Bloomberg Hong Kong police fired multiple rounds of tear gas at protesters who rallied for a 22nd consecutive weekend despite authorities denying them a permit to gather. Police arrested dozens, and deployed a water cannon on black-clad demonstrators who had built barricades and threw fire-lit objects in Wan Chai on Hong Kong Island. Arsonists set alight an exit of a ...

Bloomberg The death toll from an attack on an army post in eastern Mali rose to 54, making it one of the deadliest assaults on security forces since separatists and radical insurgents seized swathes of the nation’s north in 2012. The latest estimate of casualties was announced by government spokesman Yaya Sangare in a statement on Twitter. Reinforcements dispatched to ...

Bloomberg In the week Boris Johnson became British PM, two men in northeast England were jailed for throwing bricks through the office windows of their local member of parliament in a politically motivated attack. The lawmaker, Helen Goodman, voted to stay in the European Union. People in her district of Bishop Auckland voted overwhelmingly to leave and she says she ...