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Several thousand march in Hong Kong against suppression by Beijing as fears grow that freedoms in the semi-autonomous city are seriously under threathttp://u.afp.com/oL6k 

Fifty years ago, Mexican troops opened fire on student demonstrators, killing hundreds just days before Mexico City hosted the 1968 Olympics -- one of the darkest episodes in a year of global turbulencehttp://u.afp.com/oL2y 

#UPDATE A Swedish court sentences a Frenchman at the heart of a Nobel scandal to two years in jail for rape in a scandal that emerged during the #MeToo campaignhttp://u.afp.com/oL6o 

#UPDATE Japanese shares power to a new 27-year high after the US and Canada clinched a long-awaited trade deal, but other Asian equity markets struggled in subdued holiday tradinghttp://u.afp.com/oL2V 

#UPDATE A German court says it gave the green light for an Iranian diplomat linked to an alleged bomb plot against an Iranian opposition rally to be handed over to Belgiumhttp://u.afp.com/oL29 

#UPDATE Two immunologists, James Allison of the US and Tasuku Honjo of Japan, won the 2018 Nobel Medicine Prize for research that has revolutionised the treatment of cancer: juryhttp://u.afp.com/oL6c 

#UPDATE Pro-independence protesters obstruct major roads and a high-speed railway line in Spain's Catalonia region, one year after a banned referendum on secession marred by police violencehttp://u.afp.com/oL2H 

#UPDATE Indonesian volunteers begin burying bodies in a mass grave with space for more than a thousand people, victims of a quake-tsunami that devastated swathes of Sulawesihttp://u.afp.com/oL2R