June 9, 2023
A version of this story appears in the CNN newsletter What Matters. To receive it in your mailbox, register for free here. CNN — Unexpected result: the US men’s team reached the playoffs of the 1/8 finals of the tournament. Soccer World Cup in Qatar is that the US women’s national team will receive the
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Half of the world’s democracies are experiencing the erosion of democracy exacerbated by the war in Ukraine and the economic crisis, according to a report by an international think tank released Wednesday. “We are now seeing extremely serious obstacles to democracy, exacerbated by the political consequences of the economic crisis that began with the pandemic
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Here are GDP, GDO and GDP+ up to 2022Q3, as well as monthly figures up to 2022M10. I (still) see no recession in the first half of 2022. Figure 1: GDP (black), GDO (brown), and GDP+ (turquoise), all in billions of 2012 US dollars, in journals, Q4 2019 = 0. The GDP+ index is calculated
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French baguette received UNESCO protection. This was announced on November 11 by the cultural organization of the United Nations. 30. “Craft Know-How and Baguette Culture” was added to the organization’s list of intangible cultural heritage. . Intangible cultural heritage is defined as “traditions or living expressions inherited from our ancestors and passed on to our
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