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Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam announces ban on protesters wearing face masks, invokes emergency powers in bid to end unrest
• 6 years agoHong Kong's leader announced a ban Friday on protesters wearing face masks, invoking colonial-era emergency powers, in a bid to quell months of violent anti-government unrest
Hong Kong to discuss emergency laws including banning of face masks at rallies ahead of planned weekend protests
• 6 years agoHong Kong’s government is expected to discuss sweeping emergency laws on Friday that would include banning face masks at protests
Hong Kong protesters take to streets in defiance of police ban on 70th anniversary of Communist China
Fp Staff • 6 years agoTens of thousands joined anti-government demonstrations that spread across Hong Kong even as Communist leaders in Beijing celebrated 70 years in power.
Romania protests: Thousands take part in anti-government demonstrations in Bucharest; 440 injured
Fp Staff • 7 years agoTens of thousands of people in Romania flocked to the anti-government protest in Bucharest organised by expatriates on Friday, urging the left-wing ruling Social Democrat (PSD) government to resign and call an early election.
Romania protests: Hundreds injured in countrywide rallies against ruling government over corruption, weak judiciary
• 7 years agoTens of thousands of protesters rallied against the ruling Social Democrat (PSD) government on Friday in cities across Romania and the capital Bucharest where riot police fired tear gas into the crowd and hundreds needed medical attention.
Pakistan threatens to use force to remove radical Islamists outside Parliament
• 9 years agoPakistani police were readying to disperse hundreds of radical Islamists rallying outside the Parliament building if they failed to leave peacefully
Riot police intervene as anger erupts among Nepal quake survivors
Fp Archives • 10 years agoNepalese riot police battled on Wednesday to contain anger among survivors of an earthquake that killed more than 5,000 people as rescuers raced against time to find anyone else alive in the rubble of the capital Kathmandu.
Amid stone pelting, Israeli army kills Palestinian youth in West Bank
Fp Archives • 11 years agoPalestinian security officials said the stones had been thrown at military vehicles.
Palestinians to submit final draft of statehood resolution to the UN
Fp Archives • 11 years agoA Palestinian draft, submitted to the Security Council by Jordan on December 17, had called for Jerusalem to be the shared capital of Israel and a Palestinian state.
Israeli air strike hits southern Gaza killing one Hamas militant
Fp Archives • 11 years agoThe Israeli military said it acted after its troops came under fire from a sniper while they were on the Israeli side of the border fence.