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In Brazil, four out of ten students aged 13 to 17 say they have already been victims of bullying, and 27.2 percent in this age group have suffered some form of humiliation two or more times. The data, released this week, are based on testimonies collected in 2024 in schools across Brazil by the Brazilian…

NASA is already ordering landers, rovers and drones for a sprawling moon base, less than two months after the Artemis II’s record-breaking lunar flyaround. The space agency outlined the first phase of its moon base plans on Tuesday, awarding hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to four U.S. companies. Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin will…

The head of the World Health Organization arrived in Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, late Thursday to witness efforts against an outbreak of a rare type of Ebola virus, as medical personnel struggle with a lack of equipment, a distrustful population and armed groups in a volatile region. “To come here is to really show to the…

Cape Verde feels like a country where there are more musicians per capita than most anywhere else. Music is interwoven with the sounds of daily life in this West African island nation. In the heart of the capital Praia, a city of under 200,000 residents, singers belt out morna ballads from restaurants — morna being…

Residents of several neighborhoods in the city of São Paulo felt an earthquake on Monday night (26), an effect of the magnitude 6.9 quake that struck northern Chile earlier that day. São Paulo’s Civil Defense agency said it received about 50 calls at its operations center from people frightened by the tremors. The calls came…

Immigration courts inside the Justice Department are drastically accelerating immigrants’ hearings and bunching them together with the goal of issuing more deportation orders. The new and unprecedented tactic was shared with NPR by immigration attorneys and the American Immigration Lawyers Association, a trade association that tracks trends in these courts. Immigrants are now being scheduled…

The Brazilian government, the Prosecution Service, and the country’s scientific community have been working to recover dinosaur fossils and other natural or cultural heritage items scattered across at least 14 countries. Dubbed scientific colonialism, this practice is said to harm Brazilian science and museums. At least 20 restitution negotiations are underway with these countries, the…

The World Health Organization declared a new Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda to be a “public health emergency of international concern” on Sunday. However WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stressed in a statement it “does not meet the criteria of pandemic emergency” and advised countries against closing their borders. The…

Trevor Snyder pulls open an incubator and gently lifts out a device that looks like a high-tech coffee pod. It’s black, with a honeycomb bottom. A clear flat top reveals what’s inside. “This is a chicken embryo,” says Snyder, a bioengineer at Colossal Biosciences in Dallas, as he gently places the device cradling the chicken…

The alarm over deaths caused by adulterated drinks is nothing new in Brazil. In November 1997, in the city of Serrinha, 173 km from Salvador, the owner of a funeral home noticed an unusual increase in coffin sales: 11 in just one week. The victims had in common the consumption of homemade cachaça Pé No…