Sweden

A group of independent experts established by the United Nations Human Rights Council to examine violations of the rights of Africans and persons of African descent by law enforcement agencies will visit Sweden from 31 October to 4 November 2022

Three Swedish centre-right parties have agreed to form a coalition government with the support of the Sweden Democrats, a once radical far-right group that has moved towards the mainstream but maintains a hard line on immigration

Svante Pääbo is awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and his studies DNA on human evolution

The first of the centuries-old time capsules - discovered during renovation works in Stockholm Cathedral and spanning from 1700s to early 1900s - has been opened

This weekend the country celebrated the 50th anniversary of 'H Day' – the day when everyone switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right, on 3rd September 1972

According to the latest SVT/Novus opinion poll, the Sweden Democrats are now the main challengers to Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson's Social Democrats, currently leading a minority government

Sweden overtook France as Europe's largest net exporter of electricity in the first half of 2022

The school year starts in August - although exact date depends on local calendar - and most people return to work, amid a new Covid-19 peak expected this month and caos in flights still affecting Europe

Bringing back the old system of labour market testing for work permits would be "an absolute catastrophe" for Swedish companies, depriving them of "critical foreign skills", the Centre Party's labour market spokesperson has said

An Iranian citizen was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Swedish court after being found guilty of committing war crimes and murder during the final phase of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s

NATO's 30 allies signed the accession protocols for Sweden and Finland yesterday, sending the two nations' membership offers to the alliance capitals for legislative approval

In order to reduce the carbon footprint of steel wind turbine production, a 100-metre prototype ecological wooden wind turbine is being built in Sweden using LVL from mature trees that have already absorbed the maximum amount of CO2