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Sweden releases ship after prosecutors rule Baltic cable damage 'not sabotage' Swedish prosecutors on Monday ruled out sabotage in the case of a damaged underground fibre-optic cable and said they were releasing a Bulgarian ship seized after the incident.

Jan 2, 2025 · House prices fall for fourth month in a row. The price of houses and apartments in Sweden fell in December for the fourth month in a row, with the price of homes overall down 1.2 percent, cooperative apartments or bostadsrätter down 1.1 percent , and the price of detached houses down 1.3 percent.. Over the year as a whole, though, property prices are still up 4.2 percent, with Robert Boije ...

Oct 1, 2020 · Daniel Nyqvist who has been convicted of double murder in Linköping 2004. Photo: Polisen/TT A Swedish court convicted a 37-year-old man on Thursday over a 2004 double murder that went unsolved until police matched his DNA on a popular genealogy website.

Nov 18, 2024 · The booklet "If Crisis or War Comes", sent by the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB), contains information about how to prepare for emergencies such as war, natural disasters, or cyber attacks.

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Aug 16, 2024 · Sweden confirms first case of new mpox strain outside Africa. Sweden late on Thursday announced the first case outside Africa of the more dangerous variant of mpox, which the WHO has declared a global public health emergency.. The country's public health agency confirmed to the AFP news agency that it was the same strain of the virus that has surged in the Democratic Republic of Congo since ...

Nov 21, 2024 · A government inquiry into tightening the rules for Swedish citizenship, by for example extending the residency requirement from the standard five to eight years and rolling out language and civics tests, is due to present its conclusions in January. In an opinion piece, far-right Sweden Democrat leader Jimmie Åkesson argues no citizenships should be granted until the tougher rules have been ...

Nov 6, 2024 · Record number of women on gynaecology waiting lists. Almost half of the women on waiting lists for gynaecology treatment had in September been waiting over 90 days – Sweden's maximum waiting time according to the "healthcare guarantee" policy (vårdgarantin) – the highest number in any month of September before.The exact figure was 4,250 women, or …

Oct 1, 2024 · Sweden gets new rules on citizenship via notification. Citizenship through notification – medborgarskap genom anmälan – is available to children who have lived in Sweden for at least three years (two if stateless), young adults between 18 and 21 who have lived in Sweden since they turned 13 (15 if stateless) and Nordic citizens. From today, October 1st, people suspected or convicted of ...