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Hard Numbers: Police vs Protesters in Hong Kong

Kevin Allison
By Kevin AllisonAugust 05, 2019
Kevin Allison

Kevin Allison is a Senior Editor for Signal. Based in Washington DC, he looks at how technology is reshaping global affairs. Kevin is also a Director in the Geo-Technology practice at Eurasia Group. Kevin holds degrees from the University of Missouri and from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He was also a Fulbright Scholar in Vienna, Austria and a 2015 Miller Journalism Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute. Prior to GZERO Media and Eurasia Group, Kevin was a journalist at Reuters and the Financial Times. He has lived in eight US states and has been an expat four times.

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22: French inventor Franky Zapata finally succeeded in his bid to fly his crazy jet-board across the English Channel on Sunday, making the 22-mile crossing in 22 minutes. The pictures of him gliding into Dover were insane.

1: The anti-Brexit Liberal Democrats picked up a Conservative seat in a UK parliamentary by-election in Wales on Friday. That leaves recently appointed Prime Minister Boris Johnson with a governing majority of one as he tries to lead the UK out of the European Union in October.

6: Mexico's president said six of its citizens were killed during the mass shooting that killed 20 people in El Paso, Texas, on Sunday. Mexico's foreign secretary called the shooting an act of terrorism and said his government was considering legal action to "demand that the United States protect the Mexican community in the United States."

500: More than 500 people have been arrested in Hong Kong since protests began on June 9. Yesterday 82 people were detained as protestors, who launched a general strike, clashed with police and fought with club-wielding gangs

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