If only women voted, Sweden's left-leaning bloc, led by the biggest party the Social Democrats would gain 64% of the vote. If only men voted, the right-leaning parties, including the second biggest party, the far-right Sweden Democrats, would get 51%. Why? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

As England and Norway prepare for World Cup battle, my dispatch from Erling Haaland's hometown www.theguardian.com/football/202...

My report from Gotland on how Sweden is ramping up military and civilian defence on island amid fears of Russian attack www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... pictures: Karl Melander

Norway is supposedly one of world’s most gender-equal countries, yet sexual violence remains prevalent across society www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

After Trump’s interventions over Greenland, there are many in Iceland who believe they would be stronger in the EU. But will its recent history of independence win out? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Visited Kumla, Sweden's largest prison, preparing to receive children as young as 13 for the first time in biggest change to Swedish justice system in decades. It has been widely condemned, including by the prison and probation service and Kumla's prison chief www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

With little more than three months to go until Iceland's EU referendum, FM Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir tells me she fears her country faces a “Brexit moment” amid warnings over misinformation, foreign interference and AI www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

The Danish ministry of social affairs has now responded to the UN's intervention we reported on last week saying that they are ready to "engage constructively on the matters referred to in your letter" and proposed an in person meeting to discuss www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

2/2 It related to the use of parenting competency tests including psychometric tests which has led to the forced removal and separation of three children from their mother, Ms. Keira Kronvold, for being an #Inuk indigenous woman of #Greenland as well as her reported subjugation to forced abortion.

The United Nations has warned Denmark that the treatment of Keira Kronvold, a Greenlandic mother whose newborn child was removed by Danish authorities as a result of controversial parenting competency tests, “may amount to ethnic discrimination”. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

New Stockholm exhibition explores life and writings of Badin, who was born into slavery and became part of the Swedish royal court www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Qarsoq Høegh-Dam, who last month became the first member of the Greenlandic pro-independence party Naleraq to be elected to the Danish parliament, tells the Guardian he aims to make his role "obsolete" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Denmark wakes up to no left or right wing majority and centrist pipe-wielding Lars Løkke Rasmussen as likely kingmaker Our report from last night: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Denmark goes to the polls today in what looks to be a super tight election. Reported from Kokkedal on how the growth of the far right has slowed under Frederiksen – but at what cost? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Denmark goes to the polls next week. My report from Copenhagen: A wealth tax for schools: Frederiksen’s shift left stirs debate before Denmark’s early election www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

‘Can Mette-Marit be queen after this?’: Rape trial and Epstein files bring double crisis for Norway’s royals www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Relatives of at least 27 people who died in November 2021 describe their loved ones and their grief to Cranston inquiry www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Two @HRW employees who make up the organization’s entire Israel and Palestine team are stepping down from their positions after leadership blocked a report that deems Israel’s denial of Palestinian refugees the right of return a “crime against humanity”. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

‘Under pressure’: Greenland’s PM gains fans at home and abroad after his rebuke of Trump www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

My report from an asylum return centre in Stockholm where families have been living in limbo for years (pictures by Josefine Stenersen) ‘A lot of fear’: the families bearing brunt of Sweden’s immigration crackdown www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

my report from Copenhagen (with pics by Donald Chambers) ‘We need to fight’: Trump Greenland threat brings sense of unity in Denmark www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

What do people in Greenland think of Trump’s threats? – video www.theguardian.com/world/video/...

As Greenlandic and Danish foreign ministers prepare to meet JD Vance and Marco Rubio in Washington, my report from Nuuk: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Why is Donald Trump renewing calls for takeover of Greenland?https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/06/why-is-donald-trump-renewing-calls-for-takeover-of-greenland

European leaders have dramatically rallied together in support of Denmark and Greenland after one of Donald Trump’s leading aides suggested the US may be willing to seize control of the Arctic territory by force. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

An attack by the United States on a Nato ally would mean the end of both the military alliance and “post-second world war security”, Denmark’s leader has warned, after Donald Trump threatened again to take over Greenland. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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...