no comment Hong Kong students chant pro-democracy slogans in rare act of defiance last updated: 19/11/2020 A new national security law has all but wiped out the mass democracy protests that rocked the city last year and has left swathes of the population too scared to speak out.
no comment Istanbul skids and slides to a halt as snow blankets Turkish city It comes as extreme cold has hit large parts of Europe, with freezing temperatures cracking railroad tracks in Poland and smog spiking as coal was being burned to generate heat.