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Hong Kong police fire tear gas to disperse protesters

Photographers flee tear gas fired by police in Hong Kong on October 27, 2019.

Hong Kong police again used tear gas and rubber bullets on Sunday to try to disperse an unauthorized pro-democracy demonstration in the shopping and tourist streets of the tip of the Kowloon Peninsula.

Since the beginning of June, the former British colony has been through its most serious political crisis since its return to China in 1997, with almost daily demonstrations and actions.

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