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Biden and Xi, in California, promise to work to avoid conflict
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Biden and Xi, in California, promise to work to avoid conflict

WOODSIDE, Calif. —  Breaking a yearlong silence between them, President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping met Wednesday in Silicon Valley and vowed to reduce tensions in the world’s most important bilateral relationship.Among other things, they agreed to resume military communications and impede the flow of deadly fentanyl from China.“For two large countries like China and the United States, turning their back on each other is not an option,” Xi told Biden at the beginning of their talks on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. “It is unrealistic for one side to remodel the other, and conflict and confrontation has unbearable consequences for both sides.”Biden told Xi it was “paramount” the two leaders, who have known each other for decades, understand each ot...
Asia’s Bedbug Crisis | TIME
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Asia’s Bedbug Crisis | TIME

November 15, 2023 3:55 AM ESTThey’re a global nightmare. First they haunted Paris last month, before panic over potential outbreaks gripped Europe and the U.S. Now, bedbugs are terrifying a number of countries in Asia, where surges in infestations of the pest are fueling fresh anxieties among the public and stirring governments to action.Read More: Bed Bugs Aren’t Just a Problem in Paris. Here’s WhySince the start of November, South Korea has embarked on a fierce campaign against the bloodsucking critters. Bedbugs had been largely eradicated there during a national extermination drive in the 1960s, but the country is now experiencing a worrying revival in cases. Besides the establishment of an interministry task force dedicated to tackling bedbugs, both national and regional governments ki...
Rainbow Rishta’s Daniella Mendonca on lack of transgender actors: ‘Cast me’ | Web Series
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Rainbow Rishta’s Daniella Mendonca on lack of transgender actors: ‘Cast me’ | Web Series

Teacher and transgender activist Daniella Mendonca insists that the community needs much more representation in not just films or shows, but all spheres of the society, including courts and the Parliament. Daniella features in Prime Video's new docu-series Rainbow Rishta, and gets candid in her exclusive interview with Hindustan Times. She also talks about Sushmita Sen portraying a transgender character in Taali and Sushant Divgikar playing a cis role in Thank You For Coming. (Also read| Rainbow Rishta trailer: Trinetra Haldar, Aishwarya Ayushmaan's new docu-series celebrates 6 queer love stories) Daniella Mendonca in a still from the new Prime Video docu-series Rainbow Rishta. Rainbow Rishta brings happy LGBTQI+ storiesTalking about the reason for choosing to feature in the docum...
Inside the super-luxe hotel that used to be the Old War Office
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Inside the super-luxe hotel that used to be the Old War Office

‘Yes, lots of big decisions were taken right here,’ I am told by my guide, who tomorrow will take Princess Anne on the same tour. Princess Anne is probably more au fait with this postcode than me, so won’t need to be told that from the window, you can look down on Henry VIII’s wine cellar, or up at Andrew Lloyd Webber’s penthouse, or across at 10 Downing Street or that clock with the hole in it by the Number Two that marks the time at which Charles I was beheaded (apparently they have to vet anyone who stays in here, lest they take advantage of the vantage point and get a bit Lee Harvey Oswald). Source link
Long COVID Research Needs a Radical New Approach
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Long COVID Research Needs a Radical New Approach

The health outlook for Long COVID sufferers is no better today than it was when the condition was first recognized in early 2020. This has been attributed in large measure to the disappointing results of clinical research, particularly when compared to the magnitude of the problem. Now with hundreds of published results emerging from federally conducted or sponsored research, outraged experts and patient advocates say that there is little to show for it. The critique is that the pace of the work is slow and opaque, and that little has emerged that directly impacts prevention or patient care. The biomedical community has been under steady attack for lack of progress in prevention and treatment underlying a failure to help patients.There is a lot at stake in getting the U.S.’s Long COVID res...
Tiger 3 box office collection day 4: Salman Khan film crosses ₹160 cr in India | Bollywood
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Tiger 3 box office collection day 4: Salman Khan film crosses ₹160 cr in India | Bollywood

