After more than a century of various proposals and planning, Norway has once again officially abandoned the ambitious Stad Ship Tunnel project
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Denmark plans social media ban for under-15s – PM Mette Frederiksen links social media use to anxiety, depression and lack of concentration
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The country with Europe's most radical climate plan – an interview with Petteri Orpo, prime minister of Finland
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Indira Gandhi's emergency: When India's democracy was put on pause
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Denmark's PM Mette Frederiksen has issued a long-awaited apology to the Greenlandic women and their families affected by what she called "systematic discrimination" during a contraceptive campaign
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Denmark has proposed scrapping its tax on chocolate, cake and other sweets, as well as coffee, to help consumers cope with high food prices
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Sweden to build more nuclear plants with US or UK technology – Vattenfall says it will chose between GE Vernova and Rolls-Royce's small modular reactors
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The mystery of Winston Churchill's dead platypus was unsolved - until now
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The Faroe Islands are the only country that celebrates their World War II occupation
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Tens of thousands have gathered for the Budapest Pride march, defying Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's legal threats against LGBTQ rights activists
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Danish PM Mette Frederiksen is seeking to extend 2018 niqab ban to educational institutions and remove prayer rooms, citing concerns about social control and oppression
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Finland is under pressure to switch its rail to standard gauge – planned train line to run between Kemi and Haparanda in Sweden is the first phase
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Norway has launched a new scheme to lure top international researchers amid growing pressure on academic freedom in the US
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Companies keen to start deep-sea mining off Norway – despite delays that will now see the first licences awarded, a year later than planned, in 2026
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Heritage Foundation and allies discuss dismantling the EU
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Swedish police say eleven people dead in Örebro campus attack - victims still being identified after what Sweden’s PM says was the worst mass shooting in the country’s history
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Sweden urges UK to join European mini-nuclear reactor pact – Britain would make ‘great partner’ for bulk order of reactors, says Ebba Busch
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TIL: there's a Hot Ones Quebec and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was the latest guest
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Norway is to enforce a strict minimum age limit on social media of fifteen as the government ramped up its campaign against tech companies it says are “pitted against small children's brains”
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Kyiv will not extend gas transit deal, Ukraine tells Slovakia
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Bethesda yanks Thatcher's Techbase Doom mod from in-game browser
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Cambodia PM launches project linking Mekong River to sea via canal
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Iceland wants to switch up its tourism tax to protect nature – and fight overtourism
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When the US CIA messes up
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All roads lead to Romania, as PM vows motorway to Moldova will open this year
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The dark reality of Japanese host clubs
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Israel’s ultra-Orthodox don’t serve in its armed forces. That’s getting harder than ever to justify and threatens Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition.
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India targets Apple over its phone hacking notifications
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Sinking the Blücher: How an outdated fort stopped the WWII Invasion of Norway
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United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak reportedly said 'just let people die', COVID inquiry hears
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The bizarre story behind Shinzo Abe’s assassination
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PM Katrín Jakobsdóttir will take part in Iceland's first full-day womens strike in forty-eight years – calling for pay equality and action on gender-based violence
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UK PM Rishi Sunak applauded for being openly transphobic in speech
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Under new policy, Italy starts removing lesbian mothers' names from children's birth certificates
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Iceland is turning to taxes to reduce the impact exponential growth in tourism has on its pristine wilderness
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UK government vows action after man dies in latest dog attack
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Fukushima contaminated water set to be released into the ocean
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Questions asked of the UK Prime Minister over Johnny Bairstows dismissal in the Ashes. Just not cricket.
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Estonia legalizes same-sex marriage
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Respect existence or expect resistance – protests in Norway against wind farm on Sámi land
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Denmark's prime minister Mette Frederiksen wrote part of a speech using OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT to highlight the risks of artificial intelligence
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Absolut Vodka will stop exporting its products to Russia after a backlash in its home country, Sweden
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The world’s longest suspension bridge is history in the making. After 2,000 years of political and technical hitches, Italy says it’s finally ready to connect Sicily to the mainland.
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Denmark has managed to anger the Evangelical Lutheran Church and hundreds of thousands of Danish voters – all because of a public holiday
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Sweden and France could be set to join forces to build new nuclear power stations in the Nordic nation
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to become 1st world leader to appear in ‘Drag Race’ franchise
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Katrín Jakobsdóttir, crime fiction fan and Iceland's Prime Minister, has published her first thriller novel with her close friend and bestselling author Ragnar Jónasson
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UK scraps tax cut for wealthy that sparked market turmoil
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Liz Truss's UK growth plan is nothing but a magic potion
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UK in turmoil as government's gamble to solve economic woes fuels crisis, instead
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