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04-28-2017, 05:51 PM
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HONG KONG: Nine democracy protesters were arrested in Hong Kong on Thursday over an anti-Beijing rally in the latest swoop by police as activists say they are being persecuted. Concerns are growing that the semi-auto**mous city’s freedoms are under threat from Beijing, fuelling calls from some groups for greater auto**my or even a complete split from China. Pro-independence activists Yau Wai-ching and Baggio Leung were arrested and charged Wednesday over causing chaos in the legislature after being barred from taking up their seats as lawmakers last year. And last month nine pro-democracy activists -- including student protesters and lawmakers -- were charged for their roles in mass 2014 pro-democracy Umbrella Movement rallies. French court refuses to extradite Kosovo’s ex-PM COLMAR, France: A French court on Thursday rejected a request from Serbia to extradite Kosovo’s former prime minister Ramush Haradinaj over accusations of war crimes committed in the 1990s, sparking outrage in Belgrade. Haradinaj, 48, was arrested by French police on January 4 when he flew into the Franco-Swiss airport of Basel-Mulhouse, but he is free to return home following Thursday’s decision by the court in Colmar, eastern France. The ruling was welcomed by authorities in Kosovo but slammed in Belgrade by Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, who said Serbia’s ambassador to France would be recalled for consultations. FB to act against ‘false accounts’ SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook Inc ack**wledged on Thursday that it has become a battleground for governments seeking to manipulate public opinion in other countries and outlined new measures it is taking to combat what it calls “information operations” that go well beyond the phe**me**n k**wn as fake news. In a report and summary of proposals to be published on its website on Thursday, Facebook describes well-funded and subtle efforts by nations and other organizations to spread misleading information and falsehoods for geopolitical goals. These initiatives go much further than posting fake news stories to include amplification - essentially widening the circulation of posts through a variety of means - carried out by government employees or paid professionals, often using fake accounts. أكثر... 
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