Four people in Hong Kong were charged on Wednesday for reposting social media content by democracy activists calling for a boycott of the city's "patriots only" election last December.. The four people charged on Wednesday, aged 29 to 58, allegedly reposted or displayed material that "incited others to cast blank votes or not to vote", according to Hong Kong's anti-graft agency.
North Korea fired a ballistic missile Wednesday, Seoul's military said, the latest launch from Pyongyang following a record-breaking testing blitz earlier this month.. Earlier this month, North Korea conducted a flurry of launches, including an intercontinental ballistic missile, which Seoul said appeared to have failed.
From the woods at the edge of Bakhmut, a besieged Ukrainian city in the Donbas region, a soldier shouts: "Postril!". These soldiers are part of the Ukrainian army's 93rd brigade.
Russia is moving detained US basketball star Brittney Griner to a penal colony, her lawyers said Wednesday, drawing a sharp rebuke from the White House.. She "is now on her way to a penal colony," lawyers Maria Blagovolina and Alexander Boykov said in a statement.
An Australian man has been sentenced to 129 years in a Philippine jail as part of a child sexual abuse case involving victims as young as 18 months, a prosecutor said Wednesday.. Victims included an 18-month-old baby girl and a child whose body was found buried under the floor of a house rented by Scully, Barola-Uy said.
Dozens of state-owned Sri Lankan companies employing tens of thousands of people could be restructured or closed as part of an IMF bailout of the bankrupt country, with the country's airline top of the list for reform.. Terms of the deal have yet to be released, but IMF cash is usually conditional on painful reforms, such as tax hikes, removing consumer subsidies, and privatising or closing underperforming state firms.
Just outside Vienna, climbers scramble up "Fortress Europe", one of the routes up an impressive rockface towering over fields and forests.. At a campsite near the "Fortress Europe" route, opinions differed on how to deal with the problem.
South Korea's military said Wednesday it had retrieved and analysed debris from a missile the North fired across the two countries' de facto maritime border during a recent blitz of launches.. On Wednesday, the defence ministry said in a statement that it had successfully retrieved a three-meter-long, two-meter-wide piece of debris, which it identified as a North Korean SA-5 missile.
Trafficked, beaten and locked up far from his family in China, Lu was one of thousands of people in Cambodia forced to operate online scams to line their captors' pockets.. "People were beaten or tortured and sold if they refused to scam others."
Britain's House of Lords shares some characteristics with the Chinese National People's Congress: their signature colours are red, and neither is elected by popular vote. . The House of Lords enjoys far more influence than the ornamental National People's Congress, which is set in March to rubber-stamp the Communist Party's decision last month to grant a historic third term to President Xi Jinping.
