President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping met for the first time in a year on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperative Conference – Wednesday, November 15, 2023

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• President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping met for the first time in a year on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperative Conference, with the stated hope of stabilizing U.S.-China relations after a period of tumult.
• U.N. officials condemned the Israeli storming of Gaza’s biggest hospital, which Israel says was being used by Hamas.
• A new report from a UN environmental agency says that global greenhouse gas levels set a record in 2022, keeping the planet’s temperatures on a rising path set to blow past the world’s climate goals.
• Hunter Biden has called for a subpoena of Donald Trump, saying political pressure was put on his criminal case by the former president.
• As APEC entered its fifth day today, local activists gathered early in the morning to try and disrupt a corporate gathering being held as part of the global economic summit.

President Joe Biden and China’s President President Xi Jinping walk in the gardens at the Filoli Estate in Woodside, Calif., Wednesday, Nov, 15, 2023, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperative conference. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

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