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Källström jubilant as Lyon eject Real Madrid

Sport: 11 Mar 10
Swedish midfielder Kim Källström is set to play a part in the quarter-finals of the Champions League after Lyon held off the challenge of Spanish giants Real Madrid on Wednesday. READ »

Sweden claims narrow win in Wales

Sport: 4 Mar 10
Erik Hamrén, Sweden's new national football team trainer, got his tenure off on the right foot with a 0-1 win over Wales at the Liberty Stadium in Swansea on Wednesday. READ »

Swedes draw Dutch and Finns in Euro 2012 qualifiers

Sport: 7 Feb 10
Sweden face Holland, Hungary and neighbours Finland in a Euro 2012 qualification group that gives Erik Hamrén's side a chance to settle old scores. READ »

War crimes suspect remanded in custody

National: 16 Jan 10
A Bosnian-born Swede was remanded in custody by a Stockholm court on Friday, suspected of committing war crimes against Serbs in 1992 during the Bosnian war. READ »

Sweden arrests Bosnian war crimes suspect

National: 12 Jan 10
A 43-year-old war crimes suspect originally from Bosnia-Herzegovina was arrested on Tuesday in northern Sweden. READ »

'I won’t let my country be taken over by xenophobes'

Analysis & Opinion: 4 Nov 09
Curiosity is the most effective weapon against xenophobia, writes journalist and head of think tank FORES Martin Ådahl, as a comment on the Sweden Democrats’ future role in Swedish politics. READ »

War criminal Plavsic lifts off from Sweden

National: 27 Oct 09
Ex-Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic left Sweden on Tuesday after being granted early release from a Swedish prison by the UN war crimes court, prison officials said. READ »

Sweden releases war criminal Plavsic

Politics: 22 Oct 09
Bosnian Serb war criminal Biljana Plavsic is to be released from a Swedish prison later this month after serving two thirds of an 11-year-sentence. READ »

Police probe Serb ties to helicopter heist

National: 29 Sep 09
Police in Serbia suspect the mastermind behind last week's brazen helicopter heist is a 40-year-old Bosnian Serb living in Belgrade known as the 'gangster king'. READ »

Bosnian Serbs hail war criminal's release

Politics: 17 Sep 09
The Bosnian Serb Prime Minister Milorad Dodik praised the decision of the UN war crimes court to grant early release to Biljana Plavsic, a convicted war criminal serving time in a Swedish prison. READ »

Court urges early release for Bosnian war criminal

Politics: 15 Sep 09
Biljana Plavsic, the former Bosnian Serb leader who is serving an 11-year jail sentence in Sweden for crimes against humanity, should be released early for good behaviour, according to court documents. READ »

Sweden navigates complex waters of EU foreign policy

Analysis & Opinion: 3 Sep 09
With an important meeting of EU's foreign ministers taking place in Stockholm this weekend, David Stavrou examines the changing roles of Sweden and the EU in world affairs. READ »

'Bildt interview supports my immunity deal': Karadzic

Politics: 18 Aug 09
Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic asserted on Monday that Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has submitted information backing his claims of an immunity deal. READ »

Bildt set to meet Karadzic lawyer

Politics: 15 Jul 09
Sweden’s foreign minister and former Balkans peace envoy Carl Bildt is set to meet the lawyer of Bosnian war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic next week in Brussels, the lawyer said Tuesday. READ »

Convicted terrorist back in Sweden

National: 4 Jul 09
A 21-year-old Swedish man who was convicted of terror-related crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina has been transferred to a Swedish prison. READ »

Bildt to meet accused war criminal's lawyer

Politics: 3 Jul 09
Foreign minister Carl Bildt has agreed to meet the lawyer representing former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to discuss the possibility of testifying at the accused war criminal’s trial. READ »

Reinfeldt and Bildt: tactician and veteran diplomat at EU helm

Analysis & Opinion: 30 Jun 09
A calculating tactician and an impulsive veteran: Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and Foreign Minister Carl Bildt are Sweden's tag team for the upcoming EU presidency, writes AFP's Pia Ohlin. READ »

Bildt urges 'time out' over Balkan border dispute

Politics: 22 Jun 09
On the eve of Sweden’s taking over of the European Union presidency, foreign minister Carl Bildt encouraged Croatia and Slovenia to reflect on the border dispute which has halted Croatia's EU accession negotiations. READ »

