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Vladimir Putin: What Russian president's India visit means for world politics

BBC News - 12.06.2021 Original article ›

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Putin's visit to India is intended to continue India Russia dialogue. One of the topics is trade. New trade deals are planned to take pre-pandemic trade from $11 billion to $30 billion by 2025. Trade would go beyond energy to include education, cybersecurity, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, railways, clean energy. By comparison US India trade for the same time period is $146 billion.

Afghanistan is a source of concern for both Russia and India and this will be part of the talks. Russia also participates in several forums with India including BRICS.

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The U.S. Wants American-Made Chips. Can Intel Deliver? - The Journal. - WSJ Podcasts

WSJ - 06.09.2023 Original article ›

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WSJ covers Intel's efforts to turn itself into a contract chip manufacturer with large investments under Pat Gelsinger are covered in this report in the WSJ. Intel wants to be the second largest contract chip manufacturer serving companies such as Tesla, Nvidia, and others. By making chips only for its needs Intel lost ground to companies in the foundry business such as Samsung and Taiwan Semiconductor. Gelsinger who was with Intel in the early days has rejoined Intel to regain its leadership role in computing, and has the support of president Biden with the CHIPS Act.

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The healthspan revolution: how to live a long, strong and happy life

The Guardian - 04.22.2023 Original article ›

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This Guardian report gives a discussion with Austin based Dr. Attia of Early Medical and ways to ensure healthspan- adopting healthy patterns of living including food and exercize, sleep, that start at an early age. The approach is that prevention should be the best way to tackle health issues that can develop later in life and the time for that is early, right now. Most of it is well established based on exercizing well, and weight exercize routine for strengthening muscle. It could just as easily include yoga or pilates, and sports. Nutrition plays an equally important part.

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Third Dose of Pfizer, Moderna Covid-19 Vaccines Offers Strong Protection Against Omicron

WSJ - 01.21.2022 Original article ›

Felicia Schwartz, Sam Schechner, Jon Kamp

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Protection from hospitalization for Omicron variants can drop to 57% from 81% after 6 months from second dose, and can be pushed back up to 90% using booster shots for Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, according to a large CDC study in the US. For Delta variant period last year the vaccine effectiveness against hospitalization was 90% from about two weeks after dose two till 6 months, dropping to 81% after 6 months, and up to 94% after a booster shot. For Omicron variant the currently vaccine effectiveness for same periods is 81%, 57%, and 90%.

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What is the two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians?

Washington Post - 11.11.2023 Original article ›

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Ideas for a two state solution are revived in 2023. The previous efforts that went astray are shown in this report in The Washington Post. It would have to be creative and bring together sentiment across the whole populations in the region that become weary of conflict, and through the efforts of the US, EU, China, India and Russia, Arab states that see the potential for and need to focus their efforts on development for their people following the pandemic- without the kind of conflicts in the Middle East that have diverted vital resources needed for development.

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Harris and Walz hold Las Vegas rally as pair build on renewed 2024 enthusiasm

The Guardian - 08.10.2024 Original article ›

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Harris-Walz campaign in Arizona and Nevada August 10, 2024. Harris gains the support of the Culinary Workers union with 60,000 members.

League of United Latin American Citizens (Lulac), the oldest Latino civil rights group, which usually stays neutral stepped in to endorse the Democratic ticket.

“The politics of hate-mongering and scapegoating Latinos and immigrants must be stopped,” said Domingo Garcia, chairman of Lulac Adelante Pac, in a statement.

“Latinos understand how much is at stake in this election, for not only our community but our democracy.”

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Opinion | Plan Beats No Plan

NYTimes.com - 08.26.2024 Original article ›

Binyamin Appelbaum

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On tackling housing costs Applebaum says in NYT that Harris has a plan to build 3 million housing units and help homeowners with $25,000 to buy homes, and sets up a Housing Fund of $40 billion for builders. By contrast Trump says he will do nothing for supply or prices. For rental prices of apartments and homes Harris calls for limiting price increases to 5% for apartment property owners for federal benefits to be continued. Trump simply says the problem will fix itself once pressure of migrants looking for housing is removed. This is not a Plan says Applebaum.

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Joe Biden says he could have defeated Donald Trump in election

BBC News - 01.08.2025 Original article ›

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President Biden tells USA Today in an interview that "based on polling" he could have won when running for president, yet cannot say about being president at 85 years or 86 years, saying "who the hell knows."

"When Trump was running again for re-election, I really thought I had the best chance of beating him. But I also wasn't looking to be president when I was 85 years old, 86 years old," Biden said. "But I don't know. Who the hell knows?"

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Matt Gaetz Withdraws From Consideration as Attorney General

WSJ - 11.21.2024 Original article ›

Sadie Gurman, C. Ryan Barber

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Opposition of Republican Senators and the limited political capital of the newly elected president lead Matt Gaetz to withdraw his nomination for Attorney General. Gaetz 42 years, is Congressman from Florida. After a report on Gaetz was about to be released by the House Ethics Committee looking into allegations, and Republican disapproval in Congress, it was clear that controversial choices would be rejected.

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How Mike Johnson Could Lose the House Speaker Vote, Explained

WSJ - 01.02.2025 Original article ›

Lindsay Wise

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WSJ Explained looks at the House Speaker's election on Friday Jan 3, 2024. If one Republican vote joins Rep. Massie of Kentucky Mike Johnson cannot be reelected says WSJ. In that event Congress cannot ratify the election of DJT or Vance as president and vice president. On Jan 20 2025 Senate president Chuck Grassley would be made president of the US in such a situation.

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How a Free Software Strategy Catapulted DeepSeek to AI Stardom

WSJ - 01.29.2025 Original article ›

Belle Lin

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When DeepSeek went to the public with its invention it decided to do it as open-source technology.

Openness raises all tides for AI development, says a robotics professor at University of Michigan. And Linux Foundation head Mr. Zemlin says, there will be another DeepSeek by the end of the month, and then there will be many more DeepSeeks in the US and worldwide.

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Twenty-Five Years After the Good Friday Agreement, an Uneasy Peace Prevails in Northern Ireland

WSJ - 04.08.2023 Original article ›

David Luhnow, Max Colchester

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President Biden whose ancestors are Irish will visit Northern Ireland in an effort to hail the 25 year old deal that brought an uneasy peace between the two communities in Northern Ireland, the Catholics and the Protestants. The Catholics were discriminated against for centuries and wished to join Ireland, and the Protestants identified with Britain and wanted to remain part of Britain. Joining him will be the prime ministers of Britain and Ireland.

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Explained | When will the Common University Entrance Test admission process begin?

The Hindu - 03.26.2022 Original article ›

Jaideep Deo Bhanj & Priscilla Jebaraj

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The CUET, Common University Entrance Test will provide a uniform test for all parts of the country. It is now required for all 45 Central Universities to admit undergraduate students. The computer based test offered in July each year will be conducted by the National Testing Agency based on the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) syllabus for Class 12. It will replace institution specific exams.

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Covid pushes Lloyd’s of London to £900m loss

The Times - 03.31.2021 Original article ›

Ben Martin, Senior City Correspondent

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Lloyd's of London is the world's largest insurance market with 35 million pounds in gross written premiums. Payouts for coronavirus are expected to be 6.2 billion pounds, with 3.2 billion pounds reinsured to reduce the losses. Lloyd's shows a loss of 900 million pounds for 2020. Without the crisis Lloyd's would have reported 800 million pounds of profit for 2020.