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«The Rio Times» 

Brazil’s GDP Growth: From 3.5% to 2% in 2025

Brazil’s financial market projects a slowing economic growth for the coming year. Analysts maintain a 3.49% GDP growth forecast for 2024. They slightly lowered their 2025 projection from 2.02% to 2.01%. These figures reflect a cautiously optimistic outlook for Brazil’s economy. Inflation expectations saw minor adjustments. Analysts reduced the 2024 forecast from 4.91% to 4.90%. […]

France24.com (en) 

Gisèle Pelicot's ex-husband won't appeal 20-year prison sentence

The Frenchman found guilty of drugging and raping his then-wife and soliciting dozens of men to do the same for more than a decade will not appeal his conviction, his lawyer said Monday. Dominique Pelicot wants to spare his ex-wife a “new ordeal” of another trial, lawyer Béatrice Zavarro said in an interview with broadcaster France Info.

Nytimes.com 

9 Food Trend Predictions for 2025

Food forecasters see a year of offbeat choices: savory coffees, great convenience-store cuisine and sauces on everything.

Dezeen.com 

GMP Architekten revamps "cityscape-defining" swimming pool in Hamburg

German studio GMP Architekten has refurbished and extended Alsterschwimmhalle, a swimming pool in Hamburg with a distinctive double-curved concrete roof. After being forced to close during the coronavirus pandemic, Alsterschwimmhalle has been transformed into a multipurpose leisure complex with a sauna and fitness club. GMP Architekten's overhaul ensures the focal point of the structure remains

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Open Culture 

The Complete History of the Music Video: From the 1890s to Today

If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are not obviously music videos. The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star,” the first selection of MTV’s inaugural broadcast, must surely count as a music video — but then, it was produced a couple years earlier for […]