Category: Geral
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Health Recommendations for the New Year
Looking to improve your health in 2025 and beyond? Check out these recommendations from the American Medical Association: • Make nutritional adjustments: Reduce your intake of sugar-sweetened beverages and processed foods, especially those with added sodium and sugar. Drinking sugary beverages, even 100% fruit juices, is associated with a higher risk of mortality, according to…
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Poverty and Extreme Poverty Reach Lowest Level in Brazil Since 2012
Brazil ended 2023 with the lowest levels of poverty and extreme poverty recorded since the Social Indicators Synthesis began in 2012, by IBGE, the government statistics agency. However, despite this improvement, data released on Wednesday in December revealed that 58.9 million people still live in poverty, with 9.5 million in extreme poverty. The study focuses…
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Most of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest Has Less Than 30% Native Vegetation
The Atlantic Forest is the biome that has undergone the most significant changes in land cover and use in Brazil between 1985 and 2023. Over 39 years, its territory recorded a 91% increase in agricultural area, but also a recovery of native vegetation in 45% of municipalities after the implementation of the Forest Code in…
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Brazil Approves Spending Cuts, But Financial Markets View Changes with Pessimism
Brazil recently approved a Constitutional Amendment that cuts government spending. The amendment makes changes to mandatory revenues with the aim of improving the federal government’s fiscal balance. Among the changes are those that allow adjustments to the salary cap for public servants, the rules for granting the Continuous Cash Benefit (BPC), the salary bonus, the…
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Brazil Expects Record Summer for International Tourism
The Brazilian tourism authority, Embratur, expects the summer of 2025 to be a record season for international tourism both in Brazil and in Rio de Janeiro. From January to March next year, 4.5 million seats will be available on international flights to Brazil, the largest number in history, the agency reported. The countries that stand…
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Reconstruction: Lula Says “2025 Is the Year of Harvest”
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva highlighted, in a year-end interview, that the population will reap the results of the restructuring and relaunching of programs and policies that have been resumed and implemented since the beginning of his administration.
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Real Hits Historic Low and Exceeds R$6.30
The real is plummeting. Never before has the Brazilian currency been so weak against the US dollar since its creation in 1994. The Brazilian currency reached its weakest mark ever, R$ 6.3139 against the dollar on Wednesday (18). Weighing even more on the real, the US Federal Reserve cut interest rates and signaled it will…
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Mass Rape Trial of French Woman Ends with Feeling That Justice Was Not Served
A mass rape trial that has garnered worldwide attention concluded on Thursday (19), with Dominique Pelicot, the main accused, and 50 other men all found guilty of raping or sexually assaulting Pelicot’s ex-wife, Gisèle Pelicot. Dominique Pelicot, 72, received the maximum sentence of 20 years for aggravated rape. He recruited men to rape his own…
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Brazil Expects Record Summer for International Tourism
Brazil’s tourism authority, Embratur, expects the summer of 2025 to be a record season for international tourism both in Brazil and in Rio de Janeiro.
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Brazil Expects Record International Tourism This Summer in the Southern Hemisphere
Brazil’s tourism authority, Embratur, expects the summer of 2025 to be a record-breaking season for international tourism, both in Brazil and in Rio de Janeiro. From January to March next year, 4.5 million seats will be available on international flights to Brazil, the highest number in history, according to the agency. The countries that stand…