Hong Kong — Hong Kong police fired teargas to try to break up antigovernment protests in the densely populated Kowloon district of Mong Kok on Thursday, as masked demonstrators gathered to join Halloween fancy-dress clubbers on the main island of Hong Kong.
Protesters, many dressed all in black and wearing now-banned face masks, knelt in the road and took cover behind umbrellas, angry at a violent police crackdown on unrest there two months ago. Many shone lasers at police as others built barricades in the road with rubbish bins and other debris...
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