Monday, February 24, 2025 from Radio Sweden
Several fathers found guilty of sex crimes against children or child pornography offences have been granted custody of their kids or unsupervised visitation after serving their sentences. Swedish Radio's Kaliber programme has gone...Sunday, February 23, 2025 from mbl.is - News in English
“It was an easy decision to put this book together. When the company was approaching its eightieth anniversary, in March 2024, Haukur Alfreðsson from the Loftleiðir Historical Society approached me and suggested that I make a grand photo...Sunday, February 23, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
The Swedish-speaking band hails from Finland but is competing to be Sweden's Eurovision representative.Sunday, February 23, 2025 from mbl.is - News in English
“I think I can say that nothing has changed since this room was opened; I certainly haven’t changed anything since I took over,” says Geirlaug Þorvaldsdóttir, owner of Hotel Holt, about the hotel’s venerable Library.Sunday, February 23, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Jukka Manner, professor of internet technologies at Aalto University, compares the situation in Finland to Ireland, which has seen energy consumption skyrocket due to data centres.Sunday, February 23, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Authorities urge the public to refrain from calling 112 and emergency services about the flares on Sunday unless there is an actual emergency.Saturday, February 22, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
With the agreement in place, planned strikes and solidarity actions in the technology industry will be called off.Saturday, February 22, 2025 from mbl.is - News in English
A group of architects, engineers and artists is demanding immediate action to stop the decline of Icelandic architecture. At the same time, more attention should be paid to the beauty of buildings and other key aspects in the public...Saturday, February 22, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
The injured victims remain hospitalised, but their lives are not believed to be in danger.Saturday, February 22, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Each year, approximately 2,000 people choose to enter civilian service rather than military service, with over 2,300 applicants last year.Friday, February 21, 2025 from mbl.is - News in English
Heiða Björg Hilmisdóttir will be the new mayor of Reykjavík. This was announced at a press conference by the leaders of the Social Democratic Party, the Pirate Party, the Socialist Party, the People's Party and the Left Green Party...Friday, February 21, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Negotiations are set to continue on Monday.Friday, February 21, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
The case concerns the taxation of Hakkarainen's income from the European Parliament for the tax years 2020 and 2021.Friday, February 21, 2025 from mbl.is - News in English
Updated modeling calculations show that the amount of magma that has accumulated under Svartsengi is now as large as it was before the eruption that began on November 20 last year.Friday, February 21, 2025 from Radio Sweden
An innovative Swedish speech-to-text AI model has been developed by the National Library of Sweden. The model, called KB-Whisper, is 47% more accurate in Swedish than the American original which was developed by AI-research organisation...Friday, February 21, 2025 from Radio Sweden
Two teenage girls aged 13 and 15 have been found guilty of murdering a 14-year-old girl in Landskrona. The victim had been subjected to extreme violence when she was found in an old freight train yard last summer. The two girls had...Friday, February 21, 2025 from Radio Sweden
The implementation of new security requirements for schools proposed by the government to come into force this August is causing some concern for school principals in the country. After the mass shooting at the Risbergska centre for...Friday, February 21, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
MPs voted 91-66 to reject the initiative, with 42 lawmakers absent.Friday, February 21, 2025 from mbl.is - News in English
The Icelandic Association of Local Authorities (SÍS) rejected an internal proposal submitted by the state mediator in the teachers' dispute.Friday, February 21, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
In 2024, over 3,000 reservists applied for crisis management roles, with more than 2,300 qualifying for standby service.Friday, February 21, 2025 from mbl.is - News in English
Negotiation committees and local government leaders are now meeting at the Association of Icelandic Local Authorities in connection with the internal proposal of Ástráður Haraldsson, the state mediator in the teachers’ dispute. Teachers...Friday, February 21, 2025 from Radio Sweden
The crime wave that hit Sweden at the start of the year is now over, according to National Police Commissioner Petra Lundh. She tells Swedish Television SVT police have been able to arrest the bomb makers, and that the situation has...Friday, February 21, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
The cable was previously damaged over Christmas, with suspicions pointing to Russia's shadow fleet.Friday, February 21, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
At the same time, a Finnish MEP says Russia now has an ally in the White House.Friday, February 21, 2025 from Radio Sweden
Another cable in the Baltic Sea has been damaged, according to several media reports. The Swedish Coastguard tells Swedish Radio that one of its ships is on the way to where the damage is thought to have happened, near the island of...Friday, February 21, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Monday marks the third anniversary since Russia invaded Ukraine.Friday, February 21, 2025 from Radio Sweden
