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Taiwan is 'of course' a country, president says in rebuke to China Giving the first of 10 speeches in a series called "uniting the country", Lai drew on Taiwan's history, including the millennia-long connection of its indigenous people to other Austronesians, like native Hawaiians, to show what he said was Taiwan's separate and distinct development from China. .......... Taiwan's people have a record of opposing invasion, like uprisings against Japan's 1895-1945 colonial rule, and under the last imperial Chinese dynasty, the Qing, Taiwan was only considered a Chinese province for eight years ......... China says the 1971 United Nations resolution, which took away Taipei's seat in the body and gave it to Beijing, is one of the legal bases of its claims. ........ Lai, who in March called China a "hostile foreign force", said it was "totally wrong" for Beijing to say that U.N. resolution had anything to do with Taiwan's sovereignty as it was only about which government was represented at the body........ China's threat to Taiwan is real, added Lai, pointing to its daily military activities around the island. ......... "Taiwan's future can only be decided by its 23 million people - does everyone approve of this?" he said, to a round of applause.

Israel Pounds Tehran Amid Growing Calls for De-Escalation Israel said it had targeted a paramilitary headquarters and a notorious prison in Tehran, along with access routes to the Fordo nuclear site. The strikes came as Iran’s foreign minister met with a key ally, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.

Here’s what to know about Iran’s notorious Evin prison. Iran’s Evin prison, a notorious detention facility in Tehran where dissidents and political prisoners are held. The detention center has long been regarded as a symbol of repression, and human rights groups and survivors say that torture and executions are routine there. ....... an explosion at the main entrance to the prison compound and damage after a blast near a second entrance.

Israel widens its targets in another series of strikes on the Iranian capital.

Netanyahu says Israel is ‘very, very close’ to achieving its goals in the war with Iran. “to remove two concrete, existential threats: the nuclear threat and the ballistic missile threat.”