’s fourth largest, after the Syrian army said it withdrew to avoid fighting inside the city and spare the lives of civilians. The insurgents, led by the jihadi Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group, or HTS, have said that they will march to Homs and Damascus, President Bashar Assad’s seat of power.
Millions of tons of coal ash leftover from burning the planet’s dirtiest fossil fuel sit in ponds and landfills across the US. But this waste may also be a treasure trove for the rare earth elements needed to propel the world toward clean energy.
A week after taking over the nation’s largest police department, New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch found herself reassuring New Yorkers that investigators would “not rest until we identify and apprehend the shooter” who brazenly gunned down the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare outside a Manhattan hotel.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was already grappling with controversies, including calls for his impeachment, before this week's botched martial law declaration crushed his approval ratings to a record low 13%. Yoon's quarterly approval rating fell to 24% this year, the lowest for a president's third year in office since Roh Moo-hyun's 23% in 2005-2006, according to Gallup Korea. The embattled Yoon faces an impeachment vote on Saturday for imposing martial law late on Tuesday - only to rescind it six hours later when parliament unanimously rejected the measure.
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te called on China to “open its arms rather than raise its fists” as he wrapped up his first overseas tour since taking office in May. The president spoke a day after China’s Foreign Ministry announced sanctions Thursday on 13 American companies and six executives in response to recently announced U.S. weapons sales to Taiwan. Taiwan and China split in 1949 during a civil war that saw the victorious communists take control in Beijing and the Nationalists setting up a rival government in Taiwan, an island of 23 million people off China's east coast.
Russia’s top diplomat said in an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson released Friday that Moscow doesn't want a war with the United States but will use “all means” to defend its interests. Sergey Lavrov argued that while Russia and the U.S. are officially not at war, Washington’s permission for Ukraine to use American longer-range missiles for strikes on Russian territory marked a dangerous escalation.
Police are searching for two masked suspects after a synagogue was set on fire in southeastern Australia early Friday in an attack condemned by the prime minister as an act of antisemitism.
China has banned exports of key materials used to make a wide range of products, including smartphones, electric vehicles, radar systems and CT scanners, swiping back at Washington after it expanded export controls to include dozens of Chinese companies that make equipment used to produce advanced computer chips. Both sides say their controls are justified by national security concerns and both accuse the other of “weaponizing” trade. Here’s why this could be a tipping point in trade conflict between the two biggest economies, coming at a time when antagonisms already were expected to heat up once President-elect Donald Trump takes office, given his vows to hike tariffs on imports of Chinese-made products. WHAT DID CHINA DO AND WHY?
A Chinese fishing vessel off the coast of Somalia has come under the control of alleged pirates, a European Union anti-piracy force operating in the area said Thursday.
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