All news on the topic: Sweden

They were once the currency of the school playground, desperately coveted by kids who wanted to ‘catch ’em all’ – now Pokémon cards are being traded in Britain’s criminal underworld.

A Swedish teenager known as Chai has been sentenced to more than 10 years in jail for attempted murder, rape, and aggravated assault – crimes committed via the internet, including against a teenage girl in Australia.

Stockholm — Sweden’s tense election will be decided by which prime minister candidate can form a coalition with majority backing in a newly divided parliament, almost evenly split between left and right.

As Russia’s hybrid campaign intensifies and confidence in Washington wanes, governments across Europe are loosening the restraints on their intelligence agencies.

The Russian "Matryoshka" bot network has launched a fresh disinformation campaign against a new German-Ukrainian initiative to produce 5,000 long-range drones.

The massive international probe, sparked by the intentional sinking of a cocaine-laden ship in 2021, took down a high-value Europol target and crippled an underground financial network used to fund global drug shipments.

The EU and capitals face many challenges clamping down on illicit tobacco trade which cause €13 billion annually in lost revenue, ECA said.

On the evening of August 10, a person using the handle “Sponge Jobb” posted a call for a hitman to a group on the Signal messaging app.

The Kremlin-linked bot network Matryoshka has launched a new wave of disinformation targeting European politicians ahead of elections.

Several people have been injured at a secondary school in Sweden by a person armed with a sword.

A 74-year-old British man who has been living in Sweden for 25 years who needs round-the-clock care for dementia has been given 10 days to leave the country after he lost a post-Brexit migration court case.

A 78-year-old British widow who has lived in Sweden for 21 years is fighting deportation from the country after authorities told her a post-Brexit application to stay had been submitted too late.

A fatal accident occurred earlier this year in a suburb of Stockholm. A truck collided with a car belonging to a driving school. The student was injured, and the traffic officer administering the driving test did not survive. The deadly accident in Sweden unexpectedly led investigators to Belarus.

A teenage hitman who flew into the UK from Norway to murder a stranger on behalf of one of Europe’s most dangerous crime gangs is facing a life sentence.

Why is it so expensive to build infrastructure in Britain? One common explanation is that essentially we lack practice. For example, Britain has electrified its railways in fits-and-bursts. In the late 80s, Britain electrified over 400 kilometres of track each year.

Authorities across seven countries have rescued three children and arrested 28 people in a Europol-coordinated operation targeting child sexual exploitation.

Only four months ago, Ella Adman had just finished school and had never before held a gun. Now, standing in the shade in between drills at a military base on Gotland, the strategically important Swedish Baltic island where she grew up, the 19-year-old conscript is carrying a powerful assault rifle.

Russia has begun construction on a new military base eerily close to Finland’s eastern border for the first time since the USSR collapsed.

A Norwegian teenager accused of traveling to the UK to carry out a "hit" was seen pretending to shoot one of the officers arresting him, in police body-worn camera footage shown in court.

A journalist managed to get accepted as a volunteer at an estate owned by the wife of Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, using a fake name and an AI-generated photo.

Sweden has selected France’s state-owned Naval Group to manufacture four warships worth around Skr40bn (€3.7bn).

Britain’s Royal Navy tracked and followed a Russian frigate every day last month as it sailed from the Atlantic to the North Sea.

In addition to being charged with aggravated pimping, the 62-year-old suspect was also charged with eight rapes.

A recent investigation revealed how doctors who have been banned in one country can keep practicing in another. Newly-obtained data shows that national authorities often do not read warnings about doctors sent by counterparts elsewhere.