Sri Lanka Power Outage
A man holds a candle as he gets a hair cut in Colombo on August 17, 2020, during a lengthy electricity outage affecting the entire country of more than 21 million people. Some 21 million people across Sri Lanka were without power on August 17 after an hours-long nationwide outage following a "unspecified failure" at a major power plant, the state-run electricity board said. ISHARA S. KODIKARA / AFP
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Power outage plunges Sri Lanka into darkness

COLOMBO (AFP) - The entire nation of Sri Lanka was left without power Monday in a seven-hour outage following a failure at a key electricity

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Police lead Hong kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai (C), 72, away from his home after he was arrested under the new national security law in Hong kong on August 10, 2020. Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai was arrested under a new national security law on August 10 and police raided his newspaper offices in a deepening crackdown on dissent in the restless Chinese city. VERNON YUEN / AFP
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Hong Kong media giant soars 344 percent as Lai arrest spurs activists

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