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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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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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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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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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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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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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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‘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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‘Action on Climate, But Don’t Ask Us to Change’, People Say
By William J. Furney As the battered climate change talks in Scotland drag into another soggy week and many lose interest in what environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg has already dismissed
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