A Swedish town with a large concentration of Iraqi immigrants played host on Thursday to a unique fair designed to provide information about the United States to prospective job seekers.
The US embassy in Sweden has announced a unique partnership with the city of Södertälje to help the city’s young people learn more about opportunities for work and study in the United States.
A 39-year-old man who has confessed to the killing of teenager Norba Haddad is to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, Södertälje district court has ruled.
For many Christian Iraqis who have found a safe haven in Sweden, integrating into a strange new culture is a trying process. But their churches, present in Sweden for decades, play a big role in easing the way.
Södertälje mayor Anders Lago received praise while in Washington this week from US presidential candidate Barack Obama and other members of congress for how well his city has handled its influx of Iraqi refugees.
Social Democratic Party Leader Mona Sahlin doesn’t believe that refugees should decide for themselves where to live for the first one or two years they are in Sweden.
Police are hunting three men who are suspected of shooting dead a 26-year-old man in the Geneta area of Södertälje on Thursday evening. Several people witnessed the incident.
A large police presence presence was called to the Hovsjö estate in Södertälje on Thursday evening as a period marked by fighting and stone-throwing reached its peak.
Police believe they have identified a body found in a lake near the eastern town of Södertälje on Sunday. A handbag discovered nearby has linked the body to a local woman who went missing last autumn.
Riot police were needed on Sunday to protect the referee in a play-off match between Assyriska and Bunkeflo, at Assyriska's home ground in Södertälje. A section of furious home supporters threw glass bottles and seat legs at match officials, while others invaded the pitch.
A Securitas secure cash delivery was robbed by two armed men on Thursday afternoon in Södertälje, south of Stockholm, in the same spot that a similar attack took place in March.
