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Kids Worldwide Are Consuming More Sugary Drinks

HealthDay News
Distinguished Professor and Friedman School Dean Emeritus Dariush Mozaffarian, also identified as FIMI director, is quoted about new Friedman research, using data from the Global Dietary Database, that has found that consumption of sweetened drinks by young people increased by nearly 23% worldwide from 1990-2018.

India's $45 Billion Startup Implosion Puts Tech Future in Doubt

Bloomberg News
Fletcher’s Bhaskar Chakravorti comments in this article on the significant challenges that India’s technology startup sector faces, noting, “With the implosion of the highest of high-fliers — Paytm, Ola, Byju’s, Oyo — it is entirely natural that VCs will shy away.”

‘Nowhere is safe in Belgorod’: Fears grip Russian region bordering Ukraine

Al Jazeera
Fletcher Visiting Scholar Pavel Luzin comments on how the Russo-Ukrainian war is impacting Russia’s border region of Belgorod saying, “[Ukraine’s strikes] have weakened Russia’s military capabilities: Russia needs to spend its limited military resources to counteract Ukraine’s strikes in the region. I think Ukraine will inevitably increase the number and the depth of the strikes because it is necessary in order to defeat Russia.”

The ICC charged Israeli officials with starving Gaza. What happens now?

Washington Post
Fletcher’s Tom Dannenbaum explains how the International Criminal Court will try to build a “wall of evidence” in its case charging Israel’s top officials with starvation crimes in Gaza noting, “The challenge in evaluating any individual attack is assessing what was targeted, what information was known and what consequences were expected.”