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Dominican Republic Offers 300 Scholarships to NYC Youth: What Applicants Need to Know

Dominican President Luis Abinader announced 300 scholarships for Dominican youth in New York — grad, undergrad and tech training. Here's what's known so far.

Latin Times · Sep 26

Iceland to vote on reopening EU membership talks in close referendum

Icelanders will vote in a referendum on Saturday whether to resume entry talks with the European Union amid growing global insecurity. Voters are not being asked to decide just yet if they want to join the 27-member bloc – only whether they want their government to negotiate possible terms.

France 24 · Aug 26

Judicial reform sees Swedish prisons preparing to house young teens

North of Stockholm, the Rosersberg prison is making preparations to house children as young as 13 in response to a much-criticised juvenile judicial reform expected to take effect in July.

Radio France Internationale · Mar 22

Track Worlds: Leth ousts Kopecky for women's Points gold, Lavreysen outduels Hoogland in Dutch 1-2 in men's Sprint

Tobias Aagaard Hansen wins third medal of week in rowdy men's Elimination race, Mina Sato makes it a Keirin sweep for Japan, Germany wins men's Madison

Cycling News · Oct 20, 2024

Track Worlds: Wiebes secures first career world title in debut Scratch Race, Team Sprint golds earned by British women and Dutch men

Three elite titles decided on first of five days of racing from Ballerup, Denmark

Cycling News · Oct 16, 2024

Baker, Jumper, Hassabis win Nobel Prize in chemistry for work on proteins

‘They cracked the code’; laureates hailed for revealing proteins’ secrets through computing and artificial intelligence.

Al Jazeera · Oct 9, 2024

After a slew of setbacks, Swedish EV champion Northvolt is winding down part of its U.S. operations as it reevaluates its business

Northvolt is a pioneer in its own right. But delays and limping EV demand, have hurt its business.

Fortune · Aug 20, 2024

Emigration: The hidden catalyst behind the rise of the radical right in Europe’s depopulating regions

Earlier this spring, the European Parliament voted to overhaul its immigration policy to more evenly distribute responsibility among member states for managing the arrival of migrants and asylum-seekers.

The Conversation · Jun 6, 2024

Spotify daylists, explained: The quirky-named music playlists that fans are sharing everywhere as memes

Spotify daylists and their funny-named playlists are all the rage right now.

USA Today Sports Media Group · Jan 23, 2024

Denmark’s King Frederik X takes throne after Margrethe abdicates

Tens of thousands on streets of Danish capital to see monarch hand over to eldest son

The Guardian - UK · Jan 14, 2024