https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed The number of attacks with explosives has increased significantly so far this year, according to the latest official figures, with 93 attacks up until the end of May. https://www.thelocal.se/20190616/number-of-bomb-attacks-in-sweden-up-sharply-this-year Sun, 16 Jun 2019 13:35:07 +0200 number-of-bomb-attacks-in-sweden-up-sharply-this-year A 22-year-old man has been arrested in connection with an explosion that targeted a police car in Malmö on Friday night. https://www.thelocal.se/20171230/one-arrested-after-police-car-explosion-in-malm Sat, 30 Dec 2017 13:47:50 +0100 one-arrested-after-police-car-explosion-in-malm A 17-year-old boy who was stabbed at a gym in southern Sweden has died from his injuries. https://www.thelocal.se/20170912/teen-dies-after-gym-attack-in-angelholm-sweden Tue, 12 Sep 2017 10:22:01 +0200 teen-dies-after-gym-attack-in-angelholm-sweden A 15-year-old boy is being held on suspicion of attempted murder after he attacked a 17-year-old at a gym in Ängelholm on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.se/20170910/swedish-teen-faces-attempted-murder-charge-for-gym-attack Sun, 10 Sep 2017 17:26:04 +0200 swedish-teen-faces-attempted-murder-charge-for-gym-attack Uzbekistan said on Friday the suspect in last week's deadly Stockholm truck attack had ties to Islamic State jihadists and the West had been warned about him. https://www.thelocal.se/20170414/uzbekistan-says-stockholm-suspect-had-ties-to-isis-report Fri, 14 Apr 2017 14:31:54 +0200 uzbekistan-says-stockholm-suspect-had-ties-to-isis-report A strange paradox of covering breaking news live is that you barely have time to stop and think about it. So what happened in Stockholm on Friday, April 7th really only sank in for me the day after, on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.se/20170410/opinion-i-have-never-felt-like-more-of-a-stockholmer-than-i-do-now Mon, 10 Apr 2017 19:36:02 +0200 opinion-i-have-never-felt-like-more-of-a-stockholmer-than-i-do-now A truck slammed into a crowd of people outside a busy department store in central Stockholm on Friday, causing "deaths" in what the prime minister described as an "terror attack." https://www.thelocal.se/20170407/deaths-and-many-injured-in-stockholm-truck-attack Fri, 07 Apr 2017 18:41:30 +0200 deaths-and-many-injured-in-stockholm-truck-attack A 34-year-old man who pushed another man in front of a train at Stockholm’s central metro station has been sentenced to psychiatric care for attempted murder. https://www.thelocal.se/20160912/psychiatric-care-for-stockholm-metro-attacker Mon, 12 Sep 2016 14:35:23 +0200 psychiatric-care-for-stockholm-metro-attacker Muhammed, a 32-year-old engineer from Syria, was beaten up by a Swedish bus driver on Tuesday. He tells The Local Voices why the incident left him humiliated, and why he felt unable to defend himself. https://www.thelocal.se/20160720/i-fled-war-in-syria-expected-beaten-sweden-refugee-bus-driver Wed, 20 Jul 2016 18:18:10 +0200 i-fled-war-in-syria-expected-beaten-sweden-refugee-bus-driver A 34-year-old man is facing trial in a case which grabbed global headlines this summer after he allegedly pushed another man in front of a train at Stockholm's central underground station. https://www.thelocal.se/20160720/man-34-charged-over-stockholm-metro-attack Wed, 20 Jul 2016 16:26:59 +0200 man-34-charged-over-stockholm-metro-attack Sweden's prime minister has condemned the attack in Nice, while one tourist tells The Local of his horror at seeing the truck plough through the crowds. https://www.thelocal.se/20160715/i-saw-truck-go-straight-through-the-crowd Fri, 15 Jul 2016 10:03:52 +0200 i-saw-truck-go-straight-through-the-crowd After raising the threat level in November, Sweden has lowered it from four to three on a five point scale. https://www.thelocal.se/20160302/sweden-lowers-terror-threat-level-again Wed, 02 Mar 2016 10:53:27 +0100 sweden-lowers-terror-threat-level-again Most people like to think they would step up and defend someone in trouble. But how many have the courage to do so? A video asking that question has gone viral in Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20160216/how-many-will-step-in-to-stop-this-attack-in-stockholm Tue, 16 Feb 2016 15:40:25 +0100 how-many-will-step-in-to-stop-this-attack-in-stockholm Around 100 people spent Friday morning gathered outside a Swedish court where a group of men planning a violent attack at refugee housing were appearing. https://www.thelocal.se/20160212/protesters-cheer-on-refugee-attack-suspects Fri, 12 Feb 2016 12:59:44 +0100 protesters-cheer-on-refugee-attack-suspects Police in Sweden have shot and wounded a man after he injured two patients and a nurse in a knife attack at a psychiatric facility in Gothenburg. https://www.thelocal.se/20151226/police-shoot-knife-attacker-at-mental-ward Sat, 26 Dec 2015 17:43:36 +0100 police-shoot-knife-attacker-at-mental-ward UPDATED: Police say they're hoping a leaked photo of a man suspected of planning terror crimes in Sweden will lead to fresh tips about his potential whereabouts. https://www.thelocal.se/20151119/terror-plot-suspect-info-leaked-to-media Thu, 19 Nov 2015 08:27:20 +0100 terror-plot-suspect-info-leaked-to-media Sweden's Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has said his country is stepping up security measures after being "naive" about the possibility of a terror attack. https://www.thelocal.se/20151119/swedish-pm-country-naive-about-terror-threat Thu, 19 Nov 2015 15:46:21 +0100 swedish-pm-country-naive-about-terror-threat Swedes are on high alert for a terror attack for the first time in history. While the move has barely grabbed global media attention, it's a big deal in what is one of the safest countries on the planet, argues The Local's Editor Maddy Savage. https://www.thelocal.se/20151119/why-swedens-terror-threat-is-globally-significant Thu, 19 Nov 2015 12:49:32 +0100 why-swedens-terror-threat-is-globally-significant UPDATED: Sweden's terror threat level was raised to 'high' for the first time in history, as the head of security service Säpo revealed at a press conference that police were hunting a suspected terrorist. https://www.thelocal.se/20151118/sweden-reported-to-be-raising-terror-threat Wed, 18 Nov 2015 16:40:00 +0100 sweden-reported-to-be-raising-terror-threat UPDATE: Hundreds gathered in Trollhättan on Sunday to observe a moment of silence at 2 pm to remember the victims of last week’s school attack there that took the lives of a student, a teaching assistant and the attacker himself. https://www.thelocal.se/20151025/moment-of-silence-for-school-attack-victims Sun, 25 Oct 2015 10:09:03 +0100 moment-of-silence-for-school-attack-victims