The UK wants to emulate Denmark’s hardline asylum model – but what does it actually look like?
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My piece from Stockholm on the closure of Elverket, the experimental stage of Dramaten (the royal dramatic theatre), and its final production, Hamlet

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As Iceland celebrates 50th anniversary of kevnnafrí (women's day off), president Halla Tómasdóttir told me her country is "powered by two sustainable energies: geothermal power and girl power" but warned of "red flags" including rising gender-based violence, and called for an “inclusion revolution”

incredible footage from this day in 1975 when 90% of Icelandic women went on strike for “kvennafrí” (“Women’s Day Off”) and kickstarted a gender revolution www.ruv.is/frettir/innl... via RÚV

Joined the Swedish coastguard in the Baltic to track Russia's shadow fleet. During the patrol they followed a Malta-flagged ship who said it was heading for Turkey from Primorsk, Russia carrying 30,000 metric tonnes of diesel
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Norway goes to the polls today after an unusually close-fought and polarised election dominated by the cost of living, wealth taxes, oil fund investment in Israel and relations with Donald Trump
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Israel has killed the equivalent of 20 Palestinian journalists EVERY SINGLE MONTH for almost two years with impunity. Many of their families have also been murdered. Today 200 newsrooms are participating in a blackout to protest this war crime and crime against humanity

My dispatch from North Karelia:
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On 11 August, Ivana Nikoline Brønlund's one-hour-old baby, Aviaja-Luuna, was forcibly removed by Danish authorities after undergoing a "parenting competency" (FKU) test. This is despite a new law banning the use of FKU on people with Greenlandic backgrounds
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Keira, a Greenlandic woman, was separated from her daughter Zammi, two hours after she was born, due to a controversial Danish parenting test that's now been scrqapped.

This is such an upsetting story, powerfully reported by @mirandeee.bsky.social

‘The nurse told me I couldn’t keep my baby’: how a controversial Danish ‘parenting test’ separated a Greenlandic woman from her children

Went to Thisted, Denmark to interview Keira Alexandra Kronvold about being separated from her daughter, Zammi, by local authorities two hours after she was born
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