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Hong Kong protesters storm parliament

Protests against Beijing's influence spilled over into violence. Demonstrators fear democratic freedoms will shrink.

Protests against Beijing's influence spilled over into violence. Demonstrators fear democratic freedoms will shrink. Also in this edition: Donald Trump's non-standard diplomacy; the royal split that's transfixed the Arab world; the politics that led to Europe getting two women bosses; and how Taylor Swift is splitting the music world, again.
(Picture: the former colonial flag in Hong Hong's vandalised Legislative Council building.
Credit: Reuters)

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