___2:35 p.m.Hong Kong police have swooped in with tear gas and batons as protesters who have taken over a university campus make an apparent last-ditch effort to escape arrest. They were greeted by tear gas from police who had blocked all ways out of the area. Hong Kong has been rocked by anti-government protests that have raged for more than five months. ___11 a.m.For days, Hong Kong’s protesters fortified a university campus to keep police from getting in. Officers repelled one attempt Monday morning with tear gas, driving a few hundred protesters back into the Hong Kong Polytechnic campus.

Source: Washington Post November 18, 2019 00:07 UTC