- Reuters
China's foreign minister calls Taiwan's new president 'disgraceful'
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called Taiwan's newly-inaugurated President Lai Ching-te "disgraceful" on Tuesday, stepping up Beijing's rhetoric just a day after he took office. China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory, believes Lai to be a "separatist", and has rebuffed his offers of talks. China's government has generally avoided directly naming Lai since he won election in January, unlike in the run-up to the vote where they regularly denounced him by name and said the election was a choice between war and peace.
- MSNBC
Opinion | Trump's allies are making his trial into the circus he craved
Whatever the verdict in Donald Trump's criminal trial, the parade of Republicans coming to defend him at the New York courthouse shows the GOP's future.
- Associated Press
Italian women's prison, hundreds of residents evacuated after 4.4 magnitude quake in southern Italy
A women’s prison near Naples was evacuated as a precaution Tuesday following a 4.4 magnitude quake with an epicenter at an active volcano west of the southern Italian port city that forced hundreds of residents to sleep in tents or cars. The quake was the strongest in recorded history around the Phlegraean Fields, a sprawling area of ancient volcanic centers near the Tyrrhenian Sea in a zone that encompasses western neighborhoods of Naples and its suburbs, said Giuseppe De Natale, a volcanologist of Italy’s INGV National Geophysics and Volcanology Center. During the last major event in 1984, 40,000 residents were evacuated during a period of intense seismic activity as a precaution against a feared eruption that did not occur.
