Archaeologists from the National Museum of Denmark and the University of Leicester examined the remains of people who in the Iron Age and the Viking Age were not buried in cemeteries but left in settlements — under house floors, in pits, wells, and postholes. Nearly one in sixteen of them had traces of injuries on their bones, and most of these injuries, according to the scientists, were inflicted intentionally.

#Vikings #GammelLeyre #Denmark #IronAge #Scandinavia #Sweden

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The Irish presidency of the EU Council proposed cutting the bloc’s next seven-year budget for 2028–2034 by about 8% and reducing it by €159 billion in current prices compared with the European Commission’s nearly €2 trillion proposal. Germany and its allies in the «frugal» group said that this is not enough for an agreement.

#Germany #EuropeanCommission #EuropeanUnion #Ireland #FriedrichMerz #Sweden

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At the EU leaders’ summit in Brussels on October 15–16, Finland will propose stopping the issuance of tourist visas to Russian citizens. Prime Minister Petteri Orpo linked this initiative to concerns that Russia may try to organize sabotage in Europe.

#EuropeanCommission #EuropeanUnion #PetteriOrpo #Russia #Finland #Sweden

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On October 8, TASS reported that the flight of the Swedish Gulfstream S102B Korpen radar reconnaissance aircraft has been recorded over the neutral waters of the Black Sea for the fourth day in a row. According to the agency’s source in air traffic control services, the aircraft departs from Bucharest after the Swedish Air Force was redeployed from Malmen Air Base.

#EuropeandRussia #NATO #tass #BlackSea #Sweden

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The Russian border guard service detained the Cyprus-flagged cargo ship Västerbotten in the Gulf of Finland, which was heading to the Estonian port of Sillamäe. The vessel was held at anchor for several hours for inspection, then allowed to continue its journey, but it is still in the gulf.

#VladimirPutin #EuropeanUnion #Russianborderguards #Sillamäe #GulfofFinland #Sweden

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Sweden’s state commission on truth concerning the Sámi has called on the government to apologize for the harm and injustice done to the Sámi people and to launch a national process of redress and reconciliation. Separately, it urged that apologies be urgently made to elderly Sámi who were sent as children to separate «nomad schools» and other boarding institutions.

#InternationalLabourOrganization #UN #Sami #Sápmi #CerkovShvecii #Sweden

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On September 24, Finland’s and Sweden’s rapid response forces jointly scrambled fighter jets for the first time to intercept Russian military aircraft over the Gulf of Finland. The military said the operation took place in international airspace.

#BalticSea #NATO #Russia #Finland #GulfofFinland #Sweden

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Researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden reported that TORCH infections contracted during pregnancy are associated with more than a threefold increase in a child’s risk of autism. According to their data, these children were also more likely to be diagnosed with intellectual developmental delays.

#TORCHinfections #autism #pregnancy #infectiousdiseases #medicine #Thescience #scientificdiscoveries #Sweden

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On September 13, parliamentary, regional, and municipal elections will be held simultaneously in Sweden. According to polls, the far-right party «Sweden Democrats» (SD) is in second place with 19.5%, and the ruling center-right coalition has promised to bring it into its bloc in order to secure Ulf Kristersson’s second term.

#europe #rights #Russianagents #SwedenDemocrats #Sweden

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Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain and Poland sent a letter to the European Commission calling on it to return to work on options for using €200 billion in frozen Russian assets in Ukraine’s interests. This issue will become one of the key topics at the meeting of foreign ministers of EU countries in Ireland on September 1–2.

#EC #Spain #Netherlands #Poland #UkraineSweden #Sweden

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In a letter to the European Commission, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Sweden called for a return to the issue of using Russia’s frozen state assets to help Ukraine. The authors of the letter claim that Kyiv already has a €23 billion hole in its defense budget and that new options now need to be sought.

#EuropeanCommission #Spain #Netherlands #Poland #RussiaNetherlands #Sweden

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