Swedish authorities issue work from home order, put limits on restaurants, but refrain from imposing a full lockdown

In pre-recorded Christmas interview, King Carl XVI Gustaf laments how many Swedes 'have not been able to say goodbye to their deceased family members'

Pew poll finds Islamic Republic is least popular in Scandinavian countries, Netherlands and US; South Koreans show least animosity, though majority still negative

Ahmadreza Djalali, accused of spying for Israel, 'at imminent risk of execution,' rights group says, as his spouse pleads for international intervention

Ahmadreza Djalali handed death penalty over allegations he handed over information on nuclear scientists to Israel's Mossad intelligence agency

On a train in 1942, an SS officer told a Swedish diplomat of the industrialized murder of Jews at the Belzec extermination camp. But the horrifying revelation was kept under wraps

Mattias Amster is first locally born and raised rabbi to hold pulpit in capital; says still uncommon for people to see a religious Jew, but 'not scared' about anti-Semitism

Emergency Preparedness Museum claims rights to image used by writer Aron Flam to depict World War II propaganda; lawsuit is thrown out of court

Scandinavian nation plans museum with focus on survivors and a center devoted to Raoul Wallenberg, a diplomat who saved thousands of Jews in WWII

Far-right extremists carried out coordinated campaign in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Iceland on Jewish holy day, says World Jewish Congress