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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
SWEDEN, 31 AUG 2023: Ten workers got stuck in a 7.5 kilometre long tunnel, 70 metres underneath Stockholm on Thursday. Smoke had filled the tunnel, used for electricity supply infrastructure, from a transport belt that malfunctioned. They managed to get […]
Actors supported by Russia are actively involved in black painting Sweden as an anti-Muslim country. Swedish Minister for Civil Defence, Carl Oskar Bohlin, said this during a press conference in Stockholm on 26 July 2023. “We see how Russian-backed actors […]
What is the worst European military helicopter program ever in delays, cost overruns, underperforming machines and crazy operating costs and maintenance, the NH90, gets another blow. After Norway announced it would kill the NH90 in its service, Sweden wants to […]
Kristian D, who was sentenced in 2021 in Sweden for spying on Scania and Volvo Cars, gave the codes of Volvo’s autonomous driving on a USB stick to Russian “diplomat”. The discovery made by investigative journalists of the Scandinavian national […]
The Swedish Armed Forces have taken delivery of their first naval vessel in more than a decade. HMS Artemis is the new signal intelligence vessel, a spy ship, which once tested will replace the aging HMS Orion in 2024. The […]
Sweden is quickly raising the number of so-called “war appointed” civilians in its society. Should the Scandinavian country be attacked by a foreign power, more than 404,000 Swedes already know where to report for the “Total Defence” of the country. […]
Winter is still going strong in Sweden. For its electricity the country relies heavily on hydro and nuclear power, and will even do more so in the future. But Sweden struggles with keeping everything up and running. Featured image: The […]