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Sweden: 544 potential partner killers, 316 possible serial rapists

18 May 202518 May 2025 by Marcel Burger

The Swedish police has identified 544 people who are considered to be that highly instable that they could take the life of their partner, and about 316 others who could be potential serial rapists. National police chief for preventing these […]

#Baltics#Lithuania#Top Stories

Lithuania developing offline card payment system

18 May 202518 May 2025 by Marcel Burger

Lithuania is in the advance stages of introducing an offline card payment system in case the country’s banking system or internet goes down because of a technical reason, sabotage or cyberattack. Simonas Krėpšta, a board member of the Bank of […]

#Poland#Top Stories

Polish air-defence missiles to Belgium

18 May 202518 May 2025 by Marcel Burger

Polish arms manufacturer Mesko is likely to deliver 200 to 300 of Piorun shoulder-launched air-defence missile systems, the company announced. Both countries signed a letter of intent on 14 May 2025, with the official deal to be concluded on a […]

#Nordics#Norway#Top Stories

Norway replacing its quartet of bad frigates

12 May 202512 May 2025 by Marcel Burger

Norway has pre-selected four candidates to replace all its four frigates. The planned purchase is a direct consequence of the discovery of having faulty ships after a fifth Norwegian frigate sank in 2018. Spanish shipyards are not included in the […]

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#Nordics#Sweden#Top Stories

Sweden: 544 potential partner killers, 316 possible serial rapists

18 May 202518 May 2025

The Swedish police has identified 544 people who are considered to be that highly instable that they could take the life of their partner, and about 316 others who could be potential serial rapists. National police chief for preventing these […]

Paying with a credit card in a shop (AI generated image created with Adobe Firefly)
#Baltics#Lithuania#Top Stories

Lithuania developing offline card payment system

18 May 202518 May 2025

Lithuania is in the advance stages of introducing an offline card payment system in case the country’s banking system or internet goes down because of a technical reason, sabotage or cyberattack. Simonas Krėpšta, a board member of the Bank of […]

The Piorun during field trials in summer 2024 (Press photo: Mesko)
#Poland#Top Stories

Polish air-defence missiles to Belgium

18 May 202518 May 2025

Polish arms manufacturer Mesko is likely to deliver 200 to 300 of Piorun shoulder-launched air-defence missile systems, the company announced. Both countries signed a letter of intent on 14 May 2025, with the official deal to be concluded on a […]

The Norwegian frigate F311 Roald Amundsen (Photo: Forsvaret)
#Nordics#Norway#Top Stories

Norway replacing its quartet of bad frigates

12 May 202512 May 2025

Norway has pre-selected four candidates to replace all its four frigates. The planned purchase is a direct consequence of the discovery of having faulty ships after a fifth Norwegian frigate sank in 2018. Spanish shipyards are not included in the […]

A gun as evidence (Photo by Marcel Burger)
#Nordics#Sweden

60 innocent people killed or wounded in gang violence in Sweden

12 May 202518 May 2025

Since 2023, 22 innocent people were killed and another 38 wounded in shootings and attacks with explosives by criminal gangs in Sweden, Swedish radio (SR/EKOT) reports today. Many of these killed or wounded were family members of criminals, but were […]

The hospital of Skellefteå (Photo: Region Västerbotten)
#Nordics#Sweden

Health care alert in Sweden: 120 kilometres to nearest hospital after closure

6 May 202518 May 2025

After years of political threats to close an important hospital in Northern Sweden, and after years of severe protests against it, the politicians of the health care region of Skellefteå have decided to close the city’s fully functional hospital for […]

The Port of Gdynia in 2018 (Photo: Niels Johannes (CC))
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“Green” industrial district Northern Poland will come with military infrastructure

6 May 202518 May 2025

Just like the Southwest of Poland is strong in coal power, the North should be great in renewable power. With this message, the Polish government launched projects Kashubia on 6 May 2025. The goal: to strengthen the strategic position of […]

Smashed window and Belarusian flag colours (AI generated image created with Adobe Firefly)
#Baltics#Lithuania

Belarusian and Russian state behind attacks on Belarusians in Lithuania

25 April 202512 May 2025

Smashed windows of cultural centres, damages to buildings of businesses and threat messages to Belarusians in Lithuania, often with spelling errors. A series of incidents in Lithuania in the past years are the works of Belarusian and Russian secret services, […]

Seimas, the Lithuanian Parliament (Photo: Augustas Didžgalvis (CC))
#Baltics#Lithuania

Populistic Lithuanian party leader and MP denied access to state information

25 April 202525 April 2025

Leader of the populistic Dawn of Nemunas (Nemuno Aušra) political party in Lithuania, and Member of Parliament, Remigijus Žemaitaitis has been denied access to classified state information, Lithuanian media reported on 24 April 2025. Such information access is normally granted, […]

18th century whaling
#Iceland#Nordics

No whale hunt in Iceland this summer

19 April 202512 May 2025

There will be no whale hunt in the waters around Iceland this summer. Hvalur hf, the only remaining whaling company of the country, says to Iceland media it is economically not viable at this moment. However, the license to operate […]

An AR-15 semi-automatic rifle (Photo: Docmonstereyes (CC))
#Baltics#Estonia

Estonia to allow citizens to have more weapons

19 April 20256 May 2025

Estonia is preparing law changes to allow its citizens to own and use more weapons than before. Reason is the increased threat of a Russian invasion in the near future. “The current Weapons Act was written in an entirely different […]

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Polish mail services to deliver live bees across Poland

19 April 20256 May 2025

Polish state postal services, Poczta Polska, will offer courier delivery services of live bees across the country. The company announced it in a statement on 14 April 2025. “There are nearly 100,000 registered beekeepers in Poland,” says Monika Leleń of […]

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