Sweden attracted worldwide attention earlier this year when it famously stayed open throughout the first months of the coronavirus pandemic ...

The man behind Sweden’s controversial Covid-19 strategy has characterised lockdowns imposed across much of the globe as a form of “madness” that flies in the face of what is known about handling viral outbreaks.

Sweden will from June 30 lift its advice against non-essential travel to 10 European countries, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday.

A graphic designer at an insurance company was the man who shot dead Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986, a prosecutor said on Wednesday

Sweden should have done more to combat the coronavirus, the epidemiologist behind a national strategy that avoided the strict lockdowns seen in many other countries said on Wednesday.

Swedish officials on Wednesday said the country, which has taken a softer approach to curbing the spread of the new coronavirus, was nearing 3,000 deaths from Covid-19.

Sweden has recorded over 1,000 Covid-19-related fatalities, the Public Health Agency said on Tuesday.

In Stockholm, Qatar's ambassador to Sweden Sheikha Moza bint Nasser al-Thani hosted a reception on the occasion of Qatar National Day

US President Donald Trump on Thursday slammed Time magazine's naming of Greta Thunberg as 2019 Person of the Year, saying the Swedish teen climate activist should ‘chill’ and go see a movie.

A Swedish prosecutor dropped an investigation into an allegation of rape against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, ending the near decade-old case that had sent the anti-secrecy campaigner ...

The Swedish Prosecution Authority said Monday it will provide an update with ‘new information’ this week on a probe into a 2010 rape allegation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Sri Lanka's president has pardoned a death-row prisoner who murdered a Swedish teenager just a week before he leaves office, officials said Sunday, in a move that sparked national outrage.