If the current trends continue, operating income at Hong Kong Disneyland could fall by $275 million in Disney's current fiscal year, which ends in September 2020, the company's chief financial officer Christine McCarthy said during an earnings call.
The local theme park was a drag on international business last quarter, when operating income at Hong Kong Disneyland fell $55 million, offsetting growth at parks in Paris and Shanghai. McCarthy warned profit could fall by $80 million in the current quarter.
As a whole, Disney's parks unit — which it breaks out in its earnings report as parks, experiences and products — brought in $1.4 billion in operating income for the fourth quarter, a 17% increase over the same time last year.
Disney's warning underscores the gloomy picture for Hong Kong's economy. Official data released last week confirmed what many had feared: The city has plunged into recession, after months of protests have forced shops to close, paralyzed public transportation and scared off tourists.
Visitors to Hong Kong plummeted 37% in the third quarter, according to the city's financial secretary. Hotels were on average only two-thirds full, a drop of 28% compared to the same period a year earlier.
With no immediate resolution to the city's political crisis in the cards, economists say Hong Kong's first recession in a decade could extend into the new year.
A student of a Hong Kong university who fell during protests at the weekend died early on Friday morning, hospital authorities said, setting the stage for a fresh wave of demonstrations in the self-governing territory in the coming weekend.
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology students' union said the man was a 22-year-old surnamed Chow who was a two-year undergraduate in the computer science department. In some reports, he was identified as Alex Chow and Chow Tsz-lok.
The South China Morning Post reported that he died of cardiac arrest after being in a coma since early Monday morning.
Chow's case has been embraced by the protest movement, which has called for city-wide vigils in his honour.
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The student was believed to have fallen in the early hours of Monday in the New Territories district of Tseung Kwan O, while police were trying to disperse the protesters with rounds of tear gas.
Chow was later found lying unconscious in a pool of blood inside a car park that police had fired tear gas into after protesters hurled objects from the building.
Protesters claimed that by firing the tear gas, police also delayed the deployment of emergency medical services to the victim.
Police officials acknowledge that tear gas had been used to disperse protesters near the car park, but say there was only a small amount of gas in the air when emergency responders found Chow.
The precise circumstances of how Chow came to be injured are unclear but he has been embraced by the five-month-old protest movement.
Alex Chow, the HKUST student fell from a carpark 4 days ago, is gone. He was just 22 yo, and had a bright long future ahead of him. https://t.co/EeNu6YSrnk
Al Jazeera's Sarah Clarke reporting from Hong Kong said that the protesters are blaming police, saying they had failed to adhere to tear gas guidelines.
Clarke added that as Friday also marks as a day of graduation for a number of students at the University of Hong Kong's science and technology campus, students have joined a memorial to paid tribute to the 22-year-old.
"The university has... asked for students and these protesters to show restraint, to show peace and to avoid conflict but at the moment the protesters have marched up and are now vandalising and graffitiing some of the operations on this campus that are affiliated with the mainland Chinese companies," Clarke said.
In a social media post, pro-democracy leader Joshua Wong said Hong Kong residents "mourn the loss of the freedom fighter in HK."
"We will not leave anyone behind - what we start together, we finish together. Given the losses suffered by HK society in the past month, the gov must pay the price."
Anger in Beijing
Meanwhile, China slammed protesters, calling them as "mobsters", after a pro-Beijing legislator was injured in a stabbing.
In the latest incident, a man holding a bouquet approached pro-Beijing legislator Junius Ho on Wednesday morning as the politician was campaigning in his constituency near the border with China.
The attack was "not only a serious criminal act but also pure election violence," Xu Luying, spokeswoman for the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of China's central government, said on Thursday, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
Xu said protesters in Hong Kong "intend to create a 'chilling effect' by threatening and intimidating their candidates and their supporters", in order to "affect the election results of the district councils and realise their purpose of seizing political power".
Xu also called for "strong punishment" against violence in Hong Kong and for a "fair, just, safe and orderly environment" for the district elections, set to be held on November 24.
The international finance hub has been shaken by five months of huge and increasingly violent protests calling for greater democratic freedoms and police accountability.
With Beijing and Hong Kong's unpopular leader Carrie Lam refusing to offer a political solution to the protesters' grievances, violence has spiralled on both sides of the ideological divide.
In October, Wong, the pro-democracy leader, was barred from contesting a seat in the upcoming polls.
