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From Trump to Bitcoin, inflation and China: the big economic trends of 2024

Economic issues, particularly living costs, were front and centre in 2024 as some 2 billion people went to the polls. Meanwhile, governments grappled with how to regulate potentially transformational technology such as artificial intelligence, and Donald Trump’s victory in the United States’ presidential election heralded a sharp turn towards protectionism. Social media silos Donald Trump’s victory in November’s presidential election …

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15 hours, 28 minutes ago

Small plane crashes into Brazil town popular with tourists, killing 10

Al Jazeera

Twin-engine plane crashed in largely residential neighborhood of Gramado shortly after takeoff, authorities say. A small plane has crashed into a tourist hotspot in southern Brazil, killing all 10 people on board and injuring more than a dozen people on the ground, officials have said. The twin-engine Piper PA-42-1000 hit the chimney of a home and the second floor of …

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Small plane crashes in Brazil's Gramado, kills at least 10 people

India Today

A small plane crashed into a Brazilian town that’s popular with tourists on Sunday, killing all 10 passengers on board and injuring more than a dozen people on the ground, Brazil’s Civil Defense Agency said. Local media reported that the plane was piloted by Luiz Claudio Galeazzi, a Brazilian businessman who was travelling with his family to Sao Paulo State. …

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15 hours, 39 minutes ago

Santa braves the sticky heat of the Amazon jungle to bring gifts to children in Brazilian village

Associated Press

CATALAO, Brazil — Santa Claus braved the sticky heat of the Amazon rainforest this weekend, taking two boats to bring gifts to children in a village near the Brazilian city of Manaus. “For the children of the rivers, the people of the countryside, nothing new happens,” said Raimunda Ferrera Vieira a community leader in the village of Catalao, which received …

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Nine killed as small plane crashes into shop in tourist city of Gramado in Brazil

New Indian Express

SAO PAULO: At least nine people died when a small plane crashed on Sunday morning in Gramado, in southern Brazil, authorities said, slamming into a commercial area of the tourist city. The aircraft crashed into the chimney of a building, struck the second floor of a house and then "fell on a furniture store," the Rio Grande do Sul state …

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1 day, 22 hours ago

Women’s players arrested over racist incident in Brazil soccer semifinal

Associated Press

SAO PAULO — Four River Plate women’s players were arrested by Sao Paulo police and accused of making a racial slur, Sao Paulo’s public security secretariat told The Associated Press on Saturday. On Friday, a Brazil Ladies Cup soccer semifinal between Argentina’s River Plate and Brazilian team Grêmio was stopped in the first half after River Plate’s Candela Díaz was …

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At least 30 dead after horror crash between passenger bus and truck in Brazil

Daily Mail

At least 30 people have been killed after a crash involving a passenger bus and a truck on a Brazilian highway. Officials in the South American country said the incident happened on the Minas Gerais stretch of road in the southeast of the country on Saturday. The Minas Gerais fire department, which responded to the scene, said 13 others were …

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2 days, 1 hour ago

38 people die in a crash between a passenger bus and a truck in Brazil

Associated Press

SAO PAULO — A crash between a passenger bus and a truck early Saturday killed 38 people on a highway in Minas Gerais, a state in southeastern Brazil, officials said. The Minas Gerais fire department, which responded to the scene, said 13 others were taken to hospitals near the city of Teofilo Otoni. Romeu Zema wrote on X that he …

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2 days, 15 hours ago

At least 32 people killed as bus and truck collide in Brazil

Al Jazeera

Passenger bus collides with truck near town of Lajinha in southeastern state of Minas Gerais, fire officials say. At least 32 people have been killed when a passenger bus and a truck collided on a highway in southeastern Brazil. The fire department in Minas Gerais state, which responded to the crash near the town of Lajinha early on Saturday, said …

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37 people die in a crash between a passenger bus and a truck in Brazil

LA Times

A crash between a passenger bus and a truck early Saturday killed 37 people on a highway in Minas Gerais, a state in southeastern Brazil, officials said. The Minas Gerais fire department, which responded to the scene, said 13 others were taken to hospitals near the city of Teofilo Otoni. Others said that a granite block hit the bus, the …

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2 days, 15 hours ago

32 dead, many injured after bus collides with truck in Brazil

India Today

At least 32 people were killed in a bus crash in southeastern Brazil on Saturday, officials said, adding that the death toll could still rise. The accident in Minas Gerais state involving a bus that was travelling from S£o Paulo left "between 32 and 35" people dead, a spokeswoman for the local fire department told AFP by phone. "After hours …

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3 days, 4 hours ago

All the warning signs Biden was 'senile from day one' of his presidency: Joe's catalogue of toe-curling gaffes and calamitous stumbles - as mental decline cover-up scandal deepens

Daily Mail

These are President Joe Biden's stumbles and mistakes that should have been a clue to his rapidly declining mental health - after bombshell report revealed how Democrat insiders and cheerleaders hid his condition from the public. President Joe Biden's term was riddled with years of embarrassing gaffes and verbal blunders, including introducing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as 'President Putin ' …

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3 days, 7 hours ago

Giant sloths and mastodons lived with humans for millennia in the Americas, new discoveries suggest

Associated Press

SAO PAULO — Sloths weren’t always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print “There was this idea that humans arrived and killed everything off very quickly — what’s called ‘Pleistocene overkill,’” said Daniel Odess, an archaeologist at White Sands National Park in New Mexico. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook …

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4 days, 1 hour ago

How a small Brazilian town became an unlikely battleground over Confederate memory

