[email protected]: Congratulations to Prime Minister Abe of Japan for hosting such a fantastic and well run G-20. There wasn't a thing that was missing or a mistake that was made. PERFECT. The people of Japan must be very proud of their Prime Minister.
[email protected]: Thank you to President Moon of South Korea for hosting the American Delegation and me immediately following the very successful G-20 in Japan. While there, it was great to call on Chairman Kim of North Korea to have our very well covered meeting. Good things can happen for all.
1 year agoHong Kong Police Force: The LegCo Building was violently attacked and forced to enter illegally. The police severely condemned the violent attack. The police will conduct sweeping in a short period of time and will take reasonable force.The police also appeal unrelated protestors to leave the vicinity.
1 year agoFull statement from the HongKong gov't in response to the July1 protests and unrest at the legislature
Police announced that they will be clearing the scene shortly. As news spread, #antiELAB protesters are urging those who need to go, to leave and that a safe exit through the other end of Lung Wo Road is possible.
![[22:36 HKT] Still around 200-300 protestors and press inside Legco chamber.](https://asia.liveuamap.com/pics/2019/07/01/21861876_0.jpg)
1 year ago[22:36 HKT] Still around 200-300 protestors and press inside Legco chamber.
Sri Lanka police chief faces crimes against humanity charge over Easter attacks
Afghan Special Forces conducted an operation against the militants of ISKP in Nangarhar province. The military sources said Sunday that the Special Forces conducted the operation in Achin district. Seven ISKP militants were killed.
1 year agoSpeakers chair and Hong Kong SAR emblem defaced in LegCo. And that's a Hong Kong Colonial flag too. #antiELAB
Organizer crowd estimate for today's July 1 march: 550,000.
1 year agoThe Legislative Council chamber has been taken over by protesters, the Beijing-imposed HK emblem defaced, and the old British colonial flag (assoc. with HK independence) draped at the front.
1 year ago"This is a complete trap, I'm sorry that people played into it," pro dem lawmaker Fernando Cheung says inside the chamber. Says police could have easily cleared protesters earlier but allowed this to happen.
1 year ago#antiELAB protesters have occupied Legco chamber
1 year agoProtesters inside LegCo chamber.
1 year agoProtesters smash up portraits of Legislative Council presidents outside the chamber
1 year ago#HongKongProtest hundreds of protesters finding their way through the floors of Legco.
1 year agoProtestors streaming into LegCo as riot police back off and the shutter is finally swept away. #AntiELAB
1 year agoProtesters have stormed Hong Kong's legislature: Protesters are pouring in from several entrances
1 year agoMajor fire breaks out at factory in Noida Special Economy Zone
Iraq FM urges Trump to replicate latest diplomatic overture to North Korea with Iran
1 year agoHundreds in Tamar Park, with more streaming in after July1 march.
#KabulAttack: Two attackers killed. One civilian killed, 93 others wounded. Clash is still ongoing.
Hong Kong protesters storm legislature after hacking through reinforced glass
Earthquake of magnitude 4.6 - 28km N of Pendolo, Indonesia
KCNA: "Thanks to the leadership of the CPC the Chinese people could wage an organizational and stubborn struggle against foreign forces of aggression and won a victory in the fierce struggle with domestic reactionary forces to greet the birth of a new China."
KCNA: "The Chinese people greeted a historic moment in the struggle for hewing out their destiny on July 1, 98 years ago and the Communist Party of China (CPC) was founded that day."
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) says the trail of an unidentified flying object was detected on radar in the Korean demilitarized zone (DMZ) around 1pm local on Monday. Local media report the object is suspected to be a North Korean drone
1 year agoKabul attack: One killed, 65, including 9 children wounded, the Public Health Ministry's spokesman Wahidullah Mayar says.
1 year agoHong Kong: What the July 1 march looks like from above
1 year agoSteady flow into the Victoria park in HongKong
1 year agoHong Kong protesters are storming the Legislative Council complex, ramming a glass door with a metal trolley
1 year agoPolice have raised a red flag from inside the Legco building where they are storming
1 year agoProtesters sliding metal barricades toward LegCo
As tensions rise at LegCo w protesters trying to break into the building, crowds are gathering in Victoria Park for the pro-democracy march. Christian groups praying and singing
1 year ago#NoToChinaExtradition protesters have tried to break into the legislature using a metal cart. Police raised a red warning flag, warning that they may use force. Photo: @StandNewsHK.
10 people were killed and 35 injured in the Kabul bombing
1 year agoAs a result of the flooding of gas stations in Tulun, an oil spill was formed
1 year agoOfficials from Afghanistan Football Federation said that a number of their staff members and also players were wounded in the blast in Kabul and also the compound is damaged.
1 year agoVideo: A scene after massive explosion in Kabul Afghanistan.
1 year ago@AFPgraphics VIDEO: Police in Hong Kong use pepper spray and batons against anti-government protesters
1 year agoHong Kong police say unknown liquid was thrown by protesters at their officers with some subsequently experiencing difficulty breathing and itchy skin. 13 officers sent to hospital for treatment
Heavy explosion reported in Kabul.
Deputy Commissioner of Kishtwar, Angrez Singh Rana: 10 dead and 7 have been injured after a matador vehicle coming from Keshwan to Kishtwar fell into a gorge, today, reports ANI.
Punjab man arrested for passing secret military information to Pakistan's ISI via WhatsApp: Report
1 year agoTimelapse from 4-10am: Protesters started going out on the streets early in the morning on the 22nd anniversary of Hong Kong's handover to China
1 year agoMan appears to be disabling a CCTV camera in HongKong's Admiralty area. Police scarcely visible at this point. A broader anti-extradition march is set to take place at 2:30pm today starting at Victoria Park.
