Denmark should end all future oil and gas exploration in the North Sea – it hurts Denmark's ambition as a front-runner in the fight against climate change
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US taxpayers' virus relief went to firms that avoided US taxes
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For two years the government gave 2,000 unemployed citizens €560 a month with no strings attached – does Finland show the way to universal basic income?
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Spain set to introduce permanent basic income scheme to rebuild economy post-coronavirus
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US President Donald Trump signs executive order designed to limit the legal protections that shield social media companies from liability for the content users post on their platforms
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Spain approves 462 euro monthly minimum income for the poorest
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Andrew Cuomo gave legal immunity to nursing home execs after big campaign donations. Critics say data proves New York's liability shield is linked to higher nursing home death rates.
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Ontario to explore criminal charges against five long-term care homes in scathing military report, says Premier Doug Ford
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Florida's strategy to protect seniors from COVID-19
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How should we go about handling population growth and staying at or above replacement levels?
Tl;dr human birth rates are falling universally and globally and at some point in this century will mean a decrease of the world's population. The effects of this will/has been felt in stuff like...
Tl;dr human birth rates are falling universally and globally and at some point in this century will mean a decrease of the world's population. The effects of this will/has been felt in stuff like pensions/retirement and so far, noone has proposed any solutions other than increased immigration and denying women abortions. So what should we do to solve this? Should we even find solutions given that stuff like pollution and climate change is man-made?
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China has imposed a massive eighty per cent tariff on Australian barley imports from today, saying the product has been imported against trade rules
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United States seeks to change the rules for mining the Moon
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‘Hard stop’: US states could lose National Guard virus workers
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Explosive whistleblower complaint by ousted US Health and Human Services official says he was pressured to give contract to Donald Trump-friendly pharma firm
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China has imposed an import ban on four Australian abattoirs in an apparent escalation of Beijing's trade war tactics
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison unveils "a three-step plan and a national framework to achieve a COVID-safe economy and society" by July
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Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing – first major study of scheme comes as economic toll of coronavirus prompts fresh interest in idea
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In Helsinki's climate plan, community comes before bureaucracy
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“Political connections and cronyism”: In blistering whistleblower complaint, Rick Bright blasts Team Trump’s pandemic response
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How Jared Kushner's volunteer force led a fumbling hunt for US supplies
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How Georgia is reopening amid the coronavirus pandemic
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Science-fiction visionary Kim Stanley Robinson makes the case for quantitative easing our way out of planetary doom
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Spoiling rice in Vietnam show perils of food protectionism
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Google to require all advertisers to pass identity verification process
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A handful of US cities have passed soda taxes, but are they working?
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The Australian government has finalised a deal with Qantas and Virgin to underwrite a minimum domestic network, to the value of $165 million
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Border wall work in Arizona speeds up, igniting contagion fears
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo orders all people to wear face coverings in public
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For eleven years, the Soviet Union had no weekends
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Denmark may issue securities in foreign currencies for the first time in years to finance programs to support the economy through the coronavirus crisis
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South Dakota’s governor resisted ordering people to stay home. Now it has one of the nation’s largest coronavirus hot spots
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Mayor London Breed’s early and aggressive moves to contain the outbreak have made San Francisco a national model in fighting the pandemic
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The Pope just proposed a universal basic income. Is the United States ready for it?
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More than 2,200 coronavirus deaths in nursing homes, but US federal government isn't tracking them
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The Cantillon Effect: Why Wall Street gets a bailout and you don't
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For jobless Americans, Obamacare is still a potential lifeline
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Scotland's chief medical officer has resigned after making two trips to her second home during the coronavirus lockdown
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New York is merging all its hospitals to battle the coronavirus
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Social Security recipients who don’t usually file tax returns will automatically get $1,200 payments, US Treasury says in reversal
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Social Security recipients who don’t usually file tax returns will automatically get $1,200 payments, Treasury says in reversal
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Finland's center-left government gave its blessing to majority state-owned Fortum's strategy to cut emissions, but promised to push the company further
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Larry Hogan, Ralph Northam, Muriel Bowser order residents in Maryland, Virginia, DC to stay at home
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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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