Chicago police release a much-debated video. It contains footage from a police officer’s body camera that appears to show a 13-year-old boy dropping a handgun, then raising his hands just before the officer...
TV series show: Tahar Rahim embodies notorious hippy trail serial killer
We take a look at the new Netflix series which retraces the steps of a true-life, cold-blooded killer in “The Serpent”. Yena Lee tells us why actor Tahar Rahim is the major draw in this dramatisation of...
Media tycoon Jimmy Lai among five Hong Kong democracy activists jailed
#HongKong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was jailed for 14 months on Friday along with four other veteran #democracy activists for their roles in protests that helped trigger a sweeping #crackdown on dissent by #China.
Lebanon-Syria border: Smuggling and sanctions, the new frontline
Despite being on the brink of collapse, the Lebanese economy is keeping a troublesome neighbour afloat: Bashar al-Assad’s Syria. In order to dodge international sanctions on the Assad regime – notably the US...
