Hong Kong’s last British governor Chris Pattencautioned that if China intervened in Hong Kong it would be a catastrophe and that Chinese President Xi Jinping should see the wisdom of trying to bring people together. Patten said it was counter productive of the Chinese to warn of “other methods” if the protests did not stop. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell warned China that any violent crackdown on protests would be “completely unacceptable,” while Trump administration officials urged all sides to refrain from violence.
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Share markets fell for a third straight dayas fears about a drawn out global trade war, protests in Hong Kong and a crash in Argentina’s peso currency kept investors huddled in bonds, gold, and the Japanese yen for safety. Investors were also still assessing the wider damage caused by Monday’s crash in Argentina after its President Mauricio Macri became the latest pro-free market, pro-reform leader to be given a beating at the polls by a populist rival.
Scientists are a step closer to finding the first effective treatments for the deadly Ebola haemorrhagic fever after two potential drugs showed survival rate of as much as 90% in a clinical trial in Congo.
Efforts led by France to stop a region on Europe's doorstep becoming a launchpad for attacks at home are increasingly trapped in an endless cat-and-mouse game with well-armed jihadists, who know the terrain and hide easily among civilians. Reuters journalists join French troops in central Mali on a rare reporting trip and saw first-hand why a five-year-old mission - initially planned as a short-term stopgap to hand over to local forces - may have many more years left to run.
