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'Opinion Taliban', 'tree murder' make 2011 new Swedish word list

Education: 29 Dec 11
Words inspired by flip-flopping politicians and mobile phone apps, as well as creative terms for opinionated people are among the newest and topical Swedish words, according to the Swedish Language Council's annual list. READ »

WikiLeaks and Julian Assange: a timeline

Analysis & Opinion: 2 Nov 11
A timeline of WikiLeak's rise to prominence and subsequent attempts to clamp down on the site and extradite its founder, Julian Assange, who on Wednesday lost an appeal of his extradition to Sweden to answer questions sex crimes accusations. READ »

Norway killer bought bomb parts in Sweden

Politics: 26 Jul 11
A core ingredient for the bomb which ripped through the government buildings in Oslo, Norway last Friday was bought in Sweden, while the government has proposed a review of the sale of fertilizer, another ingredient in the bomb. READ »

Sweden's Afghan forces face increased threat

National: 5 May 11
The threat facing Swedish troops stationed in Afghanistan has been ratcheted up following a call by the Taliban for a spring offensive against foreign troops. READ »

Swedish UN worker dead after Afghanistan demo

National: 1 Apr 11
A 33-year-old Swedish man was among a number of United Nations personnel killed in Afghanistan on Friday after a demonstration turned violent in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif. READ »

Halal or Haram? A new council gives advice to Muslims in Sweden

Analysis & Opinion: 14 Mar 11
The newly-formed Swedish Fatwa Council sets out to help Muslims in Sweden seeking advice about how to live in accordance with Islam, but not everyone is convinced the group is necessary, The Local's Karen Holst discovers. READ »

Swede suspects once arrested in Pakistan

National: 30 Dec 10
Two of the Swedish citizens arrested following a foiled terror plot against a Danish newspaper have previously been arrested in Pakistan. READ »

Charges against Assange 'not political': prosecutor

Politics: 6 Dec 10
A Swedish prosecutor investigating the rape allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange denied speculation from one of his lawyers Sunday that the case is politically motivated. READ »

Dead soldier returns home to Sweden

National: 20 Oct 10
The body of Kenneth Wallin, the 22-year-old Swedish soldier killed in Afghanistan on Saturday, returned home to Sweden on Tuesday evening, as further Swedes came under fire in the war-torn country. READ »

Swedish soldier killed in Afghanistan

National: 16 Oct 10
A Swedish soldier was killed in Afghanistan on Saturday when an armoured vehicle was blown up by a improvised explosive device west of Mazar-i-Sharif. READ »

More attacks on Swedish troops in Afghanistan

National: 7 Oct 10
Swedish troops in Afghanistan have been involved in over 30 firefights and 15 bomb attacks since May, calling in Nato air support on ten occasions, according to a media report. READ »

Sweden tries to rein in religion at free schools

Analysis & Opinion: 6 Oct 10
While Sweden’s 'free schools' have inspired education authorities in other countries to explore similar approaches, the Swedish model is not without its problems, explains contributor Nils Adler. READ »

Election Q&A: the Left Party

Analysis & Opinion: 15 Sep 10
The Local has a quick Q&A with the Left Party's Stefan Kudryk to learn more about the party's stance on a few key issues. READ »

Assange: Pentagon could be behind rape claim

National: 22 Aug 10
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has speculated that the Pentagon could be behind a rape accusation that prompted Swedish prosecutors to issue a warrant for his arrest which was later withdrawn. READ »

WikiLeaks not shielded by Swedish law: experts

National: 7 Aug 10
Swedish legal experts have revealed that the website WikiLeaks may not be covered by Swedish whistleblower protection laws despite having its servers located just outside Stockholm. READ »

Bildt urges civilian changes in Afghanistan

Politics: 21 Jul 10
Civilian changes are needed in Afghanistan in order to achieve the security objectives outlined at a donor conference in Kabul, Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said late on Tuesday. READ »

Rocket attack forces Bildt to divert

Politics: 20 Jul 10
Sweden’s foreign minister, Carl Bildt, was delayed during a visit to Kabul after a rocket attack on the city’s airport forced his plane to divert - just one kilometre from the runway. READ »

