Xinjiang loosens some restrictions after lockdown protests (19)

The Associated Press November 26, 2022, 10:33 AM TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Authorities in China's western Xinjiang region opened up some neighborhoods in the capital of Urumqi on Saturday after residents held extraordinary late-night demonstrations against the city's draconian "zero-COVID" lockdown that had lasted more than three months. The displays of public defiance were fanned by anger over a fire in an