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Police take Hong Kong's Stand News editor in chief out of the building where the local media outlet's office is located, and load boxes of evidence into a truck after they raided its office and arrested six current and former staff for "seditious publication". IMAGES
Hong Kong police surround the offices of pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily after arresting five of its executives under the city's national security law, including chief editor Ryan Law. [COMPLETES VIDI9CD48N_EN] IMAGES
A dozen people attempt to demonstrate in front of the headquarters of the magazine Valeurs Actuelles to protest against the publication of a "political fiction" depicting far-left MP Danielle Obono as a slave. On Saturday evening, activists from the Black African Defence League broke into the magazine's premises to denounce "incitement to anti-black hatred". IMAGES
Images of the Saudi consulate in Istanbul where Turkish police believe prominent Saudi journalist and critic Jamal Khashoggi was murdered after he went missing on Tuesday, according to an unnamed government official. IMAGES
Belgian and French police raided an apartment building in Brussels on Tuesday afternoon. The siege ended later that evening with four police officers wounded and one suspect dead.
At a press conference held at Downing Street after a meeting with police chiefs, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer lays out plans to better target known far-right agitators, including wider deployment of facial recognition technology and criminal behavior orders to restrict their movement. He also warns social media commpanies that they must uphold laws around spreading incendiary misinformation, following unrest blamed on the sharing of unverified details about the Southport knife attack. "It's also a crime and it's happening on your premises," Starmer said of the proliferation of misinformation "whipped up online", which helped spark two nights of violence in English towns and cities after Monday's stabbings. SOUNDBITE