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Rakhmat Akilov, the failed asylum seeker currently on trial for killing five and injuring 14 others in the Stockholm terror attack, allegedly expressed Islamic State sympathies well before the incident, according to a witness.

The mother of 11-year-old Ebba Åkerlund who was brutally murdered during last year’s Stockholm terror attack confronted suspected attacker Rakhmat Akilov during the failed asylum seeker’s trial this week.

A French court has confirmed and upheld a previous court ruling which denied French citizenship to a Muslim Algerian woman after the woman refused to engage in a handshake with a senior official. 

Swedes have named immigration as the country’s most pressing concern, according to polling conducted ahead of national elections in September.

The BBC and news website Politico both released articles within the last week describing the pervasive problem of hand grenades in Sweden nearly three years after Breitbart London began covering the issue.

The unemployment rate for foreign-born Swedish residents continues to remain far higher than the native population, with a new report showing that almost six in ten signing up for the Swedish Employment Service are born overseas. The overall unemployment rate

Sweden has been told to ban parties calling for tighter immigration controls following a Council of Europe report urging the nation to criminalise support for “racist” groups.

The Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) claims the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) lacks proper gender balance in leadership roles because there are not enough women in senior positions.

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish authorities said Thursday they have charged a man with spying for China, on suspicion that he gathered information on Tibetans who had fled to Sweden.

The leader of the populist Sweden Democrats Jimmie Åkesson has proposed emulating a Danish policy that would see the demolition of some of the country’s heavily migrant populated troubled no-go zones.

Swedish police have discovered a cache of “war weapons” during a raid in the south of Stockholm that has included automatic rifles, hunting rifles, ammunition, and drugs.

Swedish politicians in the northeastern area of Skåne county have complained there are no police in their area as available officers are sent to the heavily migrant-populated city of Malmö to help deal with serious crimes.

A politician in northern Sweden has compared the actions of reckless tourists to terrorism saying that they “break and destroy like the Islamic State”.

The Swedish security agency Sapo claims that the number of new terror attack tips has increased to at least one every other day while the agency is given 6,000 tips a month in general.

Swedish cases of the sexually transmitted disease Gonorrhoea saw a record-breaking rise in 2017, continuing the reverse of a trend which saw the disease being almost totally eradicated just a decade ago. 

A Catholic Mass will be celebrated next October in the medieval cathedral of Lund, where Catholics have not worshiped since the days of the Reformation.

Facebook has granted authorities in Sweden special powers to remove so-called “fake accounts” on the website ahead of this year’s national elections, reports local media.

A poll has revealed that the majority of Swedes now distrust social media giant Facebook with their personal data and that around one-third are considering deleting their accounts altogether.

The populist anti-mass migration Sweden Democrats (SD) are now the number one party for Swedes aged 18 to 34, according to a newly released poll following a populist voting trend among young people across Europe.

Nearly ten per cent of Swedish municipalities are giving failed asylum seekers and illegal immigrants welfare payments despite a court decision last year which ruled they were not entitled to them.

The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå) has said that it will not gather ethnic or migrant background data on criminal suspects claiming that the data would not help its mission.

The Swedish government has withdrawn a controversial brochure on child marriages only hours after it sparked outrage from members of the public.

Swedish Education Minister Gustav Fridolin visited Hungary this week telling the Hungarian government and ruling Fidesz party to stop using Sweden as an example of failed mass migration policies.

Newly released crime statistics from the Swedish Crime Prevention Council (Brå) show the number of fatal acts of violence in 2017 to be the highest ever recorded by the agency while the number of rapes has also continued to rise.

The Swedish government is planning to put more pressure on tech giants Google, Facebook, and Twitter to end anonymity for ‘online trolls’ and those accused of posting hate speech.

Kurdish forces have arrested 41 Swedish citizens in Syria who left Sweden to fight for the Islamic State with five being described as high-level members of the terror organisation.

A feature in the New York Times this week highlighted a Swedish preschool trend that involves teachers ignoring the gender of their children in the classroom.

Following State regulations to counteract traditional gender roles, a number of Swedish preschools have begun experimenting in innovative ways to blur the differences between boys and girls.

The Swedish parliament has voted to stop recognising child marriages despite parties from the government, including the Social Democrats, seeking some exemptions. 

Fewer than half of children in Sweden have been baptised by the Church of Sweden in recent years with analysts claiming that the dramatic drop is connected to the government’s mass migration policies. In 2000, around 73 per cent of

A report from the Swedish Children’s Book Institute claims that the hot trends in children’s literature last year were books on sexual harassment and abuse and promoting veganism.

A review of 32 cases from the period has revealed almost every man convicted of gang rape in Sweden during 2016 and 2017 has a migrant background, a full year after Breitbart London reported on the statistic.

Former Swedish theatre director Benny Fredriksson is said to have taken his own life earlier this week after resigning from his position as head of the Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, Stockholm’s arts and culture centre, due to sexual misconduct actions that have turned out to be false.

Swedish hip-hop artist Ken Ring has said he expects Sweden to descend into a civil war in the next 20 years and that he is planning on moving to Africa, which he believes will be safer.

A 65-year-old woman in Sweden, who is facing either a fine or prison sentence if found guilty of hate crimes, released her side of the story in a YouTube video describing a large-scale investigation and harassment from police.

Forty per cent of residents in Sweden’s now 61 no-go “troubled areas” fear for their safety when walking outside after dark.