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The Swedish Parliament votes 266–37 to adopt a defense agreement with the United States, giving the U.S. military access to 17 military bases and training areas in Sweden, including for weapon and military equipment storage.
2024-06-18

Hungary's ruling party Fidesz boycotts a National Assembly session called by opposition parties to speed up the approval of Sweden's NATO membership bid.
2024-02-5

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation suspends Sweden's special envoy in response to incidents of Quran desecration during public demonstrations permitted by the Swedish government in Stockholm.
2023-07-23

Swedish authorities report a fourth gas leak from the Nord Stream pipelines.
2022-09-29

Sweden reports its first case of H5N1 bird flu in a porpoise.
2022-08-31

Sweden's Riksdag votes for Social Democrat leader Magdalena Andersson to become the first female prime minister of Sweden. However, Andersson resigned several hours later, after the Green Party quit the coalition. The Greens quit the coalition after the opposition budget was approved by the Riksdag.
2021-11-24

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven loses a vote of confidence in parliament.
2018-09-25

Two UN officials with MONUSCO—an American and a Swede—are among six people kidnapped near the village of Ngombe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Kasaï-Central province. Congolese officials have not identified the kidnappers nor has any group claimed responsibility.
2017-03-13

The government of Sweden submits a bill to the Riksdag to reintroduce conscription this summer in response to new global security challenges.
2017-03-2

Sweden's center-left government reaches a deal with the center-right opposition, The Alliance, giving a minority government room to govern so that the country's first snap election since 1958, originally planned for 22 March 2015, can be cancelled; the Sweden Democrats react by announcing that they will put down a motion of no confidence against Prime Minister Stefan Löfven.
2014-12-27