#BREAKING Hong Kong police raid pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, arrest five executives: police
#UPDATE Hong Kong police have raided the offices of pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily and arrested five executives under the city's national security law, including its chief editor Ryan Law
Cheung Kim Hung, CEO and Executive Director of Next Digital Ltd which owns Apple Daily, is escorted by police into the newspaper offices in Hong Kong.
The paper broadcast live footage on its Facebook account of the police raid on the newsroom
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VIDEO: Hong Kong police raid pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily
Hong Kong police surround the offices of pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily after arresting five of its executives under the city's national security law, including chief editor Ryan Law
#BREAKING Hong Kong police say HK$18m (US$2.3m) in Apple Daily assets frozen under security law
#UPDATE More than 500 police executed a dawn raid on Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily. Police say the raid was sparked by news articles "appealing for sanctions" against Hong Kong and China's leaders
📸 Apple Daily editor-in-chief Ryan Law is detained
#BREAKING Apple Daily says Hong Kong press freedom 'hanging by a thread' after police raid
#UPDATE Apple Daily warns Hong Kong's press freedoms are "hanging by a thread".
Pro-democracy paper vows to "stand tall" after hundreds of police raid newsroom, remove computers and arrest chief editor and executives under new national security law
#BREAKING UK says China 'targeting dissenting voices' in Hong Kong: foreign minister
#UPDATE UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Thursday said China was using security legislation to "target dissenting voices" in Hong Kong after arrests at the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily
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#BREAKING 104 police, 30 journalists among injured in Bangladesh clashes: TV
#UPDATE Protesters in Bangladesh set fire to several government buildings during a day of deadly nationwide clashes between students and riot officers, a police statement said.
"The miscreants have already torched, vandalised and carried out destructive activities," on the offices of state broadcaster BTV and the national disaster management agency along with "various" police and government buildings, said the statement, issued after a nationwide internet shutdown
Bangladesh wakes to torched government buildings, internet blackout.
This week's unrest has killed at least 39 people including 32 on Thursday, with the toll expected to rise further after reports of clashes in nearly half of the country's 64 districts
#BREAKING Biden says still considers Xi a 'dictator'
#UPDATE US President Joe Biden said after a summit with Xi Jinping that he still considers the Chinese president a "dictator", after he sparked fury from Beijing by making the comparison earlier this year.
"Well look he is, I mean he's a dictator in the sense that he's a guy who's running a country, a Communist country, that's based on a form of government totally different than ours," Biden said at the end of a news conference when a reporter asked if he would still use the term to describe Xi
#BREAKING China will not begin armed conflict with any nation, President Xi Jinping said Wednesday, after a high-stakes summit with US President Joe Biden.
"China does not seek spheres of influence, and will not fight a cold or hot war with any country," he told a gathering of business leaders in San Francisco
#BREAKING Any compromise with Russia will 'destroy' Ukrainian statehood: presidential aide to AFP
#BREAKING Putin says West used grain deal for 'political blackmail'
VIDEO: Ukrainian firefighters battle flames after a Russian strike on Odesa.
Ukraine's president accused Russia of deliberately targeting grain export infrastructure in the city after Moscow ended a landmark deal and lifted security guarantees in the Black Sea
#BREAKING Putin says situation 'difficult' in Rostov in southern Russia
#UPDATE Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday acknowledged a "difficult" situation was unfolding in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don, where the Wagner mercenary group has taken control of key military sites in an effort to oust Russian military's top brass.
#UPDATE President Vladimir Putin vowed Saturday he would not allow Russia to slip into civil war, after the leader of the Wagner mercenary force seized a key military headquarters overseeing the offensive in Ukraine.
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