Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and Beyond
Hackers from possibly the Chinese armed forces reportedly took control of American satellites in 2007 and 2008, according to a US parliamentary committee. They reportedly succeeded to do it four times via a satellite control base in Spitsbergen, Norway. But […]
Two Swedish linguists and an American scientist have succeeded in translating a 280-year-old secret code from Germany with previously incomprehensible characters. Swedish media reported this on Thursday. The 105-page so-called Copiale writings were discovered in East Berlin in the early […]
A 40-year-old Swede was sentenced to 1.5 years in prison by a judge in Hudiksvall, Sweden, on Monday, for illegally catching a record number of 13,000 wild birds. A spokesperson confirmed this. The resident from the Hudiksvall area caught the […]
The cargo vessel Arctic Sea, is said to have been hijacked off the coast of Öland, Sweden, in 2009, was carrying materials for making weapons of mass destruction. Finnish security experts Timo Hellenberg and Pekka Visuri state this in their […]
Dutch, German and Norwegian fighter planes must protect Danish airspace, so that Denmark itself can get its financial affairs in order. Danish Defence Minister Nick Haekkerup on Saturday in an interview with the Danish newspaper Politiken. “Just as we arrange […]
All schools in Oslo, Norway, were suddenly evacuated around lunchtime on Thursday after the Public Protection Directorate discovered an explosion hazard in a series of two and five kilo CO2 fire extinguishers used by the schools. This was reported by […]
The final wounded victim of the 22 July attacks in Norway was released from a Norwegian hospital on Wednesday, the University Hospital of Oslo reported. A total of 39 severely wounded were kept under medical supervision for a longer period […]
The Norwegian government is planning to make a substantial financial investment in combatting terror next year, with at least EUR 400 million additional funds for the police, the judiciary system, the army and emergency medical services. This became apparent during […]
The Finnish government gave the final green light on Wednesday for the construction of the country’s sixth nuclear power plant. It will be located in Pyhäjoki in Central Finland, at the Gulf of Bothnia. With the chosen location, Finland likely […]