Fredrik Malm: Enlarge the European Union

Analysis & Opinion: 3 Jun 09
Fredrik Malm of the Liberal Party speaks to The Local's Lydia Parafianowicz about the case for EU enlargement and the role of the union in conflict resolution. READ »

Bildt can't help prove Karadzic's alleged immunity deal

Politics: 3 Jun 09
Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt said he has no information to help prove Radovan Karadzic had cut a deal with Western diplomats to guarantee the Bosnian Serb leader’s immunity. READ »

War crimes suspect claims Bildt helped engineer immunity deal

Politics: 5 May 09
Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic is pressing Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt for information the suspected war criminal says will help prove he’d been promised immunity by the United States. READ »

Bildt: Bosnia not ready for EU entry

Politics: 8 Apr 09
Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has said Bosnia has a long way to go before joining the European Union. READ »

Rosengård: Integration in the eye of the storm

Analysis & Opinion: 27 Mar 09
Malmö suburb Rosengård has come to symbolise Sweden's struggles with integration. AFP's Marc Preel examines a community grappling with its identity after a winter marred by rioting and clashes with the police. READ »

Terror Swede to finish jail time in Sweden

National: 26 Mar 09
A 21-year-old Swede convicted for terror offences in Bosnia will serve out the rest of his sentence in Sweden. READ »

Outrage over language ban proposal

Education: 2 Feb 09
Elementary students in Sweden with foreign backgrounds should no longer be allowed to study maths in their native languages, according to a Liberal Party (Folkpartiet) working group. READ »

Bosnian war criminal: 'I did nothing wrong'

Society: 26 Jan 09
Convicted war criminal and former Bosnian leader Biljana Plavsic has retracted a confession made to the Hague war crimes tribunal in 2001. “I sacrificed myself. I have done nothing wrong,” she told Swedish magazine Vi. READ »

Reinfeldt in unexpected visit to Afghanistan

Politics: 19 Jan 09
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt on Monday made a surprise stop in Afghanistan to meet Swedish troops in the northern part of the country, a government spokesman said. READ »

Sweden rejects Bosnian war crime pardon request

Politics: 4 Dec 08
Sweden’s justice ministry has denied a second pardon request from Biljana Plavsicm, the former Bosnian Serb president and convicted war criminal, to have her 11-year-jail sentence ended. READ »

Bildt lauds Serbia over hunt for war criminals

Politics: 9 Sep 08
Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt praised Belgrade's efforts to track down war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic during a visit to Stockholm on Tuesday of his Serbian counterpart Vuk Jeremic. READ »

Bosnian leader: 'Don't pardon Plavsic'

Politics: 8 Sep 08
A member of Bosnia's tripartite presidency has called on Sweden not to pardon former Bosnian Serb president Biljana Plavsic, who is serving an 11-year war crimes sentence. READ »

Sweden invokes Hitler in condemning Russian assault

National: 9 Aug 08
Sweden has evoked the memory of Adolf Hitler in condemning Russia's attacks on Georgia over the breakaway region of South Ossetia. READ »

Confusion over Zlatan's 'arrival' at Greek football club

Sport: 30 Jul 08
Fans of a Greek football club got a shock when the team's official website announced the signing of Inter Milan and Swedish national team star Zlatan Ibrahimovic. READ »

Bildt praises Serbia over Karadzic arrest

Politics: 22 Jul 08
Sweden's foreign minister Carl Bildt on Tuesday welcomed the news that the Serbian government had arrested wanted war criminal Radovan Karadjic. READ »

Inequality thrives in Stockholm's embassy world

Society: 18 Jun 08
Stockholm's diplomatic community is shot through with gender inequality, according to an analysis of official figures carried out by The Local. READ »

Left Party MP reveals stripper past

Politics: 13 Jun 08
Left Party Riksdag member and rising star Josefin Brink has bared all in an interview about how she used to work as a stripper in the 1990s. READ »

Swedes look to their 'genius' for Euro inspiration

Lifestyle: 4 Jun 08
With less than a week to go until Sweden's opening match at Euro 2008, AFP's Delphine Touitou grapples with the enigmatic genius of star striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic. READ »

Delegates discuss debt and diplomacy

Politics: 29 May 08
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday backed Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s appeal for his country's debts to be cancelled while addressing a global conference in Sweden. READ »

