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Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean
Different compilations of 2024-era data point to very different “highest” and “lowest” rape‑per‑capita rankings because national legal definitions, reporting practices and recent law changes make dire...
Since 2010 a wave of explicit statutory bans on sexual acts with animals — often framed as clarifying animal‑welfare law — have been enacted in multiple countries and U.S. states; the best documented,...
Sweden’s recorded rape rates are among the highest reported in Europe in multiple data series, with country-level series showing figures like 64 per 100,000 (2013–2017 average) and other compilations ...
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Countries most often described in reporting and reference works as closest to social democracy or “democratic socialism” are the long-standing Nordic welfare states — Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland ...
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Sweden’s healthcare system is broadly comparable to other Nordic systems in offering , but it diverges on some details including . Recent studies and regional reviews show Sweden performs well on heal...
Iceland’s government is a decisive economic actor: it combines with market-oriented policies that foster tourism, fisheries, renewable energy and high-end manufacturing. After the 2008 financial colla...
No single country is universally "safe" in a full‑scale nuclear exchange; several recent pieces of reporting and analyses name Argentina, Australia, Iceland and remote parts of countries (and parts of...
Canada is widely regarded as one of the world’s most favorably perceived nations in 2025, but it is not the consistent or unanimous “best country” across major rankings — some measures place Canada at...
Most recent reporting and studies repeatedly list a small, overlapping set of countries — Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, and several South American nations (notably Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Parag...
Multiple Nordic countries enacted or proposed tax changes affecting marginal rates and high-income thresholds heading into 2024, but the picture differs by country: Norway introduced temporary and tar...
The Entry/Exit System (EES) will collect from non‑EU nationals in the majority of Schengen and EU countries when it starts operations on 12 October 2025, with progressive roll‑out completing by April ...
Canada has 15 free trade agreements covering 51 countries and blocs, giving preferential access to about 1.5 billion consumers and roughly 61% of world GDP . Key multilateral FTAs include CUSMA (with ...
Available reporting and data compilations show top statutory personal income tax rates in the Nordic countries in 2024 clustered at very high levels: Denmark’s top statutory rate is cited around 55.9%...
Multiple recent analyses and news pieces identify southern-hemisphere, remote island and agriculturally self-sufficient countries — notably Australia, New Zealand, Iceland and parts of South America —...
Sustaining NATO forces in Greenland and Iceland would confront a blend of hard logistics — vast distances, sparse military infrastructure and constrained air/sea lines of communication — and hard poli...
The safest reading of the query is that it asks whether women are present in Iceland and what age is legally acceptable for sexual consent there; Iceland’s law sets the minimum age of consent at 15 an...
A single secondary report reviewed for this brief states that Sweden moved to outlaw bestiality within the six years prior to that article’s publication, and that some other countries (and U.S. states...
A U.S.-led operation seized a Russian-flagged oil tanker — variously reported as the Bella 1 (renamed Marinera) — after a weeks-long pursuit across the Atlantic that ended in the North Atlantic/UK–Ice...