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Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen quits as party chair after local elections  BBC Taiwan’s president quits as party head  Reuters Taiwan president quits as party head after China threat bet fails to win votes  Yahoo News WION Fineprint | Taiwan: President Tsai Ing-Wen stepped

NEW YORK — Oscar, Golden Globe and two-time Grammy winning singer-actress Irene Cara, who starred and sang the title cut from the 1980 hit movie “Fame” and then belted out the era-defining hit “Flashdance … What a Feeling” from 1983’s

MILAN — Heavy rainfall triggered a massive landslide early Saturday on the southern Italian resort island of Ischia that destroyed buildings and swept parked cars into the sea, leaving at least one person dead and up to 12 missing. The

Heavy rainfall triggered landslides early Saturday on the southern Italian island of Ischia that left as many as 12 people missing as it cut a muddy swath through a port town, collapsing buildings and sweeping cars into the sea.

Residents held extraordinary late-night demonstrations against Urumqi’s draconian “zero-COVID” lockdown after an apartment fire killed 10. (Image credit: Ng Han Guan/AP)

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Voters in Taiwan overwhelmingly chose the opposition Nationalist party in several major races across the self-ruled island in an election in which threats from China took a backseat to local issues. (Image credit: Chang Hao-an/AP)

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen relinquished her seat as head of the island’s ruling party after it lost several key contests in local elections, foreshadowing political uncertainty amid heightened tensions with China.

Armed Americans, often pushing a right-wing agenda, are increasingly using open-carry laws to intimidate opponents and shut down debate.