Perrelli in Eurovision fiasco

Society: 25 May 08
Charlotte Perrelli finished a lowly 18th in Saturday's Eurovision song contest in Belgrade. Russia won for the first time. READ »

Bildt sees economic challenge for Kosovo

Politics: 9 Mar 08
Kosovo faces a major challenge in developing a sustainable economy, said Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt during a visit to Pristina. READ »

Plavsic 'could be released next year'

National: 21 Dec 07
Former Bosnian Serb president Biljana Plavsic could be released from jail in Sweden next year, the Bosnian Serb prime minister has said. READ »

Swedish soldiers pulled out of Bosnia

National: 25 Oct 07
Sweden is to withdraw its peacekeepers from Bosnia-Hercegovina next year, the country's military has announced. READ »

'EU must play more active role in world affairs': Bildt

Politics: 24 Oct 07
Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, who is seen as a potential candidate for EU foreign policy chief, said Wednesday there was strong demand for the bloc to play a more active role in global affairs. Bildt said he had seen a demand for "an increased role by Europe on the global stage." READ »

Bildt: Serbia must be 'moved forward' on Kosovo

Politics: 24 Oct 07
Sweden's Foreign Minister Carl Bildt on Wednesday said there was a need to "move Serbia forward" towards reaching "some sort of consensus" on Kosovo. READ »

Murder probe leads police to Bosnia killer

National: 23 Oct 07
Police in Malmö have said they want to speak to a 24-year-old man convicted of murder in Bosnia over two unsolved killings in the city. READ »

Sweden scraps aid to China

National: 27 Aug 07
Sweden is to halve the number of countries to which it pays foreign aid. The number of recipient countries is to be cut from 70 to 33, with China and Vietnam among those losing out. The Social Democrats accuse the government of "abandoning Asia." READ »

Sweden 'risks becoming terror base'

National: 6 Aug 07
Sweden's security service, Säpo, has warned that the country risks becoming a base for recruitment of terrorists. READ »

Hitman admits to 'at least ten murders'

National: 2 Jul 07
Goran Kotaran, a 24-year-old man already convicted of two Gothenburg murders in 2002, has admitted to having killed at least ten people in Sweden. READ »

Bosnia terror Swede's 'sentence cut'

National: 18 Jun 07
A 21-year-old Swede convicted of terror offences in Bosnia has had his sentence reduced substantially by a Sarajevo court. Mirsad Bektasevic's jail term was cut to eight years from the original 15. READ »

The mystery of Karlskrona's da Vinci

Lifestyle: 22 May 07
The city of Karlskrona on Sweden's south-eastern tip is home to a mystery that has remained unsolved for a decade: why has the art establishment ignored two Bosnian aristocrats' seemingly mouthwatering private collection? Paul O'Mahony investigates. READ »

War criminal dies in Swedish prison

National: 20 May 07
A Bosnian Serb war criminal died on Saturday in a Swedish jail. Miroslav Deronjic, 52, died a natural death, according to prison officials. READ »

A quickie with...Charlotte Perrelli

Lifestyle: 10 May 07
The Local asks Charlotte Perrelli, the last Swede to bring the Eurovision trophy to Stockholm, for her top tips ahead of this weekend's extravaganza in Helsinki. READ »

Sweden refuses pardon for former Serb leader

National: 26 Apr 07
Former Bosnian Serb president Biljana Plavsic has been refused a pardon by Sweden's government, meaning she will continue to serve her sentence in Hingseberg jail, central Sweden. READ »

Sharp decline in university entrance test participants

Society: 31 Mar 07
Högskoleprovet, or the Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test, is a national institution. But those who sat the test on Saturday all around the country, in Swedish UN military bases and in Swedish schools abroad, represent a diminishing band. READ »

Introducing...Zlatan

Lifestyle: 12 Feb 07
He's the golden boy of Swedish football, he's keen on his charity work, and his disarming, mile-wide smile has endeared him to millions. But Zlatan Ibrahimovic's strong streak of individualism hasn't endeared him to the national team. READ »

Serb war criminal seeks Swedish pardon

National: 17 Jan 07
Former Bosnian Serb president and convicted war criminal Biljana Plavsic, serving an 11-year sentence in Sweden, has sought a pardon from Swedish authorities, the justice ministry said on Wednesday. READ »

Terror Swede to appeal sentence

National: 11 Jan 07
The 19-year-old Swede convicted at a Sarajevo court on terror-related charges has said that he will appeal his sentence. READ »

