Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam apologised to the public today with 'utmost sincerity and humility' and agreed to release a student protest leader from prison after the second massive protest in a week over a proposed extradition bill that would allow people to be sent to mainland China for trial. Lam's office put out a statement a day after suspending the bill admitting shortcomings in how her administration handled it had 'led to a lot of conflict and disputes' and 'disappointed and distressed many citizens'. Despite her apology, which came after hundreds of thousands of people dressed in black clogged the streets in central Hong Kong today to demand that she steps down, Lam did not say she intends to scrap the bill entirely. Demonstrators also left bouquets of white flowers, written tributes and origami cranes outside a high-end Hong Kong shopping mall where a man plunged to his death protesting against the controversial bill. #Retract
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Power grid collapse leaves millions of South Americans in the dark
An estimated 10 million people in #Argentina and #Uruguay were left without electricity Sunday, following a breakdown in their shared power grid.
Power was restored throughout Uruguay by the afternoon, but half of Argentina remained in the dark throughout the day.
"There’s no subway, nothing is working,” Lucas Acosta, a 24-year-old Buenos Aires resident, told the Associated Press. “What’s worse, today is Father’s Day. I’ve just talked to a neighbor and he told me his sons won’t be able to meet him.”
An estimated 10 million people in #Argentina and #Uruguay were left without electricity Sunday, following a breakdown in their shared power grid.
Power was restored throughout Uruguay by the afternoon, but half of Argentina remained in the dark throughout the day.
"There’s no subway, nothing is working,” Lucas Acosta, a 24-year-old Buenos Aires resident, told the Associated Press. “What’s worse, today is Father’s Day. I’ve just talked to a neighbor and he told me his sons won’t be able to meet him.”
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Part 1: As a small number of resilient Dutch residents march under the pegida banner against the Islamisation of the West, they must be protected by hundreds of police officers as mobs of Muslims gun for them, ironically proving their point.
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Part 2: The baying Muslims fight with police as they try to get to the Dutch residents who are protesting peacefully down the road.
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Still celebrating! U.S. women breeze by Chile, 3-0, as striker Carli Lloyd pokes fun at the criticism over the team's sportsmanship in its record 13-0 win over Thailand by politely applauding her own goal ⚽️
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Israel announced on Sunday that it is set to name the settlement in the Israel-controlled Golan Heights after President Donald Trump. The 'Trump Heights' project is intended to cement ties after Trump broke with other world powers to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the plateau in March. Trump tweeted his thanks to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the namesake community.
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(WARNING 21+) The New York Police Department has been given 30 days to release all 48 minutes of bodycam footage that captured the fatal 2017 shooting of a man inside his Bronx apartment. Judge W. Franc Perry made the ruling in the New York State Supreme Court on Thursday, saying that all footage should be made public in the name of 'transparency'. Miguel Richards, 31, was shot 16 times by NYPD officers on September 6 2017 before he died. Eight cops were reported to be on the scene at the time. 🔫👮🏻♂️ #shooting #NYPD
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One dead and two injured after 'a man with a mohawk' opens fire in a California Costco and causes massive stampede. Witnesses say a shooting at a Costco store southeast of Los Angeles sparked a stampede which killed one and left at least two injured. 'The…
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'Do they look intimidating to you?' Family's fury after unarmed man is shot dead and his parents are hospitalized by an off-duty #LAPD cop who claims they attacked him while he was carrying his child in Costco
Ferocious pitbull 'hijacks' a police car in Texas by jumping into the front seat and devouring a cop's beef jerky 🐶😂 #funny
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Disturbing moment hit-and-run driver smashes into a biker, 22, and drags him 50 YARDS up the road after he stopped at a red light in South Africa 😱