UN weather agency calls a new record low temperature in the Northern Hemisphere – -69.6°C (-93°F) was recorded almost three decades ago in Klinck, Greenland
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Toots Hibbert, beloved reggae star, dead at 77
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Denmark's left-leaning parties have agreed to change the country's sexual violence laws to allow sex without explicit consent to be prosecuted as rape
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US gives first-ever OK for small commercial nuclear reactor
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Denmark suspends Lars Findsen, head of the country's foreign intelligence service – Danish Defense Intelligence Service had initiated operations that were contrary to Danish law
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US Justice Department says Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants
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AMC Theatres to offer fifteen-cent tickets for older films on first day of reopening
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US President Donald Trump issues executive orders taking effect in forty-five days that ban "transactions" with Chinese owners of TikTok (ByteDance) and WeChat (Tencent)
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Outbreak hits Norway cruise ship MS Roald Amundsen – traveling from port to port along Norway's western coast, the virus may not have been contained onboard
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The Church of Sweden has more female than male priests for the first time – a sign of huge strides for gender equality since women were first allowed to be ordained in 1960
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The Chinese government is engaging in a widespread, systematic campaign of forced birth control and sterilization on Uighurs and other minorities
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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
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Greta Thunberg has hope for climate, despite leaders' inaction
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US naval buildup in Indo-Pacific seen as warning to China
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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
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Sweden football coach Janne Andersson has signed a contract extension through to UEFA Euro 2024
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Boston Marathon canceled for the first time in its 124-year history
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Greta Thunberg scolds Danes for dumping wastewater – thirty-five billion liters of unfiltered sewer water have been pumped into the Oresund Strait since 2014
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Danish Lutheran minister who attracted international attention by proclaiming that there is no God or afterlife, but retracted after being suspended, has died
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Analysis of treatment with hydroxychloroquine for 368 patients in US veterans hospitals shows more deaths, no benefit
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Department of Homeland Security report: China hid virus’ severity to hoard supplies
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Many failures combined to unleash death on Italy’s Lombardy
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Coronavirus is dealing a gut punch to the illegal drug trade, paralyzing economies, closing borders, and severing supply chains in China
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Australia to make Google and Facebook pay for news content
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In Iran, isolated musicians perform from rooftops
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New wave of infections threatens to collapse Japan hospitals
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Finnish carrier Finnair, which has focused heavily on routes to Asia, says it will deepen its cooperation with China's Juneyao Air
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Cuban doctors fighting coronavirus around world, defying US
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Tokyo Olympics rescheduled for July 23 - August 8 in 2021
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Norway extradites convicted Kurdish cleric to Italy, where he has been sentenced to twelve years in jail for planning terror
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Sweden's external military intelligence service said Friday the security policy situation in the Baltic Sea region 'has deteriorated over time'
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Finland jails Sierra Leone man in Liberia war crimes case – the first non-Liberian to be held accountable in connection with the civil wars
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Japanese Prime Minister asks all elementary, middle and high schools nationwide to close until late March to help control the spread of COVID-19
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Disney CEO Bob Iger steps down in surprise announcement
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Swedish automaker Volvo Cars and its owner Chinese automaker Geely Holding are considering a merger deal
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Iranian rocket fails to reach necessary speed for putting Zafar 1 communications satellite into orbit
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Magnitude 7.7 earthquake hits between Cuba and Jamaica
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China convicts three researchers involved in gene-edited babies
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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
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In Sweden's Arctic, ice atop snow leaves reindeer starving
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US jury finds that Elon Musk did not defame British cave explorer Vern Unsworth when he called him “pedo guy” in an angry tweet
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Twenty-five dead and 130 wounded in Baghdad after a night of attacks by unknown gunmen targeting anti-government demonstrators
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Legal reckoning: New abuse suits could cost Catholic Church over $4B
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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
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The governing body for track and field will consider expelling Russia from membership following new charges that senior officials faked medical records
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High tide in Venice reaches highest level in over fifty years, causing severe flooding and hundreds of millions of euros in damage
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Two former Twitter employees charged with spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia
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Denmark is giving permission for joint German-Russian underwater gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 to be laid through its territory
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Vietnam bans Dreamworks' "Abominable" over South China Sea map showing Chinese claim to the region
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Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber crashes at Hartford airport; at least seven reported dead
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