Sweden

Fewer asylum seekers in 2011

Sweden | 2012-01-02 | 1 comment

But increased number of asylum applications from Afghanistan and Syria.

Tragic new year´s eve in Malmö

Sweden | 2012-01-02

15 year old boy shot and died and a 13 year old boy seriously injured from fire cracker.

New storm on its way

Sweden | 2012-01-02

Warning issued for storm winds in south Sweden on Tuesday night.

Suspected kidnapping of business leader´s son

Sweden | 2012-01-03

Two persons arrested, suspected for abduction.

Higher tobacco duty from 1 January

Sweden | 2012-01-03

One packet of cigarettes cost more than SEK 50 and the duty on snus is doubled.

Another murder in Malmö

Sweden | 2012-01-04

A fifty year old man shot to death yesterday. The third murder in one week.

The Storm "Emil" hit south Sweden

Sweden | 2012-01-04

Trains cancelled, roads blocked and more than 10,000 without electricity.

Man and woman arrested for kidnapping

Sweden | 2012-01-05

Kidnapped son of business leader found alive.

File sharing recognized as religion

Sweden | 2012-01-05

File-sharers own religion, "kopimism", has been officially recognized as a religion in Sweden. "Copying and sharing is one of our core beliefs," says the spiritual leader of kopimism, Isaac Gerson, to...

Naked man on train sentenced to jail

Sweden | 2012-01-06

Tried to rape two women on the train.

Big manifestation against violence in Malmö

Sweden | 2012-01-06

Initiator: "This is purely about frustration".

Incorrect school grades to be examined

Sweden | 2012-01-07

To big difference between grades and national exam results.

Criticism against strategy to cancel trains

Sweden | 2012-01-07

35pc consider buying from illegal pharmacies

Sweden | 2012-01-07

‘Slave labour’ at Swedish military base

Sweden | 2012-01-07 | 1 comment

The kitchen staff at the Swedish military base in Afghanistan have been employed with slave-like contracts, writes the daily Expressen.

Private companies do police work in file-sharing cases

Sweden | 2012-01-09

The police are not allowed to gather evidence.

Crackdown on illegal slot machines

Sweden | 2012-01-09

Supreme Court ruling against non-swedish servers.

Eritrean likely to be deported

Sweden | 2012-01-10

Despite six years in Sweden, when he became husband and father.

Schools allowed to introduce veil ban

Sweden | 2012-01-11 | 1 comment

Agency clarifies earlier guidance.

Extensive human smuggling exposed

Sweden | 2012-01-11

The border police in Malmö was given a tip about two men who now are now under arrest on suspicion of widespread human smuggling from Iraq.

Difficult for journalists convicted in Ethiopia to get pardon

Sweden | 2012-01-12 | 21 comments

The chance that the Swedish journalist Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson, convicted of terrorist crimes in Ethiopia, get pardoned is small, according to Ethiopian law professor Wondwossen Demissie.

Police gearing up against file sharers

Sweden | 2012-01-14

More crimes reported despite few convictions.

More wolves allowed to be shot in protective hunting

Sweden | 2012-01-14 | 2 comments

EU Commission to closely monitor the hunt.

Foreign Ministry to meet Bangkok terror suspect

Sweden | 2012-01-14 | 2 comments

A Lebanese citizen with a Swedish passport, was arrested on Friday at Bangkok International Airport on suspicion of terrorist plans. The Swedish Embassy in Bangkok is now on its way to meet...

Afghan farmers recruited to fight talibans

Sweden | 2012-01-16

The international military coalition in Afghanistan, in which Sweden takes part, is supporting militia men with weapon and education to fight the Talibans. This strategy is criticized for being risky....

Woman and child found dead in Arboga

Sweden | 2012-01-16

Explosives in apartment of terror suspect

Sweden | 2012-01-16

Nurse fired after threats

Sweden | 2012-01-17

Threated elderly man at nursing home.

Still unclear what has happened in Arboga

Sweden | 2012-01-17

The police have not established yet whether it was murder.

Alarm number failed for 90 minutes

Sweden | 2012-01-18

People had to call a couple of times to reach police and fire department.

More threats against bus drivers

Sweden | 2012-01-18

Numbers have gone up steadily during the last years.

Bangkok terror suspect claims his innocence

Sweden | 2012-01-19 | 2 comments

Blames Israeli security service Mossad.

Nuclear plants to get better protection

Sweden | 2012-01-19

Armed security guards requested.

Acquitted from murder plan against Vilks

Sweden | 2012-01-20

The three young men acquitted in court.

Weapons seizures have increased dramatically

Sweden | 2012-01-23 | 1 comment

90 per cent increase in four years.

Staffing company duped employees

Sweden | 2012-01-23

The publicly traded staffing company Uniflex has come into an unwanted spotlight. It has emerged that the company has offered employees fictional assignments to avoid paying the guaranteed salary,...

HIV infected man sentenced to jail

Sweden | 2012-01-25

Had unprotected sex with eight women.

Asylum seekers stuck at immigration camps

Sweden | 2012-01-25

The situation is caused by a new reform combined with housing shortage.

Optimism in north Sweden´s tourism industry

Sweden | 2012-01-26

Increased occurrence of northern lights means good prospects for the tourism industry in north Sweden.

Bouncers sentenced to jail

Sweden | 2012-01-26

Sentenced for brutal maltreatment of guests between 2008 and 2010.

Four arrested for human trafficking

Sweden | 2012-01-27 | 2 comments

New shooting in Malmö

Sweden | 2012-01-28

One man arrested.

Bear attacked man

Sweden | 2012-01-28

Neo-Nazis attacked a left-wing anti-racist manifestation

Sweden | 2012-01-28

Youth suicide rate remains high

Sweden | 2012-01-30

Contrary to the the general trend of lower suicide rates.

Russian cold winds and snow expected

Sweden | 2012-01-30

Cold weather sweeping through Sweden.

New death shooting in Malmö

Sweden | 2012-02-01

48 year old man shot to death in his car.

More snow to come

Sweden | 2012-02-02

Train chaos in south Sweden

Sweden | 2012-02-03

Problems in Stockholm and Nässjö.

Man arrested for the death of four Swedish tourists

Sweden | 2012-02-03 | 1 comment

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