Giving birth in a car: a real rural problem in Sweden
An upcoming exhibition at the Kiruna city hall, up above the Arctic Circle, is about women in the north of
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Swedish drones to combat illegal eel fishing
The Swedish Coast Guard and the Agency for Marine and Water Management will soon deploy aerial drones to help stop
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Swedish mining company found not responsible for poisoning Chileans
The Skellefteå district court dismissed a lawsuit on Thursday against Swedish mining company Boliden that claimed it was responsible for
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Cold brings record numbers to Stockholm homeless shelter
With temperatures nudging -14C on Tuesday night, a record 170 homeless people came to shelter at a church in Stockholm.
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Snow chaos: Police urge motorists in Sourthern Sweden to stay at home
Heavy snow and freezing temperature is continuing to cause travel chaos for drivers and rail and bus passengers in south-eastern
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Amid snow blizzards in Sweden, motorists warned not to go out
Sweden’s Transport Administration has called in its fleet of tank-tracked all terrain vehicles as the snow blizzards and high winds
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Siberian ‘Beast from the East’ keeps Swedish kids inside
A Siberian cold front has brought Sweden unusually cold temperatures for late February. It was -42 degrees C when Kristina
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Small town hopes to reverse depopulation trend affecting rural and Northern Sweden
While more and more people move to Sweden’s bigger towns and cities, 63 municipalities in the countryside have seen
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Sweden: Bigger prisons for more prisoners
The Prison and Probation Service wants to expand its prisons, in order to prevent security issues and other problems that
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Bull on the loose spreads fear in northern Sweden
A bull on the loose is putting the fear into a small village in northern Sweden where it has been
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Legal battle over hunting and fishing in Sweden’s far north
A legal battle between the Swedish state and a Sami community in the far north is heading to the Supreme
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How to be prepared for a winter power cut
This week thousands of households in Stockholm were hit by a power cut, after builders broke a cable. “I just
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Driverless buses hit the streets in Stockholm
For the first time in Scandinavia, a self-driving bus will mix with other traffic along a public road in Kista,
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Appeal court: Samis have ‘better right’ than Swedish state to control hunting and fishing on its land
The appeals court has given the Girjas Sami village the right to control hunting and fishing permits on its reindeer
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“Gender-equal snow-clearing” to benefit cyclists and pedestrians in Sweden
As snow continued to fall across Sweden this week amidst severe weather warnings, some cities implemented gender-equal snow clearing policies,
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