A pharmacist in Bulawayo told diabetes patients to cut back on starch during dinner and load up on protein plus fiber instead. Dean Bandile Dube from Diamond Pharmacy spoke at a Zimbabwe Diabetes Association meeting and said evening carbs should stay palm-sized at most. Leonard Moyo from the national diabetes group mentioned he gets hungry around midnight when he only eats a tiny sadza portion, and he pushed people to tell their bosses about their condition rather than hiding it.
The Bulawayo chapter chair, Violet Moyo, complained about weak attendance even though the session dropped solid information. The meeting brought together diabetics and medical staff to share management tips.
Zimbabwe's provincial minister, Ezra Chadzamira, said the artificial insemination grant from Indonesia worked out pretty well during a visit from Ambassador Arief Hidayat. The program got nearly 90 percent success rates on checked farms, and Chimombe farm alone ended up with 27 pregnant cows. Hidayat wants to push for extending the deal since demand keeps climbing for Indonesian frozen semen, and he is talking about setting up a business agreement to cut import duties.
Indonesia ships frozen semen to eight countries as a way to stop livestock diseases from spreading. Local Zimbabwean vets who trained overseas ran the program with Indonesian specialists, which built up capacity on the ground while hitting targets for the country's...
London's ancient meat and fish markets just dodged permanent closure after the City of London Corporation picked Albert Island in the Docklands as their next spot. Smithfield and Billingsgate were almost toast when budget overruns killed a previous relocation plan to Dagenham, but the corporation locked in a 10-hectare brownfield site near London City Airport that should keep traders alive while pumping 750 million pounds into one of the city's broke neighborhoods.
Traders had been freaking out for months because shutting down would wreck supply chains for independent butchers and fishmongers across the region. The markets still handle around 10 percent of meat and fish for London and the southeast despite being way smaller than their...
Bank of England boss Andrew Bailey dropped a warning that tech companies are basically YOLOing into massive debt to build AI infrastructure, and if the bubble pops, it could wreck financial markets harder than people think. The central bank figures companies need to drop around 5 trillion dollars over the next few years, and about half of that cash is coming from borrowed money instead of actual profits. Bailey pointed out that AI stock valuations are hitting dotcom bubble levels in the US, and the sector is eating up 44 percent of the S&P 500 while Nvidia briefly touched a 5 trillion dollar market cap before sliding back down.
The real sketchy part is that if investors get spooked and AI hype crashes, all that debt exposure could...
Trump pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who got convicted of smuggling 400 tons of coke into America over two decades. The guy walked out of a West Virginia prison after serving part of a 45-year sentence, while the US military has been blowing up boats in the Caribbean since September based on sketchy intel about drug runners. Military strikes killed 82 people without trials or solid proof, and legal experts say the whole thing violates international law because cartels do not count as organized armed groups that you can wage war against.
The worst incident happened when a Navy admiral ordered a second strike on two survivors clinging to wreckage from their burning boat after the first attack killed nine...
Federica Mogherini got hit with fraud and corruption charges after European prosecutors accused her of rigging a tender process while she ran the College of Europe in Bruges. The former EU foreign policy boss allegedly knew about the selection criteria before a training program contract went public, which broke fair competition rules when her school landed 130,000 euros in funding for diplomat education. Investigators raided the college and EU foreign policy offices while stripping immunity protections from three suspects.
Mogherini stepped down from her rector position after the charges dropped and said she trusts the legal system to sort things out. She led the EU foreign affairs between 2014 and 2019 before taking the college gig...
Human Rights Watch wants Cameroon to figure out what actually happened when opposition leader Anicet Ekane died while locked up at a State Defense Secretariat facility. Ekane led the African Movement for New Independence and Democracy party and got arrested after the sketchy presidential election that gave Paul Biya his eighth term. Authorities hit him with charges like hostility against the state and inciting revolt, but he said he was innocent.
His family and legal team claim the detention center refused to give him proper treatment for his breathing problems, and guards even took away his oxygen machine when they arrested him. Government officials say he got adequate medical attention at military health centers and that an...
The UN General Assembly passed a resolution telling Russia to send back all the Ukrainian kids who got deported since the war kicked off. The vote landed at 91 for it, 12 against it, and 57 countries sitting on the fence. General Assembly President Annalena Baerbock said Russia is breaking international law, while Russian Ambassador Maria Zabolotskaya called the whole thing lies and claimed it messes with peace talks.
An inquiry commission from the UN documented 31 children getting moved from Ukraine to Russian territory and called it war crimes. The International Criminal Court even issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin over the deportations. Under the Geneva Conventions and the Rome Statute, forcibly transferring kids counts as...
The UK government dropped plans to ditch jury trials for crimes carrying sentences under three years because the court system has a massive backlog that could hit 100,000 cases. Justice Secretary David Lammy said victims are stuck waiting years for their day in court, and these swift courts with single judges will supposedly move 20 percent faster than traditional jury setups. The reforms will let magistrates hand down 18-month sentences and allow judge-only trials for gnarly financial fraud cases.
Legal groups are freaking out because they think this tramples on the right to be judged by regular people instead of just one official. The Free Speech Union pointed out that juries acquit defendants way more often than magistrates do...
