News in Pics (6 August 2019)

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Hong Kong: Policemen arrest people during a face off at Sham Shui Po district in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. Protesters and residents gather outside a police station to demand police release a student leader after he was arrested for buying laser pointers. China warned Tuesday that it will be "only a matter of time" before it punishes those behind two months of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong that have increasingly devolved into violent clashes with law enforcement.

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New Delhi: BJP leader Anil Jain with Union Ministers Anurag Thakur, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Narendra Singh Tomar, at Parliament in New Delhi, Tuesday, Aug 6, 2019. The Lok Sabha approved the abrogation of special status given to J&K under Article 370 today.

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Providence: India bowler Deepak Chahar, appeals successfully for the LBW of West Indies Evin Lewis to dismiss him during their third T20 international cricket match in Providence, Guyana, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019.

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San Antonio: San Antonio Police cordoned off the neighborhood where a suspect killed three people. A man is accused of killing his grandmother and two others before committing suicide in a South Side home that was set on fire Monday, Aug. 5, 2019.

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Colombo: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe testifies in front of a parliamentary committee investigating the Islamic State-inspired Easter Sunday bomb attacks, at the parliament complex in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019. Wickremesinghe said the coordinated suicide bomb attacks in three churches and three tourist hotels on April 21 were the result of the security apparatus failing to follow the transition of religious extremists into terrorists, adding that the country should prepare itself to face new forms of terrorism prevalent in other countries.

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Quetta: Pakistani security officials examine the site of a bombing in Quetta, Pakistan, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019. A Pakistani police official said a bomb exploded in a market in the southwestern city of Quetta, killing a minority Shiite Muslim and wounding others.