Terror Swede jailed in Bosnia

National: 10 Jan 07
A Swede has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for by a court in Sarajevo after being convicted of planning terror attacks on European countries. READ »

Swede convicted of Bosnia torture

National: 18 Dec 06
Swede Jackie Arklöv has been convicted of crimes against international law perpetrated in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1993. Arklöv was a mercenary for a Croatian militia during the conflict in the Balkans. READ »

Swedish coach overturns in Austria

National: 17 Dec 06
At least 30 passengers were injured, though none seriously, when a coach from Malmö overturned outside Salzburg in Austria early on Sunday morning. READ »

Arklöv on trial for Bosnia torture

National: 10 Nov 06
Swede Jackie Arklöv has gone on trial in Stockholm accused of torturing eleven Bosnian Muslims while fighting as a mercenary for the Bosnian-Croatian army. His lawyer says he'll plead guilty to most charges. READ »

Plavsic asks Sweden for pardon

National: 25 Oct 06
Former Bosnian Serb president and war criminal Biljana Plavisc, who serving her sentence in a Swedish jail, has asked the authorities in Sweden for a pardon. READ »

Carl Bildt: biography

Politics: 6 Oct 06
In picking Carl Bildt to be foreign minister in his newly-elected government, Swedish premier Fredrik Reinfeldt chose a man who not only has major diplomatic experience in Europe but has also done Reinfeldt's own job. READ »

Swede "appeared on terror video"

National: 25 Sep 06
One of two masked men on a videotape threatening to carry out terror attacks in Europe was apparently the 19 year old Swede currently being held in Bosnia. READ »

Russians under spotlight over doping find

National: 15 Aug 06
Russian athletes competing in the European Championships in Gothenburg have been signalled out in the media as potential culprits for alleged drug-taking, after syringes were found on Monday. READ »

Swedish police killer charged with Bosnia torture

National: 14 Jul 06
Jackie Arklöv, currently serving a life sentence for murdering two policemen in Malexander in 1999, was charged on Friday with crimes against international law in Bosnia. READ »

Trial of 'terror Swede' begins in Bosnia

National: 26 Jun 06
The trial of Swede Mirsad Bektasevic began on Monday in Sarajevo. The 19-year old is said to have had a bomb belt, a gun and a detonator in his apartment in Bosnia. READ »

Fifth spot in Eurovision for Carola

National: 21 May 06
The song was 'Invincible', but Carola wasn't. She failed to live up to the billing of favourite, while Finnish monster rockers Lordi turned the contest on its head as they romped to victory. READ »

Carola breezes through to Eurovision final

National: 19 May 06
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To the enormous relief of Eurovisionophile Sweden, Carola and her wind machine have battled their way through to Saturday's final. READ »

Police killer facing international crimes charge

National: 13 May 06
A Swede found guilty of murdering two police officers in the town of Malexander in 1999 is to be tried for crimes against international law, for his activities in Bosnia in 1993. READ »

Brit wants musical to challenge prejudice

Lifestyle: 12 May 06
Immigration and anti-capitalist riots are the big issues in an English musical opening in Stockholm this weekend. "I want conservative people to fall in love with my immigrants," says the British politician who wrote the play. READ »

Sweden's population surges

Society: 11 May 06
Sweden's population is growing faster than at any time during the last twelve years, according to figures released on Thursday. READ »

Swede denies Bosnian terror charges

National: 3 May 06
A 19-year old from Sweden has appeared in a Bosnian court to deny charges that he planned a terror attack in another European country. READ »

Three men 'planned terror attack on church'

National: 3 May 06
Three men have been charged with planning a terror attack on the Word of Life church in Uppsala, in the first ever prosecution for terrorist offences intended to take place on Swedish territory. READ »

Swedish terror suspect 'planned attack on EU force'

National: 19 Apr 06
A young Swedish man being held in Sarajevo on suspicion of terrorism was planning an attack on an EU military base in Bosnia, claim police in the country. READ »

Stockholm Syndrome: Sporting loyalty

Analysis & Opinion: 1 Mar 06
Sweden's success in the Winter Olympics turns a diverse bunch of immigrants into yellow-and-blue-flag-waving vikings (sort of) - but does that make them any more Swedish? READ »

