Fri 06 March 2026: A blockbuster anti-obesity and diabetes drug could cost as little as $3 per month to manufacture once it goes off patent later this month, researchers said Friday, providing a major opportunity to boost health in low and middle-income countries. Semaglutide, the active molecule in Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and Wegovy treatments, leads […]
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Fri 06 March 2026: Data infrastructure has shifted from a tool of geopolitical competition to a direct component of modern warfare as the conflict between the US, Israel, and Iran escalates. Gloria Shkurti Ozdemir, a researcher at the think tank SETA and a lecturer at Azerbaijan’s Khazar University, told Anadolu that digital infrastructure is no […]
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Fri 06 March 2026: Israel’s Civil Administration has cancelled Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, the latest in a series of Israeli restrictions imposed at Islam’s third-holiest site since the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Civil Administration Chief Brigadier General Hisham Ibrahim said on Thursday via the Israeli […]
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Thu 05 March 2026: Instagram said Thursday, February 26, it will start alerting parents if their kids repeatedly search for terms clearly associated with suicide or self-harm. The alerts will only go to parents who are enrolled in Instagram’s parental supervision programme. Instagram says it already blocks such content from showing up in teen accounts’ […]
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Thu 05 March 2026: Spain will prohibit the sale of energy drinks to minors under 16 and restrict high-caffeine versions for those under 18, Consumer Affairs Minister Pablo Bustinduy announced on Wednesday. Under the planned regulation, all energy drinks will be banned for children under 16. Products containing more than 32 milligrams of caffeine per 100 milliliters will […]
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Thu 05 March 2026: Russia and China have condemned the US-Israeli attack on Iran but stopped short of offering military support. Russia and China, Tehran’s two most powerful diplomatic partners, have labelled the US-Israeli war on Iran that has killed more than 1,000 people a clear violation of international law. President Vladimir Putin called the assassination […]
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Wed 04 March 2026: The number of children and adolescents living with obesity worldwide is projected to rise from 177 million in 2025 to 228 million by 2040, according to a new report from the World Obesity Federation. The projection was published in the 2026 World Obesity Atlas report, which warns that childhood obesity is […]
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Wed 04 March 2026: Discarded food is a biological reservoir, a petri dish for one of the most pressing health crises of our time: antimicrobial resistance (AMR). In a bustling market on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, the midday sun beats down on mountains of discarded kale, bruised tomatoes, and unsold mangoes. For Wanjiku Mwangi, […]
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Wed 04 March 2026: At its peak, the BRICS coalition of economies – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – was seen as a serious attempt to move away from the United States dollar and the domination of Western economic institutions like the World Bank, Group of Seven (G7), and International Monetary Fund (IMF). […]
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Thu 04 December 2025: Meta has started removing Australian users under 16 from Instagram, Threads, and Facebook in preparation for the country’s groundbreaking social media age ban for minors. “While we are working hard to remove all users who we understand to be under the age of 16 by 10 December, compliance with the law […]
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