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One person died and three were wounded after a sword-wielding attacker entered a high school in the town of Fagersta in central Sweden Friday, police said, adding the suspect had been arrested.

Will you need a new Swedish passport next year? Police are urging people to apply early to beat the queues.

The head of Sweden's anti-immigration Sweden Democrats is eyeing the post of prime minister in 2030, he told AFP, less than a month ahead of a general election the right-wing bloc is seen losing.

Sweden has reached its target of fewer than five percent of the population smoking regularly - and is consequently considered "smoke-free".

A court in Sweden on Tuesday convicted 10 people of illegally dumping toxic waste, including a former stripper who once described herself as the "Queen of Trash", in the country's biggest environmental crime trial.

A Swedish government inquiry has recommended that Sweden bring in a national ban on mobile phones in schools, with schools required to collect pupils' phones at the start of the school day at all primary and lower secondary schools in the country.

Swedish businessman Carl Lundström, owner of the internet provider that hosted the illegal file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, has died in an aeroplane crash in Slovenia, according to the far-right party he was linked to.

Migrant workers were let go on their first day on the job at Northvolt this week, reports Sweden's public radio broadcaster.

A fourth person working at Swedish battery maker Northvolt's factory in Skellefteå has died, according to police. But Northvolt denied that the death had anything to do with the workplace.

The electric car giant Tesla has sued the Swedish Transport Agency, saying it has an obligation to deliver number plates, despite a strike at its courier Postnord.