Tiger 3 box office collection day 4: Helmed by Maneesh Sharma, Tiger 3 has crossed the ₹160 crore mark in India. As per Sacnilk.com, Tiger 3 is likely to earn over ₹20 crore on its first Wednesday. The film released in theatres on November 12. (Also Read | Tiger 3 worldwide box office collection day 3: Salman Khan film grosses ₹240 crore) Tiger 3 box office collection day 4: Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif return as Tiger and Zoya. Tiger 3 box office collectionAccording to Sacnilk.com, Tiger 3 earned ₹ ₹44.5 crore [Hindi: ₹43 crore; Telugu: ₹1.3 crore; Tamail: ₹2 lakh] on Sunday, ₹59 crore [Hindi: ₹58 crore; Telugu: ₹78 lakh; Tamil: ₹22 lakh] on Monday and ₹44 crore [Hindi: ₹43.5 crore; Telegu: ₹4 lakh; Tamil: ₹1 lakh] on Tuesday. Tiger 3 earned around ₹20.1 crore nett in India on i...
California importa médicos de México para trabajadores agrícolas
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California importa médicos de México para trabajadores agrícolas

SALINAS, Calif. —  Neri Ortiz se llevó las manos al regazo mientras relataba con seriedad su último episodio de salud a la doctora Eva Perusquia.Recientemente, en el trabajo, donde Ortiz empaqueta verduras por la noche, le sobrevino una oleada de náuseas y lágrimas. Consiguió reponerse lo suficiente como para continuar su turno, le dijo a la doctora. Pero hacía años que no experimentaba un desbalance tan abrumador.Perusquia la escuchó atentamente. Ortiz, de 42 años, era su paciente desde el año pasado, cuando buscó un médico hispanohablante en la Clínica de Salud del Valle de Salinas. Perusquia fue la primera doctora que le explicó su hipotiroidismo y la necesidad de tomar un medicamento para regularlo. Ortiz sabía que la doctora entendería cómo se sentía.Perusquia dijo que los desbalances...
Horoscope today: Your daily guide for Wednesday, November 15, 2023
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Horoscope today: Your daily guide for Wednesday, November 15, 2023

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Rebound Infections Occur in 20% of Paxlovid Users
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Rebound Infections Occur in 20% of Paxlovid Users

COVID-19 has become less of an urgent threat than it was in 2019 largely because of vaccines and growing immunity from natural infections, but antiviral treatments have also changed the course of the disease. The most popular of these is nirmatrelvir-ritonavir, sold under the brand name Paxlovid, which the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends for older people and anyone over age 12 who is at higher risk of COVID-19 complications. But people taking the drug have reported incomplete recovery, or testing positive again after testing negative once they finished the five-day course of the oral medication.In a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers led by Dr. Mark Siedner, at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, investiga...
Rainbow Rishta director Jaydeep Sarkar: ‘I want queer actors in straight roles’ | Web Series
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Rainbow Rishta director Jaydeep Sarkar: ‘I want queer actors in straight roles’ | Web Series

Filmmaker and writer Jaydeep Sarkar has directed the documentary series Rainbow Rishta that released on Prime Video recently. In an exclusive interview with Hindustan Times, he talks about working on the show, his views on lack of representation of the LGBTQI+ community in various spheres of life, and much more. (Also read| Rainbow Rishta trailer: Trinetra Haldar, Aishwarya Ayushmaan's new docu-series celebrates 6 queer love stories) Rainbow Rishta director Jaydeep Sarkar in an exclusive interview with Hindustan Times. Took me 30 years to come outExplaining why he decided to take up Rainbow Rishta, Jaydeep said, “Because I had not seen anything like this. Had I seen anything like this in my earlier years, it would not have taken me 30 years to come out of the closet. I made the sh...