Alexei Navalny: Vladimir Putin critic dies after 'losing consciousness' at maximum security prison
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Iceland fisheries minister rebuked over 2023 whaling ban – Parliamentary Ombudsman says whaling ban lacked legal footing
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Notes on the Ivory Coast
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India targets Apple over its phone hacking notifications
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Lars Aagaard, Danish climate minister, says farmers deserving most success on the European market should be those who emit the least carbon per tonne of food produced
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Denmark is to restrict the sale of alcohol to under-eighteens and increase the price of suckable nicotine sachets, as their growing popularity is worrying health authorities
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US cable lobby and Ted Cruz are disappointed as Federal Communications Commission bans digital discrimination
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Sweden's schools minister Lotta Edholm aims to limit the profit-making ability of friskolor/free schools in her plans for education reform
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Denmark is preparing to make a significant pledge toward a new climate disaster fund, breaking ranks with other developed countries
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Denmark's parliament to introduce interpreters – Aki-Matilda Hoegh-Dam spoke and answered questions in Greenlandic, causing protests from some lawmakers
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Sweden's right-wing government says it will turn its back on plastic bag tax from November 2024
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Danish government has apologized to thousands of people with disabilities who were abused in state-run facilities
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Swedish schools minister Lotta Edholm moves students off digital devices and on to books and handwriting, with teachers and experts debating the pros and cons
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Hydrogen, additionality, and US Senator Joe Manchin
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Villavicencio assassination a ‘disturbing moment’ for Ecuador democracy, former running mate says
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Environmental experts have criticised the Swedish government's plan to build at least ten nuclear reactors in the next twenty years
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Norway approves nineteen oil and gas projects, saying the resulting investments are worth over $19 billion
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Typography 2024: For America! For America’s best
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Iceland suspends whale hunt on animal welfare concerns until the end of August, likely bringing controversial practice to historic end
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Denmark aims to raise the age limit for the collection of personal data from children by tech giants
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North Carolina GOP censures Senior State Sen. Tillis for backing LGBTQ+ rights and other policies
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Welsh town seats world’s first known nonbinary mayor
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Greenlandic MP refused to speak Danish during a debate in the Danish parliament and instead spoke in her native Inuit language
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Jerry Springer, politician turned TV ringmaster, dies at 79
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US lawmakers are being silenced for speaking out against anti-trans bills
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The world’s longest suspension bridge is history in the making. After 2,000 years of political and technical hitches, Italy says it’s finally ready to connect Sicily to the mainland.
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Norway has expelled fifteen Russian officials that it had accused of spying under diplomatic cover
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Nebraska lawmaker three weeks into filibuster over trans bill
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Danish parliament urges lawmakers and employees to remove TikTok on work phones as a cybersecurity measure, saying “there is a risk of espionage”
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Finland defence minister to take two months' paternity leave amid NATO bid – Antti Kaikkonen says 'children are only little for a moment'
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We look into the implications of a bill that could classify loot boxes as gambling, and what it could mean for the Finnish games industry
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Murder and loathing in Las Vegas
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A theme park crisis is wrecking South Korea’s bond market
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Just days after promising advertisers that Twitter would not be a “free-for-all,” Elon Musk promoted a right-wing rumor about the vicious hammer assault on Paul Pelosi in the US
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Søren Pape Poulsen, leading challenger to Mette Frederiksen, is hemorrhaging support after false claims about the origins of his soon-to-be ex-husband
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German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock signed a deal with Denmark to boost investment in hydro and wind power
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Sweden's Foreign Minister Ann Linde said she won't return a historical document to Poland, as it was a “legitimate” spoil of war
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Finland intends to limit visas for Russian tourists – government has come under increased public and political pressure to close a perceived sanctions loophole
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US House Speaker Pelosi arrives in Taiwan, defying Beijing
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Lords complain of ‘poor wine’ and ‘too much salmon’ in the ‘disappointing’ taxpayer-subsidised food and drink served to Parliament
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The construction of two energy islands off the coast of Denmark is being sped up to help wean the country off Russian fossil fuels
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Protesters denouncing the intention of a far-right group to burn a Quran in Örebro in central Sweden attacked police on Friday, injuring at least nine
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Lilja Alfreðsdóttir will meet with the CEO of Spotify this week to discuss the proliferation of “fake artists” posing as Icelandic musicians on the music streaming platform
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In France, a racist conspiracy theory edges into the mainstream
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Finland's former interior minister Päivi Räsänen has gone on trial in Helsinki accused of inciting anti-LGBT+ hate speech
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David Sassoli, European Union parliament president, dies at age 65
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Stacey Abrams is running for Georgia governor in 2022
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British politician says female ‘Doctor Who’ leads to young men committing crime
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Mayor suggests Helsinki declare itself an English-language city – Juhana Vartiainen says too many highly skilled foreigners shun Finnish capital because of difficult language
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Greenland stops oil and gas exploration – natural resources minister Naaja Nathanielsen said the environment and climatic impacts had been assessed as being too high
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