More than four in 10 adults are obese in Kentucky and West Virginia as rates soared across the US, new official data shows. Nineteen states now have obesity rates above 35 per cent — considered an alarming threshold by officials — which is double the number from just three years earlier. The figures, released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), prompted experts to describe the situation as an ‘urgent epidemic’.

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Two people were reported to have been killed and seven others injured when soldiers opened fire on mourners seeking to attend the funeral of popular Ethiopian musician and activist Haacaaluu Hundeessaa, according to a medical officer. Security was high in the Ethiopian town of Ambo for the funeral of Hundeessaa, whose killing in Addis Ababa earlier this week sparked two days of protests that left more than 90 people dead. Hundeessaa, the 34-year-old musician from the ethnic Oromo group, Ethiopia’s largest, was laid to rest at a church in Ambo, some 100km (60 miles) west of the capital on Thursday.

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