'We killed Swedish soldiers': Taliban

National: 11 Feb 10
The Taliban has claimed that it was behind the attack that killed two Swedish solders and their Afghan interpreter on Sunday. READ »

Swedish soldiers killed by 'Afghan police'

National: 8 Feb 10
Military police are conducting an investigation into reports that the two Swedish military officers killed in Afghanistan on Sunday were attacked by a police officer. READ »

Swede awarded UN top job in Afghanistan

National: 28 Jan 10
Long-serving Swedish diplomat Staffan de Mistura has been appointed by UN chief Ban Ki-moon as his new envoy to Afghanistan. READ »

Afghan teens dumped in Swedish forest

National: 28 Dec 09
Five chilled and hungry Afghan teenagers stumbled into a southern Swedish town on Christmas Eve after being left by smugglers in a deserted stretch of forest days earlier, a priest who had taken them in said Sunday. READ »

Lawyers explain Pakistan trip by 'Guantánamo Swede'

National: 23 Nov 09
Lawyers representing a former Swedish terror suspect who spent time in the United States’ Guantánamo Bay prison, claim their client was not traveling to any trouble spots when he was arrested in Pakistan in August. READ »

Liberals call for lower taxes at party congress

Politics: 20 Nov 09
Liberal party leader Jan Björklund has rallied members during a speech at the party conference in Växjö calling for lower taxes, developments in nuclear power production and for Sweden to adopt the euro as its currency. READ »

Teens sign up for jihad at Stockholm youth centre

National: 11 Nov 09
Swedish taxpayers helped fund a youth recreation centre in the north Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby which served as a recruiting station for the Somalia-based Islamist group al-Shabaab. READ »

Afghanistan must bridge credibility gap: Bildt

Politics: 11 Nov 09
With Kabul's credibility "bordering disaster", Swedish foreign minster Carl Bildt has called on Hamid Karzai to instigate widespread reforms during his second term as president of Afghanistan. READ »

Pakistan Swedes arrive home

National: 11 Oct 09
The four Swedes deported from Pakistan arrived at Stockholm Arlanda airport late on Saturday night. They were met by plain clothes police and appeared tired from their ordeal. READ »

Terror suspect Swedes freed from Pakistan

National: 10 Oct 09
The Swedish foreign ministry has confirmed that four Swedish citizens, arrested in Pakistan in August as terrorist suspects, have been released and put on a flight to Stockholm. READ »

Pakistan to free Swede held in terror probe

National: 7 Oct 09
The 19-year-old Safia Benaouda and her two-year-old son, who have been imprisoned in Pakistan since August, are to be released “shortly”, according to the Swedish foreign ministry. READ »

Sweden looks to boost Afghanistan force

Politics: 30 Sep 09
Sweden wants to send more troops to Afghanistan after an assessment by the Armed Forces concluded that the current force of 500 soldiers is too small. READ »

Mystery grows over whereabouts of Pakistan Swedes

National: 27 Sep 09
The Swedish embassy in Islamabad has denied that 19-year-old Safia Benaouda and her two-year-old son have been released by the Pakistani authorities, as reports continue to circulate indicating their imminent return to Sweden. READ »

Swedish officials meet suspects in Pakistan terror probe

National: 23 Sep 09
Official from Sweden's embassy in Islamabad have met with four Swedish terror suspects currently detained in a Pakistani prison, the foreign ministry announced on Wednesday. READ »

Terror suspect Swedes still detained: Pakistan

National: 16 Sep 09
Pakistan’s foreign ministry on Wednesday confirmed that four Swedish citizens are sitting in prison in the capital Islamabad, three weeks after their arrest in the north of the country. READ »

Afghanistan talks should be held in Kabul: Bildt

Politics: 15 Sep 09
Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt has said the EU would like to see Kabul host an impending international conference on Afghanistan's future. READ »

Four Swedes in Pakistan terror probe

National: 14 Sep 09
Sweden's foreign ministry confirmed on Monday that four Swedish citizens - three adults and a child - are being held in Pakistan, where authorities are investigating whether the group has ties to Al-Qaeda. READ »

