4 January 2023 - The Nordic Reporter

A girl brushes a solar panel at Grange Farm, Balcombe, United Kingdom (Photo by 1010UK (CC))

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Solar panels do not like snow, but a 50-yr-old automobile invention might help

4 January 202324 March 2023

Environment-minded home owners in the further north of the world might have struggled with it already: how to keep the solar panels snow-free. A brush is the quickest solution, but a lot of work – even more for larger solar […]

The Rautjävi church of 1881, which was burned down during Christmas 2022 (Photo by MFKI (CC))

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The Finnish church where many could have died

4 January 202312 February 2023

Behold of the church of Rautjärvi, Finland, as it was. Because during the Christmas 2022 mass it burned down. The arsonist behind it even tied the exit doors, but judging the police reports we now know why the 40 people […]

Melkøya LNG production plant, Hammerfest, Norway (Press photo by Equinor)

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Third biggest CO2 polluter of Norway to be demolished

4 January 202324 March 2023

The third biggest CO2 polluter of Norway, the gas-powered electricity plant on Melkøya island in Hammerfest, will be demolished. Owner Equinor says the floating LNG factory planned here will be entirely run on electricity from the grid instead. Image: The […]

GREENLAND, 12 SEP 2023: Cruise ship Ocean Explorer with 206 people on board has gone aground in the Alpefjord of Greenland, where the Nordøstgrønland National Park is situated, on Tuesday. The Danish military - Greenland is a semi-autonomous country, under Danish rule - has sent patrol vessel P570 Knud Rasmussen to the area. But it will take days for it to sail the more than 1,200 kilometres (about 650 nautical miles) to the Ocean Explorer. The Danish Arctic Command hopes the vessel is able to get itself free with high tide.

FINLAND, 11 SEP 2023: Three neo-nazis stand accused in Finland for preparing a terror attack, that included shooting the then Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin. The trial against the three men, of which the main suspect was a candidate for the so-called True Finns political party, started in the court of Päijänne-Tavastland. All suspects are Finnish and key-evidence is there own statements, intercepted Telegram communications between the suspects and 3D printed guns. The men are 21, 26, 28 years old. A 66-year-old man is suspected of aiding, but does not stand trial in this case.

SWEDEN, 11 SEP 2023: Ten people are accused of killing a 15-yr-old boy in a sushi restaurant in Skogås, as Stockholm suburb, in January. The ten are between 16 and 27 years old, and include the 16-yr-old guy that pulled the trigger and killed the then equally old boy, investigators say. The police beliefs the hit was ordered and can be connected to the so-called "Kurdish fox" (kurdiska räven), which has been identified by Swedish police as a major crime boss. Of the ten suspects of this killing, only one remains at large. #shootingssweden

NOTE, 1 SEPTEMBER 2023:
Twitter ends. Over the past 13 years I used Twitter to bring you daily news, quickly and short, in addition to my web channel. First from Scandinavia, with Poland and the Baltic states added a few years ago. I have decided to leave Twitter/X. Once, it was a great, free and simple channel, easy to include in my website and accessible to all - even for those without a Twitter account. That were precisely the reasons why I used Twitter, during most of my 15 years as a correspondent/reporter based in Sweden, and even after I moved to Poland more than 2 years ago.
Recent changes dictated by Musk, and especially today's announcement that X will demand more privacy sensitive data from its users, have fuelled my decision.
If you have been one of my almost 1.6K regular followers of my daily tweets, which totalled more than 15.900, big thank you (!!!) for your confidence in me during the past dozen years.