An election officer had ruled that the concept of self-determination advocated by Wong's party, Demosisto, contradicted the Basic Law, Hong Kong's mini-constitution.
Students attend a ceremony to pay tribute to Chow Tsz-lok, 22, a university student who fell during protests at the weekend and died early on Friday morning [Tyrone Siu/Reuters]
"All they found was charred remains, ash and bones," family member Kendra Lee Miller said. "There were remains inside and outside of the vehicle."
Yet inside a torched car riddled with bullet holes, a tiny sign of life emerged.
A 7-month-old baby -- aptly named Faith -- was alive. She survived a grisly ambush attack in Mexico that killed her mother and eight relatives as their caravan of cars was headed to see other family members Monday.
In this remote, mountainous part of northern Mexico, extended family members found the horrific scene before authorities did.
"When we opened the passenger door, there was a car seat there with a bullet hole through the canopy of the car seat and two bullet holes through the bottom of the car seat," said relative Julián LeBarón, who was the first to find Faith.
He said Faith "sat in that car seat for over nine hours when we found her."
But Faith's mother, Christina Marie Langford Johnson, didn't survive.
"She was just laying on the ground when we found her," LeBarón said. "I can tell from the bloodstains that they aimed for her heart."
The family said Langford Johnson hid Faith in the back seat of the car before the mother was shot and killed.
As relatives in both the US and Mexico grieve the loss of three mothers and six of their children, the family is grateful that other children survived -- including some who walked for hours trying to save each other.
"It's a miracle any of them are alive," Willie Jessop said. "Only God knows how they can here's so much carnage and so much damage to the vehicles and to their bodies and have them still be alive."
CNN's Matt Rivers and Gary Tuchman contributed to this report.
"All they found was charred remains, ash and bones," family member Kendra Lee Miller said. "There were remains inside and outside of the vehicle."
Yet inside a torched car riddled with bullet holes, a tiny sign of life emerged.
A 7-month-old baby -- aptly named Faith -- was alive. She survived a grisly ambush attack in Mexico that killed her mother and eight relatives as their caravan of cars was headed to see other family members Monday.
In this remote, mountainous part of northern Mexico, extended family members found the horrific scene before authorities did.
"When we opened the passenger door, there was a car seat there with a bullet hole through the canopy of the car seat and two bullet holes through the bottom of the car seat," said relative Julián LeBarón, who was the first to find Faith.
He said Faith "sat in that car seat for over nine hours when we found her."
But Faith's mother, Christina Marie Langford Johnson, didn't survive.
"She was just laying on the ground when we found her," LeBarón said. "I can tell from the bloodstains that they aimed for her heart."
The family said Langford Johnson hid Faith in the back seat of the car before the mother was shot and killed.
As relatives in both the US and Mexico grieve the loss of three mothers and six of their children, the family is grateful that other children survived -- including some who walked for hours trying to save each other.
"It's a miracle any of them are alive," Willie Jessop said. "Only God knows how they can here's so much carnage and so much damage to the vehicles and to their bodies and have them still be alive."
CNN's Matt Rivers and Gary Tuchman contributed to this report.
One of slain Islamic State of Iraq and Iran (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's wives revealed "a lot of information" about the jihadist group's "inner workings" after she was captured last year, a Turkish official told Agence France-Presse.
The official said Baghdadi's spouse identified herself as Rania Mahmoud but was in fact Asma Fawzi Muhammad Al-Qubaysi.
AFP said the woman was arrested on June 2, 2018 in the Turkish province of Hatay, near the Syrian border, along with 10 others, including Baghdadi's daughter, who identified herself as Leila Jabeer.
Asma Fawzi Muhammad Al-Qubaysi, a wife of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is seen in an unknown location in an undated picture provided by Turkish security officials
TURKISH SECURITY OFFICIALS / HANDOUT / REUTERS
The official said the family links were confirmed using a DNA sample of Baghdadi provided by Iraqi authorities.
"We discovered (the wife's) real identity pretty quickly. At that point, she volunteered a lot of information about Baghdadi and the inner workings of ISIS," the official said.
"We were able to confirm a lot of things that we already knew. We also obtained new information that led to a series of arrests elsewhere."
The detainees are being held at a deportation center in Turkey, a senior Turkish official told CBS News, adding, "There may or may not be other high-value targets in Turkish custody. I am not at liberty to discuss ongoing investigations and intelligence operations."
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan revealed for the first time on Wednesday that Al-Qubaysi had been detained.
