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Toppled trees and branches litter the roads around Donghe village of coastal Taitung county where Typhoon Haikui hit. By Monday morning, 58,000 homes still had no electricity, while schools and businesses remained closed in 14 cities as torrential rain bucketed down. IMAGES
Eyewitness video filmed at Kaohsiung in south Taiwan shows Super Typhoon Meranti pounding residential areas. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Typhoon Meranti, believed to be the world's strongest storm this year, has hit Taiwan, leaving more than half a million homes without power and forcing around 1,500 people to be evacuated.
The US House of Representatives passes a bill that would force TikTok to divest from parent company ByteDance and another bill to counter China and provide aid to Taiwan. IMAGES
Images outside the Taipei offices of the Nauru embassy to Taiwan, as the tiny South Pacific nation of Nauru announced Monday it is switching diplomatic ties from Taiwan to China, a move that bolsters Beijing's ambitions in the region. IMAGES