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Miranda Bryant

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Journalist Nordic correspondent at the Guardian (Previously reporting from New York // picture by Sigga Ella)

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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
After 4 years of investigation and hundreds of interviews, Sweden's Truth Commission published its report today calling on government to apologise for “harm and injustice inflicted upon the Sámi people” and start national process for “redress and reconciliation” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Sweden must apologise for harm done to Sami people, says state-backed report
Truth commission accuses country of failing Indigenous people, amid rising tensions over land rights
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
To mark handover of Truth Commission for the Sami People report, Johan Turi's works on display for first time in nearly a century. Outi Pieski, whose art is also featured, told me: “It’s very sad that we are kind of in the same spot still now, 100 years later." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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‘The same struggles as 100 years ago’: exhibition highlights lives of Sami people in Sweden
Show at Kin Museum in Kiruna marks handover of long-awaited report on abuses committed by the state against the Indigenous people
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Swedish coalition talks have been thrown into disarray this morning after the Social Democrat leader, Magdalena Andersson, abruptly announced that she was giving up on trying to form a government. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Pope Leo to address Europe’s role in world on final day of France visit – Europe live
Pontiff is expected to talk about Europe’s history, the need for peace in Ukraine, and warn against rising nationalism in speech in Metz
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Trump is trying to angle it that he made a great deal. But he wanted total control, ownership of Greenland. He didn’t get that". After so long in Trump’s sights, hopeful Greenlanders breathe a collective sigh of relief: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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After so long in Trump’s sights, hopeful Greenlanders breathe a collective sigh of relief
Locals hope agreement signed this week is step towards independence and end to US threats to annex island
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Last night saw the Sweden Democrats lose support for the first time in an election. My piece on what this could mean for Sweden's far-right: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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The far right’s march to power in Sweden has been halted, but its influence remains
The Sweden Democrats slipped to third after decades of growth, but their hardline positions have already reshaped the political mainstream
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Guardian's @jakubkrupa.bsky.social is liveblogging all the latest from Stockholm this evening as we await results of critical election that could lead to far-right entering government for first time www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Sweden general election: close race as far right eyes role in government – Europe live
Country heads to the polls as latest polling shows 0.3-point gap between left and right wing blocs
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Voting under way in Sweden with far right eyeing first role in government
Party with neo-Nazi roots is in line for key ministerial positions if rightwing bloc wins the election
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
With just hours to go until election day, one poll shows a gap of just 0.3 percentage points between left and right blocs. A win for the right would result in the far-right Sweden Democrats entering government for the first time www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Sweden’s extremely close election could see far right enter government
Latest poll shows 0.3-point gap between left and right blocs, with country’s reputation as global champion of human rights said to be at stake
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
as the polls narrow ahead of Sunday's election, my colleague @ashifakassam.bsky.social speaks to Swedish Muslims who are challenging the far-right Sweden Democrats www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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‘They poison the population’: Swedish Muslims challenge far right ahead of election
Ask-a-Muslim campaign takes to streets as country faces prospect of extremists entering highest levels of government
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
As Sweden prepares to go to the polls on Sunday, my dispatch from Kiruna www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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Reindeer and rare-earth minerals: Swedish politicians take aim at Indigenous Sami in mining dispute
Gabna community fear their traditional herding routes will be sacrificed as far-right rhetoric ramps up against them
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“Ten years ago, people would say: ‘Oh we dislike the far right, the Sweden Democrats, we despise Nazis,’” said Tess Asplund, 52. “And now, they’ve become normalised. It’s like, what happened?” Powerful interview by @ashifakassam.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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A lone Black woman’s defiance of Swedish neo-Nazis, 10 years on
Protester Tess Asplund on the photo that made headlines, and why she sees it as a sign of the change in Sweden today
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Definitely no or maybe yes: what tipped the Icelandic referendum - my analysis from Reykjavík www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Definitely no or maybe yes: what tipped the Icelandic referendum | Miranda Bryant
The no campaign was well-funded and accused of scaremongering, but the wording of the question may also have made a difference
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Iceland goes to the polls today. My report on why people are voting yes or no to continuing negotiations with the EU www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... pics by Sigga Ella
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Sovereignty, farming and fishing: Iceland votes on its future with the EU
Country holds a knife-edge referendum that cuts across political divides on taking step closer to Brussels after Trump threats towards Greenland
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My report from Finland on the huge success of Housing First and how it dramatically reduced homelessness until cuts by right-wing government started to undo some of that progress www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Finland tried to end homelessness. What can we learn from its runaway success – and recent failures?
