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Newsday: 16/11/2023 07:06 GMT : Biden hails ‘real progress’ after talks with China’s Xi

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16/11/2023 07:06 GMT : Biden hails ‘real progress’ after talks with China’s Xi

Biden hails ‘real progress’ after talks with China’s Xi

BBC World Service - Newsday, Biden hails ‘real progress’ after talks with China’s Xi

The two presidents held face-to-face talks in San Francisco.

The two presidents agreed to resume high level military-to-military communications and to tackle the flow of fentanyl from China to the US.

At their first talks in a year, Joe Biden and Xi Jinping have agreed measures to ease tension between Washington and Beijing.

Israel and the Palestinians have both criticised a UN Security Council resolution which demands urgent humanitarian pauses in the fighting in Gaza.

And the world's first gene therapy that aims to cure two blood disorders has been approved by medical regulators in Britain.

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