| ‘I could not ask for better children,' mom said on Instagram before killing adult kids in apparent murder-suicide Posted: 30 Aug 2019 11:54 AM PDT  Atlanta police silent on more details in the apparent murder-suicide deaths of Christopher Edwards Jr., sister Erin Edwards and mom Marsha Edwards.
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| Three Hong Kong Protest Leaders Arrested Before Weekend Rallies Posted: 29 Aug 2019 08:59 PM PDT  (Bloomberg) -- Prominent Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong and others have been arrested amid ongoing protests in the Asian financial hub as the city's authorities try to clamp down on historic pro-democracy demonstrations that have raged for nearly three months.The 22-year-old Wong, who served time in jail for his role in Hong Kong's 2014 Occupy movement, was detained Friday around 7:30 a.m., his Demosisto party said in a statement. A police spokeswoman said she couldn't immediately comment on the report. Two other prominent activists, Andy Chan and Agnes Chow, were also arrested.Wong was on his way to a subway station when he "was suddenly pushed into a private car on the street. He has now been escorted to the police headquarters in Wan Chai on the basis of three charges. We will continue to follow the incident. Our lawyers are working on this case," the statement said.The moves to arrest Wong, Chan and Chow appear to be part of a broader pushback by authorities against the monthslong protest movement, which began over opposition to legislation easing extraditions to China and has widened into a broader push for more democracy. They come the day after police banned a mass protest planned for Saturday that had been called by the Civil Human Rights Front, a key organizer of recent demonstrations.Chow, also a member of Demosisto, was arrested at her home on Friday morning, the group's co-founder Nathan Law said in a media WhatsApp group, saying she would be escorted to the Wan Chai police headquarters and that the group's lawyers were following the case. Pro-independence activist Chan said in a Facebook post that he was stopped at the city's airport Thursday.The detention of Wong -- who is the subject of a Netflix documentary titled "Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower" -- comes as Beijing and Hong Kong authorities brace for a 13th straight weekend of protest in the the former British colony. It also comes the day after CHRF leader Jimmy Sham was attacked by two unidentified armed masked men. Max Chung, the organizer of a July march in the Yuen Long area, separately said he was attacked by four men Thursday.The summer's political unrest has been the worst since the city's return to Chinese rule in 1997, with demonstrations that have resulted in often-violent clashes between protesters and police.There is also speculation that Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam may seek to use tougher measures available to her administration under the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, which Wong said he was going to discuss with officials on a planned trip to Washington.Wong played a prominent leadership role in Hong Kong's so-called Umbrella Movement, which occupied a key street in the city's Central business district for 79 days five years ago. He has played a minor role in the current protests, which have been largely leaderless and organized via chats on Telegram and other social media platforms.But Wong -- who was released from jail after demonstrations had already started -- has been a focus of attention in recent weeks. His meeting with a U.S. diplomat was singled out by China, which urged American officials to "draw a clear line with all anti-Chinese rioters, stop sending wrong signals to illegal violators, stop meddling in Hong Kong affairs, and stop going further down the wrong path."Wong also played a significant role in a demonstration on June 21, when he encouraged protesters to surround the police headquarters complex in Wan Chai.Joseph Cheng, a Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and former political science professor, said that several people involved in that protest have been arrested in recent days."We've been hearing in the last four or five days, that people have been arrested for that -- it's believed that the police are doing this rather systematically," he said in an interview on Friday. Lam "would like to bring the situation under control by the Oct. 1st national day."\--With assistance from Sheryl Tian Tong Lee.To contact the reporters on this story: Iain Marlow in Hong Kong at imarlow1@bloomberg.net;Natalie Lung in Hong Kong at flung6@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Brendan Scott at bscott66@bloomberg.net, Karen LeighFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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| North Korea says it won't give up arms modernization Posted: 29 Aug 2019 03:03 PM PDT  North Korea accused the United Kingdom, France and Germany on Thursday of meddling in its "self-defensive measures for arms modernization," saying the West will make "no greater mistake" than thinking Pyongyang will give up its right to have weapons that it says are needed to ensure peace. The North's official Korean Central News Agency circulated a statement from Kim Son Gyong, an adviser at the Korea-Europe Association, in response to a joint statement Tuesday from the three important U.S. allies condemning Pyongyang's "repeated provocative launches" of ballistic missiles.
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