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While cleared of organising an August 2019 protest, the high-profile pro-democracy figures, including media tycoon Jimmy Lai and lawyers Margaret Ng and Martin Lee, had their convictions and sentences for participating in that rally upheld.

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Based on data on 2,900 founders of new ventures in Germany in 2008–2017, we found that for every ten more years of age increases a founder’s likelihood to introduce a market novelty by up to 30 percent. Thus, those late-career entrepreneurs who are highly innovation-oriented and managerially experienced are more than three...

Without Cluj there is no Hungarian nation, and the development of the city is due to the unity of the Hungarians, Budapest official says

The People’s Republic of China is increasingly pressuring Uyghurs living in Türkiye to spy on the local Uyghur diaspora, according to Safeguard Defenders. Chinese police leverage intelligence gathered from these networks to coerce Uyghurs into spying for them, keeping quiet about China’s human rights abuses or producing...

"More than 80 percent of food imports in Somalia and East Africa were already coming from Ukraine and Russia even before the war,” Shashwat Saraf, the regional emergency director for East Africa at the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Nairobi, Kenya. “Over the past year, Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya are coming out of...

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The experts sounded the alarm on the lack of information provided by Chinese authorities - deeming it a deliberate attempt to “make the world forget” about the individuals who are spending year after year in isolation.

Police raided the offices of a local newspaper, the Kansas Reflector, seizing computers & cell phones.

Former President Donald Trump’s legal defense against federal criminal charges for trying to overturn the 2020 election is beginning to take shape....

Ablimit Abliz, a dentist in Ürümqi, has not been accused of any crime, but the government won’t let him leave or speak freely to his wife, Adalet Sabit, who lives in Virginia. Their case is far from unique.

Many company executives now regret their initial return-to-office plans, as 80% say they would have approached it differently if they understood employee preferences. While some firms are requiring more in-office time, citing collaboration needs, others are scaling back requirements due to retention issues. Successful companies...

Archaeologists in Poland discovered the skeletal remains of a child buried face down around 17th century. The child’s ankle had a triangular padlock attached, a common practice during that time to prevent “vampires” from rising from the dead. Nearby was also found the remains of a pregnant woman. These burials were located...

From a think tank in Massachusetts to an event space in Manhattan, from a political party in South Africa to news organizations in India and Brazil, investigators tracked hundreds of millions of dollars to groups linked to Mr. Singham that mix progressive advocacy with Chinese government talking points....

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The Intercept has made extensive efforts to authenticate the document. Given the security climate in Pakistan, independent confirmation from sources in the Pakistani government was not possible. The Pakistan Embassy in Washington, D.C., did not respond to a request for comment....