O resultado financeiro dos planos de saúde foi espetacular em 2024: o lucro supe­rou os 10 bilhões de reais – uma alta de 430% em relação ao ano anterior. A SulAmérica teve o melhor resultado: lucro de 2,1 bilhões de reais. A Bradesco Saúde, 1,5 bilhão. A Hapvida e a No­treDame Intermédica, que pertencem a um mesmo grupo, somaram lucro de 1,6 bilhão de reais. A Amil, que vinha de um prejuízo de 4 bilhões, ficou no azul com 620 milhões.

Palestinians held funerals Monday for 15 medics and emergency responders killed by Israeli troops in southern Gaza, after their bodies and mangled ambulances were found buried in an impromptu mass grave, apparently plowed over by Israeli military bulldozers.

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Como as capelanias militares, historicamente dominadas pela Igreja Católica, se tornaram um poderoso instrumento de pregação evangélica nas polícias

The South American hydropower facility set records for energy generation

On average, Itaipu generates around 90 terawatt-hours of electricity annually. It set a record by generating 103.1 TWh in 2016 (surpassed in 2020 by Three Gorges’ 111.8-TWh output). To put 100 TWh into perspective, a power plant would need to burn approximately 50 million tonnes of coal to produce the same amount of energy, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

One of the most important documentary films about fascism by Soviet director Mikhail Romm. Based entirely on newsreel shooting by cinematographers and photographers from Germany, the Soviet Union, the United States, Italy, Britain, and other countries, the film is based on authentic documents from numerous historical archives. The entire film is accompanied by the voiceover of film director Mikhail Romm. With anger and pain, with deep sadness, and at times with a murderous irony, he comments on events, reflects on dictatorships and dictators, on the crowd that submits to them and deifies them, speaking confidentially to the viewer. With his outstanding film, Mikhail Romm truly revolutionized documentary filmmaking.

Year of production: 1965

Directed by: Mikhail Romm Written by: Mikhail Romm, Maya Turovskaya, Yuri Khanyutin Director of photography: Herman Lavrov Music: Alemdar Karamanov Narrator Mikhail Romm

Recurso pago segue linha de estratégia de marketing usada por famosos, gerando sensação de exclusividade e intimidade com fãs. Para ator, também é forma de excluir haters.

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One of the most polluted places in the world is located at the heart of the Niger Delta where decades of oil exploitation have ravaged the native flora.

Experts say proposed deal with U.S. makes no sense

“If you want critical minerals, Ukraine ain’t the place to look for them,” declares Jack Lifton, executive chairman of the Critical Minerals Institute. “It’s a fantasy. There’s no point to any of this. There’s some other agenda going on here. I can’t believe that anybody in Washington actually believes that it makes sense to get rare earths in Ukraine.”

New Zealand researchers aim to combine plasma thrusters and superconducting magnets

Wildlife charity backs policy of exploitation of small number of some endangered species for economic purposes – such as trophy hunting.

The wildlife charity WWF has been working to support the trade in polar bear fur at the same time as using images of the bears to raise money, it can be revealed.

Polar bears are severely affected by the loss of Arctic sea ice, which makes seeking prey harder and forces the bears to use more energy. In some regions, polar bears are showing signs of declining physical condition, having fewer cubs, and dying younger.

Despite their endangered status, polar bears are hunted commercially in Canada, the only country that still allows the practice after it was banned by Russia, Greenland, the US and Norway. An annual average of 300–400 skins are exported, primarily to China, where a full pelt sells for an average of $60,000 (£48,000) and is often used for luxury clothing or as a rug.