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An eastern Wisconsin man has been charged in a wrong-way collision that killed four siblings last weekend, authorities said. Scott Farmer, of Neenah, is charged with four counts of homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle in Saturday’s crash in Weyauwega, about 100 miles northwest of Milwaukee. Farmer, 47, …

HONG KONG – Chinese state media have blasted Hong Kong’s pro-democracy opposition lawmakers for being “destroyers” of democratic development a day after they shot down Beijing’s election blueprint for the British former colony. The Chinese Communist Party’s flagship newspaper published an editorial Friday deploring the vote and accusing the pro-democracy …

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan – The president of Kyrgyzstan is lambasting the United States for honoring a jailed Kyrgyz journalist. The U.S. State Department earlier this month conferred a share of its annual Human Rights Defender award to Azimzhan Askarov, an ethnic Uzbek journalist who is in prison for stirring up “ethnic …