Raw Story

By Jordan Brasher, Visiting Assistant Professor of Geography, Macalester College There were no antebellum hoop skirts at the site of Brazil’s annual “Festa Confederada,” or Confederate Festival, in 2024. Following his private tour of the group’s museum, Eduardo Bolsonaro accused leftist critics of the Confederate Festival of “rewriting memory.” City officials passed the law banning Confederate symbols from public events …

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4 days, 4 hours ago

Exploding chicken burns hungry customer: Bizarre moment diner's fast food snack erupts as he bites into it

Daily Mail

A man has been burnt by a deep-fried chicken snack after the food item exploded as he bit into it. As the man gets ready to tuck into his tasty treat, far from love at first bite, the coxinha suddenly explodes squirting its hot insides all over the man and the surrounding area. The shop's owner Christian de Souza Amaral …

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5 days, 9 hours ago

Forget soccer and samba. This caramel-colored street dog is Brazil’s new national icon

Associated Press

SAO PAULO — For decades, they have scrounged for food on streets across the country — undesired, abandoned and overlooked. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print A scene from Netflix’s “Caramelo” shot in October featured a beige puppy sitting beside a river in Sao Paulo watching picture-perfect families pass with their impeccable purebreds …

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Trump says India charges lot of tariff, threatens to impose reciprocal tax

Deccan Chronicle

Washington: US President-elect Donald Trump has reiterated his intention to impose reciprocal tariffs in retaliation for the high tariff imposed by India on the import of certain American products. Trump made these remarks on Tuesday and also said that India and Brazil were among countries that impose high tariffs on certain US products. Trump said India and Brazil were among …

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5 days, 15 hours ago

Riding the Trend of the Times with A Strong Sense of Responsibility

China Daily

The Great Hall of the People in Beijing. In the course of 2024, China and Brazil have announced joint efforts to build a China-Brazil community with a shared future for a more just world and a more sustainable planet, demonstrating their sense of responsibility as two emerging countries; China and Serbia have launched efforts to build a China-Serbia community with …

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5 days, 17 hours ago

Emma Hayes and Vinicius Jr big winners at Fifa Best Awards

The Independent

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for free Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy United States head coach Emma Hayes was named …

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5 days, 20 hours ago

Ronaldo to run for Brazilian football federation presidency

The Independent

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for free Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Former Brazil striker Ronaldo will run for the …

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5 days, 21 hours ago

First-ever ‘Marta’ award goes to Brazil’s Marta

The Hindu

Brazil legend Marta won the first-ever ‘Marta’ award for her solo goal against Jamaica in an international friendly this year. India international Dalima Chibber was present at the ceremony and she announced the first-ever winner for the Marta award. 🪄 🎥 Friendly pic.twitter.com/U33hUFa3kV — FIFA Women's World Cup December 17, 2024 The award was introduced in honour of its namesake, …

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6 days, 3 hours ago

From destruction to deadly heat, Associated Press photographers capture climate change in 2024

Associated Press

A world altered by climate change After heat records were smashed and a torrent of extreme weather events rocked countless countries in 2023, some climate scientists believed that the waning of the El Nino weather pattern could mean 2024 would be slightly cooler. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print Residents collect drinking water …

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6 days, 7 hours ago

Former Brazil striker Ronaldo to run for CBF presidency

The Hindu

Former Brazil striker Ronaldo will run for the presidency of the country’s football confederation, the 48-year-old said on Monday. Ronaldo, who won the World Cup with Brazil in 1994 and 2002, will run as a candidate in the CBF elections to replace current president Ednaldo Rodrigues in 2026. “Among hundreds of things that motivate me to become a candidate for …

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6 days, 8 hours ago

FIFA ‘The Best’ Awards: All you need to know; Nominees; Live streaming info

The Hindu

FIFA confirmed that ‘The Best’ Football Awards 2024, celebrating the year’s top players in women’s and men’s football at club and national levels will be announced on Tuesday during a special event to be broadcast live from Doha, Qatar. The FIFA Puskás Award now recognises the best goal in men’s football, while the newly introduced FIFA Marta Award will honour …

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From Trump to Bitcoin, inflation and China: the big economic trends of 2024

Small plane crashes into Brazil town popular with tourists, killing 10

Small plane crashes in Brazil's Gramado, kills at least 10 people

Santa braves the sticky heat of the Amazon jungle to bring gifts to children in Brazilian village

Nine killed as small plane crashes into shop in tourist city of Gramado in Brazil

Women’s players arrested over racist incident in Brazil soccer semifinal

At least 30 dead after horror crash between passenger bus and truck in Brazil

38 people die in a crash between a passenger bus and a truck in Brazil

At least 32 people killed as bus and truck collide in Brazil

37 people die in a crash between a passenger bus and a truck in Brazil

32 dead, many injured after bus collides with truck in Brazil

All the warning signs Biden was 'senile from day one' of his presidency: Joe's catalogue of toe-curling gaffes and calamitous stumbles - as mental decline cover-up scandal deepens

Giant sloths and mastodons lived with humans for millennia in the Americas, new discoveries suggest

How a small Brazilian town became an unlikely battleground over Confederate memory

Exploding chicken burns hungry customer: Bizarre moment diner's fast food snack erupts as he bites into it

Forget soccer and samba. This caramel-colored street dog is Brazil’s new national icon

Trump says India charges lot of tariff, threatens to impose reciprocal tax

Riding the Trend of the Times with A Strong Sense of Responsibility

Emma Hayes and Vinicius Jr big winners at Fifa Best Awards

Ronaldo to run for Brazilian football federation presidency

First-ever ‘Marta’ award goes to Brazil’s Marta

From destruction to deadly heat, Associated Press photographers capture climate change in 2024

Former Brazil striker Ronaldo to run for CBF presidency

FIFA ‘The Best’ Awards: All you need to know; Nominees; Live streaming info