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Chinas aggressive media campaign depicting its critics as players in a Western conspiracy comes after published exposs about the governments drive to detain 1 million or more members of largely...

A Chinese government propaganda newspaper declared that "all" the victims of China's Muslim concentration camps had "graduated."

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) penned a letter last week to Florida's public universities to warn them of Chinese government efforts to undermine free expression on American college campuses.

Chinese officials have released social media videos, blistering editorials and attacks on researchers in a push to counter evidence of its Muslim internment drive.

A last-minute booking, a furtive cab ride and a spy in the window. How our correspondent found a crack in Chinas surveillance state and a woman on her deathbed in Xinjiang.

Xinjiang governor offers no evidence of release but says trainees have found stable jobs

Western critics questioned whether the move indicated a significant change in a program that has brought China widespread criticism, or whether the countrys officials have set out on a new effort to rebrand the controversial program

People held in camps in China's Xinjiang region have now "graduated" and new trainees will have the freedom to come and go, the regional governor said on Monday.

China on Monday defended its vast network of re-education camps in Xinjiang and said it would continue "training" residents, following explosive government document leaks detailing surveillance and control of the region's Uighur population. Rights groups estimate more than a million Uighurs

People who were at vocational training centers in China's far west Xinjiang have all graduated" and are living happy lives, an official said Monday. Shohrat Zakir, Xinjiang's Uighur governor, made the remarks during a press briefing as part of a strident propaganda campaign launched following

(Bloomberg) -- China has completed what it says was de-radicalization training in its western Xinjiang region, officials said in Beijing, as the government sought to defend the widespread detention of ethnic minorities.Top officials for the predominately Muslim region of Xinjiang made the claim Monday

The House is drafting articles of impeachment against the President but which ones?

If the Senate opts for a serious trial, witnesses such as John Bolton, Mick Mulvaney, Mike Pompeo and Don McGahn might still be heard by citizens interested in what they have to say.

Pelosi knew an impeachment would jeopardize the huge gains the Democratic Party was sure to pick up come November.

It's correct to call for impeachment and removal, mostly because a Senate trial can convince swing voters in purple states not to reelect Trump.

Noncomplying witnesses would be well-advised to remember: The statute of limitations for contempt of Congress is five years.

The Republican lawyer made a very practical choice of briefcase.

Republicans insisted Trump did not engage in sinister mob shakedown with Ukraine as committee convened for hearing

President could be impeached before Christmas as judiciary chairman says nothing could be more urgent

Democrats already have enough evidence of impeachable behavior.

With the holidays on the horizon and school winding down to a snails pace, the president of the United States sits alone in his sleeping coffin wearing cozy PJs and messaging with Rep. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) about which GOP boys think hes cute. Unfortunately, this Sunday it was Grahams turn to work the presidents slaughterhouse, so the president was super bored and like most high school girls with little to do on a slow Sunday, he began tweeting, sending over 100 tweets to his 67 million follow

A witness in Mondays impeachment hearings broke Trumps impeachable offenses down really, really clearly.

WASHINGTON (AP) Debating the grounds for impeachment, Republicans said there's nothing here. Democrats said it's a slam dunk. Weighty questions about a president's alleged malfeasance and whether that merits...

The shows journey to Amazon and a fourth season has been nearly as epic as its space-travelling storylines.

The Major Kira Nerys actor remembers her co-star, who played Odo on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine."

Holiday Rush stars Romany Malco and Sonequa Martin-Green talk about the groundbreaking nature of the Netflix Christmas movie and Space Jam 2.

Fellow actors George Takei, William Shatner and more pay tribute online to the actor who played Changeling Odo.

'Star Trek' actor Rene Auberjonois dead at age 79

He has returned to the Great Link.

The busy character actor was also known for Benson, Boston Legal and several Broadway roles.

Ren Auberjonois, a prolific actor best known for the TV shows Benson and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, has died

Actor Ren Auberjonois, who is remembered for his regularly scheduled roles on Soap spinoff Benson, Star Trek: Deep Space 9, and The Practice spinoff Boston Legal has passed away at home in Los Angeles due to metastatic lung cancer.

