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Joshua Wong, the Hong Kong democracy activist who became a global symbol of resistance during the two thousand fourteen Umbrella Movement, has been sentenced to ten more years in prison on collusion charges. Wong has cycled in and out of custody since two thousand seventeen, and this latest sentence marks yet another chapter in Beijing's sustained legal campaign against Hong Kong's pro-democracy voices.
Shifting to a story about memory and legacy, Ghanaian photographer James Barnor has received a top honour recognizing seven decades behind the lens. From his Accra studio to the pages of Drum magazine, Barnor spent a lifetime documenting Black culture and everyday life through some of the twentieth century's most consequential social transformations. His work is a reminder that photography at its best is history made visible.
And in the ongoing battle over artificial intelligence and creative rights, Australia has emerged as a key battleground. OpenAI, Anthropic, and others are actively lobbying Canberra to rewrite copyright law in ways that would permit AI training on protected works. Critics, including the International Council of Music Producers, are calling it a vast landgrab, and the outcome could set a precedent far beyond Australian shores.
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