Hong Kong citizens step up protests as riot police withdrawn
Roads blocked, banks and schools closed, as thousands join unprecedented demonstrations disrupting daily life
Thousands of Hong Kong citizens protested across the city on Monday, blocking roads and prompting the closure of banks and schools, as they stepped up their calls for democracy.
Police attempts to use teargas to clear huge protests from Admiralty and Central in downtown Hong Kong late on Sunday backfired by spurring more people to take to the streets, with numbers peaking in the tens of thousands. Fresh protests sprang up in Causeway Bay and Mongkok, in Kowloon.
Parts of the financial hub, generally known for its orderliness, were paralysed by the demonstrators. The government announced on Monday morning that riot police had been taken off the streets as citizens “have mostly calmed down” and urged people to unblock roads and disperse.
Jennifer Clement: 'Girls hide from drug cartel in self-dug holes'
American-Mexican author Jennifer Clement's newest book portraits the life of young girls in rural Mexico. For her novel, she spent a decade investigating the Mexican drug trafficking cartel. DW met Clement in Germany.
DW: Miss Clement, your newest book, "Prayers for the Stolen," is about the brutal kidnapping of young girls by the Mexican drug trafficking cartel. Large parts of the book are based on in-depth research you conducted over the last decade. How exactly did you get access to your interview partners, which include the women of major Mexican drug lords?
Jennifer Clement: The research took about ten, eleven years and had different stages. At first I didn't know I was going to write this book. I was just interested in Mexican drug culture, so I was interviewing women in hiding that were the women of drug traffickers. Then I sort of got immersed in what the world of drug trafficking was like, which contributed to the idea to write a book about it. But then it became way too dangerous to continue with that work because the violence escalated in Mexico, and so I had to stop doing that.
Vladimir Putin May Threaten World War 3, But Thousands Of Russians Are Marching For Ukraine
When Vladimir Putin discusses the possibility of World War 3 he appears to be speaking out of both sides of his mouth. Putin extends an olive branch by declaring Russia has no plans for “large-scale conflicts” over the Ukraine war, yet at the same time makes threatening statements about Russia’s nuclear weapons and the Russian military’s ability to invade eastern European nations. Tens of thousands of Russian apparently feel enough is enough and have been marching in protest in Moscow.
In a related report by The Inquisitr, former presidential adviser Andrey Illarionov claimed that Vladimir Putin has been planning for a major war since at least 2003. But Nigel Farage, leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party, suggests that the U.S. and Russia need to stop squabbling over Ukraine and instead enlist Putin to focus on the larger threat of the Islamic State. There’s also some who blame the United States for instigating World War 3, although some conspiracy theorists go way out into left field by suggesting a Jewish conspiracy out of Israel is pushing for WW3.
Liberia health chief quarantined over Ebola |
Chief medical officer Bernice Dahn opted to put herself and team in isolation after aide died of fatal Ebola virus. |
Liberia's chief medical officer has put herself and her staff in isolation after her aide died of Ebola, officials have said.
Dr Bernice Dahn, who is also a deputy health minister, opted to put herself in quarantine on Sunday following her assistant's death on Thursday.
Dahn and her assistant's staff, whom she also quarantined, will remain under observation for 21 days, the full incubation period of the virus.
Four West African nations had confirmed cases of Ebola.
Dahn and her assistant's staff, whom she also quarantined, will remain under observation for 21 days, the full incubation period of the virus.
Four West African nations had confirmed cases of Ebola.
Liberia has been hardest hit. According to a World Health Organisation count released on Saturday, 1,830 or 3,458 people infected in the country had died.
Greater China
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It's becoming easier to understand why the People's Republic of China landed on Ilham Tohti, the Uyghur "public intellectual", like a ton of bricks.
Judging from the admittedly selective excerpts used at the kangaroo court to damn him to "indefinite detention", reported perhaps not inaccurately in the West as a "life sentence", Ilham had hoped to use his bully pulpit at a Xinjiang university to nurture a cadre of students with a strong sense of Uyghur identity, alienated from the PRC regime and convinced of the right and
need to agitate for greater Xinjiang autonomy in the face of an alien occupying power.
Then, perhaps, Xinjiang politics would have evolved into the politics of perpetual, continually aggravated, and burgeoning grievance and ever-more-entrenched spirit of resistance that one sees in Palestine - or on the streets of Hong Kong today.
Judging from the admittedly selective excerpts used at the kangaroo court to damn him to "indefinite detention", reported perhaps not inaccurately in the West as a "life sentence", Ilham had hoped to use his bully pulpit at a Xinjiang university to nurture a cadre of students with a strong sense of Uyghur identity, alienated from the PRC regime and convinced of the right and
need to agitate for greater Xinjiang autonomy in the face of an alien occupying power.
Then, perhaps, Xinjiang politics would have evolved into the politics of perpetual, continually aggravated, and burgeoning grievance and ever-more-entrenched spirit of resistance that one sees in Palestine - or on the streets of Hong Kong today.
29 September 2014 Last updated at 01:39
Sumo shines in the US
In Long Beach recently, 70 men and 15 women from more than a dozen countries participated in a sport that isn't commonly associated with Southern California: sumo wrestling.
The US Sumo Open has grown to become the largest amateur sumo competition outside of Japan. And while it's probably a bit premature to claim that sumo is the next soccer, the sport has a lot to offer American watchers. Like instant gratification.
Sumo matches are incredibly short-in some cases, five seconds short. There are no commercial breaks and no stops to review the plays.
Even the rules are simple: Push your opponent out of the ring or to the ground. No points necessary.
"With sumo, it's relatively straightforward, even for a beginner, to understand what happens," says Andrew Freund, the founder of the US Sumo Open and a lightweight sumo champion.
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