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Norway to send 200,000 AstraZeneca doses to Sweden and Iceland

Thu, 22 Apr 2021 16:29:38 +0200

Norway, which has suspended the use of AstraZeneca's Covid vaccine until further notice, will send 216,000 doses to Sweden and Iceland at their request, the Norwegian health ministry said Thursday.

Norway Covid rate higher than Sweden's so far this month

Mon, 14 Sep 2020 15:33:56 +0200

The rate of coronavirus infection in Sweden has been lower on average than that of Norway over the past fortnight, raising hopes that the border controls between the two countries could soon be dropped.

Swedish town on Norway border pulls Gotland sign stunt

Fri, 19 Jun 2020 01:24:01 +0200

A sign company in Strömstad on Sweden's border with Norway has changed road signs across the town to read "Gotland" in a light-hearted protest at Norway's refusal to allow its citizens to come across the border to shop at its border stores.

'If we had followed Sweden, we would have higher immunity': Norway Prof

Thu, 23 Apr 2020 11:41:29 +0200

One of Norway's most eminent epidemiologists has questioned Norway's decision to impose a heavy lockdown, arguing that the country might have been better adopting a strategy closer to that of Sweden.

Sweden's coronavirus strategy 'completely wrong' says Norway health chief

Thu, 09 Apr 2020 10:38:15 +0200

Espen Rostrup Nakstad, the assistant director of Norway's Directorate of Health, has condemned what he called Sweden's 'brake' strategy for the coronavirus pandemic as "completely wrong".

Norway sends assistance as Sweden struggles to contain ferocious wildfires

Wed, 18 Jul 2018 19:13:42 +0200

Dozens of forest wildfires raged across Sweden Wednesday, prompting Stockholm to ask for emergency EU help to fight the blazes, which broke out during an extreme heatwave in the Nordic region.

Prison sentence for axe attacker on Norwegian woman in Sweden

Mon, 27 Feb 2017 18:33:14 +0100

A man who almost killed a woman after attacking her with an axe in Sweden and subsequently threatened her husband has been handed a six-year prison sentence.

Norwegian woman 'lucky' to survive Swedish axe attack

Tue, 29 Nov 2016 09:26:28 +0100

UPDATED: Swedish police have arrested two people after an elderly Norwegian couple were attacked in Värmland near Sweden's border with Norway. Police said the woman was lucky to survive a blow to the back of the head with an axe as it connected with the blunt side.

The Nordic nations have gone to war… on Twitter

Wed, 23 Nov 2016 13:46:33 +0100

It’s thought that the Vikings first arrived in Canada about 1000 years ago when Leif Eriksson went ashore in Newfoundland, and the North American country has sparked another Nordic epic of the modern kind this week, when Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Norway squared off in a Twitter war.

More trains to run between Oslo and Stockholm

Wed, 02 Nov 2016 09:59:54 +0100

With the train route between Oslo and Stockholm seeing steadily increasing passenger numbers, the number of daily departures will increase from three to five.

Can CCTV curb drug runs between Sweden and Norway?

Mon, 24 Oct 2016 12:50:38 +0200

Surveillance cameras are set to be installed along the border between Sweden and Norway in an effort to catch drug traffickers, after a trial run resulted in treble the amount of drug runs being busted.

Swedes laugh off Norwegian snus warning

Mon, 12 Sep 2016 15:41:45 +0200

There are few things more Swedish than snus, the popular tobacco product used by almost a quarter of the population.

Man gets his meatball stuck in an Ikea stool

Fri, 02 Sep 2016 13:18:23 +0200

Grievances between Norway and Sweden are nothing new, but one Norwegian man's genital-related issue with a piece of Ikea furniture can surely be filed under the 'unique' category.

Norwegians told to seek their fortune in Sweden

Thu, 04 Aug 2016 13:31:53 +0200

Unemployed Norwegians are being urged to head for greener pastures in Sweden as the country's oil boom peters out, reversing the age-old trend of young Swedes moving to Norway to work.

Norway eyeing Stockholm threat ahead of royal visit

Tue, 26 Apr 2016 16:52:18 +0200

Norwegian officials are closely eyeing a terror threat to Stockholm and police are reportedly reconsidering the Norwegian Royal Family’s planned attendance at the Swedish king’s birthday party.

Norway's integration minister: We can't be like Sweden

Wed, 30 Mar 2016 19:01:27 +0200

A tight immigration policy and tougher requirements for those who come to Norway are important tools for avoiding radicalisation and parallel societies, Integration Minister Sylvi Listhaug said on Wednesday.

Man hunted by Norway police seized in Sweden

Thu, 19 Nov 2015 23:40:14 +0100

The suspected ISIS terrorist hunted by Norwegian police on Thursday has been arrested by Sweden’s Säpo security police at a refugee centre in Boliden in northern Sweden.

'Difficult for Sweden to register refugees'

Sat, 12 Sep 2015 00:30:12 +0200

Norway on Friday pulled back from criticising Sweden after the country’s migration authorities admitted that they could not force refugees to register if they wanted to move onwards to Norway.

Norway and Sweden join forces to save Arctic fox

Thu, 27 Aug 2015 15:50:29 +0200

Norway and Sweden are combining forces to save the Arctic fox, which is under threat from climate change and the incursion into its territory of the common red fox, which is almost twice the size.

Swede writes love letters to Norway's mass killer

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 22:52:14 +0200

A Swedish woman has described how she writes letters to Anders Behring Breivik, the man behind Norway's worst peacetime killing in modern times, and admitted that she is attracted to the mass murderer.