European Commission contacted Swedish authorities after it emerged they were planning to deport a 74-year-old British woman with severe Alzheimers
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Yale academic suggests mass suicide for Japan’s elderly
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War and subsidies have turbocharged the green transition
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Beijing needs to junk its economic playbook
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Finland has passed a new, progressive rights law which makes it substantially easier for trans people to change their legal gender
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Denmark to grant asylum to all women and girls from Afghanistan
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British Columbia embarks on bold experiment to decriminalize hard drugs - Possession of small amounts of fentanyl, heroin, cocaine and other hard drugs will be allowed in Canada’s westernmost province
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California fires back at other Western states with its own Colorado River plan
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US citizens can now sponsor refugees directly. Here’s how to apply.
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Norway's fossil fuel bonanza stokes impassioned debate about how best to spend its 'war profits'
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Government refuses to fund UK students at new medical school despite ‘chronic’ doctor shortage
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Year of public service, proposal by MD Governor Wes Moore
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Norway's golden generation of athletes proves the value of sport as a public good – commitment to making the “joy of sport” available to all is producing world-class talent
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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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France strikes: One million protest against Macron's rise in retirement age
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Brazil launches first anti-deforestation raids under Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva bid to protect Amazon
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UK government to block Scottish gender bill
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A 'wolf warrior' is sidelined, as China softens its approach on the world stage
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US government approves use of world’s first vaccine for honeybees
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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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Four of out every five cars registered in Norway last year was an electric car, according to data released by the Norwegian Road Federation
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Battle for the nation's soul – Norway faces debate about gas and oil wealth
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Critical incidents being declared across English hospitals
@Shaun Lintern: 🚨 @UHDBTrust declared a critical incident last night - cancelling all meetings and training to ensure clinical staff "are on wards and patient facing" pic.twitter.com/vLxUHwLZPD
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Setback for EU migration plans as Sweden assumes bloc's presidency – Swedish government thought to be reluctant to alienate far-right Sverigedemokraterna
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As Danish authorities consider Damascus safe for return, the practice of reconsidering refugee residence permits presents serious challenges
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Japan to invest in nuclear energy in major policy shift
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YouTube moderation bots will start issuing warnings, 24-hour bans
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The artificial island of Lynetteholm is meant to protect the Danish capital from floods and provide housing – but critics accuse the project of greenwashing
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Denmark's semi-autonomous territory Greenland is coveted by China, the United States, and global mining companies
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Denmark's new coalition government is set to scrap a bank holiday to boost defence spending – hopes of boosting productivity and economic activity
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US President Joe Biden signs marriage equality bill into law
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Thousands of women in Greenland, including some as young as twelve, had a contraceptive device implanted in their womb, often without consent
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South Koreans are getting a year younger, parliament rules
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Protesters openly urge Xi Jinping to resign over China Covid curbs
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Climate activist Greta Thunberg joined hundreds of other youth activists to file a lawsuit against the Swedish government over its alleged inaction on climate change
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Sweden's espionage scandal raises hard questions on spy recruitment – intelligence agencies debate whether foreign-born citizens are more targeted
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Astronomer incorrectly suspended from Twitter by automatic moderation
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In Finland, where forests cover around 75% of land, the EU's upcoming biodiversity strategy has sparked outrage in the forestry industry, as well as the government
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Hey Elon: Let me help you speed run the content moderation learning curve
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Copenhagen's failure to meet its 2025 net zero target casts doubt on other major climate plans – pledges to cease contributing to climate change demand greater scrutiny
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Google to remove all VPN ad blockers that don’t comply with their policy
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Tumblr will now allow nudity but not explicit sex
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US to fly supersonic bomber in show of force against North Korea
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Elon Musk has taken control of Twitter and fired its top executives
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It appears both the West and Beijing itself have grossly overestimated Chinese expansion in Greenland
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Welcome to hell, Elon - Nilay Patel on Elon's Twitter acquisition
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Norway-style windfall tax on energy companies could raise £33.3bn extra by 2027, plugging a hole in UK government finances, analysis has found
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The 2022 Nuclear Posture Review: Arms control subdued by military rivalry
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Same-sex marriage is now legal in all of Mexico's states
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Germany plans to legalise recreational cannabis
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