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Summary PM to decide whether to resign or call snap election Vote called by anti-immigration Sweden Democrats Left Party turned against govt over rent control easing Economic impact of political crisis seen limited Sweden’s parliament ousted Prime Minister Stefan Lofven in a no-confidence vote on Monday, giving the Social Democrat …

Officials from Europol, the FBI, Sweden, and the Netherlands on Tuesday gave details of the European leg of a global sting in which criminals were given phones that allowed law enforcement officials to listen in on their conversations. Europol Deputy Executive Director Jean-Phillipe Lecouffe said that in all, law enforcement …

Iran detained two Swedish nationals over drug smuggling, the website of the country’s judiciary reported on Tuesday. The spokesman for the judiciary, Gholamhossein Esmaili, was quoted by the Mizan news agency as saying the case is under investigation and that Iran has informed the Swedish government and its embassy in …

The Nobel Foundation, which manages the Nobel Prizes, on Tuesday, cancelled its traditional December banquet due to the COVID-19 pandemic, though the award ceremonies will still be held in “new forms”. This is the first time since 1956 that the banquet has been cancelled, according to the foundation. “The Nobel …

Chinese-owned Swedish car manufacturer Volvo is recalling nearly 2.2 million vehicles worldwide over concerns that the seatbelts could be less effective over time. The recall is the biggest ever for the brand. The company’s press spokesman, Stefan Elfstrom, told Swedish media that it discovered the “rare” problem with the seatbelts …

Swedish prosecutors say they believe they know who killed former Swedish prime minister Olof Palme in 1986, but say the suspect is dead. They identified the suspect as Stig Engstrom, also known as “Skandia Man”, who killed himself in 2000. As a result they are closing the investigation into Palme’s …

A news outlet has revealed that the current Iraqi Defense Minister Najah al-Shammari is a Swedish citizen with a criminal record while enjoying years of benefits in Sweden for an alleged “memory problems”. According to an investigation by Swedish news outlet Nyheter Idag, Shammari holds Swedish citizenship and previously lived …

Mette Frederiksen, the leader of Denmark’s center-left Socialist Democratic party, has announced that she will form a left-leaning, one-party minority government, making her the nation’s youngest-ever prime minister. “It is with great pleasure I can announce that after three weeks of negotiations, we have a majority to form a new …

About 40,000 years ago, a wolf died in what we know as Siberia. Now its severed head has been found, and because of the freezing conditions, it is so well preserved that its fur, teeth, brain and facial tissue are largely intact. A Yakutia resident, Pavel Yefimov, found the head …

Swedish prosecutors will re-open a 2010 rape case against Julian Assange, the country’s deputy director of prosecutions has announced. Eva-Marie Persson said at a press conference the inquiry, which was shelved in 2017 because Assange refused to leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London, would be restarted. The woman who claimed …

Russia has expelled some Swedish diplomats from Moscow as part of a reciprocal move against Stockholm, TASS news agency cited Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova as saying on Wednesday. Zakharova made the comment when asked at a weekly briefing whether Moscow had expelled two Swedish diplomats. She did not …

Europeans are among the most pessimistic in the developed world, a new poll has found, as a large number of participants from several major countries across Europe said they feel gloomy about their national outlook, their youth and the world in general. The global survey, conducted annually by YouGov-Cambridge Globalism …

A court in Britain has handed down a 50-week jail sentence to Australian whistleblower and press freedom activist Julian Assange, saying he disrespected the UK judicial system and escaped his bail conditions by taking refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy for almost seven years. The Southwark Crown Court in the UK …

Hundreds of people have had to leave their homes in Norway as emergency services try to extinguish forest fires raging in the south of the country. Some 148 homes were evacuated around the town of Sokndal, where fires have been burning since Tuesday. Police say the fires are still out …