CHICAGO (Reuters) – Many Chicagoans vehemently oppose President Donald Trump’s promise to send federal officials to the third-largest city in the US, after seeing camouflaged agents deployed to a Portland club and protesters anti-racism with tear gas. Chicago Police shell markers are seen where a 37-year-old man riding a bicycle …
Read More »Republican Senator Tom Cotton calls slavery a ‘necessary evil’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – United States Republican Senator Tom Cotton described slavery as “a necessary evil” in an attack published in a New York Times initiative to make slavery the focal point of American history for women. American schools. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) speaks during a Senate Intelligence …
Read More »Banned in China, some Falun Gong fear Hong Kong’s new national security law
HONG KONG (Reuters) – On Sunday, July 5, five days after China enacted a new national security law in Hong Kong, Yang Xiaolan and three dozen members of Falun Gong were standing in a public park, holding their arms spread over closed eyes while meditating. soundtrack mixed with birdsong. Yang …
Read More »Global prospects weaken for China’s tech champions as big powers collide
SHANGHAI / BEIJING (Reuters) – The global ambitions of Huawei Technologies founder Ren Zhengfei are marked in brick and mortar at a new company campus in southern China, where the buildings are replicas of European cities. FILE PHOTO: Employees are seen after a day of work at the new Huawei …
Read More »‘Delicious Taxes’: Thai Protesters Use Cartoon Japanese Hamster to Mock Government
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Hundreds of Thai protesters sang a jingle of Japanese cartoons on Sunday with taunts mocking the government as hungry hamsters feast on taxpayer money, part of a new youth protest movement that they say are using whimsical tactics for serious purposes. Thai youth have been challenging the …
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