The U.S. State Department said on Saturday it is concerned by reports of China's interference with oil and gas activities in the South China Sea, including Vietnam's long-standing exploration and production activities. 'China's repeated provocative actions aimed at the offshore oil and gas development of other claimant states threatens regional energy security and undermines the free and open Indo-Pacific energy market,' the State Department said in a statement.
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Hong Kong riot police have fired tear gas at egg-hurling activists defacing the national emblem during pro-democracy demonstrations today on the seventh weekend of anti-government protests. Pictures show the Chinese emblem being splattered with eggs and coated…
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#Meanwhile in Hong Kong ... 😱 #retract
Puerto Rico's embattled governor says he will not seek re-election next year and will step down as head of his party following nine days of sometimes violent protests demanding his resignation over vulgar chat messages. A day before a planned general strike and more demonstrations in the U.S. island territory, Ricardo Rossello said he respected the wishes of Puerto Ricans and would not run for another term in 2020 elections. He also said he would resign as head of his New Progressive Party but would remain as governor until the end of his term. In the online chats published on July 13, the center-right governor and his allies referred to politicians, celebrities and ordinary Puerto Ricans in misogynistic, homophobic and vulgar terms.
El Chapo's final journey: Drug kingpin leaves New York City in a police helicopter under armed guard as he heads to Colorado supermax prison where he will serve a life sentence. The Mexican drug kingpin was spotted boarding a chopper at the Wall Street helipad in lower Manhattan at around 3am Friday as a number of heavily-armed guards and more than a dozen NYPD squad cars stood watch. According to flight records obtained by @police_frequency in the Telegram, the helicopter transported Guzman to Floyd Bennet Field in Brooklyn, where he was placed on a plane bound for the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado. Commonly known as ADX, the fortress is the only federal super-maximum prison in the US.
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Missing two-year-old boy is found by police after cruising on his toy tractor to the local fair two blocks from his Minnesota home, reaching speeds of one mile an hour. 😂 #lol
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Hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators took to the streets of Hong Kong today, with some of the marchers defacing a national Chinese emblem in their latest expression of protest against mainland authorities. Protesters are calling for an independent…
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Masked men wearing white T-shirts brutally beat protesters in a new escalation which is set to ratchet up fears that the city's feared Triad gangs are becoming an increasing presence in the conflict. 😱 #retract