A ferry that ran aground last month off southeastern Sweden and started leaking oil into the Baltic Sea arrived Thursday at a Swedish harbor where its tanks will be emptied, Sweden’s coast guard said. The Marco Polo had been sailing between the
Sweden has moved closer to finally joining NATO after a major hurdle was removed today (October 23). Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has previously been reluctant to approve Sweden’s bid to join NATO. But today, he signed a bill for the Nordic
Finland, which reported damage to an undersea telecom cable that runs to Estonia, has launched an investigation into sabotage. Sweden has also reported partial damage to an undersea telecom cable that runs to Estonia, a week after Finland’s discovery. Both damages to
An announcement was made over the stadium tannoy informing fans of the decision to abandon the game. Spectators inside the King Baudouin Stadium were told they could not leave the arena “until security permits”. Two people are reported to have been shot
Three people were killed overnight in separate incidents in Sweden as deadly violence linked to a feud between criminal gangs escalated. Late Wednesday, an 18-year-old man was shot dead in a Stockholm suburb. Hours later, a man was killed and another was
Two powerful explosions have ripped through dwellings in central Sweden, injuring at least three people and damaging buildings, with bricks and window sections left spread outside. Late Monday, an explosion occurred in Hasselby, a suburb of the capital, Stockholm. In the early
Sweden has been branded a “gangland paradise” as the Scandinavian country struggles to get to grip on a rising violent crime wave. For several years, Sweden has been dealing with a violent gang war involving the use of weapons and explosive devices
Two executives of a Swedish oil exploration and production company went on trial Tuesday in Stockholm for securing the company’s operations in Sudan through their alleged complicity in war crimes in 20 years ago. Swedish prosecutors claim that former Lundin Oil chairman
Sweden charged a man on Monday with spying on it and the United States on behalf of Russia and unlawfully transferring advanced technology to Russia’s armed forces over a nine-year period. Prosecutors indicted Sergej Skvortsov, a citizen of both Sweden and Russia,
The bank robbery and hostage situation that led to the coining of the term “Stockholm syndrome” began on this day in history, Aug. 23, 1973. On that date, Jan-Erik Olsson, an escaped prisoner who was sentenced to three years in prison for