Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying attended the flag-raising ceremony Wednesday to mark China's National Day after refusing to meet pro-democracy demonstrators despite their threats to expand the street protests that have posed the stiffest challenge to Beijing's authority since China took control of the former British colony in 1997
Hong Kong Developments - Wednesday, October 1, 2014
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Hong Kong's Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, center, watches as military personnel march during a flag-raising ceremony as thousands of protesters watching from behind police barricades yelled at him to step down in Hong Kong, Oct. 1, 2014.
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Police officers stand guard outside a flag-raising ceremony where Hong Kong's embattled leader attended a ceremony to mark China's National Day in Hong Kong, Oct. 1, 2014.
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L'épave de la voiture calcinée après l'attaque terroriste, Somalie, le 9 mars 2016.
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A protester sits under an umbrella as he attends a rally along a main street at Hong Kong's shopping district Tsim Sha Tsui, Oct. 1, 2014.