Sweden is moving 113-year-old Kiruna Church to save it
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Sweden’s central bank kept its benchmark interest rate in place as inflation continues to climb, but said it could resume cutting rates later this year.The policy rate will be left at 2.00%, the Riksbank said Wednesday,
Video: Sweden moves 672-ton church 5km to the left to save it from being swallowed by giant mine The 113-year-old Kiruna Church, one of Sweden's largest wooden structures and often voted its most beautiful, had to move in order to make way for the expansion of the world's largest underground iron ore mine.
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Count Folke Bernadotte, the nephew of Sweden's King Gustav V and a colleague of Herman Allen, helped arrange a ceremony for the couple before he had to depart, at the city's historic Gustav Adolf Church. They wed on January 18, 1945, DiGeorge said.
Sweden’s central bank kept interest rates steady to parry a recent spike in inflation and restated the prospect for another cut that may come as soon as next month to support a struggling economy.
Sweden's 113-year-old Kiruna Church is being transported away from a location that is sinking due to underground mining.