HONG KONG-CHINA-DEMOCRACY

Police forces keep vigil as they cordon a street during the removal operations of pro-democracy barricades in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong at dawn on October 14, 2014. Police armed with bolt cutters, chainsaws and sledgehammers made a renewed attempt to remove barricades along a stretch of the main protest site held by pro-democracy demonstrators for the past fortnight. AFP PHOTO / Philippe Lopez