NHS urges Britons to donate 'liquid gold' for life-saving medicines

NHSBT Colindale: Inside blood and transplant centre The NHS is urging more people to donate “liquid gold”, as Britain ramps up production of plasma for life-saving medicines. Plasma is the liquid component that makes up 55% of blood and carries...

Bulgaria Records EU's Third-highest Growth in Production in Construction in August, M/M

Bulgaria's seasonally adjusted production in construction rose by 1.4% in August, compared to the previous month, show Eurostat data published here on Monday. This was the third-highest increase in the European Union (EU), only behind Sweden...

Liquid Wind and Umeå Energi Finalise Agreements to Commercialise eFuel Facility in Umeå, Sweden

GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Oct. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Liquid Wind and Umeå Energi have signed all necessary agreements to commercialise a large-scale eFuel production facility in Umeå, Sweden. This milestone follows the environmental permit granted by...

Bucharest Exchange-listed group Simtel opens subsidiary in Sweden

Simtel (BVB: SMTL), an engineering and technology group listed on the Main Market of the Bucharest Stock Exchange and a leading player in the renewable energy sector in Romania, announced the opening of a new subsidiary in Stockholm, Sweden. The...

Eurozone records 0.1% fall in construction output

Brussels (Brussels Morning Newspaper) – According to a preliminary report published on Monday from the European Commission’s statistics office Eurostat, the seasonally adjusted construction output in the Eurozone fell by 0.1% in August from July....

South Korea pledges bigger defence budget to rival global powers, eyes 4th place in arms industry, says president

SEOUL, Oct 20 — South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said today the country will devote a “larger-than-expected budget” in defence and aerospace research until 2030 as it seeks to build the world’s fourth-largest defence industry. Lee was speaking...

Cool-Cation in Sweden

After experiencing my first summer in Doha, I quickly understood why so many look for ways to escape the intense heat. When temperatures climb above 45°C, I find myself longing for something completely different — cool air, open spaces, the sound...

Swedish royal couple visits SM Entertainment to explore K-pop’s creative process

Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel highlight cultural exchange and Sweden’s role in shaping global pop music Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and her husband Prince Daniel visited SM Entertainment in Seoul on Thursday as part of their...

Iwi seek stake for people in energy future

Don’t accept crumbs from the table: help build the table, own the table, share from the table. That was the message at last week’s National Māori Energy Summit in New Plymouth. The Iwi Leaders Forum invited energy industry players to discuss...

Copilot backs Zendr to simplify SME shipping as EU tightens customs...

RETN launches Flex IX: the industry’s first Zero-waste IX and Transit

London – October 20, 2025 – RETN, the leading independent global network services provider, today announces the launch of Flex IX, a new wholesale connectivity solution that, for the first time, combines Remote Internet Exchange (IX) access and IP...

Battery manufacturer Lyten hiring after Northvolt bankruptcy, police student loans, new Swedish football team coach, Nobel lights to Tensta

Sweden to Begin Stockpiling Food in Preparation for Extreme Circumstances and War

A man purchases food in Stockholm, Sweden, on March 14, 2023. JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images The Swedish Board of Agriculture will set up emergency stocks of grains and agricultural inputs to ensure that citizens have “access to...

Swedish Nordic Capital and British Permira have increased the offer for Bavarian Nordic

AK&M 16 October 2025 19:15 A consortium consisting of the Swedish investment company Nordic Capital and the British Permira Holdings Limited increased the value of the takeover offer for the Danish biopharmaceutical company Bavarian Nordic A/S...

ALERT: Venezuela launches major air defense drills following possible U.S. military actions

Venezuela’s armed forces have begun large-scale air and coastal defense drills after the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group deployed near its northern maritime border. Army Recognition analysis suggests the U.S. deployment enables rapid...

Handelsbanken Investors Demand More Transparency From Swedish Bank

(Bloomberg) -- In the fall of 2023, as Svenska Handelsbanken AB searched for a new chief executive officer to replace the departing Carina Akerstrom, bank executives told the external recruiter handling the search they wanted someone who’d carry...

Sweden’s Encube emerges from stealth with €19 million to reshape hardware development

Encube, a Stockholm-based DeepTech startup, is emerging from stealth with €19 million in funding to transform how hardware products are designed and manufactured, helping teams avoid costly design complexity, speed up development and lower...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences shows the way for the tourism industry: Creative Destruction

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics reinforces the role of creative destruction, a principle now influencing tourism transformation strategies. The Nobel Prize for Economics 2025, or, as it is correctly named, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic...

Sweden shadows Russian Kilo-class submarine in Baltic amid NATO reinforced naval vigilance

A Russian Project 636.3 Kilo-class submarine entered the Baltic Sea on October 15, tracked by Swedish Gripen fighters and Visby-class corvettes. The escort marks another NATO-coordinated operation as the alliance monitors unusual Russian naval...

Sweden to begin stockpiling food as it prepares for potential war with Russia

Sweden is set to begin stockpiling food as it prepares for war amid mounting fears of a potential war with Russia. The move comes after the country broke from its long-held tradition of military neutrality and officially joined NATO in 2024. Now,...