Swedish prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, has come under fire after admitting that he regularly consults AI tools for a second opinion in his role running the country
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Sweden's economic inequality gap is widening and worrying
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Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg and eleven other activists set sail on Sunday afternoon for Gaza on a ship aimed at “breaking Israel's siege” of the devastated territory
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Estonia will lease space at Tartu Prison to Sweden and accept up to 600 inmates under a new agreement – sparks fears of imported organised crime
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Denmark quits the Frugal Four EU budget coalition – PM Mette Frederiksen calls for defence spending to be the "number one" priority
9 votes -
Complete ban on international adoptions to Sweden has been proposed by a government-appointed commission which found widespread abuses and fraud
10 votes -
As Arctic ice melts, global powers seize new opportunities to extract oil, speed up trade and boost their military presence
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Swedish senior diplomat arrested on suspicion of spying – security service investigating if there is a link with sudden resignation of national security adviser
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Iran ex-detainees press Sweden over death row academic – Swedish-Iranian citizen Ahmadreza Djalali suffered a heart attack in Tehran's Evin prison, his wife said Friday
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Swedish journalist gets eleven-month suspended prison term in Turkey for insulting Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
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Swedish journalist detained on arrival in Turkey to cover protests over the jailing of Istanbul's mayor has been arrested on terror-related charges and for “insulting the president”
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Why Sweden needs the bomb – country best served by nuclear guarantee outside of traditional NATO reliance on US atomic umbrella
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Sweden and Finland's defence sectors are benefiting from their countries joining NATO – both aim to raise defence spending to between 2.6% and 3% of GDP in the next three years
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Midwives could be allowed to prescribe abortion pills in Sweden under new abortion legislation – home abortions without prior clinic pill visit to be permitted
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Sweden's government has announced its intention to pursue a gun control reform law after an attack in the city of Örebro killed eleven people
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Sweden points to ‘foreign power’ after Iraqi refugee on trial for Qur’an burnings shot dead
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Swedish authorities have seized a ship suspected of damaging a data cable running under the Baltic Sea to Latvia
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Sweden's political parties have agreed that dual citizens who commit crimes that threaten national security should lose their citizenship
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Norwegian Parliament votes to extend abortion access to eighteen weeks into a pregnancy, adding six weeks to a limit set in 1978 when the procedure was first legalized
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Sweden to issue another update of a Cold War-era civil emergency advice booklet later this month – new version adapted to better reflect today's security policy reality
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Swedish government accused of trying to ‘outlaw poverty’ over begging ban – critics say proposal may not be lawful and would not tackle root cause of vulnerability
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Children in Sweden are to start school at six years old from 2028, a year earlier than at present – overhaul signals a switch from play-based teaching for younger children
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According to demographic projections, people leaving Sweden are set to outnumber immigrants this year – government says this is thanks to its restrictive migration policies
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Sweden's snitch law immigration plan prompts alarm across society – forcing public sector workers to report undocumented people decried as utterly inhumane
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Police in Denmark to implement facial recognition technology to combat violent crimes – recent increases in crime in Copenhagen involving gangs from neighbouring Sweden
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Swedish human rights activist Anna Ardin accused Julian Assange of sexual assault, but is glad he's now free
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Swedish EU official Johan Floderus, who has been held in an Iranian prison for more than two years, was released as part of a deal with Tehran
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Support for rightwing populists and the far right declined in Finland, Sweden and Denmark in Sunday's European elections, with a surge for Greens and left-leaning parties
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Sweden has a global reputation for championing high taxes and social equality, but it has become a European hotspot for the super rich
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Some NATO countries ‘don’t understand urgency of stopping Russia,’ says Swedish FM
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Sweden officially joins NATO, ending decades of post-World War II neutrality
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Abolishing inheritance tax sent Stockholm's startup ecosystem soaring – tax cut could revive Britain's flagging economy
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Hungarian MPs have overwhelmingly ratified Sweden's bid to join NATO in a long-delayed vote which paves the way for the Nordic nation's membership
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Family of Swedish EU diplomat Johan Floderus, imprisoned in Iran for more than 663 days, fear death penalty verdict is imminent
17 votes -
Fifty years since Sweden first introduced state-funded parental leave for couples to share – pioneering policy offers some surprising lessons for other countries
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Turkey's parliament votes to let Sweden join NATO
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Iran has accused Swedish EU employee Johan Floderus of spying for Israel and "corruption on earth", a crime that carries the death penalty under Tehran's Islamic laws
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Sweden halts adoptions from South Korea after claims of falsified papers on origins of children
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Europe's single currency, used daily by about 350 million people, has become a hot topic in an unlikely place – Sweden
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Professionals in Sweden are pushing back hard against a rightwing plan to make them snitch on undocumented migrants
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Anger in Sweden as Nobel Prize organizers invite Russia and Belarus to the award ceremonies – several lawmakers say they will boycott this year's ceremonies
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A Swedish citizen working for the European Union diplomatic corps has been imprisoned in Iran for more than 500 days
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Sweden seeks to stem deadly rise in youth crime – illegal guns are relatively accessible, with younger and younger children being drawn into serious crime
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Dozens injured after opponents of the Eritrean government stormed a festival, Festival Eritrea Scandinavia, in the Swedish capital organised by regime supporters
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Turkey agrees to support Sweden’s NATO application
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When Sweden joins NATO its submarines will help the alliance redress its vulnerability in northwest Europe – the Baltic Sea
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Although Finland's Åland archipelago is strategically located in the Baltic Sea, an agreement prevents any military presence there – but perhaps this could change
8 votes -
Hungary–US arms deal halted as Viktor Orban blocks Sweden's NATO membership – Senator Jim Risch's seniority gives him prerogative to block deals unilaterally
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Sweden's Supreme Court approves the extradition of a supporter of the Kurdistan Workers' Party to Turkey, ahead of NATO membership talks with Ankara
8 votes -
Legal expert Anna Singer is investigating whether Swedish authorities were aware of falsified child origins as they approved the adoptions of thousands of South Korean children
4 votes