SWEDEN'S SECURITY WARNING

Sweden's security service is dealing with an increased threat of terrorism and the impact of fake news... READ MORE›

TWO MEN DIE OF SHOCK AFTER CLIMBING ON TOP OF GERMAN TRAIN

The local Schweriner Volkszeitung SVZ newspaper reported that the incident took place while the train was parked at the Wismar railway station at roughly 2 a.m... READ MORE›

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THE MOST DESIRABLE PASSPORTS ON EARTH DON'T INCLUDE AMERICA'S

A Swedish passport allows visa-free travel to 176 countries or territories, just one fewer than world leader Germany... READ MORE›

A PROMISE THAT COULD SET THE WORLD ON A DANGEROUS PATH

The arms race also dictated that the Soviet Union respond with overwhelming retaliation against the United States, to quickly neutralize any further threat... READ MORE›

THESE MAPS SHOW HOW RUSSIA HAS EUROPE SPOOKED

Bastion land-based coastal-defense missile launchers In October, Russia beefed up its anti-shipping defenses in Kaliningrad with these launchers... READ MORE›

HENNING MANKELL WRITER WHOSE WALLANDER PATROLLED A GRITTY SWEDEN DIES AT 67

Mr. Mankell chafed at his failure to reach a broader audience outside Sweden for his many works besides the Wallander series... READ MORE›

U.S. TROOPS TRAIN IN EASTERN EUROPE TO ECHOES OF THE COLD WAR

The United States Army's presence in Europe is a far cry from the height of the Cold War, 30,000 soldiers now compared with 300,000 then, General Hodges said... READ MORE›

'SWEDEN HAS BEEN ATTACKED': TRUCK CRASHES INTO STOCKHOLM STORE, KILLING 4

Shoppers were locked inside stores after businesses triggered their automatic security systems. Police evacuated Stockholm's central train station and shut down the subway... READ MORE›

DNA OF HEADLESS TORSO MATCHES MISSING SWEDISH JOURNALIST KIM WALL

Missing Swedish journalist Kim Wall Police say DNA of headless torso matches... READ MORE›

US TO SHIP 1,600 TANKS TO DUTCH ARMS DEPOT IN 'CLEAR MESSAGE' TO RUSSIA

Russian officials, meanwhile, have consistently warned that aggressive NATO maneuvers near Russian territory could undermine regional security... READ MORE›

TRAIN COLLIDES WITH TANK SOUTH OF STOCKHOLM, FOUR INJURED

Train collides with tank south of Stockholm, four injured report... READ MORE›

CLOSE MILITARY ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE WEST AT COLD WAR LEVELS

Black Sea encounter On 7 September, the Canadian frigate Toronto was buzzed by a Russian aircraft in the Black Sea with the plane coming within 300 metres... READ MORE›

RUSSIAN PACT WIDENS RIFT BETWEEN KERRY AND PENTAGON

But he said United Nations relief trucks bound for Aleppo, lined up at southern Turkey's border with Syria, had not received assurances of safe travel... READ MORE›

GERMAN POLICE INVESTIGATE PROBABLE TERROR ATTACK IN BERLIN

Berlin, a divided frontline city with an Allied military presence during the Cold War, has largely avoided major attacks for decades... READ MORE›

SWEDEN STEPS UP 'MYSTERY SUB' HUNT

Related Stories The Swedish navy has stepped up its search in the waters off Stockholm amid suspicions that a Russian submarine might be in trouble there... READ MORE›

RUSSIA THREATENS US WITH NUCLEAR ARMS 'COUNTER-MEASURES'

The United States has reduced its non-strategic nuclear weapons by approximately 90 percent since the end of the Cold War, the spokesman, Lt... READ MORE›

Soviet submarine sightings caused Cold War security alerts in Sweden in the 1980s... READ MORE›

RUSSIAN WARPLANES 'AGGRESSIVELY' PASS US MISSILE DESTROYER

Russian jets make a simulated attack on a US missile destroyer in the Baltic sea, coming within 30ft 9m of it, a US official says... READ MORE›

SWEDEN BRINGS BACK CONSCRIPTION AMID RUSSIA FEARS

Sweden first introduced compulsory military service in 1901 but halted it in 2010 and replaced it with a volunteer army... READ MORE›

RUSSIA'S 1989 PLEA FOR A NEW WORLD ORDER WAS REJECTED, AND SO PUTINISM WAS BORN

As the cold war ended, Mikhail Gorbachev wanted a new political community, with Russia as an equal partner. The west refused to countenance it... READ MORE›

'WE HAVE NO PLANS WHATSOEVER TO INVADE SWEDEN'

Good news from Scandinavia Russia is not going to invade Sweden... READ MORE›

PENTAGON CHIEF TO PUSH U.S. ALLIES TO DITCH 'COLD WAR PLAYBOOK'

Relations between Moscow and the West have plunged to a post-Cold War low since Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimea region... READ MORE›

NEAR RUSSIA'S BORDER WITH THE BALTICS, SOLDIERS ON BOTH SIDES ARE PRACTICING FOR WAR

Narva, an Estonian border city that is more than 80 percent Russian-speaking, is often depicted as Russia's first target if it were to move on the Baltics... READ MORE›

ALIENS HELPED STOP THE THIRD WORLD WAR SAYS APOLLO 14 ASTRONAUT EDGAR MITCHELL

Mitchell's views seemingly coincide with those of another major UFO incident that took place near Rendlesham Forest in the 1980s... READ MORE›

SOME LEADERS LOVE BORDER WALLS, BUT DO THEY WORK?

East Berlin 'cut off from the world' The Berlin Wall wasn't built to collect taxes or to stop invaders, but to keep people in... READ MORE›

RUSSIA 'SIMULATED A NUCLEAR STRIKE' AGAINST SWEDEN, NATO ADMITS

Russian bombers targeted military and intelligence installations in 2013 war game that caught Swedish airforce unprepared... READ MORE›

AMATEUR SUBMARINER ARRESTED OVER SWEDISH JOURNALIST'S DISAPPEARANCE

Two helicopters and three ships searched the sea from Copenhagen to the Baltic Sea island of Bornholm... READ MORE›

DIVERS IN SWEDEN SNIFF OUT 340-YEAR-OLD SHIPWRECKED CHEESE

It's like a mixture of yeast and Roquefort, a sort of really ripe, unpasteurised cheese, Einarsson told local media... READ MORE›

RUSSIAN PM MEDVEDEV SAYS NEW COLD WAR IS ON

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has said strains between Russia and the West have pushed the world into a new cold war ... READ MORE›

POLICE ARREST MAN SUSPECTED OF DRIVING TRUCK THAT KILLED 4 IN STOCKHOLM

Sweden's prime minister said Friday that the attack was an act of terrorism, though officials have not commented on an exact motive... READ MORE›

TESTED BY RUSSIA NATO STRUGGLES TO STAY CREDIBLE

While Mr. Stoltenberg and Washington insist that such missile defenses are not aimed at Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles, Moscow is not convinced... READ MORE›

RUSSIAN MENACE PUSHES SWEDEN TOWARDS NATO

But a man who spent fifteen years of his military career in Gotland says Sweden needs to go further... READ MORE›