STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden is preparing tents, sports halls, warehouses and exhibition centres to house a growing number of Ukrainian refugees, Immigration Minister Anders Ygeman said on Wednesday.

Sweden's government has nominated Jesper Brodin, a veteran executive at the world's biggest furniture brand IKEA, to head the ...

Across Europe, ethnic tensions have been on the rise. And this morning, we're zooming in on one country, Sweden. For decades, it had a virtual open-door policy for asylum-seekers and refugees. But now ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, met with refugees from Afghanistan, Eritrea and Ukraine, when he visited Stockholm, Sweden on 27-28 April. The refugees, who are ...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, March 15, 2007 — -- One of the more unfortunate byproducts of the Iraq War is the massive exodus of refugees. In what may be the biggest refugee crisis since 1948, more than 2 ...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Under huge strain from an influx of unaccompanied children seeking asylum, the Swedish government faces political pressure to undertake medical tests like X-rays to vet the age ...

AMMAN, Jordan, Dec 10 (UNHCR) - For more than a year and a half, they had lived under tents in the inhospitable desert of the no man's land between Jordan and Iraq. In the early hours of Thursday, ...