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 A 70-year-old man became the second to die in a week of unrest in Hong Kong yesterday, after he was reportedly hit with a brick during a clash between pro-democracy protesters and government supporters.  The unnamed man was using a lunch break from his cleaning job to clear bricks from the streets that had been thrown…

Sri Lankans were once kidnapped by state-sponsored death squads in white vans before being tortured, killed and their bodies fed to crocodiles, a man claiming to be a former driver and eyewitness has alleged. Anthony Fernando, who was introduced by the South Asian nation’s current health minister at a dramatic press conference on Sunday, accused…

Only the clicking of cameras broke the silence in Room 1100 of the Longworth House Office Building when Bill Taylor and George Kent rose together to take their oath.  Mr Taylor in a black suit, Mr Kent wearing his trademark bow tie, they stood alone not just before the few hundred people present but millions…

Radicalised Islamic State women held in al-Hol detention camp in northern Syria have been mobilising friends and family to organise a prison break. Fears are now growing of a possible escape as the Kurds who operate the camp have been forced to redeploy troops to the border to fight the Turkish invasion into northern Syria. Click…

The death toll for wildfires raging across Australia’s most populous state has risen to four as authorities warned Thursday of worsening weather conditions to come. A body was found late Wednesday in a scorched forest near the town of Kempsey in northeast New South Wales, police said. He is suspected to be a 58-year-old man who…

Protesters in Hong Kong have added to their arsenal javelins and bows and arrows, in addition to bricks and petrol bombs as they clash with police armed with tear gas, water cannon, and live bullets, in violent standoffs now spilling into university campuses. Some of the sharpest clashes have taken place at the Chinese University…

Prague’s Charles University has closed its Czech-Chinese Centre, rector Tomas Zima said on Wednesday, after local media reports that some of its staff had failed to declare payments from the Chinese embassy intended to support its programmes. The reports, published in October, prompted the secretary of the centre to resign. Mr Zima made his announcement…

The jury in the Grace Millane murder trial was shown the second police interview with her accused killer today, in which he claimed that “rough sex” had been her idea and that he had attempted suicide after realising she was dead. In his first police interview the 27-year-old New Zealand man claimed he and Ms…

Former democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is among several top Myanmar officials named Wednesday in a case filed in Argentina for crimes against Rohingya Muslims, the first time the Nobel Laureate has been legally targeted over the crisis. Rohingya and Latin American human rights groups submitted the lawsuit in Argentina under the principle of "universal jurisdiction," a…

New Zealand lawmakers passed a bill on Wednesday that would legalise euthanasia, paving the way for the public to vote on the issue in a referendum next year. The bill, which enables terminally ill people to request a medically assisted death, was passed 69-51 in parliament, after several amendments and years of heated debate. Previous attempts by…