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Sweden's Charlotte Kalla wins the women's skiathlon to secure the first gold medal of Pyeongchang 2018.

January was a particularly violent month in Sweden. A 63-year-old man was killed in Stockholm by a hand grenade lying in the street. A Dutch exchange student was hit by a stray bullet during an execution-style killing at a pizza restaurant in Uppsala. In Gothenburg, a hand grenade was thrown into a

Qaisar Mahmood, a Muslim born in Pakistan, is the head of the Swedish National Heritage Board. He readily admits that he has not read anything about Sweden's cultural heritage. He is using his position to downplay Sweden's cultural heritage and hi

The latest opinion polls credit Niinisto with between 51 and 63 per cent of votes, losing ground but still far ahead of the seven other candidates.

The United States on Saturday expressed deep concern about the case of Hong Kong book publisher Gui Minhai, allegedly snatched by Chinese police while being accompanied by Swedish diplomats.

A FINLAND election candidate is using Nigel Farage's Brexit example as a blueprint for her own plans to pull her country out of the EU.

BUCHAREST, Romania — More than 10,000 Romanians on Saturday protested against legislation passed by Parliament which critics say will make it harder to prosecute crime and high-level corruption. Protesters briefly scuffled with riot police as they m

A Swedish police station was bombed Wednesday evening, only the latest of several attacks against such symbols of the Swedish state in recent years.

Sweden is preparing to issue a public information manual on what to do in the event of war, as debate in the country grows over how to deal with the threat from Russia.

Social Democrat leaders yesterday vowed to improve their blueprint for a new coalition with Angela Merkel amid ominous signs of opposition within party ranks. A furious battle is raging within the...

[quote="Donald Trump"]Reason I canceled my trip to London is that I am not a big fan of the Obama Administration having sold perhaps the best located and finest embassy in London for “peanuts,” only to build a new one in an off location for 1.2 billion dollars. Bad deal. Wanted me to cut ribbon-NO!

The Port of Gdansk has become one of the two Polish entities to receive funding from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) programme amounting to EUR19.9mln

The numbers for 2016 are the highest since record keeping began

A French nuclear safety institute believes a radioactive cloud over Europe was caused by an accident at a nuclear facility in either Kazakhstan or Russia.

A DEADLY flu strain has infected nearly 100,000 people Down Under and now threatens Britain with an epidemic that could be our worst in 50 years. 98,000 Australians have fallen ill to H2N2 their most severe outbreak on record and it is set to hit the UK a

The centrist ANO movement led by populist Andrej Babis decisively won the Czech Republic's parliamentary election Saturday in a vote that shifted the country to the right and paved the way for the euroskeptic billionaire to become its next prime minis

BRITISH expats living in Spain will be protected even if the UK walks away from Brussels without a deal, the Spanish Foreign Minister has claimed.

CATALAN authorities resisted an attempt by Spain's central government to take control of the regional police force yesterday amid rising tensions ahead of a planned independence vote.

A major battle is brewing in Brussels over an EU reform plan that would force internet aggregators such as Google News to pay newspapers for displaying snippets of their articles online.

Poland's Port of Gdansk and PKP CARGO SA signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with Romania's Port of Constanta and CFR Marfa within the Three Seas Initiative.