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US: Gas Line Explosion Reported Near Willow River in Minnesota, Forcing Evacuations

A large gas line explosion was reported on Friday, January 16, near Willow River in Pine County, Minnesota, forcing nearby residents to evacuate. Minnesota Energy Resources said customers in the area could be without natural gas for days, though authorities reported no injuries and suspect no criminal activity at this time.

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US: Gas Line Explosion Reported Near Willow River in Minnesota, Forcing Evacuations 2

A large gas line explosion was reported on Friday, January 16, near Willow River in Pine County, Minnesota, forcing nearby residents to evacuate. Minnesota Energy Resources said customers in the area could be without natural gas for days, though authorities reported no injuries and suspect no criminal activity at this time.

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RECAP: Taiwan Hit by M6.6 Earthquake Off Northeast Coast, Tremors Felt in Taipei

A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hit Taiwan just off its northeast coast late Saturday, December 27, about 32 kilometers from the coastal town of Yilan, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). Tremors were felt across the island, including Taipei.

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Taiwan: Magnitude 6.1 Earthquake Hits Taitung

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck Taitung County in southeastern Taiwan at around 5:47 p.m. Wednesday, according to Taiwan’s Central Weather Administration. The quake had a depth of about 11.9 km and shook buildings as far away as Taipei, but there were no immediate reports of damage. The video shows a store shelf shaking in Chiayi City, about 130 kilometers northwest of Taitung County.

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US: Mid-Missouri Hit by Severe Storms and Possible Tornado, Thousands Lose Power

Severe storms swept through mid-Missouri on Sunday, April 20, prompting tornado warnings and causing widespread damage. A possible tornado in Callaway County injured one person in New Bloomfield. Thousands of customers experienced power outages.

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CHINA-TAIWAN-NANTOU-DUANWU-RIYUE TAN-HOLIDAY (CN)

(240609) -- TAIPEI, June 9, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- This photo taken on June 9, 2024 shows the scenic spot of Riyue Tan, or the Sun Moon Lake, during the holiday of the Dragon Boat Festival, also called Duanwu Festival, in Nantou County, southeast China's Taiwan. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Wang Chenghao)

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CHINA-TAIWAN-NANTOU-DUANWU-RIYUE TAN-HOLIDAY (CN)

(240609) -- TAIPEI, June 9, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Tourists visit the scenic spot of Riyue Tan, or the Sun Moon Lake, during the holiday of the Dragon Boat Festival, also called Duanwu Festival, in Nantou County, southeast China's Taiwan, June 9, 2024. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Wang Chenghao)

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CHINA-TAIWAN-NANTOU-DUANWU-RIYUE TAN-HOLIDAY (CN)

(240609) -- TAIPEI, June 9, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Tourists visit the scenic spot of Riyue Tan, or the Sun Moon Lake, during the holiday of the Dragon Boat Festival, also called Duanwu Festival, in Nantou County, southeast China's Taiwan, June 9, 2024. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Wang Chenghao)

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CHINA-TAIWAN-NANTOU-DUANWU-RIYUE TAN-HOLIDAY (CN)

(240609) -- TAIPEI, June 9, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Tourists visit the scenic spot of Riyue Tan, or the Sun Moon Lake, during the holiday of the Dragon Boat Festival, also called Duanwu Festival, in Nantou County, southeast China's Taiwan, June 9, 2024. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Wang Chenghao)

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CHINA-TAIWAN-NANTOU-DUANWU-RIYUE TAN-HOLIDAY (CN)

(240609) -- TAIPEI, June 9, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Tourists visit the scenic spot of Riyue Tan, or the Sun Moon Lake, during the holiday of the Dragon Boat Festival, also called Duanwu Festival, in Nantou County, southeast China's Taiwan, June 9, 2024. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Wang Chenghao)

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CHINA-TAIWAN-NANTOU-DUANWU-RIYUE TAN-HOLIDAY (CN)

(240609) -- TAIPEI, June 9, 2024 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on June 9, 2024 shows the scenic spot of Riyue Tan, or the Sun Moon Lake, during the holiday of the Dragon Boat Festival, also called Duanwu Festival, in Nantou County, southeast China's Taiwan. (Xinhua/Wang Chenghao)

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CHINA-TAIWAN-NANTOU-DUANWU-RIYUE TAN-HOLIDAY (CN)

(240609) -- TAIPEI, June 9, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Tourists visit the scenic spot of Riyue Tan, or the Sun Moon Lake, during the holiday of the Dragon Boat Festival, also called Duanwu Festival, in Nantou County, southeast China's Taiwan, June 9, 2024. (Xinhua/Wang Chenghao)

