IceNews reports, “Jan Guillou, the famous Swedish author and journalist, is facing new claims of aiding the KGB in the 1960s. Guillou has claimed that he was pursuing journalistic investigations into the role of the secret service in Sweden.”
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The leader of the Sweden democrat party stated that Islam is Sweden’s threat since World War II.
The Local reports, “He goes on to claim that more than ten Muslim terrorist organizations have established themselves in Sweden, that Sweden has the most rapes in Europe, and that Muslim men are highly overrepresented among the [...]
The Local reports as follows: “A former South Korean air force major-general was arrested on Friday on charges of leaking classified military information to Swedish defence and aviation company Saab, officials said.”
The information was alleged to have been to the Swedish company during a nine month period ending earlier this year.
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[The Local]– The bodies of thousands of rabbits culled every year from the parks in Stockholm’s Kungsholmen neighbourhood are being used to fuel a heating plant in central Sweden.
The decision to use Stockholm’s rabbit cadavers as bioenergy to warm Swedes living in Värmland doesn’t sit well with Stockholm-based animal rights activists.
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[The Local]– The Swedish foreign ministry has confirmed that four Swedish citizens, arrested in Pakistan in August as terrorist suspects, have been released and put on a flight to Stockholm.
The group include Mehdi Ghezali, who spent two years in Guantánamo Bay following his 2001 arrest in Afghanistan, as well as 28-year-old Munir Awad and 19-year-old [...]
[The Local]– The Swedish EU presidency has cautioned the Czechs that their demands for an extra “footnote” on the treaty sends out “the wrong message at the wrong time”.
Czech President Vaclav Klaus on Thursday became the sole European leader to hold out against the EU reform treaty and set new conditions [...]
[The Local]– Sweden’s finance minister Anders Borg is reported to have held secret talks with Swedbank and SEB, expressing his concern over Latvia’s struggling financial situation.
The two banks have interests in the Baltic country and a financial collapse could lead to a ’nightmare scenario’ writes newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.
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[The Local]– Meat from Swedish stockpiles dating back to the Cold War has been sold to Poland to be served in restaurants, according to a report in the Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) newspaper.
The Swedish state phased out its stockpiles of tinned meat at the end of the 1990s.
The Swedish Board of Agriculture then [...]
Several people were arrested on Sunday afternoon for their suspected involvement in last week’s spectacular helicopter robbery of a cash depot south of Stockholm.
“This is the fruit of some solid criminal investigative work by police,” National Criminal Investigation Department (Rikskriminalpolisen) spokesperson Arne Andersson told the TT news agency.
He confirmed that [...]
Swedish police forces fear an escalation of violence after a weekend which saw a spate of arson and unrest reports. At least eight vehicles were destroyed by arsonists on Friday evening in the Uppsala suburbs of Valsatra, Eriksberg and Gottsunda.
In Gottsunda one police car was showered with stones after being called to investigate reports of [...]
