Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
The district court found that the officer's use of violence was not necessary or justifiable in the situation.Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
A man in his 20s was detained by police on Monday following the discovery of a woman's body at a house in Mikkeli on Sunday.Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
The state-owned chain did however see sales of non-alcoholic beverages increase by more than 29 percent last month, year-on-year.Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Radio Sweden
More and more commercial properties in Stockholm are standing empty. The number of vacant retail premises in the county has increased by 20 percent compared to last year and the number has soared over the past five years. Pernilla...Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
This year, for the first time, the audience will choose the festival's Tango King and Queen.Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
The majority of the exports were sent via third countries, the agency says.Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Radio Sweden
Sweden beat Poland 3-0 in their second match of the UEFA Women's Euro 2025 championships Tuesday. The win means they have already qualified to the quarter-finals. Saturday's final group game against Germany will determine who they'll...Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Radio Sweden
Summer is tourist-time here in Sweden, when many tourists flee the hot temperatures in southern Europe and head up north. And while many go on the regular tours of historical sites, in one southern Swedish town there is a tour that is a...Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Radio Sweden
Trains are delayed by a total of 150 days each year in Sweden due to people walking on the tracks, that's according to figures from the Swedish Transport Administration. Göran Holmberg at the Swedish Transport Administration tells...Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
The two-day meeting, in its fourth iteration, starts on Thursday.Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Initial plans for the test to include a personal interview have largely been dropped, according to the interior ministry.Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Finnair's cancellations have affected many people's travel plans. Yle explains the reasons behind a protracted labour market dispute that has prompted the cancelled flights.Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from Radio Sweden
The Swedish government is to commission an inquiry to look into putting an age limit on using social media. Minister for Social Affairs and Public Health Jakob Forssmed tells Swedish Radio News that children need to be safeguarded from...Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from Radio Sweden
Bodyguards working for the Swedish intelligence service Säpo have been using an exercise app which has shared sensitive information on their whereabouts, and therefore that of top Swedish politicians, including Sweden's Prime Minister....Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from Radio Sweden
A disappointing summer so far in Sweden has increased interest in trips abroad. Many Swedes are on the hunt for a sunny getaway, and despite the demand there are still some trips available. But you can't be too picky, says Stina Nyman at...Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
A manhunt led to the suspect's capture on Monday evening.Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from Radio Sweden
A man who worked closely with the Belarusian opposition had his asylum application in Sweden rejected last year. But the Swedish Migration Agency have now changed their decision and Kanstantsin Siarohin and his family will be allowed to...Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Issuing such an order enables the issuing of a European arrest warrant.Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
The Canadian shipbuilder previously bought the Helsinki Shipyard, setting its sights on expanding its capabilities for Arctic shipbuilding.Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from Radio Sweden
Every year roughly eight billion kronor is set aside in Sweden for the future state pensions of parents of young children. Vendela Koskinen, who has two children, says that she has heard of how bad it is for your pension to work fewer...Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
In southeastern Finland, rainfall could reach up to 50 millimetres, potentially causing local flooding.Monday, July 7, 2025 from Radio Sweden
Gotland’s groundwater is already at levels normally seen in August or September, according to local authorities Water restrictions have been in place since April: no watering lawns, filling pools, or washing cars. Tourists say they’re...Monday, July 7, 2025 from mbl.is - News in English
Sigurdís Egilsdóttir moved to Vestmannaeyjar four years ago and is now living her dream life with her partner and their two children. She grew up in the Westfjords and has lived in various places across Iceland over the years—never...Monday, July 7, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Temperatures are expected to rise after the rain, which will likely be heaviest in the south-east.Monday, July 7, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
It was reported last month that eight Finnish embassy staff members in Portugal had jointly accused the ambassador of harassment and inappropriate behaviour.Monday, July 7, 2025 from Radio Sweden
