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Hong Kong Looks for Ways to Win Back Big-Spending Tourists

A city with an image dented by protests, pandemic restrictions and a security crackdown hopes to broaden its appeal beyond budget-minded visitors from mainland China.

© Anthony Kwan for The New York Times

People heading into the new Kai Tak Stadium in Hong Kong. The city is seeking to rebrand itself as the region’s events capital, emphasizing concerts and trade shows.
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Conference to recognise Palestinian state to weaken scope of its ambition, diplomats say

UK, France and other western states will not recognise Palestine at Saudi Arabia meeting, instead focusing on agreeing steps towards it

A planned conference in Saudi Arabia this month that supporters of Palestine had hoped would push western governments to recognise a Palestinian state has weakened its ambition and will instead hope to agree on steps towards recognition, diplomats have said.

The change to the aims of the conference, due to be held between 17 and 20 June, marks a retreat from an earlier vision that it would mark a joint declaration of recognition of Palestine as a state by a large group of countries, including permanent UN security council members France and the UK.

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© Photograph: Ludovic Marin/EPA

© Photograph: Ludovic Marin/EPA

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Jailed Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong hit with new charges

Wong accused of conspiracy in move rights groups condemn as ‘outrageous’ attempt to keep influential dissident imprisoned

Jailed pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong has been hit with further national security charges, a move rights groups said showed the Hong Kong government was trying to keep dissidents behind bars for as long as possible.

Wong, a well-known activist who has been in jail for more than four years either awaiting trial or serving sentences, is accused of conspiracy to collude with a foreign country. He appeared in court on Friday to hear the charge and did not apply for bail.

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© Photograph: Kin Cheung/AP

© Photograph: Kin Cheung/AP

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Ice agents use pepper spray and smoke grenades to disperse LA protesters

Rights group says at least 45 people arrested as people demonstrate against coordinated raids throughout the city

The Department of Homeland Security conducted raids on multiple locations across Los Angeles on Friday, clashing with the crowds of people who gathered to protest.

Masked agents were recorded pulling several people out of two LA-area Home Depot stores and the clothing manufacturer Ambient Apparel’s headquarters in LA’s Fashion District. Immigration advocates said the raids also included four other locations, including a doughnut shop.

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© Photograph: Damian Dovarganes/AP

© Photograph: Damian Dovarganes/AP

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Abrego Garcia Charges: What We Know

Three months after being wrongly deported to El Salvador, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was flown back to the United States on Friday to face federal charges.

© Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

For months, the Trump administration had resisted court orders to bring back Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia.
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Dragonfly review – haunting, genre-defying drama of lonely city living

Tribeca film festival, New York
Brenda Blethyn and Andrea Riseborough, along with a very alarming dog, are superb as two neighbours thrown together by their neglected circumstances

Twenty years ago, Paul Andrew Williams announced himself as a smart new British talent with his ferocious gangland picture London to Brighton, and his creativity has continued in film and TV ever since. His new film is a haunted, social-realist drama with elements of Mike Leigh but also moments of thriller and even horror. Williams isn’t shy of stabbing us with an old-fashioned jump scare towards the end, which in fact challenges the audiences with its refusal of categorisation. There are two superb lead performances from Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn and an outstanding supporting turn from Jason Watkins.

Dragonfly is about loneliness and alienation and about the eternal mystery of other people, the fear of intimacy and the unknowable existence of urban neighbours. Elsie, played by Blethyn, is an older woman who is quite capable of independent living in her bungalow, but a recent fall and an injured wrist has meant that her middle-aged son (Watkins), all too obviously to compensate for not visiting that often, has paid for daily visits from a private agency nurses. They are overworked and not doing an especially good job. Really, she doesn’t need these nurses and by enduring them, Elsie is shouldering the burden of her son’s guilt.

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© Photograph: Lissa Haines-Beardow/ Two Bungalow FilmsLtd

© Photograph: Lissa Haines-Beardow/ Two Bungalow FilmsLtd

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Missing in the Amazon: the disappearance – episode 1

Three years ago the British journalist Dom Phillips and the Brazilian Indigenous defender Bruno Pereira vanished while on a reporting trip near Brazil’s remote Javari valley. The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips investigates what happened in the first episode of a new six-part investigative podcast series. Find episode 2 – and all future episodes – by searching for ‘Missing in the Amazon’

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© Composite: Guardian Audio

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