Santa at war: ‘home’ town in Finland hosts Nato soldiers as Russian threat looms

Santa at war: our report from Rovaniemi, Finland where growing numbers of Nato soldiers are training amid growing Russian threat from border www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d... pictures by Jouni Porsanger; video producer Lauren Hurrell

Increasing hate, threats and harassment against female politicians are scaring women away from public life and forcing them to censor themselves, the Swedish government’s equality agency has said, warning that this poses a “big threat to democracy" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Four Active Club members sentenced to prison in Sweden for racist assaults www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Denmark's Social Democrats tipped to lose Copenhagen for first time in electoral history www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

The UK wants to emulate Denmark’s hardline asylum model – but what does it actually look like? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

My piece from Stockholm on the closure of Elverket, the experimental stage of Dramaten (the royal dramatic theatre), and its final production, Hamlet www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

As Iceland celebrates 50th anniversary of kevnnafrí (women's day off), president Halla Tómasdóttir told me her country is "powered by two sustainable energies: geothermal power and girl power" but warned of "red flags" including rising gender-based violence, and called for an “inclusion revolution”

incredible footage from this day in 1975 when 90% of Icelandic women went on strike for “kvennafrí” (“Women’s Day Off”) and kickstarted a gender revolution www.ruv.is/frettir/innl... via RÚV

Joined the Swedish coastguard in the Baltic to track Russia's shadow fleet. During the patrol they followed a Malta-flagged ship who said it was heading for Turkey from Primorsk, Russia carrying 30,000 metric tonnes of diesel www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Norway goes to the polls today after an unusually close-fought and polarised election dominated by the cost of living, wealth taxes, oil fund investment in Israel and relations with Donald Trump www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Israel has killed the equivalent of 20 Palestinian journalists EVERY SINGLE MONTH for almost two years with impunity. Many of their families have also been murdered. Today 200 newsrooms are participating in a blackout to protest this war crime and crime against humanity

My dispatch from North Karelia: ‘For Russians, Nato is next to Satan’: Finnish guards on alert at Russia border www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

On 11 August, Ivana Nikoline Brønlund's one-hour-old baby, Aviaja-Luuna, was forcibly removed by Danish authorities after undergoing a "parenting competency" (FKU) test. This is despite a new law banning the use of FKU on people with Greenlandic backgrounds www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Keira, a Greenlandic woman, was separated from her daughter Zammi, two hours after she was born, due to a controversial Danish parenting test that's now been scrqapped. This is such an upsetting story, powerfully reported by @mirandeee.bsky.social

‘The nurse told me I couldn’t keep my baby’: how a controversial Danish ‘parenting test’ separated a Greenlandic woman from her children

Went to Thisted, Denmark to interview Keira Alexandra Kronvold about being separated from her daughter, Zammi, by local authorities two hours after she was born www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...