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Joshua Wong shouts ‘I love Hong Kong’ as more than 40 leading democracy leaders handed lengthy prison terms in mass trial

By Chris Lau and Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — More than 40 of Hong Kong’s best known pro-democracy figures have been sentenced to prison terms of up to 10 years on subversion charges, in the biggest single blow to the city’s already shrinking political freedoms following Beijing’s sweeping crackdown on dissent. Among those

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Shaken subway riders, military chokeholds, a death certificate: How prosecutors built their case against Daniel Penny

By Gloria Pazmino, Eric Levenson and Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — “Someone’s attacking here. F train,” Morielyn Sanchez told the 911 operator. “He’s trying to attack everybody.” “They’re holding him down right now,” she said, the panic in the 18-year-old’s voice apparent. Sanchez’s 911 call was one of several that prosecutors aired during their

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3 unprovoked fatal stabbings across Manhattan show failures of criminal justice and mental health systems, city’s mayor says

By Nic F. Anderson, Melissa Alonso, John Miller, Sabrina Shulman and Sabrina Souza, CNN (CNN) — Three unprovoked stabbings across Manhattan Monday morning that left two men and one woman dead show how the criminal justice and mental health systems fail New Yorkers, the city’s mayor said. The suspect is 51-year-old Ramon Rivera – who

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Stockpile diapers, medication, baby food: NATO members Sweden and Finland advise citizens on how to survive war

By Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — Sweden and Finland have updated guidance to their citizens on how to survive war, as NATO allies bolster defense measures against the backdrop of the Ukraine conflict. Both nations joined the transatlantic alliance in the past two years, after Russia invaded its neighbor. Many European countries have since

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Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted, sparking warnings of possible ‘hybrid warfare’

By Ivana Kottasová, Billy Stockwell and Paul P. Murphy, CNN (CNN) — Two undersea internet cables in the Baltic Sea have been suddenly disrupted, according to local telecommunications companies, amid fresh warnings of possible Russian interference with global undersea infrastructure. A communications cable between Lithuania and Sweden was cut on Sunday morning around 10:00 a.m.

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Two Missouri officers asked women for their phones – then stole nude images, authorities say

By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — A former Missouri police officer and a former Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper have been indicted separately on federal charges accusing them of taking nude images from women’s phones during traffic stops while on duty. Julian Alcala, a 29-year-old former police officer in Florissant, was indicted Wednesday in federal

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California to remove derogatory term for Indigenous women from names of streets, parks and other places in 15 counties

By Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — California is stripping the word “squaw” – a derogatory term for Indigenous women – from dozens of place names across 15 counties, state agencies recently announced. For decades, the names of more than 100 of the state’s parks, buildings, streets, bridges and other geographic features and locations have

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