
Nov 3 – Police forcibly removed about 100 people from a makeshift Roma camp in Sweden’s southern city of Malmo early on Tuesday, ending a long standoff over the site that has fuelled tensions over immigration. Dozens of police arrived
by Reuters3 Nov 2015, 4:47 AM PST0

As neighbouring Norway becomes so safe police are preparing to hand in their firearms, Sweden is riding on the crest of a migrant gun crime wave fuelled by bloody gang wars. Not only is gun crime in Sweden higher than
by Oliver Lane2 Nov 2015, 6:13 AM PST0

Sweden is facing collapse thanks to the recent huge influx of migrants into the country, the Swedish foreign minister has said. As 190,000 migrants this year alone pour into the country, law and order is beginning to break down as
by Donna Rachel Edmunds31 Oct 2015, 7:36 AM PST0

The trial of 36-year-old Abraham Ukbagabir started in Vasteras, Sweden today, the Eritrean migrant charged with the murder of two Swedish citizens inside an IKEA store in August. Now out of hospital, where he has been recovering since trying to kill
by Oliver Lane28 Oct 2015, 10:18 AM PST0

Germany will import 1.2 million completely unskilled migrants this year, many of whom will go straight onto unemployment benefits, according to a leaked government document. The Federal Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit, BA) October migration estimates document outlined a number of
by Oliver Lane28 Oct 2015, 8:09 AM PST0

Europe’s new house-guests won’t settle for anything but the best, as having travelled to Sweden the picky migrants find the peaceful hinterland isn’t quite exciting enough for them. Sweden’s Migration Bureau has confirmed at least thirty migrants refused to get off
by Oliver Lane27 Oct 2015, 3:02 AM PST0

A Swedish journalist attempting to make a movie about the residents of a Swedish no go zone and their habit of throwing stones at police has herself been attacked and had stones thrown at her as she attempted to film. “They thought we crossed
by Liam Deacon27 Oct 2015, 1:39 AM PST0

The Russian government is operating close to undersea cables, setting off alarms of American officials who believe the Kremlin could cut the lines if tensions continue to escalate.
by Mary Chastain26 Oct 2015, 4:48 PM PST0

The wave of racial violence presently sweeping Sweden, and the radically different ways the government reacts to these individual events tells us volumes about a nation slowly and fatally overdosing on white guilt. There have been two reasonably analogous killings
by Oliver Lane26 Oct 2015, 4:21 AM PST0

Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has admitted his nation is close to reaching capacity for migrants, as the national migration bureaux catches up with reality and doubles its migrant forecasts for 2015. The revision puts the new estimate at 190,000 arrivals expected this
by Oliver Lane23 Oct 2015, 8:40 AM PST0

Trollhättan (Sweden) (AFP) – A masked man brandishing a sword killed a teacher and a student and seriously wounded two other people at a school in Sweden Thursday before being shot and killed. Pictures taken by students and circulating in
by AFP22 Oct 2015, 9:11 AM PST0

Sweden said on Thursday it expected up to 190,000 migrants this year, putting unprecedented strain on a country famous for welcoming refugees but planning to house many in tents this winter. On the opposite pole of the angry debate on
by Reuters22 Oct 2015, 7:48 AM PST0

A masked man wielding “knife-like weapons” killed one teacher and wounded another as well as two boys at a school in western Sweden on Thursday before being shot by police. Police said the suspect, a man in his 20s, was
by Reuters22 Oct 2015, 2:11 AM PST0

Anti-mass immigration, Eurosceptic party the Sweden Democrats is to launch a series of anti-refugee ads in the foreign press in an effort to counter the efforts of their own government. Frustrated by the enthusiastic welcome of the present grand-coalition ruling
by Oliver Lane17 Oct 2015, 9:58 AM PST0

A spate of Islamist graffiti in the multiculturalist Swedish city Gothenburg has been compared to the harassment of the Jewish community in Germany in the 1930s, with Christian business owners being told to “convert or die”.
by Oliver Lane17 Oct 2015, 6:23 AM PST0

The Swedish port where thousands of migrants and ‘refugees’ arrive on boats from Germany every week has reported some 1,000 children – or ‘grappling hook kids‘ – have gone missing since their arrival in the past month. Trellebord in Skåne, southern Sweden is
by Oliver Lane16 Oct 2015, 8:26 AM PST0

The largest hospital in Europe’s rape-capital Sweden has opened a rape centre for men and boys, a crucial badge of honour for their commitment to “gender equal” patient care. The hospital’s pre-existing rape crisis centre has proven a useful service for
by Oliver Lane16 Oct 2015, 6:59 AM PST0

The world’s most northerly ski resort is being prepared to receive 600 migrants, as Sweden scrambles to find every last empty bed in the nation for newcomers. With all conventional refugee accommodation, sports halls, and government bomb shelters full to capacity as
by Oliver Lane15 Oct 2015, 2:47 PM PST0

Assyrian Christians living in Sweden have been targeted with a string of threatening messages linked to the Islamic State, including demands that they “convert or die.”
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.14 Oct 2015, 12:19 PM PST0

A group of Swedish bearded hipsters posing for a photograph in the countryside were mistaken for ISIS militants and reported to police, they have said. The group, who were posing with a black flag featuring crossed swords, say they can
by Donna Rachel Edmunds13 Oct 2015, 10:30 AM PST0

More migrants have sought asylum in Sweden so far this year than in any other in the nation’s history. The new figures were revealed just days after the ruling left-wing coalition fell apart and the Prime Minister confessed Sweden was
by Liam Deacon13 Oct 2015, 8:17 AM PST0

A budget fight is edging Sweden closer to fresh national elections. This follows the breakdown of a deal with opposition parties that enabled the centre-left coalition led by Prime Minister Stefan Löfven (pictured) to rule as a minority government. A grassroots rebellion at
by Simon Kent12 Oct 2015, 8:27 AM PST0

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden edged closer to a fresh national election on Friday after a budget deal with opposition parties that had made it possible for Prime Minister Stefan Lofven’s centre-left coalition to rule as a minority government collapsed. A
by Reuters11 Oct 2015, 2:08 AM PST0

ROME (AP) — An Italian police aircraft carrying 19 Eritreans took off from Rome’s Ciampino airport Friday, bringing the first refugees to Sweden under the European Union’s (EU) new resettlement program aimed at redistributing asylum-seekers from hard-hit receiving countries. The
by AP9 Oct 2015, 3:18 AM PST0

Sweden’s migration agency has called for sports halls and government emergency facilities to be turned over to migrant housing, as present facilities are totally overwhelmed by the volume of new arrivals. Migrants making it to Sweden have now hit 1,500
by Oliver Lane8 Oct 2015, 6:22 AM PST0