November 15, 2019 CBP seizes 11 counterfeit Super Bowl, World Series rings Philadelphia Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seized 11 counterfeit Super Bowl and other championship rings in Pennsylvania earlier this month that would have been worth $526,000 if authentic, officials said Wednesday.
November 15, 2019 China's largest garbage dump at capacity -- 25 years early China's biggest dump is already full -- 25 years early -- after the massive amount of waste produced by the country's 1.4 billion people forced the garbage graveyard to accept four times as much trash per day as it was designed for.
November 15, 2019 Hong Kong official assaulted in 'barbaric attack' by pro-democracy protesters in London A Hong Kong official was injured in an alleged targeted attack in London on Thursday by pro-democracy protesters who yelled “murderer” and “shame on you,” police said.
November 13, 2019 Hong Kong violence forces students to flee, city ‘slipping into the abyss of terrorism,’ Chinese officials say Protests have paralyzed Hong Kong for a third consecutive day as clashes with police turned increasingly violent, having forced an exodus of mainland Chinese students from the city that Beijing said was “slipping into the abyss of terrorism.”
November 13, 2019 2 patients diagnosed in China with pneumonic plague Two people were reportedly diagnosed with the highly infectious, potentially fatal pneumonic plague in a hospital in Beijing recently, Chinese authorities revealed Tuesday.
November 12, 2019 US warship sails through Taiwan Strait in message to China The move by the USS Chancellorsville, a guided-missile cruiser, is likely to irk China, which views the island of Taiwan as a breakaway province.
November 12, 2019 Trump says trade deal with China 'could happen soon,' but only if good for US President Trump said on Tuesday that he is hopeful that a trade deal with China will soon be reached amid concerns in the global stock markets over the continuing trade war.
November 12, 2019 Crazed man in China burns 51 kindergartners with chemical substance: reports A crazed man burned 51 schoolchildren and three teachers with a chemical substance after scaling the wall of a kindergarten in southwestern China, according to reports.
November 12, 2019 Hong Kong protests, violence brings city to 'brink of total breakdown,' police say A flash mob of more than 1,000 protesters descended in central Hong Kong on Tuesday, snarling traffic while police battled with other demonstrators at two university campuses as authorities in the Chinese-ruled city they are on brink of "total collapse."
November 10, 2019 Hong Kong police apparently shoot protester in video posted to Facebook Video posted online shows police in Hong Kong shooting a protester in the stomach at close range as demonstrators disrupted the Monday morning rush hour commute.