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Activist Joshua Wong, who has become the face of Hong Kong’s push for full democracy, walked free from prison on Monday and vowed to join a mass protest movement demanding that the city’s Beijing-backed leader, Carrie Lam, steps down. His release comes as a political crisis in the Chinese-ruled city enters its second week, amid growing uncertainty over the fate of current Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam and a controversial extradition bill she postponed at the weekend. Protest organizers said almost 2 million people turned out on Sunday (June 16) to demand that Lam resign, in what is becoming the…

The president of Uruguay’s government-owned utility UTE said that the massive power failure that began in Argentina and left tens of millions in South America without power would be an opportunity to improve the country’s power systems. Argentina’s grid “collapsed” around 7 a.m. local time (1100 GMT), leaving the entire country without power and cutting electricity to much of neighboring Uruguay and swaths of Paraguay, as well. Energy distributors in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, whose populations total nearly 55 million, said power was being quickly restored to major cities and heavily populated coastal regions, including Montevideo and Buenos Aires. UTE…

Several hopefuls vying to replace British Prime Minister Theresa May turned their fire on favourite Boris Johnson, questioning his pledge to leave the European Union by the end of October no matter what. With former London mayor and foreign minister Johnson keeping a low profile, the other candidates have targeted the air waves to present their cases to lead the governing Conservative Party.  His absence was marked by an empty lectern. That left the five other candidates to argue over which man was best placed to deliver Brexit in testy exchanges International Development Minister Rory Stewart described as a competition…

Israeli aircraft attacked a Hamas target in the Gaza Strip after a Palestinian rocket strike, the Israeli military said, in the first serious cross-border flare-up since a surge in fighting last month. A second rocket launched on Thursday evening hit a house in Sderot but caused no casualties, police said. There was no immediate comment from Palestinian factions. The latest hostilities followed Israel’s closure of offshore waters to Gaza fisherman on Wednesday (June 12) in what it said was a response to incendiary balloons launched across the frontier that caused fires in fields in southern Israel this week. In a…

The Trauma Care International Foundation is today organising a Voluntary Blood Donation drives, marking the World Blood Donor Day, which is today 14th June 2019. The World Blood Donor Day is a global UN campaign aimed at highlighting the issues surrounding blood donation. World Blood Donor Day has been celebrated on the same day every year since it was established in 2004, encouraging people worldwide to give blood. Just 1 pint of blood can help save 3 lives. There are 1.3 million registered voluntary blood donors in England and Wales, and every day in England, around 8,000 blood transfusions are…

A new report from the Foreign Office has placed freedom of belief at the very heart of promoting human rights and democracy. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Human Rights and Democracy report focuses especially on the persecution of Christians. In the preface, the Foreign Secretary wrote: “I was deeply disturbed to learn that 215 million Christians faced persecution in 2018, according to a study by the campaign group Open Doors… I am not convinced that our efforts have always been commensurate with the scale of the problem or the empirical evidence that Christians often endure the greatest burden of persecution.”…

A secret ballot was held in the House of Commons, with the result given some time after 13:00 BST. Outgoing leader Theresa May refused to say which of the 10 contenders she had voted for, telling reporters: “That’s none of your business.” Any candidate who fails to secure at least 17 MPs’ votes will be eliminated from the contest and the results are in.  Three contenders – Mark Harper, Andrea Leadsom and Esther McVey – have been knocked out – so we are down to seven.

Boris Johnson kicked off his campaign to succeed Prime Minister Theresa May, with a pledge to lead Britain out of the European Union on Oct. 31 and a warning to his divided Conservative Party that “delay means defeat”. Johnson, favourite for the top job nearly three years since he led the official campaign to leave the EU, praised the strength of the British economy, promised to deliver Brexit by Oct. 31 and tackle despair across the country. Johnson, whose unconventional style has helped him shrug off a series of scandals in the past, has won over many in his party…

MPs have rejected a Labour-led effort to take control of Parliament’s timetable, blocking the latest attempt to stop a no-deal Brexit.  The Commons opposed the move by 309 votes to 298. If passed, it would have given opponents of a no-deal Brexit the chance to table legislation to thwart the UK leaving without any agreement on the 31 October deadline. The result of the vote was greeted with cheers from the Tory benches. Ten Tory MPs, mostly pro-Europeans, rebelled against the government by backing Labour’s motion. Conversely, eight Labour MPs – mostly Eurosceptics or MPs in constituencies which voted Leave…

Product defects from U.S. companies caused and fueled the catastrophic 2017 Grenfell Tower apartment fire in London that killed 72 people, according to a lawsuit filed in Philadelphia on Tuesday on behalf of injured victims and families of those killed. Attorneys for the plaintiffs said they represent the estates of 69 of the 72 people who perished in the high-rise apartment fire, and 177 survivors who suffered life-altering injuries. The 420-page lawsuit demands a jury trial but did not specify the amount of compensation it was seeking. The plaintiffs’ attorneys said the case marks one of the highest numbers of…