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The ‘Say Hi’ campaign in Sweden is helping to combat loneliness
Åsa Koski, a social strategist with the Luleå municipality in northern Sweden, started the Säg hej! (“Say hi!”) campaign to try and get people to interact more with each other to combat widespread loneliness.
The changing landscape for Sweden’s successful music industry
Military spending around the world reached record highs last year, new data shows
In historic shift, Sweden will join Finland in requesting NATO membership
2020: The year of the primal scream — and other pandemic remedies
Sweden’s pivot toward new virus restrictions may not 'shift mindsets,' says Swedish scientist
Lena Einhorn, a filmmaker and former virologist, was one of the early opponents of Sweden's more relaxed coronavirus strategy. She joins The World's host Marco Werman to talk about how Sweden's new virus restrictions may not be enough.
RBG’s early days in Sweden shaped her fight for women’s equality
In the early 1960s, Ginsburg traveled to Sweden, and learned Swedish, to work on a law project with a Swedish scholar, Anders Bruzelius. Her observations of Swedish society opened up her eyes to the possibilities for women's equality in the United States.
Stockholm's mental health ambulance could help the US rethink policing
As communities around the US face calls to defund the police, Stockholm's mental health ambulance, started in 2015, could provide a model for rethinking policing and psychiatric issues.
Sweden’s handling of coronavirus drives some people to relocate
Foreign residents in Sweden are reconsidering life in the Nordic country as a result of its light-handed approach to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Doubts remain as Sweden closes case of Palme assassination after 34 years
A Swedish prosecutor closed the case of the assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme after 34 years on Wednesday, accusing a graphic designer who died two decades ago of the country's most notorious unsolved crime.
New York City gets nation's first congestion pricing plan
New York City just became the first city in the US to adopt a congestion pricing plan. The plan is expected to raise about $1.5 billion in revenue every year, mostly for its crumbling subway system.
Anti-immigration party set for election gains as Sweden swings right
Swedes voted on Sunday in an election dominated by fears over asylum seekers and welfare, with the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats vying to become the biggest party in a country long seen as a bastion of liberal values.
Here's an album for 'third culture kids'
A singer raised in Thailand and Sweden is trying to create a virtual space in music for kids raised in multiple cultures who often feel like they don't belong anywhere.
Kazuo Ishiguro wins the Nobel Literature Prize
British author Kazuo Ishiguro, best known for his novel "The Remains of the Day" and whose emotional uprooting from his native Japan has left an indelible stamp on his work, won the 2017 Nobel Literature Prize.
ISIS has detailed instructions for carrying out truck attacks. They're pretty horrifying.
There have been attacks carried out using trucks or other heavy vehicles in the past. But lately ISIS has been promoting the tactic, in great detail, in its online magazine.