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Chinese troops have been deployed on the streets of Hong Kong – not to crush the anti-government protests but to help clean up the damage after last night’s unrest. 

Hong Kong has entered its first recession for a decade after months of anti-China protests and violent clashes. A 70-year-old man has died after being hit by a brick allegedly thrown by protesters. The police say they are treating it as murder. Student activists have barricaded themselves into university campuses and shut down major roads,…

In Sri Lanka, voters will elect a new President this weekend and they look likely to bring back a familiar face. Gotabaya Rajapaksa was the defence secretary who oversaw the end of a decades-long civil war.

President Trump has been accused of intimidating a witness at his impeachment hearing by attacking her on Twitter while she was testifying.

Two men who left the UK to join so-called Islamic State have told Channel 4 News that they want to return home to face trial.

A 26-year-old man has been arrested at Heathrow Airport on suspicion of Syria-related terror offences. The man was arriving in the UK from Turkey, just hours after Turkey confirmed it had deported a British Islamic State suspect.

The Hong Kong police say protesters are moving one step closer to terrorism – as violent clashes on major university campuses continue.

As the election campaign continues, there’s an increasingly bitter battle for religious votes, much of which is taking place on social media.

While the impeachment hearings were going on, President Trump was busy with international diplomacy, greeting President Erdogan of Turkey at the White House.

In the US, for weeks we have been hearing leaked reports from inside the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump.

Despite briefly boasting more than 50% renewable power generation on its national grid this year, Australia is struggling to move on from an energy, labour and political market built on a 1950s coal-based model.

In Queensland the Great Barrier Reef is coming under increasing threat from climate change at the exact same time the Australian government has approved a new coal mine in the Galilee Basin, with more planned, an area with billions of tonnes of thermal coal.

Police in Hong Kong say the months of violent protests are bringing the city to “the brink of total collapse”, as clashes continued yet again today. Riot police fired rubber bullets, water cannon and tear gas at crowds who rallied outside university campuses and in the central business district.

It’s the start of a crucial week for President Trump as public hearings begin in the impeachment inquiry – investigating whether Mr Trump put pressure on Ukraine to investigate his Democratic rival Joe Biden.

A state of emergency has been declared in New South Wales – as Australian officials warned the state could face a ‘catastrophic’ day of life threatening fires tomorrow – with scores of bushfires raging out of control.