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“I was a prisoner in my own mind until the day I met Teodor,” says Inga Ecker.Twelve years ago, the 32-year-old from Carinthia in Austria picked up a tiny chihuahua at Vienna train station. Little did she know he was about to change her life.“Before him, I always wanted to go somewhere but never really dared to. I always was waiting for my friends to go travelling and nobody really joined,” she tells Euronews Travel.“And then with him it was so easy – we just went together. He changed my life, really.”Since then, Inga – who works in IT for…

From: A Sense of CommunityMexico City’s Iztapalapa was once the country’s most dangerous municipality. Meet the local heroes trying to turn it into an urban utopia.Iztapalapa in Mexico City is notorious for soaring crime levels and poverty. But in 2018, the local government began working to turn the borough’s fortunes around by investing in community initiatives to foster social cohesion. Iztapalapa’s two million residents now have access to more public arts programmes, government services and sporting facilities. But challenges remain in a community where there are high rates of violence on the streets and within family homes. A Sense of…

A popular Brazilian social media influencer was reportedly gunned down at her home last week, according to local media reports.Núbia Cristina Braga, a 23-year-old influencer with nearly 60,000 followers on Instagram as of Wednesday, was shot and killed at her home last week in the Santa Maria neighborhood of Aracaju, the capital of the Sergipe state on Brazil’s northeast coast.Hours before she was killed on Friday, Braga posted her last Instagram story, sharing the details of a hair appointment, Jam Press reported. She had already returned home when two men reportedly arrived on a motor bicycle and entered her property…

Washington CNN Business  —  GIFs — those short, animated images that were a staple of internet memes and culture in the 1990s and 2000s — may be going out of fashion now as social media users have largely moved on to emojis and video. But a long-running legal battle over who can control access to them, culminating this week in a rare defeat for Meta (META), the parent of Facebook, could have major ramifications for Big Tech regulation. While the stakes of the case itself were relatively small, policy experts say the outcome is certain to embolden antitrust regulators around…

Two dozen complaints about abuse and mistreatment have been filed with Canada’s new sport integrity commissioner, but she cannot investigate most of them because so few national sporting bodies have agreed to work with her office. Sarah-Eve Pelletier is hoping that will soon start to change.Pelletier was appointed the country’s first sport integrity commissioner in April as the federal government moved to address what Sport Minister Pascale St-Onge has called a “crisis.”Athletes have filed 24 complaints between June 20, when the office first began accepting them, and September.But 16 of those are in limbo because only two national sporting bodies…

Mikaela Shiffrin and Petra Vlhova will do battle once more as the 2022-23 Alpine skiing season gets underway on Saturday with the opener in Solden. The pair are the two premier skiers and according to Eurosport pundit Tina Maze their must-see rivalry will again be fierce.Last year Shiffrin won the overall crystal globe but it was Vlhova who had the bigger season, taking the slalom globe as well as the gold medal in that discipline at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, which were a disaster for Shiffrin. CourchevelWorley lands giant slalom World Cup title after dramatic finale20/03/2022 AT 12:22Speaking ahead…

Disclaimer: The Industry Talk section features insights by crypto industry players and is not a part of the editorial content of Cryptonews.com.The Dash 2 Trade (D2T) presale has already raised over $400,000, barely 24 hours after beginning. Its quick progress comes as significant validation for the Ethereum-based platform, which will provide cryptocurrency traders with actionable market data, insights and analysis in real-time.In a year marked by big presales, the D2T token sale has plenty of competition, yet its strong fundamentals have already helped it stand out from the crowd. And with the market lacking a trading intelligence platform of the…

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Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends a press conference after his meeting with Venezuelan President in Ankara on June 8, 2022.Adem Altan | AFP | Getty ImagesTurkey’s central bank slashed its key interest rate by 150 basis points for the third consecutive month of cuts on Thursday, from 12% to 10.5%.Market analysts expected a 100 basis-point cut, so the move still managed to take many by surprise despite the increasing regularity of Turkey’s slashing of interest rates.The country’s monetary policy, directed by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is based on a pursuit of growth and export competition rather than calming…

Mallorca is looking to cap the number of hotel beds for tourists to combat overcrowding, the island’s governing councils announced this week.The plan is to set a cap of 430,000 tourist beds across the island, with the President of the Mallorca Council, Catalina Cladera, saying they want “tourism of greater value and less volume”.After COVID-19 travel restrictions were lifted, the island saw unprecedented visitor numbers this summer. Tourists rapidly filled hotel rooms and holiday rentals with Cladera admitting that “the recurring debate about overcrowding is back”.“I won’t deny it, there has been overcrowding this summer,” she said. “However, only in…