1 year agoCaptured earlier: the moment when police clashed with protesters #antiEALB
1 year agoSome pictures of the repression of protests in Hong Hong so far today, - Reuters
1 year agoRight now on Lung Wui Road - bricks being pulled from the footpath, a fresh set of barricades being built and pulled into place
Earthquake of magnitude 5.0 - 103km WSW of Nikol'skoye, Russia
Hundreds of riot police officers used batons and pepper spray to push back protesters who tried to march to the site of an annual ceremony marking the anniversary of the territory's return to China from Britain
Earthquake of magnitude 5.0 - 11km NE of Karakenja, Tajikistan
Earthquake of magnitude 5.1 - 76km E of Mutsu, Japan
A police official and his wife has been injured in a gun attack in Karachi city of Pakistan. Both moved to the nearest medical facility.
KCNA: "The top leaders of the two countries expressed great satisfaction over the results of the talks. After the talks Kim Jong Un exchanged parting words with Trump."
KCNA: Kim Jong Un noted "that the relations would continue to produce good results unpredictable by others and work as a force overcoming manifold difficulties and obstacles in the future, too."
KCNA: "Kim Jong Un said that it was the good personal relations with President Trump that made such a dramatic meeting possible at just a one day's notice."
KCNA: "The top leaders of the two countries agreed to keep in close touch in the future, too, and resume and push forward productive dialogues for making a new breakthrough in the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and in the bilateral relations."
KCNA: "They explained issues of easing tensions on the Korean peninsula, ending the inglorious relations between the two countries and making a dramatic turn and also issueswhich become a stumbling block in solving those issues, and voiced full understanding and sympathy."
KCNA: "President Moon Jae In greeted Kim Jong Un outside the House. Kim Jong Un exchanged warm greetings with Moon Jae In. Then there were a one-on-one chat and talks between the top leaders of the DPRK and the U.S."
KCNA: "The two leaders steppedin the north side portion of Panmunjom where they held their hands again, leaving the historic moment of the sitting U.S. President setting his foot on the soil of the DPRK across the Military Demarcation Line for the first time in history."
KCNA: "Kim Jong Un exchanged compliments with Trump about meeting him after about 120 days and guided him toward the north side portion of Panmunjom."
KCNA: "In 66 years since the Armistice Agreement in 1953 there happened such an amazing event of the top leaders of the DPRK and the U.S. exchanging historic handshakes at Panmunjom, place that had been known as the symbol of division."
KCNA: "Kim Jong Un stepped out of the Panmun Pavilion on Sunday afternoon and had a historic meeting with Donald Trump just before the demarcation line at Panmunjom amid the worldwide attention."
KCNA: "The Supreme Leader of the Party, the state and the armed forces of the DPRK accepted the opinion of President Trump that he would like to meet Chairman of the State Affairs Commission Kim Jong Unand went to the south side portion of Panmunjom to have a surprise meeting."
KCNA: "Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the [DPRK] and supreme commander of the armed forces of the DPRK, had a historic meeting withDonald Trump at Panmunjom on Sunday afternoon at the suggestion of Trump."
North Korea calls Kim-Trump meeting "historic" and "amazing"
[email protected]: Leaving South Korea after a wonderful meeting with Chairman Kim Jong Un. Stood on the soil of North Korea, an important statement for all, and a great honor.
"Wonderful day for North and South Korea and for the world," says @POTUS. "We had a great conflict and it's the complete opposite."
North Korea's Kim: It would be a great honor if Trump visited Pyongyang
1 year agoMoon, Kim, and Trump chat. First trilateral US-DPRK-ROK encounter.
1 year agoDonald Trump: "A lot of progress has been made, a lot of friendships have been made."
1 year agoTrump visits N.Korean territory.
1 year agoKim Jong Un praises Trump's boldness in stepping over into the North.
1 year agoTrump, heading deep into the North.
1 year agoTrump is in North Korea
1 year agoTrump shakes hand with Kim Jong Un
1 year agoKim Jong Un's security guards and President Trump's secret service agents standing together at the DMZ
1 year agoMap of the Joint Security Area in Panmunjom border truce village
1 year agoSpotted: Kim Chang Son, Kim Jong Un's chief secretary, on the southern side of Panmunjom - looks like the meeting will happen there
1 year agoDonald Trump: "Yesterday, I had the idea, maybe I'll call Chairman KimWe respect each other, might even like each other."
1 year agoTrump greets cheering troops at DMZ military dining hall
1 year agoRallies are being held in Almaty and Nur-Sultan. Authorized.
1 year agoPresident Trump says the Korean demilitarized zone grew safer after his diplomatic opening with Kim Jong Un. "It used to be very very dangerous," Trump said, citing a briefing from officials, as he stood alongside South Korea's Moon Jae-in at the DMZ observation point.
1 year agoPhoto from radio pooler @HorsleyScott of @POTUS and @moonriver365 at DMZ overlook.
1 year ago"That brown tree is North Korea," Trump and Moon are told.
1 year agoTrump and Moon at a lookout point at the Joint Security Area in the DMZ. Getting a briefing on the "threats" and "opportunities" represented by the DMZ.
Breaking South Korea's President Moon said "for the first time in history, the leaders of the U.S. and North Korea will be standing face to face in Panmunjom" the border village in the Korean Demilitarized Zone.
1 year agoUS envoy Stephen Biegun reportedly met with the DPRK foreign minister last at Panmunjom, according to one ROK daily.
