Matt Frei
Hong Kong’s protesters are digging in for the long haul
This is Maidan at 35 degrees and 98 percent humidity. There is the same sense of quiet determination and organisation. They are digging in for the long haul.
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Big stakes in Hong Kong – are these the final hours?
Will demonstrators return to work or stay out to prolong their protest? As China stiffens its tone, Hong Kong’s chief executive mulls a momentous decision.
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Arrests in Hong Kong as rival protesters clash
Thousands of rival protesters face off in Hong Kong resulting in 19 arrests, prompting fears that the unrest could take a violent turn.
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Hong Kong clashes break out after counter-protest
I am standing next to a hundred or so student protestors who look very young and very scared. Just 15 metres or so away are hundreds of angry people shaking their fists and screaming at them.
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Hong Kong chief executive agrees to talks with protesters
Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying says he will not step down in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations – but agrees to hold talks with protest leaders.
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Pro-democracy protesters gather in Hong Kong on 'National Day'
The underlining concern here is that a rapid escalation of the protests may provoke the authorities – and in particular the Chinese government – into using force against the demonstrators.
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Matt Frei
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Lindsey Hilsum
Hong Kong and the People’s Republic of Censors
If you want to buy a yellow ribbon to tie round your ponytail, don’t bother to look online in China. The phrase “yellow ribbon” has been censored. And it’s not hard to work out why.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Hong Kong: how much unrest will China tolerate?
The demonstrators are a new generation, but they all know what happened in Tiananmen Square on 4 June 1989, when the Communist Party crushed a student protest in Beijing with tanks.
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Decision time in Hong Kong
Hong Kong descends into chaos as the city’s youthful protesters decide how far they want to push a pro-democracy movement in order to shut down the global financial hub.
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Kylie Morris
A policeman raised his rifle and pointed it directly at us
Peaceful protests in Ferguson quickly escalated last night, and we met a white police officer who pointed his gun at us and protesters, sweeping it from side to side.
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Ferguson and the post-TV protest: ‘The media abandoned us’
We have had social media revolutions. Now it’s the turn of the so-called “post-TV” protest, with clashes in Ferguson being live-streamed by demonstrators – and racking up millions of views.
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Jonathan Miller
Live from West Bank on ‘day of rage’
Channel 4 News Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Miller reports from the ground in West Bank – follow his tweets, videos and blogs throughout the day in this live blog.
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Does losing a football game have to be the end of the world?
When Brazil were beaten in the 1950 World Cup by Uruguay, it was famously described as “our Hiroshima”. After losing 7-1 to Germany, is the hyperbole as bad this time?
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Can the Greens keep their principles and wield power?
Britain’s Greens want to present themselves as a radical alternative in the local and European elections, but in Ireland and Germany, Green party commitments to core principles appear to be lacking.
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Will Soma’s mining disaster galvanise unrest in Turkey?
The death of hundreds of workers in the coal mines in Soma has unleashed a wave of grief across Turkey, writes Niall Finn, a student and blogger based in Ankara.