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CHINA-TAIWAN-NANTOU-DUANWU-RIYUE TAN-HOLIDAY (CN)

(240609) -- TAIPEI, June 9, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Tourists visit the scenic spot of Riyue Tan, or the Sun Moon Lake, during the holiday of the Dragon Boat Festival, also called Duanwu Festival, in Nantou County, southeast China's Taiwan, June 9, 2024. (Xinhua/Wang Chenghao)

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CHINA-TAIWAN-NANTOU-DUANWU-RIYUE TAN-HOLIDAY (CN)

(240609) -- TAIPEI, June 9, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Tourists visit the scenic spot of Riyue Tan, or the Sun Moon Lake, during the holiday of the Dragon Boat Festival, also called Duanwu Festival, in Nantou County, southeast China's Taiwan, June 9, 2024. (Xinhua/Wang Chenghao)

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CHINA-TAIWAN-NANTOU-DUANWU-RIYUE TAN-HOLIDAY (CN)

(240609) -- TAIPEI, June 9, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Tourists visit the scenic spot of Riyue Tan, or the Sun Moon Lake, during the holiday of the Dragon Boat Festival, also called Duanwu Festival, in Nantou County, southeast China's Taiwan, June 9, 2024. (Xinhua/Wang Chenghao)

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(SP)CHINA-CHUN'AN-ASIAN GAMES-MARATHON SWIMMING (CN)

(231007) -- CHUN'AN, Oct. 7, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Cho Cheng-Chi of Chinese Taipei reacts after the Men's 10km Final of Marathon Swimming at the 19th Asian Games in Chun'an County, east China's Zhejiang Province, Oct. 7, 2023. (Xinhua/Hu Huhu)

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Protesters squabble with police over cross-strait talks

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Student protesters against talks between top Taiwanese and Chinese officials of cross-strait affairs squabble with police officers in front of the venue of the meeting in Taoyuan County, Taiwan, on June 25, 2014.

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Protesters voice opposition to cross-strait talks

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Student protesters voice opposition to talks between top Taiwanese and Chinese officials of cross-strait affairs in front of the venue of the meeting in Taoyuan County, Taiwan, on June 25, 2014.

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China's top policy negotiator begins landmark Taiwan visit

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Pro-independence activists gather outside a hotel in Taoyuan County, Taiwan, to protest against a meeting between China's Taiwan Affairs Council Minister Zhang Zhijun and Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council Minister Wang Yu-chi on June 25, 2014.

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China's top policy negotiator begins landmark Taiwan visit

TAIPEI, Taiwan - People hold up a banner welcoming China's Taiwan Affairs Council Minister Zhang Zhijun outside a hotel in Taoyuan County, Taiwan, on June 25, 2014. Zhang met with Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council Minister Wang Yu-chi at the hotel.

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Top China, Taiwan officials on cross-strait affairs meet

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Zhang Zhijun (3rd from L), minister of China's Taiwan Affairs Office, and Wang Yu-chi (3rd from R), minister of Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council, exchange opinions at a hotel in Taoyuan County, Taiwan, on June 25, 2014.

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Top China, Taiwan officials on cross-strait affairs meet

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Zhang Zhijun (L), minister of China's Taiwan Affairs Office, and Wang Yu-chi, chief of Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council, meet at a hotel in Taoyuan county, Taiwan, on June 25, 2014.

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Taiwan boats leave for Senkakus

TAIPEI, Taiwan - About 60 fishing boats leave Yilan County in Taiwan on Sept. 24, 2012, for a cluster of Japan-administered islands in the East China Sea to assert Taiwanese fishermen's trawling rights in the rich fishing grounds.

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Senkaku activists launch protest voyage from Taiwan

YELIU, Taiwan - Activists claiming Chinese sovereignty over the Senkaku Islands set out for the disputed area in a fishing boat from the northern Taiwan port of Yeliu in Taipei County on Sept. 13, 2010.

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Taiwan launches high-speed rail service

TAIPEI, Taiwan - A child passes a ticket barrier to take the first train of Taiwan's bullet train system that launched Jan. 5 at Banciao Station in Taipei County.

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Taiwan launches high-speed rail service

TAIPEI, Taiwan - People see off the first train of Taiwan's long-awaited bullet train service leaving Banciao Station in Taipei County on Jan 5.

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Taiwan launches high-speed rail service

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Passengers showing train tickets pose for photos beside the first train of Taiwan's bullet train system that launched Jan. 5 at Banciao Station in Taipei County.

