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Suicide bomber lived off Swedish student aid

National: 18 Feb 13
Stockholm suicide bomber Taimour Abdulwahab received more money from the Swedish state than from his terrorist financiers, including a 54,000-kronor ($8,550) payout made after he bled to death in his failed terror bid. READ »

Sweden likely to drop suicide bombing probe

National: 8 Dec 12
The investigation into the 2010 terror attack in central Stockholm will likely be dropped next year, according to prosecutor Agneta Hilding Qvarnström. READ »

Menni guilty of funding Stockholm bombing: jury

National: 20 Jul 12
Nasserdine Menni, accused of being an accomplice to Stockholm suicide bomber Taimour Abdulwahab, has been found guilty by a Scottish jury of funding the attack. READ »

Global arms spending flat in 2011: Swedish think tank sees

Business & Money: 4 Jun 12
World military spending remained the same last year for the first time in 14 years, yet the Swedish think tank SIPRI claims that the global nuclear threat stays strong. READ »

Stockholm bombing trial begins for 'accomplice'

National: 3 May 12
The trial for Nasserdine Menni, the man who is accused of conspiring with Taimour Abdulwahab in Stockholm's botched bombing attack in December, 2010, began in Glasgow on Wednesday. READ »

Stockholm suicide bombing trial begins

National: 30 Apr 12
Nazzedine Menni, the student who allegedly helped plan the suicide bomb attack in Stockholm in 2010, stands trial in Glasgow on Monday for what is anticipated to be a 12 week court case. READ »

‘We have no control over the plutonium’: agency

Business & Money: 27 Apr 12
When Sweden recently shipped plutonium to the US, foreign minister Carl Bildt said that it was to be destroyed. But according to radiation safety experts, Sweden no longer has any control over what happens with the substance. READ »

Sweden secretly shipped plutonium to US: Bildt

Politics: 27 Mar 12
Sweden recently carried out a secret operation in which three kilogrammes of plutonium was shipped to the United States for disposal, foreign minister Carl Bildt divulged on Tuesday. READ »

'No evidence bomber belonged to al-Qaeda'

National: 7 Dec 11
An unexploded bomb was left in the car of Stockholm suicide bomber Taimour Abdulwahab, investigators said on Wednesday, adding that there was nothing to indicate he was a member of the al-Qaeda terror network. READ »

Stockholm bomber's widow arrested in UK

National: 14 Sep 11
A 28-year-old woman reported to be the wife of Stockholm suicide bomber Taimour Abdulwahab was arrested in the UK on Tuesday as part of an ongoing investigation into the attack. READ »

Nuclear weapons threat remains high: study

National: 7 Jun 11
Swedish think tank SIPRI warns in a new report that meaningful nuclear disarmament remains unlikely in the near future, observing that 5,000 nuclear weapons are currently deployed worldwide. READ »

Stockholm bomb suspect appears in UK court

National: 15 Mar 11
A 30-year-old man arrested in Glasgow in connection with a suicide bombing in Stockholm in December appeared in a British court on Monday charged with terrorism offences. READ »

UK police charge man over Stockholm bomb

National: 14 Mar 11
Police in Scotland have confirmed that they have charged a 30-year-old man with terror crimes in connection with the suicide bombing in Stockholm in December. READ »

UK suspect 'financier' behind Stockholm bomb

National: 11 Mar 11
The man who is being held in Glasgow on suspicion of being an accomplice in a suicide bombing in Stockholm in December is thought to have been the financier behind the attack, according to Scottish media. READ »

Man held in the UK over Stockholm suicide bomb

National: 8 Mar 11
Police in Scotland have confirmed that a man has been arrested in connection with the suicide bombing in Stockholm in December. READ »

No sign Stockholm bomber had help: Säpo

National: 10 Feb 11
Sweden's intelligence agency announced on Thursday that there are no indications that the man behind Sweden's first suicide bombing had any accomplices. READ »

YouTube post suggests bomber had help: report

National: 3 Jan 11
A message posted on a YouTube account belonging to the Stockholm suicide bomber two days after he blew himself up suggests he had accomplices, media reported Monday. READ »

'He was a normal Muslim': bomber's wife

National: 3 Jan 11
The wife of the man who blew himself up in a busy shopping district in Stockholm said in an interview on Sunday she had no idea her husband was plotting a terror attack. READ »

Sweden could be a 'catalyst of understanding' after attack

Analysis & Opinion: 21 Dec 10
While Sweden is left asking why after experiencing its first suicide bombing, Fulbright scholar and US Muslim Dr. Abdul-Majeed Azad calls on the country to deploy its history of neutrality to build bridges across Europe to defeat the radicalisation of Muslim youth. READ »

