Hong Kong authorities begin clearing part of main protest camp

HONG KONG - Hong Kong authorities on Tuesday cleared a small part of the main pro-democracy protest camp, the first of several planned evictions to shrink mass sit-ins that have blocked major thoroughfares for seven weeks.

There was no resistance from demonstrators as workers dismantled metal barricades blocking access to a skyscraper opposite government headquarters, on the edge of the sprawling camp in the central Admiralty district.