Katy Watson

Katy Watson is a BBC News reporter based in Mexico City.

Up to 40% of the population is thought to have type 2 diabetes and life expectancy is falling.

In world’s most obese nation, are mutton flaps to blame?

January 20, 2016Health

Up to 40 percent of those on the Pacific island of Tonga is thought to have type 2 diabetes and life expectancy is falling. What do sheep have to do with it?

Chief of Mission at the US Interests Section in Havana Jeffrey DeLaurentis (L) shakes hands with Cuba's interim Foreign Minister Marcelino Medina in Havana July 1, 2015.

There’s no Cuban ambassador just yet, but there is ‘our man in Havana’

July 20, 2015Global Politics

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