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Sweden's Baltic Sea island of Gotland is once again home to a permanent military presence.

Sweden has been naive about the risk of an attack on its soil and plans to beef up security measures, including surveillance of encrypted communications.

Israel criticised "appallingly impudent" remarks by Sweden's foreign minister for drawing a parallel between the Paris attacks and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

The eagerly-awaited sequel to Stieg Larsson's best-selling Millennium crime trilogy hit store shelves in 25 countries.

The Ikea branch in central Sweden where two shoppers were fatally stabbed -- reportedly with knives taken from the shelves -- will temporarily stop knife sales.

Sweden's newest royal, born earlier this week to Princess Madeleine and sixth in line to the throne, will be named Prince Nicolas Paul Gustaf.

Swedish furniture giant IKEA announced that it would expand its online sales service to include home deliveries in all countries where it has stores.

Swedish pop lovers celebrated their country's sixth Eurovision victory with an outpouring of national pride, welcoming heartthrob winner Mans Zelmerlow home.

Women who are obese while pregnant may put their offspring at risk of childhood diabetes, a condition that requires lifelong insulin therapy.

Sweden will raise defence spending by 10.2 billion kronor for the period 2016 to 2020, the government said amid concerns over Russia's military resurgence.

A Swedish cartoonist believed to have been targeted in one of the Copenhagen shootings at the weekend has been sent into hiding.

On February 14 and 15, Almaty’s Medeu ice skating rink will host a stage of the Speedway world championship.

The Swedish furniture company Ikea has recalled 169,000 crib mattresses after reports that two children became trapped.

Global furniture giant Ikea opens its first store in South Korea, a much-anticipated market entry that has stumbled at a number of commercial and cultural hurdles along the way.

A study in The BMJ medical journal said Swedes with a high intake of cow's milk died younger -- and women suffered more fractures.

Girl's rights champion Malala Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate in history, won the World's Children's Prize.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said he was "confident" his asylum status will be resolved, as he awaits an imminent ruling on his case by a Swedish court.

Mystery deepened over a Swedish military operation triggered by "foreign underwater activity" off the coast of Stockholm.

Sweden's new Social Democrat-led government lowered the growth forecast, blaming sweeping tax breaks by the outgoing conservative coalition for a "large hole".

The winner of the Nobel economics prize is notoriously hard to predict, but it's usually an American male opposed to big government and big spending.
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