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A recent review published in The Lancet examines how China - which in 1980 had a diabetes prevalence of less than 1% - currently has the largest number of people with diabetes in the world.

• China has more than 118 million people living with diabetes, accounting for over 12% of its population and about 22% of all diabetes cases globally.
• China’s massive economic growth over the last 50 years has led to lifestyle changes that could be contributing to this epidemic, such as a shifting diet that includes more ultra-processed and sugar-sweetened foods.
• Environmental factors also play an important role, with China’s population experiencing increased exposures to toxics - like air pollution and endocrine disrupting chemicals - that have been linked to diabetes.

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Diabetes is a critical public health challenge across the globe, with the affected population projected to grow to 1.31 billion by 2050. The authors of this paper emphasize the need for government action that goes beyond public education to include more effective measures like regulations on the industries contributing to harmful lifestyle and environmental factors.

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(Bigbone, KY) As the final lawsuits are being dismissed, a large payout awaits Kentucky resident Leo Sturbgetter, the one person who wagered on Kalshi - an events prediction site - that the death of Senator Lindsey Graham would not involve gay sex. Sturbgetter will receive over 23 million dollars after taxes.

Representatives from Kalshi stress that the wager was not on the death of the Senator itself, but the nature of his death. “Kalshi does not allow participants to vote on when a person will die,” a statement from the New York-based company. “We express our condolences to the Graham family and their friends.”

Lindsey Graham’s death came suddenly last week, as the news was preoccupied with the disappearance of his fellow Senator Mitch McConnell. The soft-spoken Senator was known as a strong proponent of US policy, but his dating life was kept out of the headlines. He never married.

After the death, Kelshi faced multiple challenges on the heterosexual nature of Graham’s death. Raymond Zage, a co-owner of Grindr and a Kelshi enthusiast, was said to have presented multiple screen shots, calendars, audio recordings, fan fictions, and videos challenging the finding. “I have the smoking twink, but Kelshi refuses to pay my bet,” he said in a statement released Friday. But Kelshi pushed back, stating that Zage’s data could not be confirmed, and questioning some of Zage’s wagers on the site as well. “Mr. Zage wagered that the Senator would die of internal hemorrhage from a broken wine bottle on a Tuesday night with a 23-year-old Latino male. We question the specificity of this wager.”

Raymond Ziggler, who bet $2000 that Graham would be suffocated in a fuck pile at an orgy, says he understood the risks, and he wishes Sturbgetter well. “I knew there was a small chance… the smallest chance ever… that Lindsey wouldn’t die with a man inside him. I just didn’t see it coming.”

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Millions of combustion engines – powering machines, vehicles and aircraft – will remain in use for decades to come. Instead of replacing them, a Swiss chemical engineer is developing a greener alternative: a synthetic, “drop‑in” fuel that works with existing engines and infrastructure.

Inside her labyrinthine lab at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) in Dübendorf, a network of pipes and custom-built modules hums away as Alessia Cesarini shows off the prototype e-fuel unit she took two years building.

She aims to turn it into a business offering a viable alternative to conventional fossil fuels.

“There are lots of systems with combustion engines still running, and the idea is to provide a locally produced and less-polluting solution,” she explains.

Transport accounts for 47% of Switzerland’s energy-related CO2 emissions, versus 25% globally. A Swiss study estimates that around two million combustion-driven vehicles will remain on the country’s roads by 2040. Globally, Bloomberg estimates that 55% of cars will still run on combustion engines by that time. Also, for hard‑to‑abate sectors such as aviation, long‑term decarbonisation will depend heavily on the adoption of renewable fuels.

Cesarini’s approach is simple: “The goal is a solution that works with existing vehicles and infrastructure – sustainable both environmentally and economically,” she says.

The construction of a new Chinese "mega-embassy" in central London would breach local people's human rights, the High Court has heard.

The Royal Mint Court Residents' Association is challenging the plans for the embassy, which is set to be built near the Tower of London.

The group alleges the development could lead to retaliation against critics of China, increase the risk of terrorism and enable the enforcement of "draconian" Chinese laws in the UK.

The human rights risks identified by residents "are real and not illusory", the court heard.

The government and Tower Hamlets Council, which are defending the legal challenge, said they "conscientiously and carefully had regard" to concerns raised.

Aarif Abraham, for the Royal Mint Court Residents' Association (RMCRA), told the court: "There is recurrent past unlawful conduct on the part of the People's Republic of China in the UK, specifically in relation to its use of mission premises, or the related rights to inviolability or immunity afforded to diplomats, for unlawful purposes."

Abraham also said the residents "have long submitted that they fear reprisals and curtailment of their ability to oppose or protest against the People's Republic of China", as their properties are within the same freehold title of the proposed embassy.

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Lord Banner KC, also representing the RMCRA, said the UK government had granted the proposed embassy "inviolability", giving it "immunity from search, attachment, requisition or execution".

He added that residents were put at a disadvantage during the planning inquiry because they were not given a "blast assessment" to assess the impact an explosion could have on nearby buildings.

The group, which represents families and businesses in about 100 properties, also raised concerns about fire safety and argues the UK authorities would have no power to enforce safety obligations if China failed to comply with them.

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Prime Minister Peter Magyar said on Sunday that he would ask Judit Polgar, widely regarded as the greatest female chess player of all ​time, to take up the largely ceremonial role of Hungary's ‌next President.

Magyar said in a Facebook post that Polgar, 49, could represent the nation's unity, and that on Monday he would meet Polgar and ask her if she would accept ​the nomination.

Russian forces struck another foreign-flagged commercial vessel during a missile attack on Ukraine’s Odesa region on July 18, killing one person and injuring three others, according to Odesa Regional Military Administration head Oleh Kiper.

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The attack targeted port infrastructure on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast and hit a merchant ship sailing under the flag of Antigua and Barbuda. Kiper said one person was killed, while three others were hospitalized with injuries.

According to Kiper, the strike also damaged port infrastructure, including buildings, storage facilities, and fuel reservoirs. No casualties were reported among personnel working at those facilities.

During emergency response operations, Russian forces launched a follow-up strike, damaging specialized rescue equipment. Kiper said emergency crews avoided casualties because they had taken shelter.

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The attack marks the latest in a series of Russian strikes on foreign commercial shipping operating from Ukrainian ports.

On July 13, Russia struck a civilian cargo vessel flying the flag of Togo while it was unloading mineral fertilizers at a Ukrainian port. Five crew members were killed and another five were injured.

A day later, on July 14, Russian forces attacked two additional merchant vessels sailing under the flags of Tanzania and Liberia in the Black Sea. The captain of one of the ships was killed in the strike. On the evening of July 17, another commercial vessel flying the flag of the Marshall Islands also came under Russian attack.

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