Police seal off and trap hundreds of students and protesters inside
Hong Kong Polytechnic University amid fears of a crackdown. After a police officer is injured, security forces threaten to fire live bullets if protesters do not give up lethal weapons.
(Reuters)
Protesters manage to escape from the university by shimmying down plastic hosing from a bridge and fleeing on waiting motorbikes as the police fire projectiles.
(Reuters)
Militants kill 24
soldiers and wound 29 others on an army patrol in northern
Mali. Seventeen militants were also killed in the melee. 6 injured soldiers later die increasing the death toll to 42.
(Reuters)(The New York Times)
The
Japanese government authorizes a release of contaminated water from the plant into the
Pacific Ocean. Officials say that the release represents a "significantly small" risk to human health.
(Kyodo News Plus)
Police seal off and trap hundreds of students and protesters inside
Hong Kong Polytechnic University amid fears of a crackdown. After a police officer is injured, security forces threaten to fire live bullets if protesters do not give up lethal weapons.
(Reuters)
Protesters manage to escape from the university by shimmying down plastic hosing from a bridge and fleeing on waiting motorbikes as the police fire projectiles.
(Reuters)
Militants kill 24
soldiers and wound 29 others on an army patrol in northern
Mali. Seventeen militants were also killed in the melee. 6 injured soldiers later die increasing the death toll to 42.
(Reuters)(The New York Times)
The
Japanese government authorizes a release of contaminated water from the plant into the
Pacific Ocean. Officials say that the release represents a "significantly small" risk to human health.
(Kyodo News Plus)