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Sculpting a legacy Share CLOSE Wu Weishan's works are on display around the world, such as this statue of Confucius in Curitiba, Brazil. CHINA DAILY On Jan 19, 2020, the National Art Museum of China in Beijing launched A Tribute to Donors, an exhibition of unprecedented scale that presented the richness and diversity of donated art the museum has received from individuals over the last six decades. But three days later, the museum announced a temporary shutdown of the show due to the then-worsening COVID-19 situation. It was not until May 13 that it was reopened to the publi...

“Organized crime groups are for-profit business enterprises,” Elvis Secco said. “To combat them, we have to defund them.” Before being appointed to lead the organized crime division at Brazil’s Federal Police in 2019, Secco gained national recognition for dismantling a money-laundering unit of Brazil’s largest criminal organization, the Primeiro Comando da Capital, or PCC. While authorities were busy looking for drugs, the PCC had been actively laundering money in Londrina, Paraná, a prosperous town of 600,000, for 10 years, unbothered. Now, Secco is attacking money laundering by...

Tue, 26 Jan 2021 11:25 UTC At least 21 people were killed and 33 injured, with seven in critical condition, after a bus crashed on Monday in the southern Brazilian state of Parana, the Military Police Air Operations Battalion (BPMOA) said, according to Xinhua. According to the BPMOA, which initially reported 10 dead and six injured, the accident occurred on a stretch of road in the municipality of Guaratuba on the coast of Parana, when the bus went off the road and overturned for reasons still unknown. Local fire department captain Icaro Grenert explained to the press that it is not known if...

The link between architecture and landscape is always a strong one even if not always expressed clearly. Projects such as private houses and residences

USA TODAY The virus that causes COVID-19 changes all the time. In most cases, the changes are harmless. But they can add up. And when they do, the virus can become more contagious or deadlier, and potentially evade vaccines, treatment, diagnostics or natural immunity. We know that a number of these potentially more dangerous or difficult variants are circulating in the U.S. in increasing numbers. But scientific leaders say there's no reason to panic about the variants yet. Instead, what needs to happen is more research into the potential risks of these variants, better tracking of these c...