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Heavy policing - and icy wind - keeps Beijing protesters at home
Heavy policing - and icy wind - keeps Beijing protesters at home
by  AFP

With police cars, foot patrols, a network of surveillance cameras, and aided by the icy wind, Beijing authorities appeared Monday to have deterred fresh anti-lockdown gatherings -- at least for the time being. Twenty cars and police vans were parked nearby, some equipped with cameras, making any gathering almost impossible.

Monkeypox to be renamed mpox: WHO
Monkeypox to be renamed mpox: WHO
by  AFP

Monkeypox is to be renamed mpox, the World Health Organization announced Monday, in a bid to avoid stigmatisation stemming from the existing name. "When the outbreak of monkeypox expanded earlier this year, racist and stigmatising language online, in other settings and in some communities was observed and reported to WHO," the UN health agency said in a statement.

Shanghai blanketed by heavy police presence after weekend protests
Shanghai blanketed by heavy police presence after weekend protests
by  AFP

The flashing lights from lines of police cars blanketed the streets of Shanghai Monday night, as hundreds of officers patrolled city landmarks and the site of a weekend anti-lockdown protest that called for greater political freedoms. Taku said he didn't think a protest would break out on Wulumuqi street Monday night, but was "looking forward to something happening".

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