Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and Beyond
The wave of gang violence in Sweden has become that severe, that the Swedish Prime Minister has called several to a crisis meeting. The news comes after 10 days of shootings and stabbings in Stockholm and Uppsala that left a […]
Norway’s security police (PST) has arrested a 25-year-old man suspected of spying on the government, including the Prime Minister’s office and the Ministry of Defence. The suspect was taken into custody during the weekend, broadcasting company NRK reported. On Tuesday, […]
DENMARK, 11 SEP 2023: Copenhagen police is temporarily closing the club houses of two motorcycle gangs, the police has announced during a press conference. NEWS IN BRIEF The prohibition to be at the three addresses is valid until 25 September, […]
DENMARK, 11 SEP 2023: Clashes in Copenhagen between rival Eritrean groups on 10 September, with 67 arrest among the rioters. NEWS IN BRIEF After 30 years of independence of Eritrea from Ethiopia, those pro and contra the Eritrean dictator seem […]
SWEDEN, 8 SEP 2023: A young male hunter was severely wounded near Venjan, west of Lake Siljan, in Sweden, when a bear attacked him on Friday. The bear was later found dead, killed by bullets fired by the hunting party […]
SWEDEN, 8 SEP 2023: For the murder of a 14-year-old boy in Upplands-Bro, North of Stockholm in August, Swedish police have arrested three teenagers of 15, 18 and 19, plus a woman of 21 years old. The publish prosecutor has […]
SWEDEN, 8 SEP 2023: Padel sports are on sharp decline in Sweden. The number of padel sports locations exploded years ago, but now it is the other way around. Since the beginning 2022 a total of 113 “padel houses” have […]
DENMARK, 8 SEP 2023: The first 10 Leopard-1 main battle tanks donated by Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have arrived in Ukraine, and can be used for offensive military operations. The Danish Ministry of Defence confirmed this on Friday. The […]
NORWAY, 8 SEP 2023: An earthquake with force 3.6 on the Richter scale hit Northern Norway on Thursday evening at 21:49. The quake took place 80 kilometres west of Ålesund, in the Atlantic Ocean 15 kilometres deep. Norway’s seismological institute […]
The Swedish land usage authority (Jordbruksverket) has declared a massive 1000 square kilometres (620+ sq mi) as a no-go zone for jogging, hunting, picking berries and all other human activities in the forrest that are non-essential. The area concerned includes […]
SWEDEN, 6 SEP 2023: The explosion in an apartment complex in Norrköping, Sweden, last Sunday that injured a few inhabitants and led to evacuation of 150 people from 84 apartments, was not caused by an explosive device. The police still […]
NORWAY, 6 SEP 2023: Facebook and Instagram‘s mother company Meta is sentenced to pay day fines to the Norwegian people for breach of their privacy. A court in Oslo judged that the American social media giant cannot postpone paying the […]
Poland eyes to Norway to kick-start its storage of CO2 pollution in the atmosphere underneath the Barents Sea. For that it is willing to pay 1 billion US dollars, via its energy company Orlen. So far a subsidiary of the […]
The now 33-year-old Swedish diplomat Johan Floderus has been illegally held by Iran for more than 500 days. The case – already known within Sweden for some time – got world media attention on 5 September, when the New York […]
ESTONIA, 5 SEP 2023: Estonia´s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas should step down, after it became clear that her husband has done indirect business via Russia and that she has even given a loan to her husbands activities. This has been […]
SWEDEN, 4 SEP 2023: Riots in the Rosengård area of Malmö in the night of Sunday to Monday. About 100 rioters threw stones to police vehicles and set cars on fire. A police spokesperson says to local media that the […]
