Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and the Baltics
In one of the deadliest nights in modern Sweden, three people were killed in three incidents. A bomb attack presumably aimed at a local gangster killed a 25-yr-old female neighbour in the Uppsala suburb of Fullerö/Storvreta. In two shootings in […]
A sudden landslide at motorway E6 near Stenungsund, north of Gothenburg in Sweden, took cars, a bus, trucks, a hamburger restaurant and more with it on 23 September. The earth moved tens of metres in another direction and fel up […]
UPDATED 24 SEPTEMBER 2023 | 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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
UPDATED 18 SEPTEMBER 2023 | 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 […]
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 […]