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Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam is shown walking into a room and holding a blue folder.

Hong Kong election postponed for one year; Eurozone economy down more than 12%; Isaias now a hurricane heading toward Bahamas

Top of The World

Beijing-backed Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has announced the upcoming parliamentary elections for September will be delayed a year. And, the coronavirus pandemic has had a blistering impact on the 19-country eurozone economy, which shrank more than 12% in the last quarter. Also, the US National Hurricane Center says Storm Isaias has strengthened into a hurricane near the Bahamas, prompting widespread concerns amid the coronavirus crisis.

A close-up photograph of Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam who is shown wearing a face mask and glasses.

Hong Kong postpones elections by a year, citing coronavirus

Hong Kong politics
A helmeted head is blurry in the foreground, behind it, a line of protesters on a balcony

The problem with offers of citizenship to those fleeing Hong Kong

Global Politics
Incumbent Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, right, and Vice President-elect William Lai wave to their supporters after their election victory at a rally, outside the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan, on January 11, 2020.

Analysis: Taiwan’s election shows youth resistance to China

Protesters in Hong Kong wearing gas masks.

Is there hope for a Hong Kong revolution?

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China’s internal suppression troops have plans for Hong Kong

Hong Kong politics

Belonging to China, but gifted with a more liberal legal system, Hong Kong is in the throes of a self-proclaimed “revolution.” Its adherents say they are simply fighting for basic rights such as free speech and fair elections.

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Why Hong Kong’s secret societies are attacking protesters

Why would Hong Kong’s mafioso take time away from extorting shopkeepers and dealing heroin to beat down protesters?

A traffic light reading "Free HK" across the red and yellow lights.

How close are Hong Kong’s protests to China’s ‘red line’?

Conflict & Justice

Protests against an extradition bill in Hong Kong have become a self-described “revolution” inside the largest authoritarian nation on earth. But how much more dissent will Beijing tolerate?

People attend a rally in support of demonstrators protesting against proposed extradition bill with China, in Hong Kong, China, June 14, 2019.

Hongkongers wield ‘people power’ to protest extradition to mainland

Global Politics

Hundreds of thousands took to the streets of Hong Kong this week to protest the extraditions bill. The bill threatens the rule of law and autonomy of Hong Kong.

Thousand of people are shown in the streets of Hong Kong with several holding placards.

Hong Kong pushes bill allowing extraditions to China despite biggest protest since handover

Justice

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam vowed on Monday to push ahead with amendments to laws allowing suspects to be extradited to mainland China a day after the city’s biggest protest since its handover from British to Chinese rule in 1997.

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