Sweden probes suicide bomber's Facebook

National: 17 Dec 10
Sweden's intelligence agency said Friday it was looking at the Facebook account of the man behind the suicide bomb attack in Stockholm on Saturday in order to identify possible accomplices in the act. READ »

Bomber linked to radical preacher: report

National: 16 Dec 10
The man who carried out Sweden's first suicide bombing in central Stockholm on Saturday is thought to have had ties to radical Muslim preacher Abu Hamza, according to media reports. READ »

Sweden attack shows more needed to combat extremism: UK PM

Politics: 15 Dec 10
UK Prime Minister David Cameron admitted on Wednesday that his country needed to do more to fight domestic Islamic extremism following reports that a Swedish suicide bomber lived and studied northwest of London. READ »

Swedish police probe bomber's accomplices

National: 15 Dec 10
Swedish investigators are continuing their hunt for possible accomplices of a suicide bomber who narrowly missed causing serious damage in Stockholm on Saturday afternoon as police boosted their presence in the city. READ »

'Mass casualties' narrowly avoided: Bildt

Politics: 14 Dec 10
The suicide bomber who blew himself up in downtown Stockholm on Saturday was within minutes of unleashing untold carnage among holiday shoppers, foreign minister Carl Bildt said on Monday. READ »

Sweden bomber 'friendly' immigrant turned radical

National: 13 Dec 10
The man suspected of being the suicide bomber behind two Stockholm bombings on Saturday was described on Monday as an ordinary friendly young immigrant to Sweden who drastically changed after moving to the UK to study. READ »

Sweden bomber fulfilled al-Qaeda threat: will

National: 13 Dec 10
The man suspected of carrying out Saturday's bomb attacks in Stockholm claimed in a purported will that he was fulfilling a threat by al-Qaeda in Iraq to attack Sweden, a terror monitoring group said on Monday. READ »

UK police search home of Swedish suicide bomber

National: 13 Dec 10
British police are continuing the search of a home northwest of London on Monday in connection with Saturday's bombings in Stockholm in light of reports that the perpetrator used to live in the area. READ »

Bomber believed to be former sports student

National: 12 Dec 10
Saturday’s suicide attack in Stockholm is believed to have been carried out by a 29-year-old man from the town of Tranås in southern Sweden, who studied sports science in England. READ »

UK road runner Swede jailed over stabbing

National: 27 Nov 09
A Swedish woman has been jailed by a UK court for the manslaughter of a man she met shortly after she and her twin sister made a dash into oncoming traffic on the M6 motorway. READ »

Swedes meet detained US journalists in North Korea

Politics: 17 May 09
The Swedish ambassador to North Korea met two detained US journalists on Friday, the first such contact in six weeks, a senior US official said. READ »

Safety check forces Swedish nuke plant shutdown

Science & Technology: 21 Oct 08
Sweden shut down one of its nuclear reactors on Tuesday to check the plant's control rods after cracks were found in the rods at an identical plant, the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) reports. READ »

Protesters demonstrate against A-bomb waste

Science & Technology: 1 Oct 07
A ship has arrived at a plant in eastern Sweden to collect waste from Sweden's nuclear weapons programme for transport to a British reprocessing plant. Greepeace is protesting against the shipment. READ »

Greenpeace slams nuclear weapon waste export

Science & Technology: 20 Jul 07
Sweden's government has come under fire from Greenpeace for exporting weapons-grade plutonium to Britain's Sellafield plant (pictured) for processing. READ »

Ryanair cancels London flights after snow

National: 8 Feb 07
Heavy snow in southern England has led to the cancellation of flights between Sweden and London. READ »

Ryanair launches new London and Dublin lines

National: 18 Oct 06
Irish low-cost airline Ryanair is to launch new routes from Västerås airport to London Stansted and Dublin, following the new government's axing of plans for a new flight tax. READ »

Ryanair scraps Sweden lines over flight tax

Business & Money: 15 Mar 06
The low-cost airline says some routes from Stockholm Västerås and Malmö Sturup will be closed if the government's proposed 100 kr tax on flights is passed this summer. READ »

Security police to hunt terrorists in Swedish schools

National: 24 Jan 06
Säpo wants informers in schools, the social services and associations to help track Muslim extremists who could be recruited to terrorism. We're not the police, say teachers' unions. Stupid, undemocratic and racist, says the Left Party. READ »

Svennis accuses English clubs of "corruption"

Sport: 22 Jan 06
More hot water for England's football manager, Sven-Göran Eriksson, on Sunday morning. A British tabloid has printed more indiscreet comments from its 'sting' with the highest-paid Swede in football. READ »

Environmentalists slam Swedish nuclear waste export

National: 6 Aug 05
For the first time in over 20 years, Sweden is to send nuclear waste for reprocessing at the much-criticised Sellafield plant in England. "There's no alternative," says environment minister Lena Sommestad. READ »

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