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By Jessie Pang and James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong police fired tear gas to disperse pro-democracy protesters on Saturday after pro-China groups pulled down some of the "Lennon Walls" of anti-government messages posted in the Chinese-ruled city in more than three months of unrest. The first canisters were fired when protesters hurled petrol bombs towards an approaching police line in the new town of Tuen Mun, in the west of the New Territories, and again after night fell in nearby Yuen Long. Читать дальше...

By Jonathan Landay (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Joseph Kennedy III, a scion of the famed political dynasty, on Saturday launched a 2020 primary challenge against fellow Democrat Edward Markey for his U.S.

By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker will drop out of the running for his party's 2020 White House nomination unless he can raise $1.7 million over the next 10 days for his struggling campaign, his campaign said on Saturday.

TIRANA (Reuters) - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.6 and an aftershock only slightly weaker shook the Albanian port town of Durres on Saturday, rocking buildings there and in the capital Tirana and sending residents rushing out into the streets. The Defence Ministry said it was the most powerful quake in Albania in the last 30 years. Residents in Tirana ran out of buildings onto the streets and into parks for safety

CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamic State militants have claimed responsibility for a bus bombing that killed 12 people near the Iraqi city of Kerbala, the Amaq news agency reported on Saturday. Iraqi security services said on Friday that 12 people were killed and several others wounded when a bus bombing occurred near the holy city south of Baghdad. Two police spokesmen in the area said an explosive device planted on the bus detonated at a northern entrance to the city, setting fire to the vehicle.

By Valerie Volcovici NEW YORK (Reuters) - Young climate change activists delivered a strong message to United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Saturday: If elected officials do not take strong actions to combat climate change, they will be voted out of office. Guterres gave youth activists the floor at the U.N.'s first youth climate change summit, an informal event aimed at connecting young activists and entrepreneurs with global leaders to build support for technological and policy... Читать дальше...

By Alex Dobuzinskis (Reuters) - Police in South Carolina were hunting for suspects on Saturday after at least one person opened fire before dawn at a crowded bar in the city of Lancaster, killing two people and wounding eight others, officials said. The shooter was still at large and it was not immediately clear if anyone else also opened fire during the incident inside the Old Skool Sports Bar & Grill, the Lancaster County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The government of Mexico suspended hurricane warnings for parts of the Baja California peninsula as Hurricane Lorena headed north over the Gulf of California on Saturday, after skirting the resort area of Los Cabos.

By Ints Kalnins TROMSOE, Norway (Reuters) - Scientists from 19 countries are preparing to embark on a year-long expedition to the Arctic, the longest project of its kind, to better understand global climate change. The icebreaker Polarstern is preparing to set sail from Tromsoe in northern Norway, allowing hundreds of rotating researchers to spend the next year close to the north pole. "We want to go to the Arctic because it's the epicentre of climate change," Markus Rex, an atmospheric scientist... Читать дальше...

By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's Liberal Party lost a little ground to rival Conservatives after bombshell images of Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in blackface emerged this week, according to two polls published on Saturday. Conservative leader Andrew Scheer had a 4.8 percentage-point lead against Trudeau, according to a Nanos Research poll published on Saturday for CTV and the Globe and Mail newspaper

Charles Leclerc will be joined on the front row by championship leader Lewis Hamilton in a Mercedes, with Leclerc's teammate Sebastian Vettel rounding out the top three, ahead of Red Bull's Max Verstappen and Valtteri Bottas

Catch all the latest updates and follow the live action of the match between UP Yoddha and Tamil Thalaivas at the Pro Kabaddi League.

Players will be able to wear the Batman cape and glide in Tilted Towns with unlimited glider redeploy

The third round of the Champions Yacht Club FMSCI Indian National Rally Championship had to be called off after tragedy struck on the opening day of the event which resulted in the deaths of three locals.

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N Sivaprasad became well-known as the MP who donned fancy dresses, enacting a unique character every day, during protests outside Parliament opposing the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh and later demanding special category status to the state

The logo of Hyderabad FC embodies the city's heritage with the minarets of Charminar and the texture of the Kohinoor diamond

Indian boxer Amit Panghal lost 0-5 but the scoreline was hardly a reflection of the fight he put on against the more fancied Shakhobidin Zoirov.

The minutes of the meeting, which was attended by CGF chief Louise Martin and chief executive David Grevemberg, were sent to the IOA from the office of CGF's Asian region vice president Chris Chan

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) accused DK Shivakumar of committing a 'serious economic offence' and said it's a threat to national economy

New Saurashtra Cricket Association president Jaydev is the son of former BCCI secretary and veteran cricket administrator Niranjan Shah, and has captained Saurashtra 110 times, which is a domestic cricket record.

Check out the live score and updates from the sixth T20I between Bangladesh and Afghanistan.

According to reports, the confidential agreement between Liverpool and Manchester City took place in September 2013 after the latter employed computer-espionage experts to see if the scouting system had been spied on.

South Africa's reputed staunch defence was exposed by 26 missed tackles in the first half as the All Blacks' pace proved too much to handle

Donald Trump has said the Communist nation is a threat to the world and blamed his predecessors for not stopping it from stealing America's intellectual property.