{
  "id": 14007100,
  "title": "Is the World Ending? A Lancet Commission Says Maybe",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/is-the-world-ending-a-lancet-commission-says-maybe",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-12T16:57:35.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Health Policy Watch",
    "slug": "health-policy-watch",
    "url": "https://healthpolicy-watch.news/is-the-world-ending-a-lancet-commission-says-maybe/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "BERLIN – As candidates to become WHO director-general squabbled in the halls of the InterContinental, a three-year effort by the Lancet on future health threats delivered a sombre if uncertain warning: There is a chance, however small, that humanity will not survive this century – and we may all die. Two of the extinction threats […]",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}