Monday, December 23, 2024 from Radio Sweden
Chocolate lovers in Sweden will have to get used to higher prices as "the new normal". Ingela Svedbro who runs a chocolate school and is also a wholesaler in the chocolate industry, says the surge in cocoa prices has meant chocolate...Sunday, December 22, 2024 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Besides a chain collision on Highway 4 in Mäntsälä, holiday traffic has been mostly calm in Finland.Sunday, December 22, 2024 from Yle Uutiset | News |
EU leaders ended their summit in Lapland with a press conference on Sunday, speaking about a wide range of security threats facing Europe.Sunday, December 22, 2024 from Yle Uutiset | News |
An Aalto University study looking at the past two decades observed an increase in the proportion of students choosing to study in outside of their hometowns for university.Saturday, December 21, 2024 from Yle Uutiset | News |
With increased traffic on the roads over the festive season, there is also a heightened risk of accidents.Saturday, December 21, 2024 from Yle Uutiset | News |
German police suspect a driver intentionally drove into a crowd at the Magdeburg market on Friday evening, leaving at least five people dead and over 200 injured.Saturday, December 21, 2024 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Prime Minister Petteri Orpo (NCP) is meeting with EU leaders in Lapland this weekend.Saturday, December 21, 2024 from Yle Uutiset | News |
For the past few years, the United States has been deploying its troops to the Dragsvik garrison in Tammisaari.Friday, December 20, 2024 from Yle Uutiset | News |
The attack, which came to light on 12 December, involved unauthorised access through the credentials of an IT service provider, Vincit.Friday, December 20, 2024 from Radio Sweden
Eight concert halls around Sweden have cancelled ballet performances with The Heritage Ballet next year. An investigation by a security company has not been able to rule out connections to the Russian state. The ballet ensemble had been...Friday, December 20, 2024 from Yle Uutiset | News |
News of racism facing this year's Lucia sparked a record-breaking amount of donations to the organisation behind the event.Friday, December 20, 2024 from mbl.is - News in English
Christmas should be white across most of the country, according to a meteorologist at the Icelandic Meteorological Office. On St Thorlak’s Mass gales or storms are forecast, and on Christmas Eve there could be considerable snow in the...Friday, December 20, 2024 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Sanoma Media had argued that Yle's streaming service and educational content represented unfair state support, and was an illegal distortion of the market.Friday, December 20, 2024 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Children and families relying on social welfare and child protection services in Oulu will miss out on gifts provided by the local gift drive.Friday, December 20, 2024 from mbl.is - News in English
The government coalition agreement of the Social Democratic Alliance, the Liberal Reform Party, and the People's Party will be presented this weekend and a new government will be formed as a result.Friday, December 20, 2024 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Spot price spikes mean it might make sense to cook the Christmas ham in advance this year.Friday, December 20, 2024 from Radio Sweden
The government is pressing ahead with its plans to lift Sweden's ban on uranium mining. An internal investigation also raises the possibility that municipalities in some cases will not be able to stop smaller mines either. In an...Friday, December 20, 2024 from Yle Uutiset | News |
It's a sure sign that Christmas is nearly here.Friday, December 20, 2024 from mbl.is - News in English
Friday, December 20, 2024 from Radio Sweden
Europe will do everything to support Ukraine for as long as necessary. That was the message from EU leaders at the end of a summit in Brussels which also discussed the EU's place in the world ahead of a second Trump term as President in...Friday, December 20, 2024 from Radio Sweden
Authorities in Skåne have called in dogs in the fight against an invasive flat worm that was found in Sweden for the first time in November. Dog trainer Marie Koenen is hired by garden nurseries and municipalities to search for the tiny...Friday, December 20, 2024 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Thursday afternoon's accident claimed two lives.Friday, December 20, 2024 from Yle Uutiset | News |
The Lucia ceremony has this year prompted a flood of racist comments, but some of those commenters had no answers when pressed on their abusive online posts.Thursday, December 19, 2024 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Reports of inability to access OP electronic services spiked late Thursday afternoon.Thursday, December 19, 2024 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Defence Minister Antti Häkkänen (NCP) said that the report has been prepared in dialogue with all parties in Parliament in order to ensure a strong consensus.Thursday, December 19, 2024 from mbl.is - News in English
The leaders of the Social Democratic Alliance, the Liberal Reform Party, and the People's Party will continue to work today on writing a government charter for a new government. According to Ingileif Friðriksdóttir, assistant to...Thursday, December 19, 2024 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Join us as we revisit the events that shaped Finland this year.Thursday, December 19, 2024 from Radio Sweden
