China

Guangzhou, Shijiazhuang, Chengdu and other major cities announced they were easing testing requirements and controls on movement

Chinese state TV says former President Jiang Zemin has died at age 96. Jiang initially was seen as a transitional leader after the country was shaken by the crushing of the Tiananmen Square democracy movement in 1989.

Hundreds of people have gathered at Harvard University and near Chinese consulates in New York and Chicago to support protesters who have called for that country’s leader to step down amid severe anti-virus restrictions in the biggest demonstrations against the government in Beijing in decades.

China’s “zero-COVID” policy continues to confine millions of people to their homes in an attempt to isolate every infection.

Students in Hong Kong have chanted “oppose dictatorship” in a protest of China’s COVID-19 rules.

Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets in Wuhan, China as protests over China’s stringent COVID restrictions spread across the country.

Barely a month after granting himself a third five-year term as China’s leader, Xi Jinping is facing a wave of public anger over his draconian “zero COVID” policy.

Protesters angered by strict anti-virus measures have called for China’s powerful leader to resign. That’s an unprecedented rebuke.

Protests against China’s restrictive COVID-19 measures appeared to roil in several cities Saturday night, in displays of public defiance fanned by anger over a deadly fire in the western Xinjiang region.

China is expanding pandemic lockdowns, including in a city where factory workers clashed with police this week, as its number of COVID-19 cases hits a daily record.

Videos and postings on Chinese social media say employees at the world’s biggest Apple iPhone factory have been beaten and detained in protests over contract disputes amid anti-virus controls.

The suspect in the weekend killings of four people at a marijuana farm in Oklahoma was arrested in the afternoon by officers in South Florida, police announced late Tuesday.

A federal judge has handed down a 20-year prison sentence to a Chinese national convicted of trying to steal trade secrets from U.S.

The United Nations says the world’s population is reaching the 8 billion mark on Tuesday. The projection came in a U.N. report released in July that said much of the growth expected between now and 2050 is coming from just eight countries.

The White House says President Joe Biden has objected to what it says is China’s “coercive and increasingly aggressive actions” toward Taiwan.

President Joe Biden met with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G-20 summit amid increasing tensions between the superpowers over China’s actions towards Taiwan.

Everyone in a district of 1.8 million people in China’s southern metropolis of Guangzhou has been ordered to undergo virus testing while a major city in the southwest closed schools as another rise in infections was reported.

Beijing closed city parks and imposed other restrictions as the country faces a new wave of COVID-19 cases.

Apple said on Sunday that COVID-19 restrictions in China will reduce the iPhone 14 production capacity at the primary assembly plant in Zhengzhou.

Apple Inc. is warning customers they’ll have to wait longer to get its latest iPhone models after anti-virus restrictions were imposed on a contractor’s factory in central China.