How does Iceland, a country celebrated for its progress on women's rights, grapple with domestic violence cases surging nearly 40% over the past decade?
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Tariffs do not in general help trade deficits
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Finland wants to build a bridge across the Baltic Sea to Sweden for better connections to Europe
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US Department of Justice again files demand to break up Google’s search monopoly
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Utah becomes first US state to pass bill making app stores verify ages - Governor has not yet signed the bill
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California Governor Gavin Newsom "completely aligns" with Charlie Kirk on trans athlete issue, and agreed about restricting gender affirming care for prisoners and youths, in podcast
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Fearing toxic waste, Greenland ended uranium mining. Now, they could be forced to restart - or pay $11billion investor-state dispute settlement.
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Beijing's deflation dilemma: Falling prices signal bigger troubles ahead for China's economy
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US tariff war risks sinking world into new Great Depression, International Chamber of Commerce warns
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National US sports anti-trans ban bill dies
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For decades, the Swiss city of Basel has been transforming its skyline, and now boasts some of the greenest rooftops in Europe
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: Texas measles outbreak is call to action for all of us. MMR vaccine is crucial to avoiding potentially deadly disease.
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The Japanese mayor who built a floodgate no one wanted — and saved his town from a massive tsunami after his death
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Cousin marriage: What new evidence tells us about children's risk for ill health and how governments are responding
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Meta admits Instagram Reels featured violence, porn in graphic error
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Firefox's new Terms of Use grants Mozilla complete data "processing" rights of all user interactions
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Billed as promoting European products rather than boycotting US ones, Danish supermarket chain Salling Group has a special label for goods from Europe during March
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Twitch changes monetization policies to give most streamers access to monetization
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Andrew Jackson ‘paralyzed’ Washington with cuts
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Meredith Whittaker said Signal intends to exit Sweden should its government amend existing legislation essentially mandating the end of end-to-end encryption
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Planned foreign-owned data centres in Finland will bring minimal economic benefit, according to Jukka Manner, professor of networking technology at Aalto University
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Canada-US cross-border surveillance negotiations raise constitutional and human rights whirlwind under US CLOUD Act
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Apple stops offering end-to-end encrypted iCloud storage in the UK due to government spying demands
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Sweden's Supreme Court rules that climate activist Greta Thunberg's legal challenge against the state for insufficient climate action is inadmissible
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Fact-check: Five claims about thorium made by Andrew Yang
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Under Donald Trump, US government scientists told they need clearance to meet with Canadian counterparts
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As global leaders, Canada and Norway's co-operation is timely in the face of surging energy demand
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Those of us who work in gender medicine are not going anywhere
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Norway to open protected rivers to hydropower plants – Green politicians describe plan as ‘a historic attack on Norwegian nature’
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I was a content moderator for Facebook. I saw the real cost of outsourcing digital labour.
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Three simple principles of trade policy
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UK orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts
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Volvo Cars CEO Jim Rowan offers bleak assessment of year ahead for motor industry – shares his views on tariffs and the development of electric vehicle sales
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Stack Exchange to begin AI-generated Answers experiment on opted-in Stack Exchange sites
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Ryanair pulls out of two Danish airports blaming harmful tax – airline says passenger tax will make country's regional airports hopelessly uncompetitive compared to others in EU
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Denmark will ramp up inspections of ships transporting Russian oil through its narrow straits, in an effort to protect the environment and maritime safety from older vessels in Moscow's shadow fleet
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The full story of the US Federal Aviation Administration's hiring scandal
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Valiant Comics on the feasibility of a $4.99 issue
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Norway's environment minister has ruled out a ban on open-net fish farming at sea despite acknowledging that the wild North Atlantic salmon is under “existential threat”
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Chinese solar firms go where US tariffs don't reach
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Some residents say they were in the dark as Los Angeles fires spread with no evacuation order
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US Space Force official warns there is not enough room to prep satellites as commercial and government missions ramp up
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Is Colorado's EV incentive worth it?
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US President signs order restricting gender-affirming treatments for anyone under 19
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National Science Foundation freezes grant review in response to US President Donald Trump executive orders
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Brazil bans Sam Altman's tech firm Tools for Humanity from paying for iris scans
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Eighteen months after Maui wildfires destroyed over 2,000 homes, only three have been rebuilt
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Denmark became the world's first country to offer legal recognition of gay partnerships on 1 October 1989 – a day when "something shifted in human affairs"
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Donald Trump signs actions to pull US out of Paris climate agreement, intends to promote fossil fuels and mineral mining
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Fish at center of key conservation fight not a distinct species after all
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