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About 62,000 persons are active in, or have connections to, criminal networks in Sweden, the police said on Friday, where the authorities have struggled for years to contain violence linked to organised crime. Deadly shootings have more than tripled over the past decade in this Nordic nation of 10 million people, and are currently at levels much higher than neighbouring countries. "We have identified 14,000 as active in criminal networks," National Police Commissioner Petra Lundh told a media conference.

The Swedish government will run a bigger budget deficit this year than seen previously, the Debt Office said on Thursday in a new forecast. ... -February 22, 2024 at 03:34 am EST - MarketScreener

Russia is the main international security threat to Sweden, and foreign enemies may try to exploit an elevated risk of extremist violence from Islamists and the far right, the Swedish security service said on Wednesday. "We must all learn to live with the serious security situation," Charlotte von Essen, head of the security service, told a news conference, unveiling an annual report into threats facing the country which abandoned centuries of neutrality and applied to join NATO since Russia invaded Ukraine.

Sweden's defence ministry said on Tuesday the Nordic country will donate military aid to Ukraine worth some 7.1 billion Swedish crowns , including the transfer of equipment and fresh cash for arms...

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson will travel to Budapest on Friday to meet his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban before Hungary's parliament takes a long-delayed vote on Sweden's bid for... -February 20, 2024 at 07:17 am EST - MarketScreener