Swedish embassy in Minsk harbours two Belarusians for five months – they sought refuge after protests but are becoming a diplomatic issue for Sweden
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Sweden looks to change law so 1994 ferry disaster can be re-examined – new documentary questions findings of original investigation
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Sweden will increase military spending by around 40% in the next five years and double the number of people conscripted into the army amid growing tensions with Russia
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Sweden, Finland and Estonia to look at new evidence on MS Estonia sinking in 1994 – ferry sank with the loss of 852 lives, in one of Europe's worst peacetime maritime disasters
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Violence erupts in Malmö after anti-Muslim activity – right-wing extremists had burned a copy of the Quran and a Danish politician was barred from entering the country
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Sweden is beefing up its military presence in the Baltic Sea amid concerns over increased Russian activity in the region and heightened tensions in Belarus
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Swedish ex-ambassador Anna Lindstedt acquitted – had been accused of going beyond her remit to have talks with a foreign power
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For the first time in modern Swedish history, an ex-ambassador has gone on trial and faces a possible jail term
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Pakistani journalist living in exile in Sweden who had been missing since March has been found dead, police have said
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Sweden could soon be within easy reach of London by overnight sleeper train under proposals drawn up by the country's rail planners
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A prominent Pakistani journalist who fled the country after receiving death threats has gone missing in Sweden where he had been granted political asylum
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Sweden's government said it had decided to send troops to Mali to join French-led special forces that are fighting militants linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State
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Two nurses denied jobs as midwives in Sweden because of their refusal to perform abortions have lost their legal action against Sweden at the ECHR
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Sweden's external military intelligence service said Friday the security policy situation in the Baltic Sea region 'has deteriorated over time'
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Inside the Kiev fraud factory stealing senior citizens’ savings
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“Damage to the publishing industry in Hong Kong is complete” after China jails Gui Minhai
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Hong Kong bookseller Gui Minhai jailed for ten years in China – Swedish citizen who went missing in 2015 sentenced for providing intelligence abroad
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Sweden could soon be changing its laws which allow suspects to be detained without charge indefinitely
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Sweden has summoned China's ambassador after he threatened the Swedish media for its coverage of the dissident bookseller Gui Minhai and other sensitive topics
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Sweden could revive its night trains to Europe, agency finds – Malmö to Cologne is proposed as the first route for sleeper trains
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Drug gang violence in Sweden linked to 60% increase in bomb blasts – last year 257 bomb attacks were reported to police, up from 162 in 2018
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Sweden's PM wants swift and complete probe into Iran plane crash
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TIME's Person of the Year 2019: Greta Thunberg
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Sweden's former ambassador to China faces an unprecedented trial over allegations she overstepped her authority during a meeting to secure the release of Gui Minhai
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Najah al-Shammari – Iraq's defence minister accused of benefit fraud in Sweden
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IKEA staff in Uppsala, Sweden turned up at work to find a fugitive sleeping in the store's bed department
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Prosecutors in Sweden have dropped an investigation into a rape allegation made against Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange in 2010
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Sweden's state prosecutors have charged an Iraqi Swede with spying on the Ahwazi community and passing the information to Iranian authorities
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Sweden bomb attacks reach unprecedented level as gangs feud – 30 blasts in the past two months and 100 so far this year
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Denmark to conduct checks at border with Sweden to counter cross-border crime
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Swedish King Carl Gustaf removes grandchildren from royal house – observers say move reflects a wider view that there is no need to pay so many members of the royal family
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A Stockholm court has acquitted police officers who fired twenty-five shots at a man with Down's syndrome while he played with a toy gun
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Chinese company wins million-kronor bid to help expand Stockholm metro – the biggest investment in the Swedish capital's public transport in more than four decades
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Sweden's navy HQ is returning to a vast underground cold war fortress designed to withstand a nuclear attack – seen as a defensive move against a resurgent Russia
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PayPal co-founder Ken Howery confirmed as US ambassador to Sweden
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Lawyer who represented A$AP Rocky shot in Sweden
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Sweden's Foreign Minister Margot Wallström to quit government
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Amir Tohid Fazel – Iranian journalist flees foreign minister's press pool to claim asylum in Sweden
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Stena Impero – Sweden receives indications Iran is ready to release British tanker
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Denmark mulls tighter border checks with Sweden after Copenhagen bombing – Swedish man arrested over the bombing of a government agency
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Gothenburg port in Sweden has installed the country’s first automated sobriety check to prevent drivers over the alcohol limit from venturing on to its road network
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Police are turning to commercial genealogy databases to track down murderer – hoping to solve the double murders of a boy and fifty-six year old woman
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In the last eight years, at least sixteen high-profile attacks have been motivated by white nationalist conspiracy theories, killing 175 people worldwide
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Washington DC – Woman arrested for threatening to blow up Swedish embassy over A$AP Rocky case
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Stena Impero – Sweden makes first contact with ship captured in Iran
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Extraordinary story of how the man who said he was the victim of a VIP paedophile ring ended up on the run in Sweden
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Swedish Committee for Afghanistan – Afghan clinics reopening days after Taliban forced closure
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Trump says he called Sweden's prime minister to personally vouch for A$AP Rocky
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Nine people have died in Sweden after a plane taking them up on a parachute jump crashed close to Umeå
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Sweden says it won't sign UN nuclear ban treaty – the treaty in its current form is not ready
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