Shannon Van Sant
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Demonstrators are demanding fair elections for the City Duma and for opposition candidates to be allowed on the ballot.
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Demonstrators flooded the arrivals terminal, taking their demands for protection of Hong Kong's freedoms to an international audience.
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Essebsi rose to power in 2014 after the Arab Spring protests. But his political career spanned 70 years.
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The skirmish occurred over disputed islands in the East China Sea during a joint China-Russia air patrol Tuesday morning.
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The ruling Conservative Party will choose a new leader this week. The winner will inherit a full-blown international crisis, which erupted Friday after Iran seized a British-flagged oil tanker.
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The rules block recipients of federal grants from referring patients for abortion. The Trump administration says groups working in "good faith" will have until Aug. 19 to provide written assurance.
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After a series of pilots, the administration says it will roll out the updated version by December 2020 or early 2021.
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Iran took over the British-flagged vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday and says it and its crew will remain in an Iranian port during a probe of an accident that Iran says led to the seizure.
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Sadie Roberts-Joseph was a prominent civil rights activist and community leader in Baton Rouge, La. She founded the city's African American history museum in 2001.
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The storm system has prompted tornado and flash flood warnings, and officials are keeping a close watch on New Orleans' levee system and infrastructure, which failed during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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The move signals that Iran is losing patience with the 2015 agreement after the U.S. blocked the economic relief promised.
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Courtney Irby had taken her husband's guns from his home, and given them to police. At the time he was under arrest for allegedly ramming her car with his.