1. Pro-democracy candidates buoyed by months of street protests in Hong Kong won a stunning victory in local elections on Sunday, as record numbers voted in a vivid expression of the city’s aspirations and its anger with the Chinese government. It was a pointed rebuke of Beijing and its allies in Hong Kong. With three million voters casting ballots…
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