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Security tight as Hong Kong set to debate China national anthem bill

Hundreds of riot police took up posts in and around Hong Kong's financial district on Wednesday ahead of a debate at the city's Legislative Council over a bill that would criminalise disrespect of China's national anthem.

9:59PM EDT

Trump to announce strong Hong Kong response this week

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday the United States was working on a strong response to China's planned national security legislation for Hong Kong and it would be announced before the end of the week

6:17PM EDT

WHO says the Americas are new COVID-19 epicenter as deaths surge in Latin America

The Americas have emerged as the new epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a Tuesday briefing, as a U.S. study forecast deaths surging in Brazil and other Latin American countries through August.

2:46PM EDT

Trump says wants full Afghanistan pullout but hasn't set target date

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday renewed his desire for a full military withdrawal from Afghanistan but added that he had not set a target date, amid speculation he might make ending America's longest war part of his re-election campaign.

5:37PM EDT

Man arrested in deadly 2019 fire at Japan's Kyoto Animation: media

Japanese police on Wednesday arrested the man suspected of killing 36 people at Kyoto Animation last July after he had spent 10 months in recovering in two hospitals, media reported.

9:13PM EDT

In morgues and shipping containers, Ecuadorians search for lost dead

Dolores Centeno has scoured the morgues and cemeteries of Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city, for two months searching for her father's body.

9:23PM EDT

Defying pandemic, gay couples hold first marriages in Costa Rica

Marco Castillo and his boyfriend, Rodrigo Campos, waited just a few hours to take advantage of a new law in Costa Rica that made the country the first in Central America to allow same-sex marriage.

4:55PM EDT

Brazilian nurse with COVID-19 reunited with her baby after giving birth on ventilator

Brazilian nurse Rusia Goes gave birth while unconscious and breathing through a ventilator tube in April as she battled severe COVID-19 symptoms.

5:29PM EDT

Suspected Islamist militia kills at least 17 in northeastern Congo

Suspected Islamist fighters killed at least 17 people in an early morning raid on a village in northeastern Congo on Monday, a local civil society leader and a monitoring organisation said, the latest attack in a recent surge in violence.

5:57PM EDT

Saudi Arabian airlines to resume some domestic flights from May 31

Saudi Arabian airlines are preparing to resume some domestic flights from Sunday as the Kingdom eases coronavirus containment measures, the state news agency said on Wednesday.

9:57PM EDT