Sweden's reindeer are thriving because of the cooler summer temperatures this year, Swedish Radio P4 Västerbotten reports. Malå reindeer herding community says it is experiencing the best summer in five years. But Johannes Skum, chairman...Monday, July 7, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
A 23-year-old man is suspected of stabbing and injuring four people in central Tampere last week.Monday, July 7, 2025 from mbl.is - News in English
The dance group Danskompaní from Reykjanesbær recently secured a world championship title in dance. The group competed in the “showstopper” dance category and has been sweeping up awards at the event, winning silver in the commercial...Monday, July 7, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
The director of the Finnish Institute in the Middle East, Susanne Dahlgren, said she considered the US and Israeli plans to displace Palestinians to be outrageous.Monday, July 7, 2025 from Radio Sweden
Parents of children and young people who have been forced into crime by criminal gangs say that it takes too long to get help from the Swedish authorities. One parent tells Swedish Radio News she has had to wait several months for her...Monday, July 7, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Residence permit applications submitted by the family members of international students have increased by a factor of eight since 2021.Monday, July 7, 2025 from mbl.is - News in English
Guðrún Hafsteinsdóttir, chair of the Independence Party, sharply criticized the government's four-year financial plan in a recent parliamentary speech. She claimed the plan lacked credibility and was based on unrealistic assumptions.Monday, July 7, 2025 from Radio Sweden
Inflation landed at 2.9 percent in Sweden in June according to preliminary figures from Statistics Sweden. Swedish Radio News's business reporter Johan Prane says that is significantly higher than economists forecasts. More in-depth...Monday, July 7, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Finland's flag carrier has cancelled over 1,000 flights during the spring and summer due to ongoing strike action.Monday, July 7, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
A few years ago, single gender rooms were the norm on garrisons across Finland.Monday, July 7, 2025 from Radio Sweden
Sweden does not have a national screening programme for prostate cancer, but almost all regions in the country have now introduced some form of testing for one of the deadliest cancers among men. A new report from the national quality...Sunday, July 6, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
The government has thrown its weight behind a bid for a massive artificial intelligence centre in Finland as part of an EU scheme to establish such gigafactories around Europe.Sunday, July 6, 2025 from mbl.is - News in English
Esther Ösp Valdimarsdóttir didn’t know what to expect when she moved with her husband, ethnologist Eiríkur Valdimarsson, and their children to the Westfjords—specifically to Hólmavík—over a decade ago.Sunday, July 6, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
A significant portion of the sales were to Finland, along with deliveries to other Nordic countries and Germany.Sunday, July 6, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
One of the female victims of Thursday's attack remains in hospital with serious but with non-life-threatening injuries.Saturday, July 5, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
According to a water safety expert, typical factors were involved in Saturday's fatal boating accident in Nurmes.Saturday, July 5, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
The announcement came after a week of internal dispute within the government over measures to cut greenhouse gas emissions.Saturday, July 5, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
A poll shows that the government's plan to cancel the tax deductibility of union membership fees is deeply unpopular.Friday, July 4, 2025 from Radio Sweden
The unnamed government minister whose close relative is reported to have been active in a far right movement has now issued a statement to Swedish news agency TT. The minister said in a statement via the Prime Minister's press secretary...Friday, July 4, 2025 from Radio Sweden
Sweden face Denmark in Geneva at 6pm Friday for their opening match in UEFA Women's EURO 2025. Last time they played was in the Women's Nations League and Sweden won 6 – 1 against Denmark. We hit the parks and pitches to see who's tuning...Friday, July 4, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
In addition to upholding the life sentence, the court also adjusted compensation to the victim's family members.Friday, July 4, 2025 from Radio Sweden
The Swedish government has tasked Sweden's Public Health Agency to create guidelines and recommendations to help children and young people sleep better. Public Health Minister Jakob Forssmed from the Christian Democrats says that almost...Friday, July 4, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
The city of Tampere has partnered with the Brooklyn Public Library on the first major US exhibition on Tove Jansson and the Moomins.Friday, July 4, 2025 from mbl.is - News in English
Hallgrímur Kristinsson, Head of Business Development and Innovation at the Icelandia Travel Agency, says it is of course very unusual that plots of land are being offered which already have both infrastructure and existing operations.Friday, July 4, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
According to the court, each man played a specific role in the operation, which involved introducing forged currency into circulation with the knowledge that it was fake.