POLITICS

Nordea bank logo is seen at the bank's headquarters in Stockholm

Nordea Profit Tops Consensus, Outlook Improves

The Nordic region's biggest bank reported an operating profit of 1.30 billion euros ($1.27 billion) in the quarter, up from 1.27 billion a year ago, beating the mean forecast of 1.26 billion euros in a Refinitiv poll of analysts.
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A view shows the Executive Wing of the New Zealand Parliament complex, popularly known as "Beehive" because of the building’s shape, in Wellington

New Zealand Proposes Stronger Terrorism Laws

The changes to the Control Orders Act and the Terrorism Suppression Act follow the introduction of the Counter-Terrorism Legislation bill in 2021 in the wake of a knife attack on several people at an Auckland supermarket by a man with known extremist views.
Map of Ethiopia locating Tigray region

Ethiopia Vows To Seize Airports, Other Sites In Tigray

AU Commission chair Moussa Faki Mahamat called for an immediate and unconditional truce as combat intensified in northern Ethiopia, where pro-government forces and rebels from the Tigray region have been fighting for nearly two years.
The deaths of young women in the protests such as Nika Shahkarami and Sarina Esmailzadeh, both 16, have created new protest icons along with Amini, 22

Iran Protests: How Far Can They Go?

Amini's arrest was an ordeal shared by hundreds of women every year who are deemed to have fallen foul of the Islamic republic's strict dress rules imposed after the fall of the shah.

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