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The Taliban set unacceptable conditions for attending a U.N.-sponsored meeting about Afghanistan, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Monday. Taliban demands included the exclusion of Afghan civil society members from the talks in Doha, Qatar, and treatment that amounted to official recognition of the Taliban as the country’s legitimate rulers, Guterres …

Mark Glyptis, president of the local 2911 steelworkers union, discusses the impending closure of a tin plant and what consequences the action could create. A West Virginia steelworkers’ union president is livid over the International Trade Commission’s decision against tariffs on foreign tin imports, a verdict that could shutter the …

Unadjusted relationship between BMI and Long COVID by sex. Credit: International Journal of Obesity (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41366-024-01477-8 A new study by Western researchers has drawn a link between higher body mass index (BMI) in women and the likelihood of long COVID, but did not find the same link in men. …