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These are just a few Nordic highlights — from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland — that will take place across Canada over the next couple of months, following the announcement of the spring programme for Nordic Bridges. Nordic Bridges, which is a year-long exchange …

Data director, DG CONNECT RULEMAKER No. 9 One of the biggest EU tech rulebooks looming in the fall, the Data Act, was mostly drafted in Luxembourg, not Brussels. It’s where Yvo Volman, director of data at the European Commission’s DG CONNECT, and his team, are based. The EU’s data strategy, …

Press play to listen to this article STOCKHOLM — The ink was still drying on Sweden and Finland’s applications to join NATO on Tuesday when Finland’s President Sauli Niinistö arrived at the royal palace in Stockholm in a horse-drawn carriage. Niinistö’s state visit, scheduled several weeks ago, is seen as …

Severe Wasting: An overlooked child survival emergency, details that around one in five deaths among children under age five, can be attributed to severe wasting. Triggered by a lack of nutritious food and repeated bouts of disease – such as diarrhoea, measles and malaria – it compromises a child’s immunity. …

The land borders between Morocco and the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla have reopened for the first time in over two years. Queues of people and traffic gathered at Tarajal and Beni Enzar to witness the reopening at midnight. The EU’s only land borders with Africa have long been …

Europe’s economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic fallout is taking a hit from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Higher inflation and slower growth are among the projections the European Commission on Monday (16 May) announced. «The war has clearly exacerbated the headwinds that were previously expected to gradually fade,» economy commissioner …

Vatican envoy heading to Kyiv The Vatican’s foreign minister, Archbishop Paul Gallagher, is heading to Kyiv this week as the Holy See seeks to balance its concern for Ukrainians with its efforts to keep open a channel of dialogue with Russia. Gallagher is due to arrive Wednesday and meet Friday …

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un criticised officials over slow medicine deliveries and mobilised the military to respond to a surge in suspected COVID-19 infections, as his nation struggled to contain a fever that has reportedly killed dozens and sickened nearly a million others in a span of three days. …

In today’s transitional times, particularly since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, emergency measures have pushed society into an intensified adoption of, and reliance on, digital solutions. With work-from-home orders, online education, digital vaccine passes, and border closures, our increased dependence on a few companies for vital technological infrastructure has …

The appearance of the Moon during the May 2022 total lunar eclipse. Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio On the night of May 15, 2022, and into the early hours of May 16, skywatchers will be treated to a spectacular phenomenon that takes place every 1.5 years or so: a total …