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The city of Derna, Libya on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. Floods from extreme rain killed thousands of people and washed entire neighborhoods into the sea.

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  • Climate

Climate change exacerbates deadly floods worldwide

Climate change makes deadly floods, like what happened in Libya, more likely. Floods in China, Greece and Brazil in recent weeks underscore the growing danger.

September 13, 2023
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  • Rebecca Hersher
Steve Li Kwai-wah, Hong Kong's national security department superintendent, speaks during a press conference to issue arrest warrants for eight activists, in Hong Kong on Monday.

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  • World

Hong Kong police issue arrest warrants for 8 political activists living in exile

Hong Kong accuses them of violating China's national security law, and is offering a bounty for their capture. The eight, including activist Nathan Law, are wanted for "collusion with foreign forces."

July 03, 2023
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  • Emily Feng
Pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong stands outside the Legislative Council building in Hong Kong on Nov. 28, 2019.

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  • Asia

Joshua Wong sentenced in another Hong Kong activism case

Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong was sentenced Monday to 3 months in prison for breaching court bans on disclosing personal information about a police officer during 2019 anti-government protests.

April 17, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Pro-democracy activists tear a placard of Winnie-the-pooh that represents Chinese President Xi Jinping during a protest against a proposed new security law outside the Chinese Liaison Office in Hong Kong on May 24, 2020.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: The autocrat threatened by Winnie the Pooh

The slasher film Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey has been pulled from theaters in Hong Kong and Macau - and not because of its terrible Rotten Tomatoes score. The Silly Old Bear has been used in protest memes against President Xi Jinping.

March 25, 2023
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  • Scott Simon
<em>Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey</em> was initially approved by Chinese officials to screen at more than 30 cinemas in Hong Kong and Macau on Thursday. But days ahead of the screening, the film's distribution company was told it was no longer allowed to show the slasher film starring a murderous Winnie the Pooh.

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  • Movies

Why a horror film starring Winnie the Pooh has run into trouble in Hong Kong

The film featuring a murderous Pooh bear has been pulled from theaters in Hong Kong and Macau without explanation. Some say it's a result of China's censorship of memes related to leader Xi Jinping.

March 23, 2023
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  • Vanessa Romo
A customer prays during a "villain hitting" ceremony under the Canal Road Flyover in Hong Kong, on Sunday, March 5, 2023. People holding a grudge may have found a way to release it in Hong Kong's "villain hitting" ritual.

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  • World

Have a villain in your life? In Hong Kong, a ritual helps ease anxieties

Customers pay ritual practitioners to bash an image of their target with a shoe. It could be anyone — rival lovers and unfriendly colleagues, or horrible bosses and unlikeable public figures.

March 14, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China Vice Chairwoman Chow Hang-tung speaks during a press conference on Sept. 5, 2021 in Hong Kong.

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  • Asia

Hong Kong court convicts 3 activists who organized Tiananmen vigils

Three Hong Kong activists have been convicted after they refused to provide information to authorities required by national security policy.

March 04, 2023
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  • Emily Feng
Commuters wearing face masks browse their smartphones as they ride on a subway train in Hong Kong on Feb. 7, 2023. Hong Kong will lift its mask mandate Wednesday, March 1, 2023, ending the city's last major restriction imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  • Asia

Hong Kong's government says it will lift its COVID mask mandate on Wednesday

The city's chief executive said the mask requirement will end outdoors and indoors, but some high-risk premises including hospitals and elderly homes can still require people to wear masks.

February 28, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
In this image taken from video footage run by TVB Hong Kong, journalists film a police van believed to be carrying relatives of murdered model Abby Choi on its arrival at the Kowloon City Law Courts Building in Hong Kong, Monday, Feb. 27, 2023.

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  • Asia

Ex-husband and relatives charged in killing of Hong Kong model after body parts found

Police in Hong Kong filed murder charges against the former husband, father-in-law and brother-in-law of a model and influencer after they found what they believe to be parts of her dismembered body.

February 27, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Pro-democracy activist Emily Lau Wai-hing gestures as she arrives at the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts in Hong Kong, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023.

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  • Asia

A landmark subversion trial opens against high-profile Hong Kong democracy activists

Some of Hong Kong's best-known pro-democracy activists went on trial Monday in the biggest prosecution yet under a law imposed by China's ruling Communist Party to crush dissent.

February 06, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
In this image made from a video, products containing CBD are displayed at a press conference by Hong Kong Customs in Hong Kong, Friday, Jan. 27, 2023.

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  • Medical Treatments

Hong Kong bans CBD, a move that forces businesses to shut down or revamp

Hong Kong banned cannibidiol, also known as CBD, as a "dangerous drug" and imposed harsh penalties for possession on Wednesday, forcing fledging businesses to shut down and revamp.

February 01, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Democracy advocate Jimmy Lai leaves the Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong, on Feb. 9, 2021.

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  • Asia

Lawyers for a jailed Hong Kong publisher ask to meet the British prime minister

Lawyers for Jimmy Lai, a jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy publisher, have asked for an urgent meeting with U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, a leading member of his international legal team said Tuesday.

January 10, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Travelers wearing face masks with their luggage head to the immigration counter at the departure hall at Lok Ma Chau station following the reopening of crossing border with mainland China, in Hong Kong, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023.

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  • Asia

China has reopened its borders to tourists after three years of COVID-19 closure

The ability of residents Hong Kong to cross into mainland is one of the most visible signs of China's easing of border restrictions, with travelers arriving no longer required to undergo quarantines.

January 08, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
The Royal Mint Court office complex, bought by the Chinese government for 255 million pounds ($311 million) in May 2018, in London, on Friday. China's controversial plan to build a new embassy on the site near the Tower of London was rejected in a Tower Hamlets council meeting on Thursday.

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  • World

London says no to a big Chinese Embassy, in a blow to Beijing ties

Local officials in London rejected plans for a massive, new Chinese Embassy, a bitter setback for China's government that once promised a "golden age" for its British relations.

December 02, 2022
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  • Frank Langfitt
Chinese President Xi Jinping (center) waves to senior members of the government as he leaves at the end of the opening ceremony of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China at The Great Hall of People in Beijing on Sunday.

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  • World

What Xi Jinping's decade in power means for people in China — in their own words

Xi Jinping has become China's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong. NPR has been speaking with a broad range of Chinese people about the impact he has had. Here is what four of them had to say.

October 18, 2022
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  • John Ruwitch
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