Syracuse University has suspended 23 students following a large on-campus gathering, the latest example of college crackdowns on the kind of socializing that can spread the coronavirus and sink plans for in-person learning this semester. Syracuse officials announced the disciplinary action late Thursday and said they were reviewing security camera […]
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(Bloomberg) — Opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya fled Belarus as police cracked down on protesters across the country for the second night following President Alexander Lukashenko’s claim to landslide election victory in Sunday’s elections. “I thought this campaign had hardened me a lot and given me enough strength to withstand anything. […]
(Bloomberg) — Opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya fled Belarus as police cracked down on protesters across the country for the second night following Sunday’s elections in which President Alexander Lukashenko claimed a landslide election victory. “I thought this campaign had hardened me a lot and given me enough strength to withstand […]
After Beijing enacted a sweeping national security law for Hong Kong, the city’s leader tried to allay fears of a broad crackdown on dissent by promising the measure would affect only a very small minority of people. But throughout July, the first full month under the new legislation, the measure […]
Chinese President Xi Jinping (Ng Han Guan / Associated Press) Tsinghua University law professor Xu Zhangrun, one of China’s few remaining outspoken critics of President Xi Jinping and the communist government, was taken from his home in Beijing by police on Monday morning. Close friends of Xu’s who spoke with […]
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Police in Myanmar’s biggest city fired tear gas Monday at defiant crowds who returned to the streets to protest last month’s coup, despite reports that security forces had killed at least 18 people a day earlier. The protesters in Yangon were chased as they tried to […]
The Home Office has been accused of “grossly” misstating coronavirus rules after it said “all gatherings are currently against the law”. The Twitter post accompanied a video which said “meeting up is against the law” as it showed footage of police raiding house parties as it warned people not to […]
click to enlarge City of Detroit COVID-19 testing site at Williams Recreation Center. As the number of daily coronavirus cases continue to rise to record levels, city of Detroit officials said Monday they will […]
European Union – Jon Nazca/Reuters Booking.com has warned that sweeping new legislation for digital businesses in the EU would “handcuff” the travel site, seen as one of Europe’s few tech champions. Brussels is drawing up new rules which would penalise internet giants, applying only to those which were considered ‘Big […]