TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) – Taiwan elected Tsai Ing-wen as its first female president Saturday, handing her pro-independence party its first majority in the national legislature and rejecting the China-friendly party that has led the self-governing island for eight years. Voters concerned that Taiwan’s economy is under threat from China and …

ROME (AP) – A lawyer for a Senegalese man suspected of killing American woman in Florence says an Italian judge is expected to uphold his client’s jailing. The judge questioned Cheik Tidiane Diaw at a closed-door hearing Saturday in Florence to determine if the suspect should stay in custody as …

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) – In the course of six years without a major terrorist attack, Indonesia had grown more and more confident that it had stayed on top of any threat from Islamic militants. This week, that conviction was punctured by a bold, daylight attack in the heart of Jakarta’s …