#BREAKING Media tycoon Jimmy Lai, 7 others handed new Hong Kong protest jail terms
#UPDATE Jailed Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai is among eight democracy activists handed new prison sentences today for attending protests on the 70th anniversary of the founding of modern China
📸 Pro-democracy activists walk to a prison van before being driven to court
Democracy activists handed new jail terms over Hong Kong protests.
The new sentences are the latest in a relentless campaign by China to smother dissent and dismantle Hong Kong's democracy movement
📸 Former lawmakers Leung Kwok-hung and Lee Cheuk-yan
Hong Kong democracy activist Figo Chan says jail will make him 'a better man'.
"I think we are at a low point," Chan tells @AFP. But while the democracy movement is on its knees, Chan is convinced Hong Kongers will one day take to the streets again
#BREAKING Second volcano erupts near DR Congo's Goma city: govt
#UPDATE A second volcano erupted Saturday near the eastern DR Congo city of Goma, a week after Mount Nyiragongo roared back into life, causing devastation and sparking an exodus
📸 Flames spew from the Nyiragongo volcano near the Congo on May 22
#UPDATE A second volcano erupted Saturday near the eastern DR Congo city of Goma, a week after Mount Nyiragongo roared back into life, causing devastation and sparking an exodus u.afp.com/UhbW
#BREAKING Three French police wounded as suspect in knife attack detained
#UPDATE Three French gendarmes were wounded in an operation that resulted in the arrest of the suspect in a stabbing attack on a policewoman that left her badly injured
📸 Police guard the site where a colleague was stabbed in La Chapelle-sur-Erdre, western France
#UPDATE French police on Friday detained a man suspected of badly wounding a policewoman in a stabbing in the west of France, with the security forces on edge after a spate of attacks on their ranks in the last months u.afp.com/Uh8A
#BREAKING Juventus sack coach Pirlo after one season: statement
#UPDATE Juventus have sacked coach Andrea Pirlo after a single season in charge, the deposed Italian champions said in a statement on Friday
#UPDATE Juventus released a statement headlined "Good Luck, Andrea Pirlo" after a season in which Cristiano Ronaldo and his teammates lost the Serie A title to Inter Milan and were eliminated in the last 16 of the Champions League u.afp.com/Uh7G
#BREAKING Russia says West's ban on flights over Belarus 'endangers' passengers
#UPDATE Russia says Western countries are being irresponsible and endangering passengers by banning flights over Belarus in response to Alexander Lukashenko's forced grounding of a Ryanair flight
#UPDATE Russia on Friday threw its weight behind Belarus's increasingly isolated regime, slamming a European overflight ban as President Vladimir Putin prepared to host strongman Alexander Lukashenko u.afp.com/Uh7y
#BREAKING Germany says committed genocide in Namibia during colonial rule
#UPDATE Germany for the first time says it committed genocide in Namibia during its colonial occupation.
German settlers killed tens of thousands of indigenous Herero and Nama people in 1904-1908 massacres - labelled the first genocide of the 20th century u.afp.com/UhmC
#BREAKING Germany's genocide recognition 'step in right direction': Namibia govt
#BREAKING Syrian President Assad re-elected with 95% of votes, according to parliamentary head
#UPDATE Bashar al-Assad has been re-elected for a fourth term as president of war-ravaged Syria, official results showed, despite Western accusations the polls were "neither free nor fair" u.afp.com/UhWt
#BREAKING Russia hails Assad's 'decisive' poll victory