It's International Mother Language Day which celebrates linguistic diversity through mother tongues and aims to highlight the importance of safeguarding cultural heritage. Radio Sweden speaks to Gunjit Sethi, who is responsible for...Friday, February 21, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Domestic news outlets speculate that Russia may deploy forces to Finland's eastern border as America's new foreign policy sends shockwaves across Europe.Friday, February 21, 2025 from Radio Sweden
One of the founders of the Swedish anti-war organisation Ryssar mot kriget — which translates as "Russians against the war" — is to be deported from Sweden as she poses a security threat according to the Swedish intelligence service...Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Radio Sweden
Sweden faces a choice: Should it respond individually to Donald Trump’s foreign policy moves or coordinate its stance with the rest of the European Union? With Trump saying that Ukraine itself is to blame for the war following Russia´s...Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
On Wednesday, Yle reported that Social Affairs and Health Minister Kaisa Juuso (Finns) had ordered officials to halt work on the most difficult savings measures.Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Sophisticated euro forgeries are increasingly rare, as the currency includes multiple security features that make counterfeiting difficult.Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Radio Sweden
Prosecutors involved in the Örebro school shooting investigation has asked for legal help from another country. They did not elaborate on what type of help they're asking for. Authorities say the dead shooter Rickard Andersson remains...Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
The majority of companies filing for bankruptcy were small businesses.Thursday, February 20, 2025 from mbl.is - News in English
“The problem goes back to the economic collapse when road maintenance was drastically cut and has not been recovered. These are 15-16 years where maintenance funds have been ISK 10 billion a year when it should have been ISK 20 billion,”...Thursday, February 20, 2025 from mbl.is - News in English
Significant progress has been made in reducing landfilling of waste since 2019, especially when it comes to mixed household waste, according to Statistics Iceland data.Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Expenditure on basic social assistance grew by nearly 100 million euros last year.Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
As the three-year anniversary of Russia's invasion approaches, one bishop in the Finnish Orthodox Church has forbidden a prayer calling on God to protect Ukraine.Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
The glitch that cancelled the Helsinki-Bangkok flight happened nearly nine years ago.Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Radio Sweden
The government wants more efforts in the online space to stop organised crime. It wants police to have more options for stopping crimes and gang recruitment that happen online and on social media. A government-appointed inquiry looking...Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
A quarter of consumers say they have been feeling the pinch for years, according to Finland's consumer watchdog.Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
There is a growing group of households "that have not previously been the target of evictions", according to a unit chief from Finland's National Enforcement Authority.Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Radio Sweden
Important public announcement for Gottåsa in Alvesta municipality, Kronoberg county. A fire at a waste facility outside Gottåsa is spreading smoke in the direction of Vislanda. Emergency services are urging everyone in the area to go...Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
How would Europe monitor a potential ceasefire in Ukraine?Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Radio Sweden
Sweden's car industry risks being significantly impacted by increased tariffs and trade restrictions. The new Trump administration has flagged tariffs on imported cars, and EU tariffs on Chinese-made electric cars are already in effect....Wednesday, February 19, 2025 from Radio Sweden
Former Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde warns against US-Russia negotiations on Ukraine without Kyiv’s involvement, emphasising that Ukraine must decide its own future. She also stresses the importance of continued European military...Wednesday, February 19, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
A ministry-appointed working group suggests introducing a paid digital test that assesses an applicant's knowledge of Finnish society, values and culture.Wednesday, February 19, 2025 from Radio Sweden
Talks between Russia and the US about the war in Ukraine are causing concern among Ukrainians in Sweden. "I feel that Ukraine is now counted by them as an object, and this is an absolutely inappropriate thing to talk about Ukraine,...Wednesday, February 19, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Grocery operators hoped to keep stores open during the strikes, but that did not turn out to be the case in some areas.Wednesday, February 19, 2025 from Radio Sweden
Sweden's Supreme Court says district courts can't try cases looking at whether the Swedish state is doing enough to protect the climate. Climate activists Aurora had sued the state over its climate policies, which the group says don't go...