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Protesters targeting airport in Hong Kong

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After two months of protests, the demonstrators in Hong Kong show no sign of ending their campaign against the government. Their latest target is the airport, which is expected to be the scene of demonstrations on Friday.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appeared on state media to defend his highly controversial decision to remove the special status accorded to Kashmir. We hear from our reporter inside Kashmir.

US immigration officials have said they have released some 300 people who were arrested in a massive raid in Mississippi on Wednesday. Nearly 700 workers from seven agricultural processing plants.

Rwanda is planning to take 500 migrants from Libya. It is part of a wider process run by the UN to try and evacuate some of the estimated 5000 migrants held in detention centres in Libya.

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