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A U.S. military laboratory has helped Swedes confirm that a woman was on a 17th century warship that sank on its maiden voyage in the Stockholm harbor.

Finland’s top diplomat appears to have suggested that the country may have to join NATO without Sweden, after Turkey’s president cast doubt on expansion of the military alliance.

Officials at a Swedish Zoo have managed to get three chimpanzees who had broken out of their enclosure back into a secure space, but four others were shot dead. The Furuvik Zoo said in a statement Saturday that the surviving animals are now being looked after and one is receiving veterinary care. The apes had escaped on Wednesday, with some...

A venomous 7-foot snake called “Houdini” returned to its enclosure in Sweden after escaping for over a week.

A venomous king cobra which escaped from a Swedish zoo terrarium six days ago has been located inside the building where it lived but has not been recaptured

This year’s Nobel Prize in economic sciences has been awarded to the former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Ben S. Bernanke, and two U.S.-based economists, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig, “for research on banks and financial crises.”

An employee of an animal park in southwestern Sweden has been gored to death by an eland.

The Senate is set to ratify NATO membership for Finland and Sweden with strong bipartisan support in response to Russia’s war with Ukraine. Wednesday’s vote is a crucial step toward expanding the Western military alliance.

The move means the question of admitting the two nations now goes to the capitals of existing members for legislative approval.

In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the two Nordic nations abandoned their long-held nonaligned status and applied to join NATO as protection

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Monday that next month’s summit in Madrid will be a “historic” opportunity to strengthen the alliance in the face of Russian aggression against Ukraine.

President Joe Biden is meeting with leaders of Sweden and Finland Thursday after the two countries began the process of application for NATO membership in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

NATO diplomats say national envoys have failed to reach a consensus about whether to start membership talks with Finland and Sweden. Wednesday’s development comes just as Turkey renewed its objections to the two Nordic countries joining. The envoys met at NATO headquarters after Finland and Sweden’s ambassadors submitted written applications to join the military organization. The diplomats, who did not...

Sweden and Finland have pushed ahead with their bids to join NATO even as Turkey insists it won’t let the previously nonaligned Nordic countries into the alliance because of their alleged support for Kurdish militants. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s strongly worded objections caught the two applicants and other NATO members off guard, complicating what was envisioned to be a...

Finland and Sweden have traditionally preferred to be militarily “nonaligned.” But Russia’s war in Ukraine has shaken their security notions to the core.

Finland’s leaders said they are in favor of rapidly applying for NATO membership, paving the way for a historic expansion of the alliance.

Finland’s leaders say they’re in favor of rapidly applying for NATO membership.

To join or not to join? The NATO question is coming to a head this week for the two Nordic countries.

Finland has been named the world’s happiest country for the fifth year in a row, according to an annual report.

Northvolt is not unique in wanting to establish a gigafactory in Germany.