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UK updates travel advice and US urges citizens to ‘reconsider travel’ to Hong KongThe US and the UK have warned of a risk of arbitrary arrest in China and Hong Kong in updates to their travel advice for citizens.The US advice urged citizens to “reconsider travel” to Hong Kong, citing an environment in which the central Chinese government “unilaterally and arbitrarily exercises police and...

Authorities end case as Stig Engström, probable killer of the prime minister, died in 2000Swedish authorities have closed their 34-year investigation into the unsolved murder of prime minister Olof Palme, naming a graphic designer at an insurance company as the probable killer but saying he could not be prosecuted because he was now dead.“We can’t get around one person as the perpetrator: he is...

US rapper had been in detention since 3 July over alleged brawl in Swedish capitalA Swedish court has freed A$AP Rocky and two co-defendants until 14 August, when the verdicts in their trial for assault will be announced.The platinum-selling US rapper, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, and two members of his entourage have been in detention since 3 July in connection with a...

Trump, who has advocated for the rapper’s release, sent the special envoy to Stockholm to monitor court proceedingsDonald Trump sent the US special presidential envoy for hostage affairs to Stockholm to monitor the court proceedings of the American rapper A$AP Rocky, according to Swedish news agency TT.The special envoy Robert O’Brien was seen on Tuesday at Stockholm district court, where the rapper, whose real...