The Housing First policy led to the number of homeless people in Finland dropping by half. Those with firsthand experience explain why it worked
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Finland has halted deportation to Russia of Nikita and Olga Belov, who after winning a court appeal will now have their case reconsidered www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Finland halts deportation of Russian family who ‘risked everything’ to oppose Ukraine invasion
Mother and son Olga and Nikita Belov say they were facing jail and potential torture after asylum case was rejected
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
A Russian family faces deportation from Finland after repeatedly being denied asylum – despite the threat of arrest, imprisonment and potential torture for their pro-Ukrainian activism www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Russian family denied asylum in Finland fear reprisals for pro-Ukraine activism
Nikita and Olga Belov say they will be persecuted on return to Moscow but are yet to convince Finnish authorities
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Edvard Munch and the Chocolate Factory: the bitter truth behind the Freia frieze www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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Edvard Munch and the Chocolate Factory: the bitter truth behind the Freia frieze
New exhibition in Oslo connects artist’s 1922 public work with the history of cocoa, the labour movement and women’s emancipation
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
If only women voted, Sweden's left-leaning bloc, led by the biggest party the Social Democrats would gain 64% of the vote. If only men voted, the right-leaning parties, including the second biggest party, the far-right Sweden Democrats, would get 51%. Why? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Sweden prides itself on equality – so why is its political gender gap growing?
As general election looms, survey shows twice as many men as women support far-right Sweden Democrats
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
As England and Norway prepare for World Cup battle, my dispatch from Erling Haaland's hometown www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Haaland’s hometown hails ‘little boy who grew into a huge Viking’
The people of Bryne were proud of local hero’s rise to the top of world football as Norway prepared for England in the World Cup quarter-finals
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
My report from Gotland on how Sweden is ramping up military and civilian defence on island amid fears of Russian attack www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... pictures: Karl Melander
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‘The risk is Russia becomes desperate’: the Swedish Baltic Sea island preparing for invasion
Civilian resilience initiatives and young military conscripts are being readied should Putin hope to test Nato’s resolve
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Norway is supposedly one of world’s most gender-equal countries, yet sexual violence remains prevalent across society www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Marius Borg Høiby rape conviction renews focus in Norway on consent in digital age
Norway is supposedly one of world’s most gender-equal countries, yet sexual violence remains prevalent across society
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
After Trump’s interventions over Greenland, there are many in Iceland who believe they would be stronger in the EU. But will its recent history of independence win out? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Choppy waters ahead as Iceland gets ready for its own EU referendum
In this week’s newsletter: After Trump’s interventions over Greenland, there are many in Iceland who believe they would be stronger in the EU. But will its recent history of independence win out?
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Visited Kumla, Sweden's largest prison, preparing to receive children as young as 13 for the first time in biggest change to Swedish justice system in decades. It has been widely condemned, including by the prison and probation service and Kumla's prison chief www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Inside the adult Swedish prison preparing to house children as young as 13
Teenagers will now serve time in response to surging gang crime, but head of country’s largest jail has misgivings
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
With little more than three months to go until Iceland's EU referendum, FM Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir tells me she fears her country faces a “Brexit moment” amid warnings over misinformation, foreign interference and AI www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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Iceland’s foreign minister fears ‘Brexit moment’ in EU accession referendum
Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir accuses opponents of fearmongering amid warnings over misinformation and AI
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The Danish ministry of social affairs has now responded to the UN's intervention we reported on last week saying that they are ready to "engage constructively on the matters referred to in your letter" and proposed an in person meeting to discuss www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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Danish treatment of Greenlandic mother may be ‘ethnic discrimination’, says UN
Exclusive: Newborn was removed from Inuit mother as a result of controversial now-banned parenting test
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Reem Alsalem @unsrvaw.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
2/2 It related to the use of parenting competency tests including psychometric tests which has led to the forced removal and separation of three children from their mother, Ms. Keira Kronvold, for being an #Inuk indigenous woman of #Greenland as well as her reported subjugation to forced abortion.
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Reem Alsalem @unsrvaw.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
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Danish treatment of Greenlandic mother may be ‘ethnic discrimination’, says UN
Exclusive: Newborn was removed from Inuit mother as a result of controversial now-banned parenting test
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The United Nations has warned Denmark that the treatment of Keira Kronvold, a Greenlandic mother whose newborn child was removed by Danish authorities as a result of controversial parenting competency tests, “may amount to ethnic discrimination”. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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Danish treatment of Greenlandic mother may be ‘ethnic discrimination’, says UN
Exclusive: Newborn was removed from Inuit mother as a result of controversial now-banned parenting test
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
New Stockholm exhibition explores life and writings of Badin, who was born into slavery and became part of the Swedish royal court www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Swedish exhibition explores life of 18th-century Black diarist
Born into slavery, Adolf Ludvig Couschi Badin became part of Swedish royal court and left legacy of books and letters
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Qarsoq Høegh-Dam, who last month became the first member of the Greenlandic pro-independence party Naleraq to be elected to the Danish parliament, tells the Guardian he aims to make his role "obsolete" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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‘I want to make myself obsolete’: the MP fighting for Greenland’s self-governance
Qarsoq Høegh-Dam aims to use his seat in Danish parliament to shift power from Copenhagen to Nuuk
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Denmark wakes up to no left or right wing majority and centrist pipe-wielding Lars Løkke Rasmussen as likely kingmaker Our report from last night: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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Mette Frederiksen’s leftwing bloc fails to win majority in Danish election
Centre-left coalition appears likely as Social Democrats and other left-leaning parties win 84 seats, while right-leaning bloc wins 77 seats
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Denmark goes to the polls today in what looks to be a super tight election. Reported from Kokkedal on how the growth of the far right has slowed under Frederiksen – but at what cost? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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Denmark election: far right has slowed under Frederiksen – but at what cost?
Polling for anti-immigration DPP is relatively low, but many feel its ideas have been co-opted by Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Denmark goes to the polls next week. My report from Copenhagen: A wealth tax for schools: Frederiksen’s shift left stirs debate before Denmark’s early election www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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A wealth tax for schools: Frederiksen’s shift left stirs debate before Denmark’s early election
PM’s proposal to tax super-rich and fund schools wins praise as her handling of the Greenland crisis boosts her standing across party lines – but not all voters are convinced
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
‘Can Mette-Marit be queen after this?’: Rape trial and Epstein files bring double crisis for Norway’s royals www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
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‘Can Mette-Marit be queen after this?’: Rape trial and Epstein files bring double crisis for Norway’s royals
Marius Borg Høiby pleads not guilty in court while pressure mounts against his crown princess mother over Epstein friendship
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Relatives of at least 27 people who died in November 2021 describe their loved ones and their grief to Cranston inquiry www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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‘They were humans’: inquiry into mass Channel drowning hears from families
Relatives of at least 27 people who died in November 2021 describe their loved ones and their grief to Cranston inquiry
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Two @HRW employees who make up the organization’s entire Israel and Palestine team are stepping down from their positions after leadership blocked a report that deems Israel’s denial of Palestinian refugees the right of return a “crime against humanity”. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
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Human Rights Watch researchers resign after report on Palestinian right of return blocked
The organization claims the report, which finds Israel’s denial of the right of return is a crime against humanity, is ‘paused pending further analysis and research’
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
‘Under pressure’: Greenland’s PM gains fans at home and abroad after his rebuke of Trump www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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‘Under pressure’: Greenland’s PM gains fans at home and abroad after his rebuke of Trump
Jens-Frederik Nielsen, impressed Danes with his handling of the crisis but he says many Greenlanders are ‘afraid and scared’
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
My report from an asylum return centre in Stockholm where families have been living in limbo for years (pictures by Josefine Stenersen) ‘A lot of fear’: the families bearing brunt of Sweden’s immigration crackdown www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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‘A lot of fear’: the families bearing brunt of Sweden’s immigration crackdown
Many of those moved into an asylum return centre have held jobs for years and can speak the language
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
my report from Copenhagen (with pics by Donald Chambers) ‘We need to fight’: Trump Greenland threat brings sense of unity in Denmark www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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‘We need to fight’: Trump Greenland threat brings sense of unity in Denmark
The US president has galvanised the Danish population against him, while Danes’ relations with Greenlanders are ‘under reparation’
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
What do people in Greenland think of Trump’s threats? – video www.theguardian.com/world/video/...
