Sweden

Many migrants are coming from conservative Muslim countries where homosexuality is taboo into European societies that are more open to it.

The young man initially told investigators he could’ve have carried out the attack because he’s afraid of snakes.

The teenage boys are accused of murder after reportedly attacking a gay man and filming it on a mobile phone.

A Swedish man has been accused of slashing his 32-year-old lover’s throat, drinking his blood, and using it to draw a pentagram on the wall.

In a publicity stunt dubbed “Operation The Singing Sailor,” the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society placed a sonar device in the Stockholm archipelago sending out a Morse code message saying “This way if you are gay.”

Just four months after suspending development aid payments to Uganda over passage of an anti-homosexuality law, the Swedish embassy in Kampala said Monday that Sweden would extend nearly $200 million in development support to Uganda over the next five years. The aid would go to improve child and maternal health, sustainable growth and…

STOCKHOLM, Sweden — The government of Sweden announced Wednesday that it would stop development aid payments to Uganda because of the anti-homosexuality law passed last December and signed by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni February 24.

Anja Paerson is embracing her post-competition career with the same kind of enthusiasm she showed off with her customary, celebratory belly flops on the snow. After all, the Swedish skiing great has a lot to be excited about these days. She’s a mother. She’s working on TV, and she’s back at the Olympics.

MOSCOW — Russia has halted all adoptions to prospective parents in Sweden under a recently enacted law banning international adoptions to countries where same-sex marriage is legal.

MOSCOW At least two Swedish athletes at the world championships in Moscow competed with rainbow-colored fingernails Thursday, showing support for gays and lesbians in contrast to Russia’s new anti-gay law.