Arlanda flights grounded over unidentified drones 

All flights were grounded at Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport in the middle of the night after several drones were spotted from the control tower.

“There were four of them in varying size,” a press spokesperson for Sweden’s aviation authority, Luftfartsverket, told the TT newswire.

Around five flights were redirected to airports such as Nyköping, Gothenburg and Turku.

Traffic resumed at around 3.30am on Monday.

The Armed Forces told Aftonbladet they were aware of the incident, but that police were heading the investigation.

Flying a drone near an airport requires special permission.

No arrests had been made by the time of publication.

Swedish vocabulary: a drone – en drönare

Five to hospital after car drives wrong way down motorway

Five people were taken to hospital after an accident on the E4 motorway near Mjölby shortly after 9pm on Sunday.

“One car ended up driving in the wrong direction for an unknown reason,” a police control room officer told TT.

The five people who were injured were all taken to hospital by ambulance. 

The state of their injuries was not immediately known.

Swedish vocabulary: wrong direction – fel riktning

Tough battle ahead as landlords ask for record-high rent hike

The Swedish Property Federation, which represents rental companies that together let 400,000 homes across Sweden, has put forward a higher-than-ever bid in the negotiations for next year’s rents: 15.4 percent, vastly exceeding what they’re expected to receive in the end.

“Fairly reasonable,” said the federation’s CEO.

In 2024, first-hand rents went up on average 5.2 percent, lower than the federation’s bid of around 12 percent.

The head of negotiations for the Tenants’ Association, on the other side of the table, slammed the 15.4 percent bid.

“If you’re a responsible player on the rental market you don’t even present that kind of figure,” he told TT.

Swedish vocabulary: reasonable – rimligt