Multiple arrests at crackdown on Emory University campus encampment focused on Palestine and Cop CityPolice have carried out multiple violent arrests at Emory University in Decatur, Georgia, in what appears to be the first campus crackdown in recent days to involve rubber bullets and teargas after students set up an encampment in solidarity with Palestine and against Cop City.On Thursday, Emory students set up multiple tents on the campus’s lawns in protest against the university’s ties to...
Pro-Palestine protesters at the University of Southern California were dispersed by police in riot gear on Wednesday, 24 April. The peaceful protest on the university campus escalated suddenly when armed police arrived to disperse student protesters. Police could be seen dragging away students’ tents. Several arrests were made. The incident happened as pro-Palestine protests continue to erupt across US university campuses. More than 400 protesters have been arrested nationwide since the...
WEST BATON ROUGE - The West Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office is seeking information on a man who tried to steal a utility vehicle from a local business Tuesday.According to police, the man walked onto the property of local business along the 1200 block of U.S 190. He then occupied a utility vehicle, drove it off the premises and became stuck.He then returned to the business, occupied a forklift, and drove toward the stranded vehicle. This resulted in both the forklift and vehicle becoming...
Hong Kong authorities are trying to impose new rules that will cut the use of single-use plastic in a wide variety of businesses from Monday, coinciding with Earth Day. #earthday
Hong Kong has passed a legislation to stop the sale and distribution of Styrofoam products and single-use plastic cutlery as a way to reduce the amount of plastic waste in the city.
An alleged bomb plot to murder police officers during the 2019 protests and unrest in Hong Kong could have caused heavy casualties, the prosecution has said in the city’s first trial under an anti-terrorism act. The prosecution on Tuesday began their opening statement at the High Court after a nine-member jury was selected on Monday […]
Hong Kong Cardinal Joseph Zen and four other pro-democracy activists are set to appeal their convictions linked to a defunct fund that supported protesters during the unrest in 2019. The legal challenge was launched by Cardinal Zen, barrister Margaret Ng, former lawmaker Cyd Ho, scholar Hui Po-keung and singer-activist Denise Ho, who were trustees of […]
Hong Kong’s ban on single-use plastics began on Monday, coinciding with Earth Day. A variety of disposable plastic tableware and other plastic products are now prohibited from being sold or taken away. The first six months following the roll-out will be an “adaptation period,” which means the government will not take enforcement action against non-compliant […]
Introducing the PaintCam — a nightmarish fusion of facial recognition, tear gas, and paintball guns to deter package thieves and unwanted visitors. This security camera uses AI to detect intruders, bark orders at them through a speaker, and if they refuse to comply, launches volleys of paint or tear gas canisters right at their face. — Read the rest
Radical groups broke into two university laboratories to steal chemicals for a bomb plot to murder police officers during the 2019 protests and unrest, the prosecution told a terrorism jury trial on Wednesday. Seven people are standing trial under the city’s anti-terrorism act at the High Court, with prosecutors – for the first time – […]
The Hong Kong government has vowed to launch an investigation into an industrial accident after two men died in a suspected gas leak at a construction site. A 26-year-old worker surnamed Kwok and his colleague surnamed Lee, 34, died on Tuesday after they were hospitalised following a suspected hydrogen sulphide leak at around midnight at […]
Hong Kong police on Thursday checked the identity cards of fans queueing outside an event for pro-democracy singer Anthony Wong, citing crowd control. Wong and lyricist Chow Yiu-fai were holding an autograph session organised by art group The House of Hong Kong Literature in in Sham Shui Po on Thursday evening when police officers arrived, […]