The actor's work as various characters spanned several golden ages of theater, cinema and network TV. He died in Los Angeles of metastatic lung cancer.

He was also a Tony-winning theater actor and an Emmy nominee for the 1980s sitcom 'Benson.'

Labour goes on offensive after Conservatives wrongly allege assault by activist on health secretarys aide

(Bloomberg) -- It was the kind of moment Boris Johnson has spent the entire U.K. election campaign trying to avoid. Confronted with a picture of a sick 4-year-old forced to sleep on the floor of a British hospital because of a shortage of beds, the prime minister looked away and tried to change the subject.As

CNN reported Monday that Boris Johnson "refused to look at a photograph of" a young boy at a hospital, but the video provided shows Johnson looking at it.

The crisis of Conservatism of the early 20th century has some parallels for the party today.

Britain is once again going to the polls and encouraging people to vote may be as important as asking them to vote for a particular party.

Years of austerity and growing inequality has left parts of the UK disenfranchised and frustrated.

What the populism changing the British electoral map tells us about next year's US election.

Editorial: By becoming the worlds youngest prime minister at the head of a coalition of female-led parties, Sanna Marin reminds us that another politics is possible

Our regular roundup as the campaign enters its final days

A late arrival by Labours leader at a west country rally added to the sense of hopelessness

Sterling remained strong on Monday, buoyed by opinion polls that point to the ruling Conservative Party winning Britain's general election on Thursday, though the currency surrendered some gains when a later poll showed their lead narrowing a little.

Video later emerges showing adviser walking into activists arm

After a victory for pro-democracy candidates at the polls, protesters turned out in droves to mark six months in the streets.

A protester wearing a Guy Fawkes mask waves a flag during a Human Rights Day march, organized by the Civil Human Right Front, in Hong Kong, China December 8, 2019. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui

Nearly a million Hong Kong residents flooded the streets, demanding safeguards for their democracy against the Communist Party of China.

Swedish prosecutors suspect Anna Lindstedt of organising a meeting in January between Guis daughter, China's ambassador and two businessmen about the possible release of her father, a dissident bookseller who is current imprisoned.

Sweden to prosecute ex-China envoy over Gui meetings

(Bloomberg) -- A Bank of America Corp. anti-bribery and compliance director in Hong Kong was charged with assaulting a police officer after an altercation in a metro station over the weekend, according to a person familiar with the matter.The director, a 35-year-old American, was released on HK$10,000

Swedish prosecutors said on Monday they had brought criminal charges against the country's former ambassador to China over unauthorized meetings in Stockholm aimed at freeing dissident bookseller Gui Minhai.

More than one in 10 retailers in Hong Kong could close down in the next six months as social unrest and sometimes violent protests deter tourists, threatening the survival of smaller operators, the city's main retailing group said on Monday.

Residents have lost faith in their government, and the consequences could reshape the city.

After six months of unrest, anti-Beijing protesters are increasingly unwillingto compromise, Jiayang Fan writes.

The huge turnout was a reminder to Chinas leader, Xi Jinping, that the monthslong campaign against his authoritarian policies still had broad support in Hong Kong despite a weakening economy and increasingly violent clashes between protesters and police.

The Afghanistan Papers reflect what we soldiers knew on the ground: "Victory" was always an empty talking point.

In interviews, those who played a direct role in the conflict said Washington foolishly tried to reinvent Afghanistan in its own image by imposing a centralized democracy and a free-market...

Documents from a federal project obtained by The Washington Post examine the failures of the long-running war.

The main culprit? Corruption.

Most Americans consider the war a failure.

Officials repeatedly told the public "progress" was being made, but new documents show they knew that wasn't true.

I stand by the assessments I provided as the commander in Afghanistan, Petraeus said in a statement emailed to The Daily Beast.

The U.S. governments claims of progress in the war in Afghanistan over the last 18 years came as top officials in private were venting that it was a costly waste of time, according to a report published Monday by The Washington Post.

"We didn't have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking."

Despite vows by President Trump and his predecessors George W. Bush and Barack Obama that Washington would not engage in nation-building, the US has tried to do just that in war-ravaged Afghanistan.