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According to the World Health Organization 900 000 people commit suicide worldwide every year. Countries with the highest rates of economic growth are the ones where the phenomenon is more widespread: it is estimated that 200 thousand and 190 thousand people
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The situation of death penalty in BRICS countries is varied, although they all share the status of developing countries. In South Africa, the capital punishment was declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court in 1995
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Jorge Mario Jaureguì is an Argentinian architect who has been living and working in Rio de Janeiro for the last 15 years. He coined the phrase favela-bairro to describe his approach towards the urban design of Brazilian slums.
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Marcelo Rossi, ©©Sérgio (Savaman) Savarese
Padre Marcelo Rossi is not the usual figure in the Catholic Church. He seems to be turning masses wherever he goes and whatever he chooses to do. His book Agape, a word that means love in Greek
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Fashion Rio began yesterday in Rio de Janeiro. The fashion week will bring the winter creations of the leading Brazilian designers on the catwalk until the 14th of January.
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One billion people worldwide suffer from hunger, two billion are suffering from health problems related to obesity. A few experts debated this paradox at Bocconi University in Milan on the occasion of the Forum on nutrition and food
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The poverty line is one of the most feared by governments around the world, that trying to lower it, and most discussed by aid workers, who almost never agree with the official data.
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October is the month in which pink dominates: too early for the fashion show of Victoria’s Secret, the colour comes from the pink ribbons that bring attention to breast cancer,
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Brazil’s Supreme Court recognized as legal gay couples, on the 5th of May 2011. Voting was unanimous and even though for some of the judges the move was not enough in conquering equality for all. Marriage for gay and lesbian couples
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Controlling Space means controlling the Earth: satellites are able to check the planet 24/7. Americans and Russian understood it very well. Since the end of the Fifties to Mid-Seventies they conducted a very expensive war for Space supremacy.
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