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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Society (Sweden)
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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Legal challenge takes aim as wolf hunt begins in Sweden
Hunters have already killed at least six wolves in this year’s cull, which began on Tuesday. Wolf hunting is legal
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Sweden’s Christmas present of the year is…. an electric bike!
Swedes needing Christmas gift ideas have been given a big tip from the retail branch. The Swedish Retail Institute’s ‘Christmas
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Meteorite from Arctic Sweden fetches thousands at auction
A 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite originally found in northern Sweden was bought on Sunday by a collector in Hungary. The iron-rich rock
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