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Largest Hong Kong protest in weeks stretches several miles, signals movement is undeterred by police crackdown
•Hundreds of thousands of protesters, basking in a recent election victory by Hong Kong’s pro-democracy camp, poured onto the city’s streets Sunday in one of the largest marches in weeks to pressure the government to meet demands for greater civil liberties
Hong Kong police re-enter Polytechnic University, retrieve petrol bombs; cops, protesters clash last month turned campus into battleground
•Between 26 November and 2 December, authorities seized 4,296 petrol bombs, 671 bottles of chemicals and 622 weapons, police said in a statement
'Thank you Trump': Thousands take to Hong Kong streets to welcome US president signing pro-democracy legislation
•After a week of relative calm, thousands of anti-government protesters, including many elderly residents, took to the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday chanting 'revolution of our time' and 'liberate Hong Kong'
Hong Kong protests: Michelle Bachelet asks Carrie Lam to probe into reports of excessive use of police force; China accuses UNHRC chief of fanning 'violence'
•China accused the UN high commissioner for human rights of emboldening “radical violence” in Hong Kong by suggesting the city’s leader conduct an investigation into reports of excessive use of force by police
100 protesters remain holed up inside Hong Kong university as police siege enters third day; over 4,400 agitators arrested since June
•About 100 protesters remained holed up at a Hong Kong university Tuesday as a police siege of the campus entered its third day. City leader Carrie Lam said 600 people had left the Hong Kong Polytechnic campus, including 200 who are under 18 years old
US condemns Beijing for 'unjustified use of force' in Hong Kong, urges ‘all sides to refrain from violence and engage in constructive dialogue’
•'We condemn the unjustified use of force and urge all sides to refrain from violence and engage in constructive dialogue', the senior US official said
Police storms Hong Kong university held by anti-govt protestors; agitators set fire to bridges leading to campus, hurl gasoline bombs to hold off cops
•Police breached a Hong Kong university campus held by protesters early Monday after an all-night siege that included firing repeated barrages of tear gas and water cannons
Pro-China protesters to rally in Hong Kong today to denounce increasingly violent anti-govt unrest in Beijing-ruled city
•Pro-China protesters plan to rally in Hong Kong on Saturday to denounce increasingly violent anti-government unrest in the Chinese-ruled city and support the police who have become a prime target of attack
Hong Kong protesters paralyse parts of city for fourth day as schools remain shut; demonstrators block highways, major roads
•Anti-government protesters paralysed parts of Hong Kong for a fourth day on Thursday, forcing school closures and blocking highways and other transport links to disrupt the financial hub amid a marked escalation of violence
Hong Kong Police shoots protester as flash mob rallies target rush-hour commuters on Monday; shooting broadcast live on Facebook
•A Hong Kong police officer shot at masked protesters on Monday morning, hitting at least one in the torso, as anger sparked by the recent death of a student spilled into the rush hour commute