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A photographer is stopped trying to take photos as a correctional services bus purportedly carrying pro-democracy activist Agnes Chow arrives at the High Court in Hong Kong on December 9, 2020, for a bail hearing after she was jailed for 10 months for inciting a rally during pro-democracy protests in 2019. Peter PARKS / AFP
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China blasts ‘crazy’ US sanctions over Hong Kong

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Army General Lloyd Austin III, commander of the US Central Command, speaks during a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington, DC. US President-elect Joe Biden has chosen retired General Lloyd Austin to head his Defence Department, US media reported on December 7, 2020. Lloyd Austin, who led US troops into Baghdad in 2003 and rose to head the US Central Command, has been chosen by President-elect Joe Biden to be the first African-American secretary of defense. Brendan Smialowski / AFP
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Retired general picked as first Black Pentagon chief

WILMINGTON, United States, Dec 9, 2020 (AFP) - US President-elect Joe Biden named retired army general Lloyd Austin on Tuesday as his pick to be