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  Beijing on Saturday told the United Kingdom to stay out of China’s internal affairs after Britain’s foreign minister called for an independent investigation into the recent protests in its former colony Hong Kong. British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab called for the probe on Friday after a phone call with Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam, the Foreign Office in London said in a statement. “It is simply wrong for the British government to directly call Hong Kong’s Chief Executive to exert pressure,” Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in a statement. “The Chinese side seriously urges the UK to stop its interference in China’s internal affairs and stop making random and inflammatory accusations on Hong Kong,” she said, adding that Hong Kong was no longer a British colony and the UK has no supervisory rights. Hong Kong has been beset by often violent anti-government protests for the past nine weeks, in the deepest political crisis for the territory ...

Parts of England and Wales experienced a major power outage during Friday's evening rush hour that left commuters stranded and officials demanding answers. The nine-hour disruption left commuters stuck on trains and others locked in gridlock traffic due to nonworking traffic signals, according to The Guardian. Rail services were still not reportedly fully restored Saturday morning, though power had been restored to about 1 million customers, the newspaper reported. A spokesman for the National Grid told the BBC 4 radio program that the outage was an "incredibly rare event." “The root cause of yesterday’s issue was not with our system but was a rare and unusual event, the almost simultaneous loss of two large generators, one gas and one offshore wind, at 4.54pm. We are still working with the generators to understand what caused the generation to be lost," a spokesperson added in a statement to The Guardian. Nick King, a spokesman for Network Rail which manages ...