'Guantánamo Swede' arrested in Pakistan

National: 11 Sep 09
One of the three Swedish nationals arrested nearly two weeks ago in Pakistan is Mehdi Ghezali, a former terror suspect who was released from the United States’ Guantánamo Bay prison in 2004. READ »

Troops ransack Afghan hospital: Swedish charity

National: 7 Sep 09
A Swedish charity has claimed that foreign troops entered its hospital in Afghanistan, smashed doors and tied up staff and patients' relatives, violating agreements between aid workers and the military. READ »

'No time line for Afghanistan exit': Bildt

Politics: 1 Sep 09
The international community will not leave Afghanistan until the country has undergone a secure transition, Sweden's foreign minister Carl Bildt said on Tuesday. READ »

Taliban commander: 'Swedes will be killed'

National: 29 Jul 09
A regional Taliban commander has warned that Swedes serving in Afghanistan will be the target of reprisals following the killing of three of the guerrilla group’s fighters by Swedish troops last week. READ »

Afghan teens in Swedish asylum limbo

National: 29 Jul 09
A wave of teenage Afghan refugees has arrived in Malmö and other Swedish cities in recent weeks. Many remain in limbo as most Swedish municipalities refuse to accept them. READ »

Bildt to meet Holbrooke in Kabul ahead of elections

National: 25 Jul 09
While Swedish troops stationed at Aqchah in northern Afghanistan on Thursday night battled in a firefight with opposing forces, Foreign Minister Carl Bildt was in Kabul on Friday to join US regional envoy Richard Holbrooke for a pre-election assessment trip. READ »

'Anti-Semitism on the rise in Sweden'

Analysis & Opinion: 9 Feb 09
An ugly wave of anti-Semitism is on the rise in Sweden, and politicians who compare Israel with Nazi Germany or apartheid-era South Africa cannot claim to be free of responsibility, writes David Stavrou, a freelance Israeli journalist based in Sweden. READ »

Father-in-law appeals over al-Qaeda libel

National: 19 Dec 08
A man who told the FBI that his son-in-law had links to al-Qaeda is appealing his conviction for libel to Sweden’s Supreme Court. READ »

More under-age Afghan refugees coming to Sweden

Society: 20 Jul 08
The number of under-age Afghan refugees seeking asylum in Sweden without their parents has gone up significantly within the last two years. READ »

The hidden lives of Sweden’s undocumented migrants

Analysis & Opinion: 9 Jul 08
Sweden has taken in thousands of asylum seekers in recent year. But not all have had their applications accepted. Faisal Enayat Khan describes his encounters with just a handful of Sweden's estimated 15,000 undocumented migrants. READ »

Snoop agency head: 'They should stand up for us'

Politics: 28 Jun 08
The director of the Swedish National Defence Radio Establishment (FRA), Ingvar Åkesson is disappointed at the level of government support. READ »

Former Guantanamo prisoner deported

National: 19 Jun 08
A former Guantanamo Bay prisoner from China is to be deported from Sweden, according to a decision by the Swedish Migration Board. READ »

Sweden sets sights on new snoop law

Analysis & Opinion: 11 Jun 08
As Sweden's parliament prepares to pass a controversial new surveillance law, Faisal Enayat Khan takes a closer look at the development of a far-reaching tapping scheme. READ »

Sweden sends extra troops to Afghanistan

National: 22 May 08
Sweden will send a rifle platoon of 27 soldiers to Afghanistan in the coming days, bringing the number of Swedish troops in the country to 375. READ »

Sweden to send more troops to Afghanistan

National: 30 Nov 05
Days after a Swedish soldier dies in Afghanistan, the government announces plans to increase the number of troops in the region from 100 to almost 400. READ »

Swedish soldier dies in Afghanistan

Smörgåsbord: 26 Nov 05
One of four Swedish soldiers wounded in a bomb attack in northern Afghanistan has died of his injuries. Another Swedish peacekeeper is in a serious condition in hospital after the explosion in Mazar-i-Sharif. READ »

Earth, Wind and Fire

Business & Money: 30 Apr 04
As memories of Chernobyl fade and electricity prices rise, Swedes warm to nuclear power. READ »

20 things to know before moving to Sweden

As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »

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