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Explosions rocked apartment buildings in two Swedish cities within minutes of each other this week as the problem of bombings continues across the country.

Tech companies in the European Union have sent surveillance equipment and software to the Chinese Communist Party, some of which is being actively used to oppress the Uyghur people in Xinjiang, a report from Amnesty International claimed.

The Swedish women’s national soccer team took a knee in support of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement during a European cup qualifier match with Hungary this week.

Fifteen Muslim congregations in Stockholm have demanded the government consider new laws to ban the burning of religious texts like the Quran and mocking faiths.

Swedish police are hunting for members of an anti-Islam group from Denmark who are alleged to have burned a copy of the Quran in Stockholm’s no-go Rinkeby suburb.

A member of the Swedish Parliament has nominated the United States under President Donald Trump for a second Nobel Prize for work in Kosovo and Serbia.

Female Swedish Islamic State members have been arrested on the Turkish border after escaping a prison camp for ISIS detainees in northern Syria.

Sweden now “has one of the lowest rates of infections even though it has never adopted a rigid lockdown,” announced the Italian daily Corriere della Sera Saturday.

Former Swedish Social Democrat politician Rashad Alasaad has had people-smuggling charges against him dropped by prosecutors, despite admitting to engaging in smuggling activity in an undercover video.

Gang members in the Swedish city of Gothenburg were caught on video surrounding police officers and threatening to rape the officers with their own batons.

An 11-year-old boy in the southern Swedish city of Malmö was allegedly assaulted by a gang of unknown perpetrators who called him a “pig bastard” and commented on his crucifix necklace.

Moderate Party leader Ulf Kristersson has called for a census, claiming Sweden’s left-wing government has no idea who is actually living in the country.

A violent mob in the Swedish municipality of Ronneby has brutally beaten a man defending a church from being set on fire during a riot.

Herbert Brecker, an expert on migration issues, has admitted that Germany is undergoing a rapid “demographic shift”, saying the country needs more migrants to offset the ageing labour force.

A study has revealed that 49 companies and groups run by Islamic radicals have done businesses with local and national Swedish authorities and have been paid 1.2 billion Swedish kronor (£104,136,000/$137,400,000).

Stockholm (AP) — Far-right activists burned a Qur’an in the southern Swedish city of Malmo, sparking riots and unrest after more than 300 people gathered to protest, police said Saturday.

Two migrant-background men have been accused of raping and torturing two underage boys in a cemetery in the Swedish city of Solna. 

A Swedish construction firm has been accused of exploiting foreign workers, with one union representative accusing the company of engaging in modern slavery-like practices. A lawsuit has been brought against the concrete firm Formbetong by the Swedish building workers’ union

Vandals desecrated the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Malmö (southern Sweden) seven days in a row this month, breaking windows and demolishing a statue of Jesus.

A Swedish woman in her sixties was the victim of a stabbing on Friday afternoon, allegedly by a man who expressed hatred for white women.

Sweden’s population growth in 2020 is the lowest it has been in 15 years due to the lack of immigration following the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak.

Swedish economist Tino Sanandaji has revealed that while the number of reported crimes in Sweden has remained fairly steady, the severity of crimes and criminal violence has surged in the 21st century.

Since the beginning of 2019, the Swedish city of Uppsala has prosecuted 23 people, all men, for soliciting prostitutes and the statistics reveal that 78 per cent are foreign-born. Stina Holmberg, who works at the Swedish National Council for Crime

Swedish state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell may have broken the law by deleting emails from experts and government employees during the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak.

Swedish police have intervened in plans by a street artist to burn a copy of the Quran outside a mosque in Malmö’s notorious Rosengård no-go area.

A Swedish court of appeal has overruled the deportation order of a migrant convicted for raping a child more than 100 times.

A young man has been arrested in the municipality of Österåker after allegedly luring a 12-year-old girl and her friend to an asylum home and raping her.

A Swedish appeals court has overturned an Afghan migrant’s conviction for child rape, ruling that he did not know the girl’s real age despite inputting it when ordering her a bus ticket.

Swedish police and civilian workers at a police station in the no-go Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby will receive police escorts to and from work to maintain their safety.

A Swedish police officer has claimed that the gang members who shot a 12-year-old girl caught in their crossfire last weekend are also victims.

The Swedish government is rolling out a 500 million Swedish kronor (£43.8m/$57.5m) bailout package to help mainstream media companies in the wake of the Wuhan coronavirus.

A Swedish Foreign Ministry employee faces prison after being arrested for granting over 100 visas on fraudulent grounds to migrants from Afghanistan.

A 12-year-old Swedish girl was killed over the weekend while walking her dog by alleged gang members as one criminologist has warned Sweden is becoming like the “Wild West”.

A Somalian migrant taxi driver, who was arrested for trying to run several people over with his vehicle, has a history of criminal behaviour including claims of sexual abuse of a child and assaulting female Swedish police.

The Swedish Academy has taken neo-nazi group Nordic Resistance Movement (NMR) to court, alleging that the group may not quote works of classic Swedish literature on their website.

An Iraqi migrant has been convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of 17-year-old Swedish girl Wilma Andersson and dismembering her body.