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October 03, 2023
Halfway through his term, Olaf Scholz has a popularity problem
COPENHAGEN — A group of 67 women from Greenland are seeking compensation from the Danish government over a campaign of involuntary birth control in the 1960s.At least 4,500 women, some of them teenagers, were fitted with coils under a program intended to limit birth rates among the indigenous population.An inquiry is due to conclude in 2025, but the women, some of whom are in their 70s, want compensation now.They are seeking 300,000 kroner (£34,880; $42,150) each.Greenland, now a semi-sovereign territory of Denmark, was a Danish colony until 1953.The scale of the campaign was exposed last year in a podcast published by Danish broadcaster DR.Records from the national archived showed that, between 1966 and 1970 alone, intrauterine devices (IUDs) were fitted into the women, some as young...
October 03, 2023
Greenland women seek compensation over involuntary birth control
October 03, 2023
Impasse continues over Hungarian veto on EU military aid for Ukraine
October 02, 2023
EU calls for global cooperation to combat terror financing
October 02, 2023
World Habitat Day focuses on cities as drivers of growth
October 02, 2023
Electoral politics begin to bite into Ukraine support
October 02, 2023
Malaria vaccine big advance against major child killer
October 02, 2023
Nobel Prize in medicine goes to scientists behind mRNA Covid vaccines
October 02, 2023
Finland faces autumn of discontent with strikes and protests over government's austerity budget
October 02, 2023
UK defense giant BAE Systems wins $4.82bn Aukus submarine contract
