Xi Jinping warns Hong Kong over sovereignty 'red line'
Chinese President Xi Jinping has warned against "impermissible" challenges to Beijing's authority over Hong Kong.
Mr Xi was speaking at the swearing-in of the territory's new leader Carrie Lam, as it marks 20 years since its handover to China from Britain.
He took part in a series of lavish events, including a flag-raising ceremony, amid tight police security.
But clashes took place between pro-democracy and pro-Beijing demonstrators close to the site. Several were held.
The visit was Mr Xi's first to the city since becoming leader in 2013 and comes three years after mass pro-democracy rallies crippled parts of the territory for months.
China 'humiliating' the UK by scrapping Hong Kong handover deal, say activists
Pro-democracy leaders say Britain has ‘legal, moral and political responsibility’ to stand up to Beijing
Hong Kong democracy activists have accused Chinese president Xi Jinping of “humiliating” the British government by appearing to rubbish the deal that secured the former colony’s return to China by guaranteeing its way of life for 50 years.
On Friday, the eve of the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover, on 1 July 1997, Beijing controversially announced that the Sino-British joint declaration was “now history” and no longer had “any practical significance nor any binding force”.
“The British side has no sovereignty, no power to rule and supervise Hong Kong after the handover. It is hoped that relevant people will come around to this,” foreign ministry spokesperson Lu Kang told reporters.Arkansas nightclub shooting: at least 17 injured after gunman opens fire at Little Rock concert
Officers confirmed that the shooting came after 'some sort of dispute broke out between people inside' at a concert in Power Ultra LoungeGreg Wilford
At least 17 people have been left injured after a gunman opened fire at a nightclub in Little Rock, Arkansas, according to police.
Officers said via Twitter that all the victims at the Power Ultra Lounge are alive and one who was previously listed in critical condition is now stable.
Shocking footage has now emerged of the incident on social media.
Instagram user themelaninpot posted a video showing the moment shots rang out, and added: "Shooting in #littlerock #arkansas this is outrageous. Our hearts and prayers go out to everyone there.
Turkey's Erdogan slams opposition as 'justice march' nears Istanbul
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday accused Turkey's main opposition party of siding with terrorism, as a three-week "march for justice" led by its chief neared its ending point of Istanbul.
Some analysts have seen the 450-kilometre (280 miles) trek from Ankara to Istanbul led by Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu as a significant challenge to Erdogan but the Turkish strongman has regarded it with disdain.
Kilicdaroglu began the march on June 15 after former journalist turned CHP lawmaker Enis Berberoglu was sentenced to 25 years in jail for leaking classified information to a newspaper.
London's searing month of terror, trauma and political upheaval
June was merciless in its shock and trauma. Just as Londoners -- in all their rich diversity -- had begun to absorb the terrible details of one outrage, they'd wake up to some new horror.
Terrorist attacks and a devastating fire are seared into our memories: the volley of police shots at Borough Market repeated on TV, and the screams for help from blazing Grenfell Tower heard in mobile phone recordings posted to social media. At least 89 people dead altogether.
Then there was the election result. Less traumatic, of course, but still, another shock. This is probably how historians will remember this time -- Theresa May, barely clinging to power, and starting negotiations to take Britain out of the European Union.
THE UNCLAIMED DEAD
In Texas, the Bodies of Migrants Who Perished in the Desert Provide Clues to the Living
The bodies are typically found by accident. A decaying corpse drying out in the Texas sun, stumbled upon by a hunter or ranch hand. A call might be placed to the sheriff’s office or the remains might be loaded into the back of a pickup truck. Often, they will be delivered to a rural cemetery where paperwork may or may not be filled out before they are lowered into a hole in some unclaimed corner of the graveyard. Sometimes, a tin marker bearing words such as “unidentified male” or “unidentified female” will be left to signal the deceased’s final resting place, but often not. And so it has been for years in Brooks County, an expanse of sprawling ranches some 75 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, where more than 550 dead migrants have been found since 2009, marking the highest total for any county in the state.
Japan reveals plans to put a man on moon by 2030
By Rodger Bosch
Japan has revealed ambitious plans to put an astronaut on the moon around 2030 in new proposals from the country's space agency.
This is the first time the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has said it aims to send an astronaut beyond the International Space Station, an agency spokeswoman told AFP.
The idea is to first join a NASA-led mission in 2025 to build a space station in the moon's orbit, as part of a longer-term effort by NASA to reach Mars.
Tokyo hopes that contributing to the multinational mission and sharing Japanese technology will land it a coveted spot at the station, from which it could eventually send an astronaut to the moon, the spokeswoman said.
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