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Tiananmen Square protester killed in his New York law office

NEW YORK (AP) — A dissident legal scholar who was jailed for two years in China after participating in the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement was killed Monday in his law firm’s office in New York, where he had settled after seeking asylum in the U.S., police said.

Li Jinjin, 66, was stabbed to death in the city where he had long worked as an immigration lawyer, even as he continued to advocate publicly for the many people jailed or killed by Chinese authorities during the nation’s democracy movement.

An arrest was made in his killing. Police said Xiaoning Zhang, 25, was taken into custody and faces a murder charge. It wasn't immediately clear when she would be arraigned or if she had retained an attorney.

Chuang Chuang Chen, the CEO of the China Democracy Party, and lawyer Wei Zhu, a friend of Li’s, both told The New York Daily News that the killing might have stemmed from Li’s refusal to take Zhang on as a client.

Zhang came to the U.S. in August on an F-1 student visa to go to school in Los Angeles, Chen told the Daily News.

Li, who also went by the first name Jim, was often quoted in recent years by news organizations looking for insight or commentary on the Chinese dissident community or on relations between China and the West. As an immigration lawyer, he also represented some Chinese expatriates living in the U.S. who were considered fugitives by that country.

Prior to his imprisonment for protesting, Li had been a legal adviser to an independent labor union that had challenged China’s government on worker rights.

“I can’t believe it. She not only destroyed his life, but the hope of our community,” Zhu told the newspaper. “He wanted to realize democracy in China. He will never realize that dream.”

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Asteroid half the size of a giraffe strikes Earth off coast of Iceland

A small asteroid struck the Earth above Iceland last Friday — just two hours after it was spotted by an astronomer.

The space rock, named 2022 EB5, is believed to have mostly burnt up in our planet's atmosphere, but even if it had impacted the surface it would have done little to no damage because it was just 10ft (3 metres) wide, about half the size of a giraffe.

Some people in Iceland reported hearing a boom or seeing a flash of light around the time 2022 EB5 scooted across the sky at 11 miles per second (18.5 km/s) between Greenland and Norway.

No evidence of any meteorites has yet been found but the International Meteor Organization is looking for witnesses who may have seen anything.

Prior to impact, which took place in the atmosphere north of Iceland at 21:22 GMT (16:22 ET) on Friday, March 11, the space rock became the fifth asteroid to be discovered before hitting Earth.

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QAnon Followers Head Way Down Rabbit Hole With Latest Theory on Trump

Abizarre new theory is making its way through the ranks of QAnon, with some followers now reportedly believing that former President Donald Trump's unusual pronunciation of "China" is actually a secret message referring to Ukraine.

QAnon, a far-right political movement, has become well known in the past few years for their numerous conspiracy theories. Many of these theories revolve around liberal politicians, including the disproven idea that President Joe Biden stole the 2020 election as a result of widespread voter fraud.

Other QAnon conspiracy theories involve former President Barack Obama and 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. These theories typically concern a reported cabal of liberal elites that QAnon believers say are working behind the scenes.

As Russia's invasion of Ukraine nears the end of week three, the eyes of QAnon conspirators have now turned to Ukraine. The latest QAnon theory concerns the uncommon way in which former President Trump pronounces "China," often emphasizing the word so that it sounds more like "chy-na."

Some QAnon followers now reportedly believe that Trump's pronunciation is purposeful, according to a Monday Vice News report. The pronunciation, these followers allegedly think, is actually a codeword that Trump is using to refer not to China, but to Ukraine.

While scientists have commonly traced the origins of the COVID-19 virus back to China, QAnon's conspiracy holds that the virus actually originated in Ukraine. Vice reported that the theory is tied in to an additional debunked conspiracy regarding "biolabs" being used in Ukraine, which, despite being disproven, continues to be seen among Russian far-right news outlets as well as American conservative media.

As a result of the biolab conspiracy, QAnon followers now reportedly believe that Trump's pronunciation of China is a deliberate effort to tell people that COVID-19 began in Ukraine, not China.

The theory was first identified by disinformation expert Marc Owen Jones, Vice reported.

Jones said on Twitter that the conspiracy began when a QAnon member on the social media site Reddit reportedly found a place called "Chyna" in Ukraine. Jones noted that while there is a town in Ukraine called Shypl'chyna, "it's clearly immaterial, since 1) even if there was a place called Chyna, - wait do I actually need to explain this - it's a misspelled coincidence 2) it's obviously a suffix of some sort."

This was further debunked by Vice, which reported that the use of "Chyna" was indeed just a mistranslation.

"The Ukrainian 'chy-na' is in fact just part of the name of what appears to be a village on the outskirts of Lviv," Vice reporter David Gilbert said. "In Ukrainian, it is called 'Шпильчина,' but on Google Maps, it's referred to as 'Shpyl'chyna.' Unfortunately, this is a bad transliteration: The 'y' is meant to represent a very soft 'i' sound that's hard to transliterate, because it's rarely used in English."

Another piece of the puzzle reportedly concerns the meaning of the term "chy-na," which in Ukrainian translates to "price." This was reportedly taken by QAnon to be a connection to former President Trump once telling China that they would "pay a big price" for COVID-19.

This theory, too, was debunked after it was noted that the term has a number of meanings in Ukrainian. While "price" is one of these words, the term can also be applied to translations meaning "tire" and "rank."

While this conspiracy theory can be disproven, it is just one of many alleged hypotheses from QAnon that relates to China and Ukraine. In recent weeks, it has been reported that the group is moving away from conspiracies against China after the country pledged support to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

This is in part due to QAnon's ongoing support of Russia, which had been seen even prior to the war in Ukraine.

Newsweek has reached out to former President Trump's office for comment.