Swedish police said Thursday they had been invited aboard the Yi Peng 3 vessel anchored off the coast of Denmark while Chinese authorities conduct an investigation, Swedish Radio News reports. The Chinese ship has been linked to two...Thursday, December 19, 2024 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Pensioners have increasingly continued to work for some time now, according to the Finnish Centre for Pensions.Thursday, December 19, 2024 from Yle Uutiset | News |
While the cables have since been repaired, authorities are still seeking answers about how they were broken and why.Thursday, December 19, 2024 from Yle Uutiset | News |
A court ordered the businessman to reimburse the National Emergency Supply Agency (Nesa) for failing to meet his end of a deal to supply facemasks in the spring of 2020.Thursday, December 19, 2024 from mbl.is - News in English
Roads in the country's south could become icy and quite dangerous when it rains on frozen roads today.Thursday, December 19, 2024 from Yle Uutiset | News |
The Finance Ministry predicts that the debt ratio will stabilise by 2027 if the government's €9b package of budget cuts and reform is passed.Thursday, December 19, 2024 from Radio Sweden
Sweden's Central bank, the Riksbank has lowered the key interest rate by 0.25 percentage points, it said Thursday. The key interest rate is now 2.5 percent. The rate reduction, the fifth this year, is in line with what many experts had...Thursday, December 19, 2024 from Radio Sweden
The number of prisoners allowed to serve their sentences abroad is increasing, which the Swedish Prison and Probation service welcomes. But concerned police officers tell Swedish Radio News that serious criminals want to be transferred...Thursday, December 19, 2024 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Authorities suspect that some of the cannabis had been sold in southern Finland.Thursday, December 19, 2024 from Yle Uutiset | News |
"The new F-35 fighter jets are also manufactured in Texas," Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen (NCP) told wire service STT.Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from Radio Sweden
Sweden's Municipal Workers’ Union today put forward a proposal for a 4.2 percent pay rise next year for its members in upcoming talks with employers' organisations. The union is demanding a monthly salary increase of at least SEK 1,222...Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from Yle Uutiset | News |
See-sawing temperatures, wind and a wintry mix of precipitation will add up to hazardous for pedestrians and drivers, warns Yle meteorologist Aleksi Lohtander.Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from Norway's News in English — www.newsinenglish.no » » News
Right in the middle of the busy Christmas card- and package rush comes news that Norwegians may no longer get any mail delivered to their mailboxes at home. A government-appointed commission has concluded that it’s simply “no...Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from mbl.is - News in English
The film Touch by Baltasar Kormákur has been selected for the shortlist for the 2025 Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category.Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from Yle Uutiset | News |
The 2019 outage affected the work of around 20,000 employees around the world, with Nokia claiming the downtime cost the firm more than a million euros.Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from Radio Sweden
The Swedish weather service SMHI has issued warnings for heavy snowfall and icy roads across the country. Public transport has already been affected in parts of Sweden. More delays are expected.Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from mbl.is - News in English
The ski resort in Mt Bláfjöll was scheduled to open for the first time this winter at 2 pm today. It was announced on the ski resort's Facebook page early this morning, but since the wind in the area has increased significantly and...Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from Yle Uutiset | News |
A citizens' initiative urging a withdrawal from the Ottawa Convention was submitted to Parliament on Wednesday, but its legal status is unclear.Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from Yle Uutiset | News |
The 'Manchester of the North' made the list as the wintertime sauna capital of the world.Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from Yle Uutiset | News |
President Alexander Stubb described the racist attacks on Daniela Owusu as "shocking and unequivocally wrong," while PM Petteri Orpo said he was sorry that they had occurred.Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from Radio Sweden
Under-performing schools are getting out of paying fines imposed on them by the regulatory authority, the Swedish Schools Inspectorate, Swedish Radio News reports. Over the past five years, not a single fine has been paid and only two...Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from mbl.is - News in English
Foreign Minister Þórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörður Gylfadóttir attended a meeting of the leaders of the Joint Response Force (JRF) this week. The development of security issues in Europe, increased cooperation between the JRF countries and...Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from Yle Uutiset | News |
"We are still focused on finding out what happened," President Alexander Stubb said.