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Police fire tear gas at protesters near the government headquarters in Hong Kong on July 2, 2019. (Anthony WALLACE / AFP)
July 1, 2019, 11:07 pm
Hong Kong police retake parliament after anti-government protests escalate
Thousands of masked demonstrators broke into legislature, toppling portraits of leaders and defacing building
By Jerome TAYLOR and Elaine Yu
Riot police shout at protesters during clashes after a rally against a controversial extradition law proposal in Hong Kong on June 10, 2019 (Philip Fong/AFP)
June 9, 2019, 11:29 pm
Violent clashes after huge Hong Kong demo against China extradition law
Violence flares as police try to clear protesters outside parliament; organizers say over a million people take part in march, largest protest since city’s 1997 handover to China
By Jerome TAYLOR and Elaine Yu
Protesters march along a downtown street against the proposed amendments to an extradition law in Hong Kong, June 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
June 9, 2019, 4:13 pm
Huge Hong Kong protest against China extradition law
Crowd calls to scrap planned bill to allow extraditions to countries without treaty, including China; police say at least 153,000 started march, but new people still joining
By Jerome TAYLOR and Elaine Yu
Children use basins to cross a flooded street in the aftermath of Super Typhoon Mangkhut at Salonga Compound in Calumpit, Bulacan, on September 16, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / NOEL CELIS)
September 16, 2018, 3:12 pm
Typhoon lashes south China after killing 49 in the Philippines
Dozens feared buried in landslides after biggest storm of 2018 devastates the Philippines’s agricultural heartland
By Elaine Yu and Purple Romero
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