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> BEIJING - Authorities eased anti-virus rules in scattered areas but affirmed China's severe "Zero- COVID" strategy Monday after crowds demanded President Xi Jinping resign during protests against controls that confine millions of people to their homes.

> The government made no comment on the protests or criticism of Xi, the most widespread display of opposition to the ruling Communist Party in decades.

> ADVERTISEMENT. Protests spread to at least eight major cities after at least 10 people died Thursday in the fire in an apartment building in Urumqi in the northwestern region of Xinjiang.

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