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The artwork, of anguished human torsos, is one of the few remaining public memorials in the former British colony to remember the bloody crackdown that is a taboo topic in mainland China, where the killings cannot be publicly commemorated.
December, 2021
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23 December
Ghislaine Maxwell will spend her 60th birthday and Christmas behind bars
Ghislaine Maxwell will spend her 6oth birthday which is on Christmas Day in jail after the jury didn’t reach a verdict in her sex trafficking case. The jury in Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial failed to reach a verdict Wednesday – pushing deliberations into next week as jurors head home for the …
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23 December
Head of Yeshiva at Chomesh in Samaria arrested week after deadly terror attack
Rabbi Elishama Cohen, the head of the Yeshiva at Chomesh in Samaria, was arrested on Wednesday by the police on suspicion of violating the Disengagement Law.
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23 December
Teenagers Arrested for Burning Parliament Leaf Hut During Unrest
Officers of the Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) at Central Police Station have arrested two alleged suspects on 19 December 2021 for burning down a leaf hut at the National Parliament of Solomon Islands.
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23 December
AHF Rededicates L.A.’s Barclay Hotel as Low-Income Housing
At a December 22 nd ceremony, AHF and its Healthy Housing Foundation unveiled a cornerstone plaque rededicating the oldest continually operating hotel in Los Angeles (since 1896) to affordable housing Carolers in turn-of-the-century period costume and a safecracker who opened the near century old hotel safe helped celebrate the holiday …
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23 December
Far-right influencers suggest widespread illness following an event may be an ‘anthrax attack,’ despite similarity to COVID-19 symptoms
Symptoms of anthrax poisoning — cough, shortness of breath, among other things — are similar to those associated with COVID-19, the CDC says.
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23 December
UPDATE 1-China's Xian city on high alert, imposes travel curbs as COVID-19 cases climb
The northwestern Chinese city of Xian has imposed tight curbs on outbound travel as well as ordinary commuting within the city as a new COVID-19 outbreak sees community cases tick higher, but stopped short of full-scale lockdown as seen in Wuhan last year.
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23 December
Duty of care to block mine, minister told
Environment Minister Sussan Ley is being urged to stand up for Australian children and reject a new coalmine proposed for central Queensland.
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23 December
34 people detained after chemical added to chocolate kills 2-year-old
Police later found that the poisonous chocolate was purchased by the girl's mother from the internet. They detained 34 suspects from 14 provincial-level regions and seized many illegal chocolate and pills.
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23 December
China to lock down 13 million in Xi'an
China has ordered the lockdown of as many as 13 million people in neighbourhoods and workplaces in the northern city of Xi'an following a spike in COVID-19 cases.