Bird flu reaches Sweden

Science & Technology: 28 Feb 06
Bird flu 'doesn't worry Swedes'
An aggressive form of bird flu has been found in Sweden. The virus was found in wild birds near Oskarshamn, in Småland in the south of the country. "Serious but not unexpected," says Sweden's agriculture minister. READ »

Editorial: We?re not immune from terror

Analysis & Opinion: 15 Dec 05
Sweden feels like an oasis from terror. But with an 'al-Qaeda' petrol bomb attack in Kista and Swedes accused of terror offences, anyone who thinks Sweden is above all that is deluded. READ »

Gulf between immigrants on job market

National: 9 Dec 05
Sweden's job market looks very different for a Briton than it does for a Somalian. Whereas only 13 percent of Somalians had a job, 57 percent of Brits did. And Americans were trailing on 43 percent. READ »

Bosnian war criminal transferred to Swedish jail

National: 25 Nov 05
The UN war crimes court in The Hague said on Friday that the Bosnian Serb politician convicted of crimes against humanity has been transferred to Sweden to serve his 10-year sentence. READ »

Stockholm Syndrome: It's not what you say...

Analysis & Opinion: 25 Nov 05
...it's the way that you say it. That's our Stockholm Syndrome correspondent's conclusion after two new teachers' accents have very different effects on his Swedish class. READ »

Swedish court charges 16 with human trafficking

Smörgåsbord: 23 Nov 05
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Prosecutor questions Swedish terror suspect

National: 21 Nov 05
A prosecutor from Sweden is travelling to Bosnia to question an 18-year old Swedish citizen arrested there suspected of planning a terrorist attack. The suspect claims he had collected explosives and guns "out of curiosity". READ »

Swedish terror suspect "visited al-Zarqawi"

National: 18 Nov 05
The Swedish teenager being held in Sarajevo on suspicion of terrorist offences visited the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, according to the British newspaper The Times. READ »

Swedish teen in 'White House terror plot'

National: 10 Nov 05
A Swedish teenager being held in Sarajevo was part of a gang that planned to blow up the White House, Bosnian media are reporting. He has been identified as a radical Islamist known as Maximus, they say. READ »

Swedish terror suspect investigated

National: 4 Nov 05
A Bosnian court has opened an investigation into a Swede and a Turk arrested in Sarajevo last month on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack. Over the past week, police in Denmark have arrested seven men in connection with the two men. READ »

Swede "planned suicide attack"

National: 28 Oct 05
Police in Sarajevo say the Swede held on terror charges was to be a suicide bomber. On Thursday four men suspected of helping him were arrested by Danish police, who say that the target was "somewhere in Europe". READ »

Swede arrested in Bosnia terror threat

National: 21 Oct 05
A Swede has been arrested in Bosnia along with two others suspected preparing a terrorist attack. Newspapers say one of the men had planned a suicide attack against "an embassy of an EU country". READ »

Sweden willing to imprison more war criminals

National: 19 Jun 05
More war criminals from the former Yugoslavia could join the former Bosnian Serb president in Swedish jails, says justice minister Thomas Bodström. But Sweden is not willing to house Saddam Hussein. READ »

Swede with EU agency in Bosnia attacked

Smörgåsbord: 21 Apr 05
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Swedish soldiers in major NATO exercise

National: 5 Mar 05
Nord-Trøndelag in Norway is turned into an area rife with "minority clashes and threats of ethnic cleansing" for an international military training session. 700 Swedish soldiers are taking part - but not in the sensitive stuff. READ »

Housing company's blacklist "illegal"

National: 17 Feb 05
Wrong colour? Dodgy nationality? Beaten by your boyfriend? If you live in Malmö in an MKB flat, the chances are your landlord has a dossier on you. "Illegal" says the Data Inspection Board, but MKB bosses could still escape prosecution. READ »

"Thousands blacklisted" in Malmö property scandal

National: 25 Jan 05
'Black with a French accent', 'Bosnian', 'has a brother who's a real troublemaker', 'has been beaten by her husband' - just some of the reasons why Malmö property company MKB has allegedly stopped thousands of tenants from hiring an apartment. READ »

New chairman for Ordfront

Lifestyle: 8 Sep 04
Ordfront, one of Sweden's largest cultural organisations, changes boss after internal battles and external attacks threatened its reputation. READ »

Nine million Swedes - and counting

Society: 13 Aug 04
Sweden goes population crazy as the big nine-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh is breached. Cue legions of journalists in maternity wards pacing up and down like expectant fathers. READ »

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