SAS flight in Russian spy plane near miss
TT/The Local/pvs · 8 May 2014, 13:35
Published: 08 May 2014 13:35 GMT+02:00
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TT/The Local/pvs · 8 May 2014, 13:35
Published: 08 May 2014 13:35 GMT+02:00
UPDATED: The suspect behind a stabbing spree at a school in west Sweden has been confirmed dead. A boy and a teacher also died and two others remain in hospital.
Swedes are in shock after a teacher and a pupil died and two others were injured in an attack at a school in western Sweden. The suspect also died. The Local looks at the key facts.
Sweden's Prince Carl Philip was delayed from arriving at the Swedish Medical Association where he was set to award scholarships on Thursday, after a "suspicious object" which turned out to be an airgun was found in the area.
UPDATED: Up to 190,000 asylum seekers are expected to arrive in Sweden in 2015, more than twice as many as previously predicted, the country's Migration Agency announced on Thursday morning.
Stieg Larsson’s Millennium books are reported to be getting a second alternative ending in a set of new comic books, months after David Lagercrantz published a controversial sequel to the Swedish trilogy.
UPDATED: Emergency services were called to a former retirement home in southern Sweden overnight to tackle the latest in a string of fires at temporary facilities for refugees.
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Sweden is reaching maximum capacity for accepting refugees, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven said as he visited a centre for asylum seekers in Trelleborg.
Property prices in Sweden may have doubled over the last 10 years, but there are still opportunities to get a real bargain in the countryside. Dennis Toth tells The Local how he renovated an old church he bought for just one Swedish krona.
Stockholm was ranked among the top three best European cities for startups in a survey on Wednesday which praised the Nordic country for its English skills and digital infrastructure.
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