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What do people in Greenland think of Trump’s threats? – video
Amid Donald Trump's push for control of the Arctic island, Miranda Bryant reports from Greenland’s snow-covered capital, Nuuk, where the fear is palpable
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
As Greenlandic and Danish foreign ministers prepare to meet JD Vance and Marco Rubio in Washington, my report from Nuuk: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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‘Are they going to bring their violence here?’: Fear – but little preparation – as threat of invasion looms over Greenland
Ahead of high-stakes talks, people tell of alarm, thoughts of fleeing and lack of information on what to do if US invades
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Why is Donald Trump renewing calls for takeover of Greenland?https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/06/why-is-donald-trump-renewing-calls-for-takeover-of-greenland
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Why is Donald Trump renewing calls for takeover of Greenland?
US refuses to rule out military force to take control. This is why an attack on Nato ally would end alliance. And what do Greenlanders think?
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
European leaders have dramatically rallied together in support of Denmark and Greenland after one of Donald Trump’s leading aides suggested the US may be willing to seize control of the Arctic territory by force. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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European leaders rally behind Greenland as US ramps up threats
Support comes after presidential aide Stephen Miller says ‘no one will fight US militarily over future of Greenland’
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
An attack by the United States on a Nato ally would mean the end of both the military alliance and “post-second world war security”, Denmark’s leader has warned, after Donald Trump threatened again to take over Greenland. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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US attack on Greenland would mean end of Nato, says Danish PM
Mette Frederiksen criticises Donald Trump’s ‘unacceptable pressure’ as Greenland counterpart condemns ‘fantasies’
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10/12/2025
Santa at war: ‘home’ town in Finland hosts Nato soldiers as Russian threat looms
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Santa at war: ‘home’ town in Finland hosts Nato soldiers as Russian threat looms
Christmas tourists are noticing a growing military presence in Lapland, where Santa Park doubles as a bomb shelter
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Santa at war: our report from Rovaniemi, Finland where growing numbers of Nato soldiers are training amid growing Russian threat from border www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d... pictures by Jouni Porsanger; video producer Lauren Hurrell
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Santa at war: ‘home’ town in Finland hosts Nato soldiers as Russian threat looms
Christmas tourists are noticing a growing military presence in Lapland, where Santa Park doubles as a bomb shelter
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Increasing hate, threats and harassment against female politicians are scaring women away from public life and forcing them to censor themselves, the Swedish government’s equality agency has said, warning that this poses a “big threat to democracy" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Rising levels of hate forcing women out of Swedish public life, says equality agency
Country seen as champion of equal rights faces reckoning after senior politician says she felt compelled to quit
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Four Active Club members sentenced to prison in Sweden for racist assaults www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Four ‘active club’ members sentenced to prison in Sweden for racist assaults
Men aged 20 to 23 convicted at trial that showed pattern of far-right activists assembling in gyms
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Denmark's Social Democrats tipped to lose Copenhagen for first time in electoral history www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Centre-left tipped to lose Copenhagen for first time in electoral history
Political rivals say PM’s divisive politics have encouraged voters to ditch the Social Democrats for the far right
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
The UK wants to emulate Denmark’s hardline asylum model – but what does it actually look like? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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The UK wants to emulate Denmark’s hardline asylum model – but what does it actually look like?
Denmark has slashed asylum numbers by granting only short-term status and by targeting ‘ghettoes’, which critics say has damaged the country’s values
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