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Miranda Bryant
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Nordic correspondent at the Guardian
(Previously reporting from New York // picture by Sigga Ella)
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Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social · Jul 1
Went to Thisted, Denmark to interview Keira Alexandra Kronvold about being separated from her daughter, Zammi, by local authorities two hours after she was born
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‘The nurse told me I couldn’t keep my baby’: how a controversial Danish ‘parenting test’ separated a Greenlandic woman from her children
Two hours after Keira Alexandra Kronvold gave birth, her daughter was taken from her – the third child to be removed from her care following a now-banned assessment that disproportionately targets Inu...
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‘Can Mette-Marit be queen after this?’: Rape trial and Epstein files bring double crisis for Norway’s royals
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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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February 9, 2026 at 11:04 AM
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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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‘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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February 5, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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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”.

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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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February 3, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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‘Under pressure’: Greenland’s PM gains fans at home and abroad after his rebuke of Trump
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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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February 2, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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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

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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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January 28, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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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...
‘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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January 23, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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What do people in Greenland think of Trump’s threats? – 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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January 15, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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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...
‘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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January 14, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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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
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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January 7, 2026 at 10:25 AM
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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.
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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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January 7, 2026 at 10:24 AM
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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.
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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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January 6, 2026 at 8:34 AM
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Santa at war: ‘home’ town in Finland hosts Nato soldiers as Russian threat looms
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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December 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Santa at war: our report from Rovaniemi, Finland where growing numbers of Nato soldiers are training amid growing Russian threat from border
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pictures by Jouni Porsanger; video producer Lauren Hurrell
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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December 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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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"
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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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December 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Four Active Club members sentenced to prison in Sweden for racist assaults
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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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November 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Denmark's Social Democrats tipped to lose Copenhagen for first time in electoral history
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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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November 18, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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The UK wants to emulate Denmark’s hardline asylum model – but what does it actually look like?
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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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November 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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My piece from Stockholm on the closure of Elverket, the experimental stage of Dramaten (the royal dramatic theatre), and its final production, Hamlet

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Not to be: Hamlet rages in Stockholm against the political closure of a cultural institution
The experimental annex of Sweden’s national stage, Elverket, has fallen victim to severe government cuts. Its final play is a powerful protest against being forced to leave its home
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October 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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As Iceland celebrates 50th anniversary of kevnnafrí (women's day off), president Halla Tómasdóttir told me her country is "powered by two sustainable energies: geothermal power and girl power" but warned of "red flags" including rising gender-based violence, and called for an “inclusion revolution”
October 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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incredible footage from this day in 1975 when 90% of Icelandic women went on strike for “kvennafrí” (“Women’s Day Off”) and kickstarted a gender revolution www.ruv.is/frettir/innl... via RÚV
Fréttamyndir frá kvennafrídeginum 1975 - RÚV.is
Þann 24. október 1975 lögðu um 90 prósent kvenna á Íslandi niður störf til að sýna fram á mikilvægi kvenna á vinnumarkaði. Búist er við að stór hluti kvenna og kvára leggi niður launuð og ólaunuð stör...
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October 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Joined the Swedish coastguard in the Baltic to track Russia's shadow fleet. During the patrol they followed a Malta-flagged ship who said it was heading for Turkey from Primorsk, Russia carrying 30,000 metric tonnes of diesel
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‘There are hundreds in the Baltic’: tracking Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ of oil tankers
The Guardian joins the Swedish coastguard to patrol an area that has become a hybrid warfare battleground
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September 15, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Norway goes to the polls today after an unusually close-fought and polarised election dominated by the cost of living, wealth taxes, oil fund investment in Israel and relations with Donald Trump
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Norway heads to the polls in highly polarised ‘Maga-fication’ election
Centre-left has rallied but uproar over cost of living and oil fund investment in Israel means outcome is hard to predict
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September 8, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Israel has killed the equivalent of 20 Palestinian journalists EVERY SINGLE MONTH for almost two years with impunity. Many of their families have also been murdered. Today 200 newsrooms are participating in a blackout to protest this war crime and crime against humanity
September 1, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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My dispatch from North Karelia:
‘For Russians, Nato is next to Satan’: Finnish guards on alert at Russia border www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘For Russians, Nato is next to Satan’: Finnish guards on alert at Russia border
North Karelia force says fence dividing Finland and Russia is no Berlin Wall – but it is now a key geopolitical faultline
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August 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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On 11 August, Ivana Nikoline Brønlund's one-hour-old baby, Aviaja-Luuna, was forcibly removed by Danish authorities after undergoing a "parenting competency" (FKU) test. This is despite a new law banning the use of FKU on people with Greenlandic backgrounds
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Protests as newborn removed from Greenlandic mother after ‘parenting competence’ tests
Danish authorities take one-hour-old infant despite law banning the tests on people with Greenlandic backgrounds
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August 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM