Tag: SVT
Now Sweden has summer time | SVT News
Darker mornings and brighter evenings await. Now it is daylight saving time. At 2 o’clock on the night of Sunday, the time was turned forward one hour. Mobile phones, computers…
Honduras breaks with Taiwan | SVT News
Honduras has until now been one of only 14 countries to have diplomatic relations with Taiwan, but announced in mid-March that it was establishing relations with China. That Honduras now…
Trump kicked off the election campaign | SVT News
Trump said he kept all of his 2016 campaign promises and that his administration has accomplished more than any other, including tightening border controls with Mexico and withdrawing from the…
The world’s lights go out again | SVT News
Between 8.30pm and 9.30pm, Swedish households are asked to turn off the lights at home, to send a signal to the world’s rulers to take the climate crisis and biodiversity…
Argentina near bankruptcy status | SVT News
Fitch lowers Argentina’s IDR rating two notches from CCC- to C, which is the step above bankruptcy status. The announcement comes after Argentina ordered parts of the public sector to…
The trade unions nod the mediators’ wage offer | SVT News
The mediators, the so-called Non-Partisan Chairmen (Opo), have made a first sharp wage offer in the all-important industrial negotiations, agreements which, when they are finally signed, usually become a wage…
500 million for climate adaptation | SVT News
Extreme weather and heat waves occur more and more often in Sweden. MSB sees major risks with constructions that do not take into account the effects of climate change –…
The government wants to introduce the Swedish exchange rate | SVT News
The government wants new arrivals in Sweden to undergo a compulsory course in social studies. The course will be called the Sweden course and it will end with an exam,…
Continued protests in Israel | SVT News
For the 11th Saturday in a row, opposition groups in Israel demonstrated their displeasure with the incumbent right-wing nationalist government. The street protests are expected to gather several hundreds of…
The week’s news from Gävleborg | SVT News
• Teenage boys cut off contact with social services – shortly before the fatal shooting Suspects of serious crimes • Linus gave up his student apartment – moved to bigger…