Globe Trot: Hong Kong clears remaining protest camps

HONG KONG:Overnight, authorities began a crackdown on weeks of peaceful demonstrations to win freedoms from the China-led government—arresting two student leaders and clearing protest camps in the main thoroughfare of Kowloon.

GERMANY: The most powerful woman in the world with her “helmet of no-color hair,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel got her start as the daughter of a Protestant minister and an English teacher living in East Germany and perfecting her Russian. A George Packer profile is always worth your time.

SUDAN is destroying churches in North Khartoum that have for more than a century been vibrant places of worship.

LIBERIA: As Ebola “slows” in Liberia (to an average of 25 new cases a day), quarantined towns are struggling to access food and supplies. Dr. Rick Sacra is in the United States recovering from Ebola—and counting the minutes until he can return to Liberia.

WORLD’S 2014 Daniel of the Year is Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., a tireless campaigner on behalf of the world’s persecuted and the “patron saint of unpopular causes.” Wolf retires at the end of this year after a career spanning 34 years in Congress—and Capitol Hill will be a poorer place without him.

SYRIA: I revisit Antoine Audo, WORLD’s 2013 Daniel of the Year and the Chaldean bishop of Aleppo, Syria. “Everybody became poor in Aleppo with war. … We have even doctors and engineers asking for baskets of food,” he told me.

NOTE: And Happy Thanksgiving, that forgotten feast worth treasuring amid the Christmas crush, and the world’s brokenness. Globe Trot will return on Monday, Dec. 1.

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