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

Giving a lot of gas with a Volvo is no longer possible from 2020 onwards. Starting next year, the Swedish car manufacturer will only roll cars with a speed limiter and...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has joined the students who demonstrate weekly for a better climate during school hours. With that she deviates from most politicians,...

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…

Sweden and Hungary have called each other's ambassadors because of a riot about a Hungarian birth plan. According to a Swedish minister, according to a Swedish minister, that is what 'the 1930s are doing.' That comment...

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...

Rapper Snoop Dogg has to make taxes popular in Sweden. The star that now calls itself Smooth Dogg has become shareholder of Klarna, a fintech in tax software.

The Swedish dance producer Avicii, who died in 2018, tops the list of top-ranking Google searches of the Netherlands in 2018. Glennis Grace, Meghan Markle, Maarten van der Weijden and...

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.

The rust ghost in the car is back again. Some modern cars are affected very quickly.

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 Danish police closed important access roads to and from the country during a major operation on Friday. Two major bridges and boat connections with Sweden and Germany were shut down.

The Icelandic journalist Kristinn Hrafnsson is the new editor-in-chief of the famous whistleblower website WikiLeaks. The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange who sought refuge in Ecuador's embassy in London, has had virtually no contact with the outside world for six months. WikiLeaks reported that Assange therefore appointed ex-spokesman Hrafnsson as new chief editor.

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 appeal of the convicted Danish murderer and inventor Peter Madsen was interrupted on Friday. The hearing was suspended because a judge became unwell. It is not clear when the session will be.

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.

Kofi Atta Annan, former Secretary-General of the UN, died in Switzerland at the age of 80. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced this on Saturday.

A Muslim who refused to shake hands with a job interview received 3800 euros in damages.

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.

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.

Danish submarine and rocket builder Peter Madsen (47) sentenced to life imprisonment has been mistreated in prison. An eighteen-year-old fellow prisoner struck the murderer of the Swedish journalist Kim Wall in such a way that he had to be treated in the hospital, his lawyer reported to Danish media.

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.

Of course: the hit series The Bridge revolves primarily for the inimitable Saga Norén, the Swedish autistic detective. But since the third season many viewers have also been intrigued by her Danish colleague Henrik Sabroe (Thure Lindhart) with whom she regularly shares the bed. What happened to his family? That question is answered during the closing season, he says during a visit to Amsterdam.

A row between two criminal gangs was probably the reason for a shooting Saturday night in the Swedish city of Helsingborg. Swedish media reported this. The police did not confirm that.