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in January 2019
Burhan Ozbilici / AP
"We caught his wife -- I say this today for the first time -- but we didn't make a big fuss about it," Erdogan told a gathering of students in Ankara.
He confirmed that Turkey had also captured Baghdadi's sister and brother-in-law.
Erdogan took a swipe at the United States for making a big deal of Baghdadi's killing, saying, "They started a very big communication operation."
The ISIS leader was killed in a U.S. special forces raid carried out with the help of Kurdish fighters in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib, just across the border from Turkey.
According to the U.S. account, Baghdadi ran into a dead-end tunnel in his hideout and detonated a suicide vest, killing himself and two children.
The raid came in the wake of a Turkish military offensive against the Kurdish militants, who have been a close ally of the West in the fight against ISIS but are viewed as terrorists by Ankara.
Image from video posted on militant website on April 29, 2019 purports to show ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
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Erdogan told reporters Thursday that members of al-Baghdadi's "inner circle" have been attempting to get into Turkey from Syria, and that the number of al-Baghdadi relatives who've been caught by Turkey "is close to reaching double digits," the AP said.
It was the second straight day in which Erdogan sought to publicize Turkey's efforts to capture ISIS members who were close to al-Baghdadi, the AP noted. Turkey has been criticized over its recent military incursion into Syria to drive out Syrian Kurdish fighters from northeast Syria due, among other things, to concerns it would enable an ISIS resurgence, the AP pointed out.
Iran has cancelled the accreditation of an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspector who was prevented from entering a nuclear facility last week.
The Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) said an alarm was triggered when the woman went through screening at the Natanz uranium enrichment plant.
Officials feared she was carrying "suspicious material", it added.
There was no comment from the IAEA, which is in charge of monitoring Iranian compliance with a nuclear deal.
The announcement came as Iran rolled back another commitment under the 2015 accord by resuming enriching uranium at its underground Fordo facility. Enriched uranium can be used to make reactor fuel but also nuclear weapons.
It is the fourth such step Iran has taken in response to the sanctions reinstated by US President Donald Trump when he abandoned the nuclear deal last year.
Under the accord, Iran agreed to limit its sensitive nuclear activities and allow in international inspectors in return for the lifting of crippling economic sanctions.
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Mr Trump wants to force Iran to negotiate a new agreement that would place indefinite curbs on its nuclear programme and also halt its development of ballistic missiles. But Iran has so far refused.
The other parties to the deal - the UK, France, Germany, China and Russia - have tried to keep it alive. But the sanctions have caused Iran's oil exports to collapse and the value of its currency to plummet, and sent its inflation rate soaring.
The incident at Natanz seems to be the first of its kind since the nuclear deal was implemented.
In a statement, the AEOI said the inspector had been denied entry to the facility after a routine check suggested the possible presence of "suspicious material".
Iran reported the incident to the IAEA and cancelled the inspector's accreditation, it added. As a result, she left the country for Austria.
Three diplomats familiar with the IAEA's work told Reuters news agency that the inspector had had her travel documents taken, and two said she was briefly held.
The IAEA has not yet commented on the issue, which is expected to be raised at a special meeting of its 35-nation board of governors in Vienna on Thursday.
There are concerns about how the nuclear inspectors will carry out their work in future.
The board of governors meeting will also discuss Iran's reported failure to co-operate with IAEA inspectors investigating how traces of uranium were found at a site in the Turquzabad area of Tehran, where Israel has said a "secret atomic warehouse" was once located.
Under the nuclear deal, Iran is required to permit the IAEA "regular access, including daily access as requested by the IAEA, to relevant buildings at Natanz".
Before 2015, Iran had two enrichment facilities - Natanz and Fordo - where uranium hexafluoride gas was fed into centrifuges to separate out the most fissile isotope, U-235.
The deal saw Iran agree to only produce low-enriched uranium, which has a 3-4% concentration of U-235, and can be used to produce fuel for nuclear power plants. Weapons-grade uranium is 90% enriched or more.
Iran also agreed to install no more than 5,060 of the oldest and least efficient centrifuges at Natanz until 2026, and not to carry out any enrichment at Fordo until 2031. The 1,044 centrifuges at Fordo were supposed to spin without gas being injected.
On Monday, the head of the AEOI said it had doubled the number of advanced centrifuges being operated at Natanz. Ali Akbar Salehi told reporters it now possessed 60 IR-6 centrifuges, and that it could enrich uranium to 20% concentration "within four minutes" of being given an order.
