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Swedish Armed Forces Deepens Its Collaboration With Karolinska Institutet
On Wednesday 8 October, The Swedish Armed Forces and Karolinska Institutet signed a declaration of intent to strengthen and broaden their collaboration in research and education in the field of defence-related medicine. The two organisations have...

Swedish Academy of Sciences to award Chemistry Nobel today
The scientific world is abuzz as the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry prepares to step into the spotlight this Wednesday, following major announcements in medicine and physics earlier in the week. The prize, awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of...

Paper Fleet, Real Leverage: Pakistan’s Import-Dependent Navy And Its...
The Pakistan Navy, outwardly draped in the garb of modernity, is a construct not of its own foundries but of foreign favour. Its hulls are hammered in Chinese and Turkish shipyards, its electronics wired with imported circuits, its sustainability...

Birmingham’s Spica snapped up in US deal
PropTechDealsBirmingham firm Spica Technologies has been acquired by American company HubStar. Spica was founded in 2014 and the firm was acquired by Swedish company Nordomatic in 2022. Paul Jones (pictured) was promoted to managing director of...

EuroHPC JU Selects AI Factory Antennas to Broaden AI Factories Initiative
Oct. 13, 2025 — The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking has selected 13 AI Factory Antennas to complement existing AI Factories. This step will strengthen national AI ecosystems and extend access to AI-optimized supercomputing resources across Europe. The...

Stockholm to announce winner of 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
STOCKHOLM, October 8. /TASS/. The Nobel Committee for Chemistry of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is set to announce the laureate of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The award traditionally recognizes authors of studies published in...

Swedish flotilla activist Greta Thunberg raises her fist after arriving at Athens
2 Israel has deported more activists it had abducted after intercepting the aid-carrying Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters en route to the besieged Gaza Strip. In a statement released on Monday, Israeli authorities said they had...

6 Things You Didn't Know About Greta Thunberg, From Climate Strikes to Gaza Aid
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg, widely known as Greta Thunberg, has long been recognized as a Swedish climate activist. Recently, her involvement in humanitarian efforts for Palestine has also captured global attention....

Ocean Acidification: 7th Planetary Boundary Now Breached, Scientists Warn
We have now crossed seven out of nine planetary boundaries: climate change, biosphere integrity, novel entities, land system change, freshwater use, biogeochemical flow and, most recently, ocean acidification. — Last month, humanity crossed...

Vireo selects Nordsol technology for new Norwegian bio-LNG plant
Dutch technology company, Nordsol, has been selected by Norwegian renewable energy developer, Vireo, to deliver a new liquefied biogas (bio-LNG) production plant in Hardanger, Norway. The facility will be Nordsol’s first project in Norway. It will...
HO MR 24 066 / NLC-SLP-25-014: Lanark County Council - Swedish Timbers Full Project Works Package
Tender Details Reference ocds-h6vhtk-05ab3b Common Procurement Vocabulary Construction work Procurement Method Open procedure Value £8,000,000 More Tenders » Tender Details Reference ocds-h6vhtk-05ab3b Common Procurement Vocabulary Construction...

Tesco, Asda or Sainsbury's customers paid to take bottles back in new initiative
Supermarkets are expected to be the base for the initiative from October 2027(Image: iStockphoto) Brits could very soon be paid to return empty bottles to their local supermarkets as part of an new initiative to bring down the levels of waste. The...

Quo Vadis UN @80?
Civil Society, Democracy, Editors' Choice, Global, Global Governance, Headlines, Human Rights, IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse, TerraViva United Nations Opinion The corner-stone of the UN headquarters building was laid on UN Day at a special...

Doctors Can Now Prescribe 'Trip To Sweden' To Improve Health Conditions; Netizens Have Mixed Reactions
Doctors Can Now Prescribe 'Trip To Sweden' To Improve Health Conditions; Netizens Have Mixed Reactions | Instagram @visitsweden In recent developments, Sweden has become the first country that can be prescribed by doctors to visit in order to...

Sweden tourist board offers ‘prescription’ so doctors can sign-off your visit
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Generative AI Could Derail Climate Progress, MIT Researchers Warn
As generative AI systems scale at breakneck speed, so too does their environmental cost. Researchers at MIT are raising alarms about AI's growing carbon footprint, driven largely by the energy demands of massive data centers, and are urging...

Building global expert capacity for water sustainability
GLOBAL Walking the sustainability talk, IHE Delft in the Netherlands – the world’s largest international graduate water education institution – has trained a network of more than 25,000 water experts, mostly from across the Global South. “We are...

Business News | The Social Lab Leads the Charge for a Cleaner, Fitter, and Greener India Through Plog Run 2025
VMPL Gurugram (Haryana) [India], October 13: The Social Lab (TSL), one of India's foremost social impact organizations, reaffirmed its commitment to environmental stewardship and citizen engagement through the successful organization of Plog Run...

GCEO Hatem Dowdidar on how e& is redefining the future of tech and connectivity
Images: MMG At 10am on a Monday, Dubai’s sun blazes with relentless intensity, mirroring the city’s pulse. From e&’s Al Kifaf headquarters, the city unfolds: Burj Khalifa piercing the sky, the Dubai Metro slicing through the sprawl, and streets...

UPSC Key: Muttaqi in Delhi, Global Burden of Disease report, and Ethanol production
Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance Mains Examination: General Studies-II: India and its neighbourhood- relations; Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or...