News: Sweden

We have started to collect the most important news related to Sweden in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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Sweden: news

Footage shows people fleeing Stockholm truck crash scene

Friday, April 7th 2017, 14:36
related places: Stockholm

Footage filmed by eyewitness Johnny Chadda shows people fleeing Stockholm truck crash scene
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Neo-Nazi threats force Jewish group in Sweden to close

Monday, April 3rd 2017, 12:22
related places: A

A small Jewish centre is targeted with Nazi symbols and threatening messages and decides to close.
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Bob Dylan finally accepts Nobel Prize, months after ceremony

Saturday, April 1st 2017, 21:45
related places: Stockholm

Dylan accepted his medal at a small, private meeting while on tour in Stockholm.
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Bob Dylan finally agrees to accept Nobel Prize for Literature

Wednesday, March 29th 2017, 11:24
related countries: United States

The American singer, who snubbed a ceremony in December, says no media must be present.
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Kasai unrest: UN experts found dead in DR Congo

Wednesday, March 29th 2017, 0:21
related countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, United States
related places: Kasai

The bodies of a US man and a Swedish woman are found two weeks after they were abducted.
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Sweden reacts to anger at 'risky births' and maternity care shortages

Tuesday, March 28th 2017, 14:54

Sweden boosts maternity care cash amid reports of women forced to drive long distances to give birth.
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Swedish hotel chain offers 'divorce refunds'

Friday, March 24th 2017, 13:11

Couples who divorce after staying at the hotel chain will be reimbursed for their stay.
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How Swedish class reacted to migrant visit

Thursday, March 16th 2017, 17:32
related places: A, Stockholm

A class in Stockholm was joined by children from a nearby migrant camp. This is what they thought.
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Two UN officials kidnapped in DR Congo

Monday, March 13th 2017, 15:16
related countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, United States

A US man and a Swedish woman are taken to a forest with four Congolese staff, the UN says.
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Lighthouse city

Wednesday, March 8th 2017, 0:15

How Stockholm is getting smarter by going greener.
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Sweden brings back military conscription amid Baltic tensions

Thursday, March 2nd 2017, 15:46

The military will call up 4,000 extra men and women from 1 January in non-aligned Sweden.
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Swedish asylum shelter in Vanersborg hit by blaze

Sunday, February 26th 2017, 11:09
related places: Vanersborg

Up to 20 people are hurt at the residence in Vanersborg as police open an arson investigation.
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Trump's wrong, it's 'quiet and safe' in Malmo

Friday, February 24th 2017, 15:26
related places: Malmo

BBC News investigates whether Donald Trump was right to say Sweden's immigration policy had been a failure.
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Sweden proposal to allow sex on government time

Friday, February 24th 2017, 13:17

Swedish town's proposal would allow workers a paid hour a week to have sex.
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Artist plans mock 'Pray for Sweden' event at embassy

Thursday, February 23rd 2017, 14:28

Organiser says the ironic event is a protest against fake news.
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Sweden probes riot in mainly immigrant Stockholm suburb

Tuesday, February 21st 2017, 22:22
related places: Stockholm

Unrest in the mainly immigrant suburb follows controversial Trump comments on Sweden.
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Swede detained after Barcelona police fire on stolen butane gas truck

Tuesday, February 21st 2017, 16:52

A Swedish man is held after a truck full of butane gas was driven the wrong way down a highway.
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Alt-right editor challenges journalists to visit Sweden

Tuesday, February 21st 2017, 2:04
related countries: United States

Infowars editor Paul Joseph Watson donates $2,000 to a US journalist to travel to Sweden.
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Trump tries to explain remark about Sweden amid confusion

Monday, February 20th 2017, 9:41

Sweden questioned his reference to a security incident there which did not happen.
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@Sweden v Trump: 'Nothing happened'

Monday, February 20th 2017, 8:55

Librarian Emma Johansen was running Sweden's official Twitter account when the president mentioned a security incident.
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Trump remark baffles Swedes

Sunday, February 19th 2017, 18:55

All was quiet in Sweden despite President Trump's suggestion of an attack in the country.
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Feminists in office

Friday, February 17th 2017, 22:04

Sweden boasts the world's "first feminist government" - so how does it help women in practice?
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Report card

Wednesday, February 8th 2017, 0:09

Sweden has been experimenting with six-hour days but now the trials are over, has it really worked?
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The late Hans Rosling tells the modern world's story

Tuesday, February 7th 2017, 22:50

Hans Rosling, who has died in Sweden aged 68, tells 200 years of world history in four minutes.
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Swedish anti-abortion midwife sues officials in job claim

Thursday, January 26th 2017, 15:15

A Swedish midwife who refuses to carry out abortions sues a health authority for not employing her.
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Do we need a new word for vagina?

Thursday, January 26th 2017, 10:35

Boys have "willy" and girls need the same kind of word for their private parts, says Swedish social worker Anna Kosztovics.
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Bodin performs first ever double backflip on a snowmobile

Wednesday, January 25th 2017, 12:25

Daniel Bodin from Sweden performs the first ever successful double backflip on a snowmobile.
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Facebook Live 'broadcasts gang rape' of woman in Sweden

Monday, January 23rd 2017, 11:37

Three men have been arrested in Sweden after an alleged gang rape was live-streamed on Facebook.
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Ikea sustainability report reveals the firm sent zero waste to landfill in 2016

Monday, January 16th 2017, 11:20
related countries: United Kingdom

An Ikea sustainability report has revealed the Swedish furniture firm even managed to make a small profit on its UK waste.
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Sweden's Queen Silvia says palace is haunted by ghosts

Wednesday, January 4th 2017, 15:54

Sweden's Queen Silvia says the royal palace is haunted but the spooks are 'very friendly'
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Best-selling car in Sweden not a Volvo

Tuesday, January 3rd 2017, 8:48

A Volvo was not Sweden's best-selling car last year, for the first time in more than half a century.
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