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Thai berry pickers protest in Bangkok as Sweden slashes seasonal visas
ScandAsia
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July 6, 2025
Dramatic drop from over 5,000 to just 89 approved workers sparks industry alarm and embassy petition. ShareSharePin ItShare Only 89 Thai berry pickers have been granted permits to work in Sweden this season—down from more than 5,000 two years ago....
Lorde Plots Australian And New Zealand Leg Of Ultrasound World Tour For Early 2026
Stereoboard
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Photo: Talia Chetrit Lorde has announced the Australian and New Zealand leg of her Ultrasound World Tour. The Auckland music star will kick off the run with a hometown performance at Spark Arena on February 11, before heading to Christchurch,...
Swedish brand H&M debuts AI-generated denim series with Digital Twins
Fibre 2 Fashion
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H&M continues its exploration within generative AI by dropping its first set of images featuring digital twins, set to the background of fashion capitals around the world, showcasing seasonal yet timeless denim. Co-created with a dedicated team...
The Economy Of Genocide: Time For The Malaysian Government To Act, Say NGOs
The Rakyat Post
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July 11, 2025
Subscribe to our FREE Newsletter, or Telegram and WhatsApp channels for the latest stories and updates. On 30 June 2025, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) released a report which...
The new Chinese plug-in hybrid with a 700-mile range: FREDA LEWIS-STEMPEL drives the £45,000 Omodo 9 SHS through nine countries to test its claims
This Is Money
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July 11, 2025
New Chinese car manufacturers in the UK need to make a splash and what better way to do that than with an attention-grabbing statistic? Omoda, a brand freshly minted by the Chery Automotive empire in Wuhu, is taking on the likes of the Volvo XC60,...
Board games, bracelets and bike rides - how Sweden avoid boredom at Euros
Channel News Asia
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July 6, 2025
CHAM, Switzerland :Sweden may spend most of their time focusing on football at the Women's Euros but in their downtime defender Magdalena Eriksson and her teammates are doing everything from playing board games and making bracelets to going on...
US pollution measurement practices raise questions about reliability of data
The Guardian
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July 11, 2025
A Guardian analysis has raised fresh questions over the way regulators and corporations measure the air quality impact of planned factories that risk emitting dangerous levels of pollution. Between 2014 and 2024, air pollution permit applications...
Did we learn anything from Srebrenica?
The National News
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It has been 30 years since those terrible, hot summer days during which a genocide began in a former silver-mining town in eastern Bosnia called Srebrenica. From July 11, 1995, when the area fell into the hands of the Bosnian Serb army, more than...
Environmentalists Urge Relocation of Hyrasia One Green Hydrogen Project
Times of Central Asia
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July 11, 2025
Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources is facing growing pressure from environmental experts to alter the course of the country’s flagship green hydrogen initiative. The Public Council under the Ministry has recommended relocating...
Polestar becomes major sponsor of Melbourne Demons AFLW
Women's Agenda
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July 11, 2025
Swedish electric car brand Polestar has teamed up with the Melbourne Demons AFLW club ahead of the 2025 season, in what’s been described as a “first-of-its-kind” partnership. Polestar will join the Demons as a major sponsor, becoming the AFL...
Equinor advancing digital CO2 capture and storage operations at Northern Lights
Riviera
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July 11, 2025
The collaboration will support Northern Lights, a project aimed at delivering CO2 transport and storage as a service. Northern Lights, a joint venture co-owned by Equinor, will integrate TGS’ Prediktor Data Gateway into its digital infrastructure....
Defence or deficit?
International Politics and Society
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July 11, 2025
The recent NATO summit decision to invest 5 per cent of GDP annually in defence by 2035 was warmly welcomed by the countries on the alliance’s eastern flank, which feel most vulnerable to the Russian threat. The Baltic states were the first to...
Swedish Services Growth Improves In June
RTTNews
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July 3, 2025
Sweden's service sector activity expanded at an accelerated pace in June, survey results from Swanbank and the logistics association Silf showed on Thursday. The purchasing managers' index, or PMI, for the services sector rose to 54.6 in June from...
Toward a New Grand Design? Reviving Sully’s Legacy in European Strategic Thought
War on the Rocks
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July 11, 2025
Editor’s Note: This is part of a running series of essays by Iskander Rehman, entitled “Applied History,” which seeks, through the study of the history of strategy and military operations, to better illuminate contemporary defense challenges. We...
Swedish start-up set to spice up indoor saffron farming
Food Navigator
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With demand for reliable, high-quality saffron expected to rise, start-ups are turning to vertical farming using controlled environment agriculture (CEA) to overcome the limitations of traditional outdoor cultivation of ‘red gold’ or the ‘king of...
NHL free agency 2025: The 10 best contracts signed so far
The New York Times
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July 11, 2025
This year’s crop of unrestricted free agents was quite underwhelming. There weren’t many true difference-makers available, especially after many of the top names re-signed with their teams before July 1. It wasn’t easy to find exciting discounts...
Sweden tests new anti-drone systems
Defence Blog
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July 3, 2025
The Swedish Armed Forces, in cooperation with the Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) and industry partners, have unveiled a new anti-drone concept designed to counter the growing threat of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) against ground targets....
Man Utd's 25/26 preseason: Fixtures, squad, transfer latest for Ruben Amorim
Sporting News
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July 11, 2025
After a forgettable 2024/25 campaign that saw Manchester United sink to 15th in the Premier League and lose the Europa League final, the club enters the new season with a clean slate. Ruben Amorim has officially taken the reins, not just...
Solar becomes EU’s largest power source in June
pv-magazine
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July 11, 2025
Solar accounted for 22.1% of electricity generation in the European Union in June, as 13 member states set new records for the share of solar in their national power mixes. July 11, 2025 Patrick Jowett Solar became the EU’s largest source of...
Latnord gears up for mining sustainability focused conference in Luleå
Skillings Mining Review - Florida
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July 5, 2025
IM is the official Media Partner of the forthcoming international conference The Nordics and Latin America: Sustainable Mining in Luleå, Sweden. This is the second edition of the event, organised by Latnord, the first having been held in 2024 in...