overnight News of 11/23/19

Amnesty International Says The Smog Choking Lahore Is Putting Every Resident’S Health At Risk

Amnesty International called Friday for its supporters to speak out on behalf of the residents of Lahore, where hazardous smog is putting thousands of lives at risk. Pakistan’s second-largest city has not had a single day of healthy air this ...

Attorney General Barr To Unveil Plan On Missing And Murdered Native Americans

(PABLO, Mont.) — Attorney General William Barr will announce a nationwide plan on Friday to address the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous people as concerns mount over the level of violence they face. Barr will announce the plan, ...

Legislation Aimed At Protecting Human Rights In Hong Kong Is Heading To The White House. Here’S What To Know

Congress overwhelmingly passed legislation this week supporting the protests in Hong Kong, which have raged for nearly half a year. The bill, known as the “Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act,” will head to President Donald ...

Singapore ‘Repatriates’ Hongkonger Who Held Political Meeting, Report Says

A Hong Kong resident living in Singapore has been “repatriated” home after organizing an illegal gathering of mostly ethnic Chinese last month to talk about the ongoing protests, according to local media reports . Restaurant owner Alex ...

Google To Limit Who Can Be Targeted By Political Advertising

(SAN FRANCISCO) — Google is making it harder for political advertisers to target specific types of people. The company said that as of January, advertisers will only be able to target U.S. political ads based on broad categories such as ...

Aung San Suu Kyi To Lead Myanmar Team Contesting Rohingya Genocide Case At World Court

(YANGON, Myanmar) — Myanmar said Wednesday its leader Aung San Suu Kyi will head the legal team contesting a genocide case filed against it in the International Court of Justice over the crackdown on Rohingya Muslims two years ago that set off ...

Five Journalists Are Suing The U.S. Government After Border Officials Questioned Them At Length

(SAN DIEGO) — Five American journalists sued the U.S. government Wednesday, alleging border authorities violated their First Amendment rights by inspecting their cameras and notebooks and questioning them extensively about their coverage of last ...

Bloomberg Is Spending $15-20 Million To Register Voters In Battleground States

(WASHINGTON) — As he moves toward a presidential announcement, New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg is rolling out plans to spend an estimated $15 million to $20 million on a voter registration drive designed to weaken President Donald ...

Hong Kong Protestors Built A ‘Fully Functioning City’ Inside A Besieged University. Here’S What It Looked Like

Anti-government protesters have been holed up in a Hong Kong university for days, surrounded by police. Photographer Bing Guan has spent the last five days with them, documenting the siege—and at the time of publication of these images he ...

Prince Andrew Shunned By More Organizations After Controversial Interview On Jeffrey Epstein

(LONDON) — Britain’s Prince Andrew faced further disgrace Tuesday as charitable partners and educational institutions began to distance themselves from him amid unfavorable fallout from an interview on his friendship with sex offender ...

Senate Passes Bill Supporting Human Rights In Hong Kong As Protests Show No Sign Of Abating

(WASHINGTON) — The Senate on Tuesday easily approved a bill to support human rights in Hong Kong following months of often-violent unrest in the semi-autonomous Chinese city. The Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act was passed by voice ...

Hong Kong University Standoff Continues As A New Police Chief Is Appointed To Handle Unrest

At least 600 protesters who had barricaded themselves inside a Hong Kong university have surrendered as of Tuesday, following a dramatic, days-long standoff that involved brazen escapes and some of the most violent confrontations seen in nearly six ...

The U.S. Is Failing To Stop China From Stealing Research From American Universities, A Report Says

(WASHINGTON) — The United States government has failed to stop China from stealing intellectual property from American universities and lacks a comprehensive strategy for dealing with the threat, a congressional report concluded Monday. The ...

Trump’S Unscheduled Hospital Visit Raises Suspicions About His Health

(WASHINGTON) — A lack of notice. Past failures to level with the American people. A tough week for the White House as public impeachment hearings got under way. Add it all up, and President Donald Trump’s unscheduled weekend visit to ...

Hong Kong Police Storm University Campus Occupied By Protesters

Police briefly stormed Hong Kong’s Polytechnic University Monday morning after a violent, days-long siege on the protester-occupied campus saw some of the most violent battles since the unrest began six months ago. Protesters have spent days ...

Lawyers And Bankers Join Radicals At The Barricades As Hong Kong’S Protests Rock The City’S Financial District

T.C. usually spends his lunch break eating in one of the many restaurants near his office with his law-firm colleagues, chatting casually about the cases they’re working on. But lately, he’s been skipping lunch altogether to join hundreds ...

Foreign Students Are Fleeing Hong Kong As Protests Escalate On College Campuses

On Tuesday night, an American exchange student in Hong Kong received an email from her university back in the States. “Urgent & Important,” read the subject field. It said that because of protests at the Chinese University of Hong Kong ...

Australian Carrier Qantas Tests A 19 ½ Hour London-Sydney Flight

(PERTH, Australia) — Australia’s national carrier Qantas on Friday successfully completed a 19-and-a-half hour non-stop flight from London to Sydney, which was used to run a series of tests to assess the effects of ultra long-haul flights ...

Traveling To Hong Kong? Here’S What You Need To Know

Protests have been roiling Hong Kong for the past five months, but a significant escalation this week has seen public transportation shutdowns, violent protests across the territory and, as of Wednesday, foreign universities recalling their students ...

70-Year-Old Man Dies In Hong Kong Protests As Xi Jinping Calls For An End To The Unrest

Another person in Hong Kong has died in protests that have convulsed the financial hub since June, a tragedy that comes just after China’s leader issued his most direct rebuke of the unrest yet. A 70-year-old cleaner who was believed to have ...