Lai's conviction is part of a clampdown by China on Hong Kong following mass protests in 2019. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The shift would represent one of the most significant federal changes to marijuana policy in decades. Read more at ...

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THE HAGUE, Dec 16 - European leaders including Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskiy meet in The Hague on Tuesday to launch an International Claims Commission to compensate Kyiv for hundreds of billions of ...