Hong Kong metro system partially reopens as city braces for further protests

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's rail operator partially reopened the city's metro system on Sunday after an unprecedented shutdown but kept many typically busy stations closed as the Chinese territory braced for large demonstrations later in the day. Violent protests erupted across the Asian financial centre on Friday hours after its embattled leader Carrie Lam invoked colonial-era emergency powers, last used more than 50 years ago, to curb months of unrest. The night's "extreme violence" justified the use of the emergency law, Beijing-backed Lam said in a television address on Saturday

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