Preliminary evidence suggests Bay Area shelter-in-place order is flattening the curve
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Norway is postponing a decision on whether to allow companies to construct a new subsea power cable between it and Scotland
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LA, other SoCal cities cracking down on crowds at parks, beaches to stem spread of COVID-19
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Mexican president passes coronavirus buck to allies, rivals, business
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The US's foreign entanglements
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San Francisco mayor calls for calm — panic at grocery stores and pot dispensaries ensues
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Internal TikTok policies instructed moderators to suppress videos featuring unattractive, disabled, or poor people so they wouldn't scare off new users, as well as to remove specific types of content
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How Helsinki and Oslo cut pedestrian deaths to zero – after years of committed action, neither city recorded a single pedestrian fatality in 2019
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US President Donald Trump says he could demote Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, risking more market turmoil
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Everyone travelling to New Zealand from overseas to self-isolate
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Why are we so slow today?
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California hotels are being used for coronavirus quarantines, Gavin Newsom announces
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Rep. Katie Porter gets US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chief to agree to pay for coronavirus testing
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The White House has ordered federal health officials to treat top-level coronavirus meetings as classified
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Health ministers squabble over face masks at coronavirus talks
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Why Sweden's negative interest rate experiment is a failure
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Denmark needs to adopt a number of emergency measures, including higher carbon taxes, if it's to reach a goal of drastically cutting emissions by 2030
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Official: White House didn't want to tell seniors not to fly
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Andrew Yang’s new US non-profit is giving away $500,000 in free cash as a UBI experiment
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How Sweden is fixing the housework gender gap – do Swedish-style tax breaks for cleaners provide a solution or perpetuate gender-role norms?
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Is change on the way for Sweden's zero tolerance drug policy? Shifting the focus away from zero tolerance to the pursuit of zero drug-related deaths
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Controversial plans for a third runway at Heathrow Airport have been thrown into doubt after a court ruling
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Trump faces his 'Chernobyl moment' after slashing pandemic defences to the bone
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Struggling to keep up, Finland exports plastic waste – a quarter of all plastic waste will be sent to facilities in Sweden or Germany for sorting and repurposing
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Greenpeace asks Norway's supreme court to rule on Arctic oil – a case that could block the petroleum industry's expansion plans
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Policy vs technology
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‘Now is the time’: A Federal Reserve official urges Congress to plan for recessions
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Now that Sweden has called a halt to its five-year trial with negative interest rates the serious work has begun on looking at whether it worked
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LGBTQ activists in Iceland are protesting the planned deportation of a transgender teen and his family who fled Iran last February
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More than fifty people died under Victoria's euthanasia scheme during its first six months
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Finnish government has proposed that primary care nurse visits become free of charge
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The world's lowest interest rate may soon be raised in Denmark – new forecasts were triggered by the exchange rate
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POTS: protective optimization technologies
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Vaping: What people are getting wrong
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Finland blazes trail in keeping citizens cycling and healthy – country routinely praised for its schools system aims to do the same with preventive health
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov requests a meeting with Norwegian authorities to remove limitations on Russian activity on Svalbard
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When it comes to climate hypocrisy, Canada's leaders have reached a new low
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Finland's woman-led center-left government plans to nearly double the length of paternity leave to give new fathers the same amount of paid time off work as new mothers
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A ban on selling new petrol, diesel or hybrid cars in the UK will be brought forward from 2040 to 2035 at the latest, under government plans
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Honk more, wait more: Mumbai traffic police introduce the punishing signal to curb noise pollution
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Donald Trump’s US border wall, vulnerable to flash floods, needs large storm gates left open for months
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An open letter on Australian bushfires and climate: urgent need for deep cuts in carbon emissions [signed by Laureates of the Australian Research Council]
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Universal Basic Income explained – free money for everybody? UBI
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Fitch downgrades Finland's outlook, raising doubts about return to AAA rating
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Greenpeace loses Norway Arctic oil lawsuit appeal – Oslo appeals court approved Norway's plans for more oil exploration in the Arctic
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Supreme Court has granted Sámi in the far north the sole right to manage small-game hunting on its land – and not the Swedish state
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Carbon-neutral in fifteen years? Finland – the country with an ambitious plan
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NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine on the year ahead: ‘A lot of things have to go right’
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Norway made an outspoken right-wing lawmaker who once called wind turbines 'white monsters' its oil and energy minister
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Denmark's government wants a planned bridge over the Kattegat sea between Aarhus and Copenhagen to carry trains as well as cars, more than doubling the cost
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