The Chinese government is engaging in a widespread, systematic campaign of forced birth control and sterilization on Uighurs and other minorities ~news china.xinjiang Article 3251 words 48 votes
Police in Greenland have detained a man in connection with the vandalism of a statue of a Danish colonizer that was doused with red paint ~news denmark.greenland crime Article 171 words 2 votes
Greta Thunberg has hope for climate, despite leaders' inaction ~enviro climate change Article 676 words 7 votes
Four major US publishers sue Internet Archive for copyright infringement, alleging that it has illegally offered more than a million scanned works to the public ~books libraries Article 665 words 30 votes
Sweden football coach Janne Andersson has signed a contract extension through to UEFA Euro 2024 ~sports.football Article 140 words 6 votes
Boston Marathon canceled for the first time in its 124-year history ~sports Article 722 words 8 votes
Greta Thunberg scolds Danes for dumping wastewater – thirty-five billion liters of unfiltered sewer water have been pumped into the Oresund Strait since 2014 ~enviro pollution.water water.waste Article 226 words 10 votes
Danish Lutheran minister who attracted international attention by proclaiming that there is no God or afterlife, but retracted after being suspended, has died ~humanities religion Article 283 words 5 votes
Analysis of treatment with hydroxychloroquine for 368 patients in US veterans hospitals shows more deaths, no benefit ~health Article 417 words 24 votes
Department of Homeland Security report: China hid virus’ severity to hoard supplies ~health healthcare Article 855 words 11 votes
Many failures combined to unleash death on Italy’s Lombardy ~health healthcare Article 2398 words 6 votes
Coronavirus is dealing a gut punch to the illegal drug trade, paralyzing economies, closing borders, and severing supply chains in China ~finance economics Article 1165 words 4 votes
Australia to make Google and Facebook pay for news content ~tech google facebook internet social media Article 533 words 6 votes
In Iran, isolated musicians perform from rooftops ~arts photography Article 543 words, published Apr 16 2020 6 votes
New wave of infections threatens to collapse Japan hospitals ~health healthcare Article 904 words 9 votes
Finnish carrier Finnair, which has focused heavily on routes to Asia, says it will deepen its cooperation with China's Juneyao Air ~transport Article 203 words 3 votes
Cuban doctors fighting coronavirus around world, defying US ~health healthcare Article 897 words 11 votes
Norway extradites convicted Kurdish cleric to Italy, where he has been sentenced to twelve years in jail for planning terror ~news norway italy Article 365 words 6 votes
Sweden's external military intelligence service said Friday the security policy situation in the Baltic Sea region 'has deteriorated over time' ~news sweden russia Article 226 words 4 votes
Finland jails Sierra Leone man in Liberia war crimes case – the first non-Liberian to be held accountable in connection with the civil wars ~news finland sierra leone liberia crime.war Article 362 words 4 votes
Japanese Prime Minister asks all elementary, middle and high schools nationwide to close until late March to help control the spread of COVID-19 ~health Article 316 words 21 votes
Swedish automaker Volvo Cars and its owner Chinese automaker Geely Holding are considering a merger deal ~transport Article 304 words 4 votes
Iranian rocket fails to reach necessary speed for putting Zafar 1 communications satellite into orbit ~space rocketry satellites Article 812 words 6 votes
China convicts three researchers involved in gene-edited babies ~science biology Article 138 words 11 votes
The Supreme Court in the Netherlands has ordered the government to cut national greenhouse gas emissions by at least 25% of 1990 levels by the end of next year ~enviro climate change Article 950 words 16 votes
In Sweden's Arctic, ice atop snow leaves reindeer starving ~enviro climate change Article 1055 words 3 votes
US jury finds that Elon Musk did not defame British cave explorer Vern Unsworth when he called him “pedo guy” in an angry tweet ~tech social media Article 552 words 18 votes
Twenty-five dead and 130 wounded in Baghdad after a night of attacks by unknown gunmen targeting anti-government demonstrators ~news iraq.baghdad Article 486 words 10 votes
Legal reckoning: New abuse suits could cost Catholic Church over $4B ~humanities religion Article 2690 words 8 votes
Norwegian Air is ending some long-haul routes to the US and Thailand from Scandinavia, citing technical issues with the Rolls Royce engines on Boeing 787s and low demand ~transport Article 137 words 4 votes
The governing body for track and field will consider expelling Russia from membership following new charges that senior officials faked medical records ~sports Article 617 words 5 votes
High tide in Venice reaches highest level in over fifty years, causing severe flooding and hundreds of millions of euros in damage ~enviro climate change Article 729 words 14 votes
Two former Twitter employees charged with spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia ~tech social media privacy Article 439 words 9 votes
Denmark is giving permission for joint German-Russian underwater gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 to be laid through its territory ~enviro energy Article 513 words 3 votes
Vietnam bans Dreamworks' "Abominable" over South China Sea map showing Chinese claim to the region ~movies Article 455 words 9 votes
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber crashes at Hartford airport; at least seven reported dead ~transport Article 869 words 17 votes
Henrik Larsson quits as Helsingborgs IF coach – verbal abuse made his situation unsustainable ~sports.football Article 145 words 4 votes
Midsommar is a waking nightmare and I mean that in the best possible way ~movies horror reviews Article 742 words 8 votes
Dutch telephone outage takes out nation’s emergency number for over three hours ~tech Article 9 votes
'I was wrong': Officer who shot 911 caller gets 12½ years ~news usa.mn.minneapolis australia Article 1048 words 19 votes
Satellite images show no major damage to Persian Gulf ships claimed to be 'sabotaged' by US officials ~news saudi arabia usa iran united arab emirates Article 1226 words 5 votes
Sixty-six minutes: The frantic race to save Notre Dame ~design architecture Article 1004 words 6 votes
Paul Manafort sentenced to forty-seven months in US prison for tax and bank fraud ~news usa crime politics.usa Article 496 words 17 votes