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Brazil launches e-Visa platform for tourists from the USA, Australia, and Canada
Brazil has launched an e-Visa platform for tourists from the USA, Australia, and Canada, effective January 10, 2024.
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Brazil Launches Electronic Visa Platform for Tourists from the USA, Australia, and Canada
American, Australian, and Canadian tourists wishing to visit Brazil can now apply for the electronic visa, known as e-Visa, through the website: https://brazil.vfsevisa.com – the document will be required for citizens of the three countries at ports, airports, and land borders starting January 10, 2024. The applicant will handle the entire application process and submission…
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What Is Happening at the Border Between Venezuela and Guyana?
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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is advancing his plans to take control of Essequibo, the oil-rich region controlled by neighboring Guyana. He has ordered his country’s oil company to issue extraction licenses in the area and proposed that the National Assembly approve a bill making the area part of Venezuela. Guyana has placed its defense forces…
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Time Magazine Names Taylor Swift as 2023 Person of the Year
Global music icon Taylor Swift has been making headlines all year, and now she is gracing the cover of Time Magazine as the Person of the Year for 2023. Swift has long been one of the biggest musical artists in the world and a wealthy entrepreneur, leading an entertainment empire that has peaked at $1…
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Section 8: Understand How American Government Housing Assistance Works
Thirty-eight million people in the United States lived in poverty in 2022. To reduce the risk of millions becoming homeless, the federal government provides financial support to individuals whose incomes fall below a certain threshold. Just over nine million people receive housing subsidies through the ‘Section 8’ program of the Department of Housing and Urban…
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Gold Price Hits Record High. Why?
The price of gold reached a historic high on Monday (4), driven mainly by rising expectations of interest rate cuts among investors. The value of the yellow metal jumped by up to 3% in Monday’s trading, reaching $2,135 per ounce, surpassing the previous record of $2,072 set in August 2020. In recent weeks, investors have…
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Global Educational Performance Declines in 2022
The eighth round of the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2022, originally scheduled for 2021 and postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, is the first large-scale study with data on how the pandemic affected student performance. The PISA 2022 tested nearly 700,000 15-year-old students in 81 OECD member countries and partner economies in…
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Cosmic Shelter: Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida’s Private Cosmococas
In the mid-1960s, Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica [1937-1980] began adopting joyfully transgressive modes of performance, film, and installation to advocate for marginalized people and their culture. Created in collaboration with Brazilian filmmaker Neville D’Almeida [b.1941] while Oiticica was self-exiled in New York during the 1970s, the original series of five installations Bloco-Experiências em Cosmococa–Programa in…
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DNA of Crime: 1st Brazilian Police Action Series on Netflix
The series “DNA of Crime” recently premiered in Netflix’s catalog. Created by Heitor Dhalia and Leonardo Levis, and based on real criminal events, the narrative follows a group of federal agents as they unravel a monumental robbery on the Brazilian border with Paraguay. The protagonists of this project are played by actors Maeve Jinkings and…
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About 95% of Brazilian children aged 9–17 are internet users
About 95% of Brazilian children aged 9 to 17 access the internet, according to a survey by TIC Kids Online Brasil.