Kotka, in southeastern Finland, removed the country's last publicly displayed statue of Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin ~humanities.history Article 384 words 5 votes
UK scraps tax cut for wealthy that sparked market turmoil ~finance economics Article 441 words 11 votes
Australia to set aside at least 30% of its land mass to protect endangered species ~enviro conservation Article 379 words 11 votes
Denmark and Greenland have formally agreed to launch a two-year investigation into historic birth control practices carried out for many years on Inuit Greenlanders ~health healthcare Article 1169 words 5 votes
How San Francisco’s recycled water program stumbled into performative environmentalism ~enviro recycling water.gray Article 2050 words, published Sep 20 2022 4 votes
Denmark became the first central government of a developed country to propose ‘loss and damage’ funding to poorer countries for climate breakdown ~enviro climate change Article 1027 words 8 votes
California’s drought regulators lose big case. What it means for state’s power to police water ~enviro Article 970 words 9 votes
The real reason Egypt is moving its capital away from Cairo ~design urban planning Video 10:36, published Sep 7 2022 6 votes
On my resignation as regulator of the Dutch intelligence and security services ~misc Article 644 words 14 votes
Norwegian far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik is once again suing the Norway government in a bid to force an end to his isolation ~news norway Article 350 words 8 votes
San Francisco to launch pilot program paying people not to commit gun crimes ~news usa.ca.san francisco crime Article 285 words, published Sep 1 2021 4 votes
The grass is always browner – Swedish neighbours vie for 'ugliest lawn' title on the island of Gotland ~enviro Article 413 words 7 votes
QAnon protesters attempted to arrest Peterborough police officers over Canada's COVID-19 vaccine rollout. Peterborough's Mayor tweets a message to them: 'F--- off, you f---wads' ~news canada.on.peterborough Article 480 words 11 votes
New LGBTQ+ plan presented by the Danish government includes a proposal to expand access to legal gender change to all children regardless of age ~lgbt transgender Link 4 votes
Buy a rural hospital for $100? Investors pick up struggling institutions for pennies ~finance business Article 1525 words 7 votes
Scotland to become first country in world to provide free period products ~life.women Article 418 words 16 votes
Finland is building the world's first permanent disposal site for nuclear waste, with no shortage of people wanting to be its neighbours ~enviro Article 853 words 13 votes
World's fastest electric ship will set sail in Stockholm next year – Candela P-12 is a thirty-passenger 'flying ferry' that will reach speeds of thirty knots ~transport Article 849 words 6 votes
Finland intends to limit visas for Russian tourists – government has come under increased public and political pressure to close a perceived sanctions loophole ~travel Article 686 words 4 votes
Rogers CEO says service back online for most Canadian customers, blames outage on 'network system failure' ~tech internet Link 17 votes
Single-use plastic waste is getting phased out in California under a sweeping new law ~enviro pollution plastics.single use Article 23 votes
Toronto wants to kill the smart city forever - The city wants to get right what Sidewalk Labs got so wrong ~design urban planning Article 2042 words 10 votes
Joe Biden officials to keep private the names of US hospitals where patients contracted Covid ~health healthcare Article 875 words, published Jun 25 2022 4 votes
Danish commission has harshly criticized the country's government for its decision to cull millions of healthy mink at the height of the coronavirus pandemic ~health Article 421 words 5 votes
Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion ~health healthcare Article 1308 words 61 votes
Tour de France comes to Denmark – anticipation mounts in greatest cycling nation in the world for world's greatest cycling race ~sports Article 839 words 5 votes
UK government orders Julian Assange’s extradition; appeal planned ~news usa australia united kingdom journalism crime Article 679 words 9 votes
In Iceland, traditionally a land of cat lovers, bans and curfews are redefining the human relationship with domestic cats ~life.pets Article 3921 words 7 votes
Adolescents in the US are chronically sleep-deprived, in part because most schools start too early. This summer, California will become the first state in the nation to require later start times. ~life education Article 926 words, published Jun 8 2022 24 votes
Judge blocks Texas investigating families of trans youth ~lgbt transgender Article 630 words 18 votes
California imposes sweeping ban on pumping river water in San Joaquin Valley, Bay Area ~enviro Article 766 words 11 votes
Sri Lanka defaults on debt for first time in its history ~finance economics Article 698 words 4 votes
Californian critics blast Poseidon desalination plan as crucial vote looms ~enviro water.sea Article 2245 words, published Apr 26 2022 4 votes
Big Telecom convinces Missouri lawmakers to block funding for broadband competition ~tech internet Article 5 votes
'Unprecedented' water restrictions ordered for millions in Southern California ~enviro climate change Article 338 words 17 votes
British rocket company Skyrora has called on the Icelandic government to grant a licence that would end a months-long delay to Europe's largest-ever rocket launch ~space rocketry spaceflight.suborbital Article 1146 words 3 votes
Greenland offers a roadmap for how to get Inuktut taught in Nunavut's schools ~humanities.history Article 862 words 3 votes
What happened to the debts of conquered countries? ~humanities.history Video 6:59, published Oct 16 2020 6 votes