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Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan agrees to send Sweden's NATO accession protocol to the Grand National Assembly.
2023-07-10

An airplane carrying skydivers crashes in Örebro, Sweden, killing all nine people on board.
2021-07-9

A number of European countries, including Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, France and Ireland, condemn the recently passed anti-LGBTQ+ bill in Hungary which bans the "display and promotion of homosexuality" among under-18s as "grotesque". Luxembourg says that the bill violates human rights and along with Belgium says that the bill is a "flagrant form of discrimination".
2021-06-22

The Swedish prosecutor files an arrest warrant against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over a rape allegation. Assange is serving a 50-week prison sentence in the United Kingdom for skipping bail.
2019-05-20

Sweden will introduce tighter border controls and asylum rules in a bid to reduce the number of asylum seekers entering the country. Sweden expects up to 190,000 asylum seekers to reach its borders this year and says its reception system cannot cope. "The situation is untenable", according to Swedish prime minister Stefan Löfven who told reporters, "to put it bluntly, more people will have to seek asylum and get protection in other European countries".
2015-11-24

Sweden's terror threat level is raised to 'high' for the first time in history, as national security service "Säpo" says that police are hunting a suspected terrorist.
2015-11-18

Two teachers and a student are killed, and another student injured, in an attack at a school in Trollhättan, Sweden. The attacker was shot dead by police.
2015-10-22

Swedish archaeologists in Old Uppsala unearth a great number of mysterious posts in perfect alignment for more than a kilometre in what is suggested to be a display of power of a fifth century Swedish chieftain.
2013-10-17

Freedom Flotilla II: The propeller house and propeller shaft of the pro-Palestinian flotilla's Swedish ship "Juliano" are damaged by "hostile divers" in the Greek port of Piraeus, with participants suggesting sabotage.
2011-06-28

Ten acts, including former winner Niamh Kavanagh, progress to the final of Eurovision Song Contest 2010 in Bærum, Oslo. Sweden fails to qualify for the first time in its history.
2010-05-27