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U.S. NEWS Monday 28 noveMber 2022
Crowd angered by lockdowns calls for China’s Xi to step down

By Dake Kang and said anti-virus controls ham-
Huizhong Wu pered efforts to get medi-
Associated Press cal help.
Shanghai (AP) — Protest- The current protests erupt-
ers angered by strict anti- ed after a fire broke out
virus measures called for Thursday and killed at least
China’s powerful leader to 10 people in an apart-
resign, an unprecedented ment building in the city
rebuke as authorities in at of Urumqi in the northwest,
least eight cities struggled where some have been
to suppress demonstrations locked in their homes for
Sunday that represent a four months. That prompt-
rare direct challenge to the ed an outpouring of an-
ruling Communist Party. gry questions online about
Police using pepper spray whether firefighters or peo-
drove away demonstrators ple trying to escape were
in Shanghai who called for blocked by locked doors or
Xi Jinping to step down and other restrictions.
an end to one-party rule, About 300 demonstrators
but hours later people ral- gathered late Saturday in
lied again in the same spot. Shanghai, most of whose
Police again broke up the 25 million people were con-
demonstration, and a re- fined to their homes for al-
porter saw protesters under Protesters hold up blank papers and chant slogans as they march in protest in Beijing, Sunday, most two months starting in
arrest being driven away in Nov. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) late March.
a bus. On a street named for
The protests — which began Associated Press, chants major country still trying to those the United States and Urumqi, one group of pro-
Friday and have spread to against Xi, the most pow- stop transmission of CO- other major countries, but testers brought candles,
cities including the capi- erful leader since at least VID-19. Its “zero COVID” public acceptance has flowers and signs honor-
tal, Beijing, and dozens of the 1980s, and the Chinese strategy has suspended worn thin. People who are ing those who died in the
university campuses — are Communist Party sounded access to neighborhoods quarantined at home in blaze. Another group, ac-
the most widespread show loud and clear: “Xi Jinping! for weeks at a time. Some some areas say they lack cording to a protester who
of opposition to the ruling Step down! CCP! Step cities carry out daily virus food and medicine. The rul- insisted on anonymity, was
party in decades. down!” tests on millions of residents. ing party faced public an- more active, shouting slo-
In a video of the protest in Three years after the virus That has kept China’s in- ger following the deaths of gans and singing the na-
Shanghai verified by The emerged, China is the only fection numbers lower than two children whose parents tional anthem.q

Newborn among 7 dead in landslide on Italy’s Ischia island

By Colleen Barry the spokesman for Italian closeness to the people of
Associated Press firefighters, told RAI state Ischia during the traditional
MILAN (AP) — Search TV. ”Our teams are search- Sunday blessing in St. Pe-
teams have recovered ing with hope, even if it is ter’s Square. “I am praying
seven dead, including a very difficult.” for the victims, for those
3-week-old infant and a “Our biggest hope is that who are suffering and for
pair of young siblings, bur- people identified as miss- those who are involved in
ied in mud and debris that ing have found refuge with the rescue,” he said.
hurtled down a mountain- relatives and friends and The Naples prefect, Clau-
side and through a densely have not advised of their dio Palomba, said on Sun-
populated port city on the position,” he added. day that 30 homes had
resort island of Ischia, offi- The risks of landslides re- been inundated and more
cials said Sunday. mained in the highest part than 200 people had been
The Naples prefect con- of the town, near where displaced. Five people An aerial view of damaged houses after heavy rainfall triggered
firmed that five people re- heavy rainfall loosened a were injured. landslides that collapsed buildings and left as many as 12
mained missing, and feared chunk of mountainside, The massive landslide be- people missing, in Casamicciola, on the southern Italian island
of Ischia, Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022.
buried under the debris of requiring search teams to fore dawn on Saturday was (AP Photo/Salvatore Laporta)
an enormous landslide that enter by foot, he said. Small triggered by exceptional
struck Casamicciola be- bulldozers first focused on rainfall, and sent a mass over a precipice, the daily were killed in 2017 when
fore dawn on Saturday. Its clearing roads to allow res- of mud and debris hurtling Corriere della Sera report- a 4.0-magnitude quake
force collapsed buildings cue vehicles to pass, while through the port of Casam- ed. struck Casamicciola and
and pushed vehicles into dive teams were brought icciola, collapsing buildings The island received 126 mil- Lacco Ameno.
the sea. in to check cars that had and sweeping vehicles into limeters (nearly five inch- “There is territory that can-
The other victims were been pushed into the sea. the sea. es) of rain in six hours, the not be occupied. You can-
identified as the infant “We are continuing the One widely circulated vid- heaviest rainfall in 20 years, not change the use of a
boy’s parents, a 5-year- search with our hearts bro- eo showed a man, cov- according to officials. Ex- zone where there is water.
old girl and her 11-year-old ken, because among the ered with mud, clinging perts said the disaster was The course of the water
brother, a 31-year-old is- missing are also minors,” Gi- to a shutter, chest-deep exacerbated by building created this disaster,” ge-
land resident and a Bulgar- acomo Pascale, the mayor in muddy water. Another in areas of high risk on the ologist Riccardo Caniparoli
ian tourist. of the neighboring town of family escaped a home on mountainous island, which told RAI. “There are norms
“Mud and water tend to Lacco Ameno, told RAI. the mountainside that ap- is also in an seismically and laws that were not
fill every space,″ Luca Cari, Pope Francis expressed his peared Sunday to teeter active zone. Two people respected.”q