One in five children on the planet is now overweight or obese. ( english.elpais.com )
Claudia Sheinbaum, the first female president of Mexico ( english.elpais.com )
A woman will lead the country for the first time in history. President López Obrador’s successor has won a second term for the National Regeneration Movement and stifled the conservative coalition’s aspirations...
The United States will need 7 million migrants to cover old age support programs for baby boomers ( english.elpais.com )
The country’s aging population and low fertility rate jeopardizes the solvency of Social Security and the Medicare program, according to a new study by Brookings...
The planet’s vision is getting worse: 50% of the population will have myopia by 2050 ( english.elpais.com )
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Mexico is heading towards its most violent election ever, with 30 candidates murdered, 77 threatened and 11 kidnapped ( english.elpais.com )
More than 170 attacks have been committed against politicians in the lead-up to the June elections. This violence has put campaigns under tension and is sowing doubts about governability in several regions. Specialists warn that the line between the Mexican state and organized crime is increasingly blurred...
The government of Cuba declares itself in a ‘war-time economy’ ( english.elpais.com )
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/KIKAN
Excessive use of words like ‘commendable’ and ‘meticulous’ suggests ChatGPT has been used in thousands of scientific studies ( english.elpais.com )
A London librarian has analyzed millions of articles in search of uncommon terms abused by artificial intelligence programs...
Seven out of 10 Europeans believe their country takes in too many immigrants ( english.elpais.com )
Europeans view immigration with increasing suspicion. Seven out of 10 Europeans believe that their country takes in too many migrants, according to a survey carried out by BVA Xsight for ARTE Europe Weekly, a project led by the French-German TV channel ARTE GEIE and which EL PAÍS has participated in, as part of the countdown to...
Cuba sentences 22-year-old mother to 15 years in prison for publishing videos of protests ( english.elpais.com )
Mayelín Rodríguez Prado was arrested after uploading images to Facebook of a small demonstration in Nuevitas in August 2022...
Russia leaves thousands of planes without GPS in northern Europe ( english.elpais.com )
Several NATO members accuse Moscow of deliberately jamming positioning signals...
Excessive use of words like ‘commendable’ and ‘meticulous’ suggests ChatGPT has been used in thousands of scientific studies ( english.elpais.com )
The Earth’s core is slowing down ( english.elpais.com )
Europe faces resurgence of measles due to low vaccination coverage ( english.elpais.com )
The United Kingdom has introduced restrictions for non-immunized children in Birmingham, while Romania has declared a national epidemic after three deaths were reported...
More than half of US Latinos worry about being able to pay rent or mortgage each month ( english.elpais.com )
The cycling revolution in Paris continues: Bicycle use now exceeds car use ( english.elpais.com )
Red Sea crisis from Houthi attacks hits world trade as cost of shipping soars by 170% ( english.elpais.com )
Buying a home in the US has never been this hard ( english.elpais.com )
Prices are soaring and the option to buy is receding for millions of tenants nailed by rising rents...
Alejandro Cáceres, the hacker who took down North Korea’s internet from his home: ‘My attack was a response to their attempt to spy on me’ ( english.elpais.com )
(...) the internet went down across the country. A wave of cyberattacks left all systems on hold for more than seven days. First, the main national websites failed, from the official news site to the booking page of the national airline. Then, the Asian state’s connections with the rest of the world were interrupted. Emails...
The fusion of two sisters into a single woman suggests that human identity is not in our DNA ( english.elpais.com )
‘If you don’t have money to go to Europe by boat, you try to get there by starting a relationship with a tourist’: Sex tourism plagues Gambia ( english.elpais.com )
Economic inequality is driving European tourists to the African country who come seeking sun, but also sex. Its government’s plans to attract ‘quality tourism’ have failed to take off...
‘The Bill Gates Problem’: The case against the richest man in the world ( english.elpais.com )
Colombia's Medellín declares war on sex tourism after US citizen found with two little girls at a hotel ( english.elpais.com )
Building bombings and 14-year-old hitmen: Organized crime overwhelms Sweden ( english.elpais.com )
25 years of the euro ( english.elpais.com )
The Iberian lynx doubles its population in just three years and reaches 2,000 individuals ( english.elpais.com )
