A 25-year-old woman was found dead over the weekend after a search in Salem, southwest of Stockholm. A 26-year-old suspect with previous convictions has been detained on suspicion of murder.
Sweden's top prosecutor on Thursday said there was not enough evidence against a man the authorites had named as the chief suspect in the 1986 killing of prime minister Olof Palme.
Swedish Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer called the country's parliamentary parties to a joint meeting to discuss measures to fight gang crime on Wednesday, after the opposition Social Democrats called for the Moderates to join them in a ten-year pact to end the problem.
Sweden's government has proposed changing the constitution to allow dual citizens convicted of "crimes that seriously harm Sweden’s vital interests” to be stripped of their Swedish citizenship, saying the measure would allow gang criminals to be deported.
Two districts in Stockholm and four in Malmö classed as "especially vulnerable" by police have seen less crime in 2025, according to a biennial assessment by Swedish police. But two districts in Gothenburg and Borås have seen the situation worsen.
The Swedish government warned on Friday that it would take action against e-commerce platforms that sell childlike sex dolls after a complaint was made against major player Amazon and two others.
Sweden's news media trade body, Utgivarna, has reported Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg to the police for fake adverts posted on his company's social media platform Facebook, which purport to be from Swedish media companies or their journalists.
A court in Luxembourg on Thursday handed a Swedish white supremacist a two-year jail sentence for plotting several "terrorist" attacks, including against the Eurovision Song Contest.
Sweden's migration minister said Thursday that the country would cooperate with Damascus to increase deportations of Syrians convicted of crimes in Sweden, saying it was a condition for some aid.
A man hired for a grenade attack got cold feet at the last minute when he realised the target was the Israeli embassy in Denmark, he told a Copenhagen court, with the bombs finally being lobbed into the yard of a neighbouring house.
Sweden on Thursday charged a 23-year-old Swedish-Syrian man with several "terrorist crimes", including attempts to travel to Somalia to join the Islamic State (IS) group, prosecutors said.
An 18-year-old man on trial for plotting a terrorist attack admitted on Tuesday to planning a bombing at a large cultural festival in Stockholm, his lawyer said.
A Stockholm court on Tuesday jailed four men for hate crimes for assaulting immigrants in a case that has shone a spotlight on a growing European movement of white-supremacist fitness clubs.
A Stockholm court will give a verdict on Tuesday for four men accused of assaulting immigrants in a case that has shone a spotlight on a growing European movement of white supremacist fitness clubs.
A majority of authorities and organisations consulted on the Swedish government's plans to lower the age of criminal responsibility from 15 to 13 opposed the plans, as the deadline for input expired Wednesday.
A Danish court put two Swedish teenagers on trial on terrorism charges for having thrown two hand grenades at the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen last year.
A Swedish child rights organisation has filed a police report against Amazon and two other e-commerce platforms over the sale of sex dolls with a childlike appearance.
A quarter of Sweden's elected politicians suffered threats or harassment last year, and a quarter of those affected contemplated leaving as a result, a new report showed on Thursday.
There are as many as 17,500 active gang criminals in Sweden, according to a new estimate from the Swedish police, with a further 50,000 people seen as more loosely connected to the country's gangs.
Being the victim of a crime in Sweden can be distressing, especially if you’re not sure who to turn to. But reporting it to the police is essential and doesn't have to be as complicated as it may seem.
Swedish prosecutors charged an 18-year-old on Thursday for planning a "serious terrorist attack" on a cultural festival in Stockholm in the name of the Islamic State group.
Prosecutors on Tuesday called for jail terms of four-and-a-half years for three men on trial in Sweden, accused of assaulting immigrants in a case that has revealed the growing trend of white supremacists banding together in fitness clubs.
A Swedish cleaning firm made a grim discovery on All Saints weekend when they found a human skull inside a ceramic stove while cleaning a home in Vadstena.
Four men went on trial on Thursday in Sweden accused of hate crimes for assaulting immigrants, a case that centres on a growing trend in Europe for white supremacists to band together in fitness clubs.