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Taiwan launches high-speed rail service

TAIPEI, Taiwan - A mother and child take the first train of Taiwan's bullet train system that launched Jan. 5 at Banciao Station in Taipei County.

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Taiwan launches high-speed rail service

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Passengers take pictures of the first train of Taiwan's long-awaited bullet train system at Banciao Station in Taipei County on Jan 5. The bullet train runs at speeds of up to 300 kilometers per hour between Taipei in the island's north and its second biggest city of Kaohsiung in the south.

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Asia's longest road tunnel opened to public traffic in Taiwan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - A nearly 13-kilometer tunnel linking Taipei and rural northeastern Ilan County was opened June 16, becoming the longest road tunnel in Asia and the fourth longest in the world.

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Taiwan elections for parliament, county heads begin

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian and his wife Wu Shu-chen (in wheelchair) leave a Taipei school on Dec. 1 after casting their ballots in the first island-wide elections to choose a new legislature and local government heads since the long-dominant Nationalist Party (KMT) lost the presidency last year.

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Taiwan elections for parliament, county heads begin

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian and his wife Wu Shu-chen (in wheelchair) leave a Taipei school on Dec. 1 after casting their ballots in the first island-wide elections to choose a new legislature and local government heads since the long-dominant Nationalist Party (KMT) lost the presidency last year.

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Asia's longest road tunnel opened to public traffic in Taiwan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - A nearly 13-kilometer tunnel linking Taipei and rural northeastern Ilan County was opened June 16, becoming the longest road tunnel in Asia and the fourth longest in the world. (Kyodo)

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Taiwan launches high-speed rail service

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Passengers showing train tickets pose for photos beside the first train of Taiwan's bullet train system that launched Jan. 5 at Banciao Station in Taipei County. (Kyodo)

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Taiwan launches high-speed rail service

TAIPEI, Taiwan - People see off the first train of Taiwan's long-awaited bullet train service leaving Banciao Station in Taipei County on Jan 5. (Kyodo)

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Taiwan launches high-speed rail service

TAIPEI, Taiwan - A child passes a ticket barrier to take the first train of Taiwan's bullet train system that launched Jan. 5 at Banciao Station in Taipei County. (Kyodo)

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Taiwan launches high-speed rail service

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Passengers take pictures of the first train of Taiwan's long-awaited bullet train system at Banciao Station in Taipei County on Jan 5. The bullet train runs at speeds of up to 300 kilometers per hour between Taipei in the island's north and its second biggest city of Kaohsiung in the south. (Kyodo)

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Senkaku activists launch protest voyage from Taiwan

YELIU, Taiwan - Activists claiming Chinese sovereignty over the Senkaku Islands set out for the disputed area in a fishing boat from the northern Taiwan port of Yeliu in Taipei County on Sept. 13, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Japanese ex-manager pleads guilty to fixing baseball games

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Shin Nakagomi, the Japanese former manager of Taiwanese professional baseball club Brother Elephants, leaves the Banciao District Court in Taipei County on July 13, 2010, after pleading guilty to game-fixing and fraud at the court. (Kyodo)

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Protesters voice opposition to cross-strait talks

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Student protesters voice opposition to talks between top Taiwanese and Chinese officials of cross-strait affairs in front of the venue of the meeting in Taoyuan County, Taiwan, on June 25, 2014. (Kyodo)

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China's top policy negotiator begins landmark Taiwan visit

TAIPEI, Taiwan - People hold up a banner welcoming China's Taiwan Affairs Council Minister Zhang Zhijun outside a hotel in Taoyuan County, Taiwan, on June 25, 2014. Zhang met with Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council Minister Wang Yu-chi at the hotel. (Kyodo)

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Top China, Taiwan officials on cross-strait affairs meet

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Zhang Zhijun (L), minister of China's Taiwan Affairs Office, and Wang Yu-chi, chief of Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council, meet at a hotel in Taoyuan county, Taiwan, on June 25, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Top China, Taiwan officials on cross-strait affairs meet

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Zhang Zhijun (3rd from L), minister of China's Taiwan Affairs Office, and Wang Yu-chi (3rd from R), minister of Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council, exchange opinions at a hotel in Taoyuan County, Taiwan, on June 25, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Jang Ha Na wins Taiwan Championship golf

Jang Ha Na of South Korea poses with the winner's trophy after her victory in the Fubon LPGA Taiwan Championship at Miramar Golf Country Club in Taipei county, Taiwan, on Oct. 9, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo