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In the center of the Swedish capital Stockholm an explosion has been in a bus.

Sweden has arrested a suspected Russian spy. The suspect was arrested in Stockholm on Tuesday, police said Wednesday.

A Swedish court sentenced a 22-year-old man to four and a half years' imprisonment for the theft of ancient crown jewels from Strängnäs Cathedral last year. The public…

The jewels that were stolen boldly from the Swedish royal family last year are probably correct. The police expect to have funeral regalia of King Karl IX...

For the first time since the beginning of the peace talks in Sweden there is direct contact between the warring factions in Yemen. Under pressure from Western mediators, a delegation of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi sat around the table with a delegation of the rebellious Houthis.

In Sweden, more than two months after the elections, there is still no prospect of a new government. An attempt to get a broad coalition with left and right from the ground has now also failed. This increases the chance that the Swedes will have to go to the polls again.

The alliance of center-right parties may try to form a government after the Swedish elections. The chairman of the parliament gave Ulf Kristersson of the Moderate two weeks. He is the head of the four-party partnership, which together have 143 of the 349 parliamentary seats.

This year, the Nobel Prize in Medicine will go to two medical researchers who have developed anti-cancer therapies. It is the American James Allison and the Japanese Tasuku Honjo. The two have reached a milestone in the fight against cancer, as announced by the Nobel jury in Stockholm. They have developed therapies that can better treat cancer through the immune system.

The Swedish parliament has voted out the social democratic Prime Minister Stefan Löfven. The 61-year old Löfven has been prime minister for almost four years.

The authorities have arrested a suspect of the theft of two crowns and a national apple from the Swedish royal family. The loot has not yet been recovered, Swedish prosecutors say in a statement.

The final result of the Swedish parliamentary elections may only be announced on Wednesday. It is clear that the right-wing populists of Jimmie Akesson, the Sweden Democrats (SD), have achieved a great victory with more than 17.5 percent of the votes. They are the third party of the country.

The center-left and center-right bloc have become about the same size in the Swedish parliamentary elections: 39.4 versus 39.6 percent, according to the first predictions after the closing of the polling stations on Sunday evening.

The Swedes choose a new parliament on Sunday and the big winner seems to be the right-wing populist Sweden Democrats (SD). With their main theme 'too many immigrants from outside Europe' they could achieve almost a fifth of the votes. The thirty-year-old party has its roots in the extreme right, but party leader Jimmie Akesson distances himself from the most extreme cases.

The Swedish internal security service has seen more cyber attacks and attempts to do so in recent weeks. Hackers try to penetrate the systems of political parties and government services. More fake accounts on social media have also been found than otherwise. These accounts are used to distribute false information.

Crown princess Victoria of Sweden presented the Junior Water Prize 2018 at the annual World Water Week in Stockholm on Tuesday evening.

The Turkish police, at the request of Sweden, arrested a man who was possibly involved in the massive arson attacks in several Swedish cities earlier this week. He flew from Sweden to Turkey last Tuesday and was immediately arrested at customs.

Dozens of cars, trucks and caravans were set on fire in Sweden during the night from Monday to Tuesday. The arson attacks took place in various cities, including Götenborg, Malmö and Uppsala.

Masked youth have burned about one hundred cars at night in Swedish cities. They also pelted the police with stones. Prime Minister Stefan Löfven reacted furiously on Tuesday. 'It seems well organized. Almost like a military operation, 'he said.

Masked young people set fire to dozens of cars in Southwest Sweden on Tuesday night and attacked the police. According to the Swedish media, 88 vehicles were destroyed or heavily damaged in Gothenburg alone, while similar incidents occurred at night in Trollhättan in the north. There policemen were pelted with stones.

Again the music streaming service Spotify sees the number of subscribers increase. Figures released by the Swedish group show that it now has 83 million paying users worldwide. That is an increase of eight million subscribers in the past three months.

The forest fires that are raging in Sweden are now so great that they can be seen from space. The European Space Agency (ESA) stated on Monday that on satellite photos, the flames and smoke of at least two firewater can be clearly recognized.

In Sweden, the controversial sex law comes into force on Sunday. Sex is punishable without the explicit consent of the other person. Up to now, in Sweden, a refusal of sex, verbal or non-verbal, was necessary for a conviction for rape.

The Swedish Public Prosecution Service persecutes the man who is the center of the riot around the committee that awards the Nobel Prize for Literature each year. Photographer Jean-Claude Arnault, the husband of a member of the Swedish Academy, is suspected of having raped a woman in Stockholm in 2011. He would have twice gone to the victim.

Rose McGowan has traveled to assist fellow actress and girlfriend Asia Argento, now that she mourns her late boyfriend, chef and TV chef Anthony Bourdain.

The man who killed five people in Stockholm was sentenced to life imprisonment. The Uzbek IS trailer drove pedestrians in a busy shopping street in April last year with a stolen truck. As a result, several people were also injured.

Sweden does not want to recognize child marriages that have taken place abroad. The government closely loopholes in the law that can ensure that minors in marriages step by step. ' The message is clear: in Sweden children can be children again. \u0026 # X27; \u0026 # x27 ;, says the government.

The Swedish Academy is hit by a crisis and has four new members for the Nobel Prize for Literature jury, now that the Board has approved the resignation of four members. The members Lotta Lotass, Klas Östergren, Sara Stridsberg and Kerstin Ekman have now officially resigned.

The 'Swedish meatballs' from Ikea, among others, appear to come from Turkey.

The crisis within the committee that awards the Nobel Prize for Literature every year is growing. Again a member of the so-called Swedish Academy has resigned because of a scandal around the spouse of one of the members. In Swedish media it is now being speculated that the prize may not be awarded this year.

Justice in Sweden has claimed a lifelong prison sentence against the man suspected of an attack with a truck in Stockholm last year. 'A punishment other than life is not an issue,' according to the Public Prosecutor.