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The latest news, updates and features on Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Its capital is Stockholm, with other major cities including Gothenburg and Malmo. Sweden is located in the Scandinavia region, and shares borders with Norway and Finland.

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A row of overwater villas as Granada Luxury Belek, Turkey, lit from inside at dusk.

The best destinations with Maldives-style water villas – and five are in Europe

Channel: Travel Travel March 17, 2025 By Ellie Hutchings
A pink suitcase with a white sunhat on top on a white sandy beach under a blue sky.

11 weird laws from around the world – and six impact European holidays

Channel: Travel Travel March 15, 2025 By Ellie Hutchings

Heir to crisp bread fortune killed in plane crash

Channel: World World March 12, 2025 By Sarah Hooper
Police officers are seen outside the Israeli embassy in Stockholm, January 31, 2024. A hand grenade was found near the Israeli embassy in Stockholm, Sweden on Wednesday, the explosive device was destroyed by the National Bomb Squad. (Photo by Henrik MONTGOMERY / TT News Agency / AFP) / Sweden OUT (Photo by HENRIK MONTGOMERY/TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images)

Three people arrested near Israeli embassy after 'attack plot'

Channel: World World February 21, 2025 By Luke Alsford
Play Video Carla Sehn as officer Hanna wearing a puffa jacket in the snow in Netflix thriller The Are Murders.

Netflix is just days away from dropping your next Nordic noir obsession

Channel: TV TV February 4, 2025 By Ruth Lawes
Comp of suspect on left, flowers at the bottom, and survivor top right

School shooting survivor winces as bullets fire around him while hiding in toilet

Channel: World World February 5, 2025 By Gergana Krasteva
Play Video Salwan Momika, an anti-Islam activist, gestures as he speaks, in Malmo, Sweden, September 3, 2023. TT News Agency/Johan Nilsson via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. SWEDEN OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN SWEDEN.

Serial Koran burner ‘shot dead in his flat during TikTok livestream’

Channel: World World January 30, 2025 By Brooke Davies
A man reading the Swedish war pamphlet In Case of Crisis Or War.

UK should learn from Sweden's war pamphlet after 'immediate' Russia threat, warns minister

Channel: Politics Politics January 22, 2025 By Noora Mykkanen
A Rabbit Hole

'My date drugged me, kidnapped me and kept me trapped in an underground bunker’

Channel: World World January 18, 2025 By Sarah Ingram
A view of a red train on a snow covered bridge in Switzerland

The European holiday spots giving freebies for travelling by train

Channel: Travel Travel January 10, 2025 By Ellie Hutchings
Swedish rapper Gaboro shot dead in car park, local media reports

Swedish rapper Gaboro 'shot dead in car park'

Channel: Music Music December 21, 2024 By Pierra Willix
A view of a lake surrounded by mountains in Banff, Canada

The coolcation is the hottest new travel trend – here’s 5 destinations to visit

Channel: Travel Travel January 13, 2025 By Ellie Hutchings
People look at fireworks during the inauguration of the traditional Gavle Goat on November 29, 2015 in Gavle, Sweden. It is a giant version of a traditional Swedish Yule Goat figure made of straw, and is erected each year at the beginning of Advent. AFP PHOTO / TT NEWS AGENCY / MATS ASTRAND SWEDEN OUT / AFP / TT NEWS AGENCY / MATS ASTRAND/TT (Photo credit should read MATS ASTRAND/TT/AFP via Getty Images)

The mysterious legend of the most hunted Christmas animal

Channel: Travel Travel December 10, 2024 By Eleanor Noyce
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Christine Olsson/TT/Shutterstock (14951034c) Crown Princess Victoria arrives at Formas' conference on oceans and water in Stockholm, Sweden, November 28, 2024. Crown Princess Victoria Formas Conference, Stockholm, Sweden - 28 Nov 2024

Man arrested outside Swedish Princess' home with handcuffs, tape and dummy gun

Channel: World World December 5, 2024 By Gergana Krasteva
A general view of a first part of a system dubbed East Shield

How Nato is preparing for war with £2,000,000,000 'shield' on Russia border

Channel: World World November 30, 2024 By Gergana Krasteva
Storm De Beul in a tent

YouTuber's final tragic message to family before freezing to death in snowstorm

Channel: World World November 28, 2024 By Gergana Krasteva
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Inside the 'skier's paradise' with the world's only ski-thru McDonald's

Channel: Travel Travel November 23, 2024 By Jessica Hamilton
Sweden's Minister for Civil Defence Carl-Oskar Bohlin presents Sweden's war pamphlet.

Sweden tells 5,000,000 households 'how to survive WWIII' in new war pamphlet

Channel: World World November 19, 2024 By Noora Mykkanen
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Headache for Ruben Amorim as Man Utd defender picks up injury on international duty

Channel: Football Football November 17, 2024 By Phil Haigh
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Politician's crippling fear of bananas means she can't be in a room with one

Channel: World World November 15, 2024 By Jasper King

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