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March 19, 2023 News

Ethics Expert Peter Singer Calls on Spanish Govt, EU to Stop World’s First Octopus Farm

Bioethics professor and philosopher Peter Singer tells Furney Times that a planned octopus farm in the Canary Islands should not go ahead.

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March 5, 2023 Interview / News

‘Ukraine War Will Escalate to the Use of Nuclear Weapons’: Conflict Expert David Betz

King’s College war professor warns Ukraine conflict may explode into World War 3 and that Putin may resort to nuclear weapons to get his way.

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March 4, 2023 Health & Fitness / News

Half of World’s 8bn People Will Be Overweight by 2023: Report

A new study projects the majority of the 8 billion global population will either be overweight or obese by 2035, with nearly 2 billion obese.

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February 26, 2023 Health & Fitness / News

Drinking as the New Smoking

Ireland, famous for boozing, is about to slap health-warning labels on bottles of wine and other alcoholic products, stoking outrage.

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January 15, 2023 Interview / News

Netanyahu Is Threat to Israeli Democracy, Stoking Conflict: Oxford Prof Yaacov Yadgar

The new coalition government in Israel, and the return of Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister, sees a lurch to the hard right.

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December 11, 2022 Commentary / News / Technology

ChatGPT: The Next Great Leap Forward or Just a Fad?

A new and sophisticated algorithm is challenging the way we write, and may even spell the end of mighty Google — I give it a test drive.

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November 6, 2022 International Affairs / News / Reportage

Iran’s Mahsa Amini Moment of Reckoning

Nationwide protests, and demonstrations abroad, seek to topple Iran’s regime, following anger over the death of Masha Amini. Will change come?

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April 20, 2022 News

Spanish ‘World First’ Octopus Farm to Start Construction Despite Global Protests

Despite outrage and protests around the world, a Spanish seafood company is due to begin construction of a controverial octopus farm.

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February 6, 2022 News / Reportage

The Art of the Protest, Octopus-Style

Animal-rights activists gathered at government buildings in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, to protest against a controversial octopus farm.

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January 23, 2022 News / Reportage

‘Killed for Tapas’: World’s First Octopus Farm Planned on Spanish Island Amid Outcry

Scientists, animal rights activists and conservationists are outraged about the development on a Spanish island of an octopus farm.

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