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Why is it so expensive to build infrastructure in Britain? One common explanation is that essentially we lack practice. For example, Britain has electrified its railways in fits-and-bursts. In the late 80s, Britain electrified over 400 kilometres of track each year.

Authorities across seven countries have rescued three children and arrested 28 people in a Europol-coordinated operation targeting child sexual exploitation.

Only four months ago, Ella Adman had just finished school and had never before held a gun. Now, standing in the shade in between drills at a military base on Gotland, the strategically important Swedish Baltic island where she grew up, the 19-year-old conscript is carrying a powerful assault rifle.

Russia has begun construction on a new military base eerily close to Finland’s eastern border for the first time since the USSR collapsed.

A Norwegian teenager accused of traveling to the UK to carry out a "hit" was seen pretending to shoot one of the officers arresting him, in police body-worn camera footage shown in court.

A journalist managed to get accepted as a volunteer at an estate owned by the wife of Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, using a fake name and an AI-generated photo.

Sweden has selected France’s state-owned Naval Group to manufacture four warships worth around Skr40bn (€3.7bn).

Britain’s Royal Navy tracked and followed a Russian frigate every day last month as it sailed from the Atlantic to the North Sea.

In addition to being charged with aggravated pimping, the 62-year-old suspect was also charged with eight rapes.

A recent investigation revealed how doctors who have been banned in one country can keep practicing in another. Newly-obtained data shows that national authorities often do not read warnings about doctors sent by counterparts elsewhere.

More than 15 months later, one of his feet was found washing up in Sweden, while his other foot appeared the same month on Winterton beach with a trainer and socks.

It is just after nightfall in Bislett, a quiet student neighborhood in central Oslo, when two children armed with hand grenades step off a bus and approach their target.

Sweden has reported a significant increase in satellite navigation failures over the Baltic Sea in the past year, according to new statistics published by the Swedish Transport Agency.

Henrik Landerholm resigned in January after he was accused of leaving official documents in a hotel

The incident occurred shortly after people were leaving the building following prayers. Both victims were taken to hospital.

Experts caution that Moscow is increasing its military presence throughout northwestern Russia, indicating a deliberate attempt to strengthen the area in response to Finland and Sweden’s recent entry into NATO.

A teenage boy may face a life sentence in prison after allegedly attempting to hire contract killers as part of a cross-border gang war involving a ‘transnational crime syndicate’.

Swedish police have arrested three people outside the Israeli embassy in Stockholm on suspicion of preparing to commit violent crime.

This was the devastating aftermath of a pile-up caused by intense snowstorms in Sweden in what has been described as a like a ‘dystopian film scene’.

‘We have to ensure that only the right people have guns in Sweden,’ says the prime minister, Ulf Kristersson.

The shocking arsenal of Sweden’s mass school shooting suspect Rickard Andersson and his apparent links to the murder scene have been revealed.

Victims still being identified after what Sweden’s PM says was the worst mass shooting in the country’s history.