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Judge rules Siu Lok-ting, 27, one of about a hundred protesters gathered the night of September 22, 2019, had thrown a plant and pieces of cardboard into a street bonfire, posing a danger to passers-by ‘My future was in her hands,’ distraught father cries out as family breadwinner sentenced; Siu…

Warning: Police body camera footage of the shooting of Daunte Wright. Video / @webster The US police officer who claimed to "accidentally" fire her gun instead of her taser at a 20-year-old black man, a shot that killed him, has been identified. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension identified the…

The police officer who shot a black man after a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb has been identified as a veteran of 26 years. Kim Potter shot Daunte Wright on Sunday, on the outskirts of the same city where George Floyd was killed last year. Police chiefs believe she…

Police fatally shot Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, during a traffic stop near Minneapolis Sunday, sparking protests and unrest that lasted into the night. Between the lines: The shooting in the Twin Cities suburb of Brooklyn Center, in Hennepin County, has further heightened tensions between police and the local community…

It took writer and director Aaron Sorkin fourteen years after the initial meeting with Steven Spielberg at his house on a Saturday back in 2006 to finally get “The Trial of the Chicago 7” made. And according to Sorkin, it finally came together thanks to former president Donald Trump. “I…

India protested to the United States for a navy vessel conducting a transit through its exclusive economic zone (EEZ) without consent, the foreign ministry said on Friday, in a rare row between the friendly navies of the two countries. The USS John Paul Jones "asserted navigational rights and freedoms," inside…

The Hong Kong government said on Friday that it opposes any country harbouring criminals, blasting those that do for their "barbaric interference" and warning they will pay a price for their actions. No countries or "criminals" were named in the government's statement, but the comments echoed those made by a…

Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State has berated those protesting against President Muhammadu Buhari’s medical trip to the United Kingdom. Matawalle in a statement on Thursday obtained by NaijaNews described such protest as an attack on the north. He called on political leaders to help resolve attacks on northerners in the…

Britain on Thursday condemned "bullying" by the Myanmar junta after the country's ambassador to London was ousted in an extraordinary diplomatic coup having called for the release of civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Diplomats loyal to the Myanmar military authorities seized control of the embassy on Wednesday, leaving ambassador…

Preliminary hearings were held Tuesday for three journalists detained in Yangon on Feb. 27 while covering protests of the military coup. The journalists -- Aung Ye Ko, of the 7 Day Media -- Hein Pyae Zaw of Zee-Gwet or "Owl" Media -- and freelancer Banyar Oo -- appeared in a prison court…