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According to an activist group that deals with honour violence and oppression, young girls continue to be flown out of Sweden for forced marriages and female genital mutilation (FGM) despite bans.

Swedish climate correspondent Erika Bjerström has claimed that climate change has helped the Taliban take over Afghanistan as rural farmers saw increasing hardships. Bjerström states that climate change has shrunk glaciers in the country which has interfered with crops and livestock

STOCKHOLM (AP) – Stefan Lofven, Sweden’s Social Democratic prime minister since 2014, said Sunday that he will step down as head of government and the party in November.

A Swedish rape victim has expressed anger that a Syrian migrant who raped her has been given £70k ($96k) in damages by the Swedish state, while she has received just £250 ($340).

Pressure is rising in the Church of Sweden to force priests to conduct same-sex marriages, ahead of internal elections in September.

The number of children being baptised into the Church of Sweden has hit an all-time low, with church members becoming concerned for its future.

The Swedish government has taken the children of five Islamic State women into custody after the women were deported back to the country from Turkey.

German humanitarian development worker Sybille Schnehage has predicted as many as three million Afghan asylum seekers could head to Europe in the near future.

“God has raised up a prophet in Greta Thunberg in a way that no one could predict,” former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has claimed. “She has said things no one else could have said. Thank God for her!”

Despite being in force for over a year, the Swedish laws against child marriages have yet to see anyone charged for marrying a minor so far.

Swedish Liberal Party leader Nyamko Sabuni has called for the European Union to take a “hard-line” against Hungary and Poland over LGBT issues, “even if it means that authoritarian states leave the Union”.

A Swedish vaccine researcher has claimed that people could be required to take more doses of the Wuhan coronavirus vaccine, stating that it is unclear how long vaccine protection lasts.

Sweden has stopped all deportations to Afghanistan and has released some migrants who were set for deportation back into Swedish society.

Prosecutors have charged an Iranian national for war crimes and murder over his role in mass executions on behalf of the Iranian Islamist regime in 1988.

Following the U.S. Woman’s Olympic team’s horrible loss to Sweden the other night after taking a knee for BLM, social justice warrior Megan Rapinoe said women’s sports “still needs to get better” criticism.

Sweden has decided to grant exemptions to the county’s Wuhan coronavirus travel ban for eSports “athletes” entering the country from outside of the European Economic Area (EEA).

The number of arrests for gun crimes in Sweden has dramatically increased since 2017 from 64 to 340 arrests last year, with over 1,300 weapons seized in 2020.

A radical Islamist imam in the Malmö no-go zone of Rosengård has claimed that Muslims carrying Swedish flags are “heretics” as the flag contains a Christian cross.

Two children aged six and seven were struck by ricocheting bullets just south of Stockholm near what police believe was a gang-related shooting.

A Swedish former LGBT association employee convicted of raping and sexually abusing several male asylum seekers has had his sentence reduced after an appeal.

Swedish farmers working with animals say they have been forced to hire security companies to watch over their farms after threats from animal rights extremists.

A poll released this week has revealed that just over half of Swedes would vote for a new centre-right alliance involving conservatives and populists as Swedish prime minister Stefan Löfven barely resumes power.

A small plane carrying skydivers crashed outside the Swedish city of Orebro on Thursday night, killing all nine people on board, police said.

Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Åkesson has claimed that mass migration and “imported crime” has destroyed his country after a police officer was recently shot dead in a no-go zone.

Swedish prosecutors have demanded life in prison for the Afghan migrant who injured seven people during a stabbing spree in Vetlanda.

A police officer in his thirties was fatally shot while on patrol in a “vulnerable area” of Gothenberg, Sweden, in what one person with knowledge of the investigation claimed was an “execution”. While a criminal clan crime gang source told local media that it will be difficult for investigators to find the perpetrator because “if you kill a policeman, you do not act alone” and clans won’t tolerate “rats”.

“A snap election is not what is best for Sweden,” Lofven said “The govt will continue to govern the country for now [caretakers].”

Female members of the Islamic State currently in prison camps in Syria, along with their children, could be all returning to Sweden this summer.

Swedish investigators are hunting a Dr Hammad Al-Saaid after he was alleged to be the ringleader in a false results corona testing scam.

Parliament passed a motion of non-confidence in the left-led government, giving PM Löfven the choice to resign or call fresh elections. 

Sweden’s Left Party has threatened to bring down the Social Democrat-led government in a confidence vote expected as early as Monday.

A female Swedish priest and another woman have been found guilty of smuggling an asylum seeker out of a migrant detention centre by hiding him in a large suitcase.

Swedish police have arrested a man in his 40s on suspicion of being paid to smuggle a child into the country.

Police officials have positively identified 745 cocaine buyers, claiming that a large portion are parents in affluent areas of the city. 

Female members of the Swedish animal rights group Djurfront sold sexual services online to finance the court fines of the group’s male leader, who had been sent to prison.

The Swedish Athletics Association is looking to make sports in Sweden more inclusive for young transgendered individuals by making it easier for them to choose which gender they want to compete with.