Shortly after midnight on Thursday, Iran began injecting uranium hexafluoride into the centrifuges at Fordo under the supervision of the IAEA and the enrichment process began, state media reported.
President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday that Iran was aware of the "sensitivity" of the other parties to the deal regarding enrichment at Fordo, which was built in secret about 90m (300ft) under a mountain to shield it from air strikes.
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday that the resumption of enrichment at Fordo represented a "profound change" from Iran's previous position.
"I will have discussions in the coming days, including with the Iranians, and we must collectively draw the consequences," he told reporters in Beijing.
UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said Iran needed to "stand by the commitments it made and urgently return to full compliance".
Iran has cancelled the accreditation of an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspector who was prevented from entering a nuclear facility last week.
The Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) said an alarm was triggered when the woman went through screening at the Natanz uranium enrichment plant.
Officials feared she was carrying "suspicious material", it added.
There was no comment from the IAEA, which is in charge of monitoring Iranian compliance with a nuclear deal.
The announcement came as Iran rolled back another commitment under the 2015 accord by resuming enriching uranium at its underground Fordo facility. Enriched uranium can be used to make reactor fuel but also nuclear weapons.
It is the fourth such step Iran has taken in response to the sanctions reinstated by US President Donald Trump when he abandoned the nuclear deal last year.
Under the accord, Iran agreed to limit its sensitive nuclear activities and allow in international inspectors in return for the lifting of crippling economic sanctions.
Media playback is unsupported on your device
Mr Trump wants to force Iran to negotiate a new agreement that would place indefinite curbs on its nuclear programme and also halt its development of ballistic missiles. But Iran has so far refused.
The other parties to the deal - the UK, France, Germany, China and Russia - have tried to keep it alive. But the sanctions have caused Iran's oil exports to collapse and the value of its currency to plummet, and sent its inflation rate soaring.
The incident at Natanz seems to be the first of its kind since the nuclear deal was implemented.
In a statement, the AEOI said the inspector had been denied entry to the facility after a routine check suggested the possible presence of "suspicious material".
Iran reported the incident to the IAEA and cancelled the inspector's accreditation, it added. As a result, she left the country for Austria.
Three diplomats familiar with the IAEA's work told Reuters news agency that the inspector had had her travel documents taken, and two said she was briefly held.
The IAEA has not yet commented on the issue, which is expected to be raised at a special meeting of its 35-nation board of governors in Vienna on Thursday.
There are concerns about how the nuclear inspectors will carry out their work in future.
The board of governors meeting will also discuss Iran's reported failure to co-operate with IAEA inspectors investigating how traces of uranium were found at a site in the Turquzabad area of Tehran, where Israel has said a "secret atomic warehouse" was once located.
Under the nuclear deal, Iran is required to permit the IAEA "regular access, including daily access as requested by the IAEA, to relevant buildings at Natanz".
Before 2015, Iran had two enrichment facilities - Natanz and Fordo - where uranium hexafluoride gas was fed into centrifuges to separate out the most fissile isotope, U-235.
The deal saw Iran agree to only produce low-enriched uranium, which has a 3-4% concentration of U-235, and can be used to produce fuel for nuclear power plants. Weapons-grade uranium is 90% enriched or more.
Iran also agreed to install no more than 5,060 of the oldest and least efficient centrifuges at Natanz until 2026, and not to carry out any enrichment at Fordo until 2031. The 1,044 centrifuges at Fordo were supposed to spin without gas being injected.
On Monday, the head of the AEOI said it had doubled the number of advanced centrifuges being operated at Natanz. Ali Akbar Salehi told reporters it now possessed 60 IR-6 centrifuges, and that it could enrich uranium to 20% concentration "within four minutes" of being given an order.
Shortly after midnight on Thursday, Iran began injecting uranium hexafluoride into the centrifuges at Fordo under the supervision of the IAEA and the enrichment process began, state media reported.
President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday that Iran was aware of the "sensitivity" of the other parties to the deal regarding enrichment at Fordo, which was built in secret about 90m (300ft) under a mountain to shield it from air strikes.
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday that the resumption of enrichment at Fordo represented a "profound change" from Iran's previous position.
"I will have discussions in the coming days, including with the Iranians, and we must collectively draw the consequences," he told reporters in Beijing.
UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said Iran needed to "stand by the commitments it made and urgently return to full compliance".
