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Lai takes over as leader as Beijing aggressively asserts its claim over the self-governed island of 23 million people.Story Published at: May 20, 2024 at 03:26AM

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A helicopter carrying Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi and the foreign minister has crashed in a remote area north Iran.Story Published at: May 19, 2024 at 10:04PM

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