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United States Embassy Stockholm, Sweden Security Message for U.S. Citizens: Update on ongoing Protests in Stockholm May 22, 2013 On Sunday, May 19, more than 100 cars were set on fire in the northern Stockholm suburb of Husby by local rioters in protest over a police shooting.

About 15 percent of country's 9.5 million people were born abroad, with a big recent influx from war-torn countries such as Iraq, Somalia, the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Syria In 2012 alone, Sweden accepted 44,000 asylum seekers, up by nearly 50 percent from a year earlier.

Faced by another night of terror at the hands of predominantly immigrant rioters, Swedes grown tired of the police's inability to put an end to the unrest took to the streets Friday night to defend their neighborhoods.

For the second year in a row a colt sired by world champion Muscle Hill topped the Elitlopp Sale in Stockholm.

The rioting in Sweden's capital Stockholm continued for the sixth night with cars set on fire in poor suburbs.

Community patrols and a beefed-up police presence helped to calm violence around Stockholm overnight on Saturday but 20 to 30 cars were still torched in poor immigrant suburbs and serious incidents were reported outside the capital for the first time.

Stockholm experienced a sixth straight night of riots early Saturday, with cars torched in several immigrant-dominated suburbs, as Britain and the United States warned against travelling to the hotspots.

Police in Stockholm have called in reinforcements amid fears that riots could enter a sixth night.

For the fifth straight night, rioters have broken windows and set fire to cars in neighborhoods around Stockholm, Sweden.

The sound is ear-splitting: the howl of race tuned engines vying with each other to strip paint by SPL alone from the concrete walls of the long U-shaped arena at Tierp, purpose-built on an old military airfield in central Sweden.

A bystander checks the debris around a row of burnt cars in the suburb of Rinkeby after youths rioted in several different suburbs around Stockholm STOCKHOLM - Police in Stockholm called in reinforcements on Friday after youths set cars and a school ablaze in a fifth night of rioting, the worst to hit Sweden for years.

The Arctic is becoming "hotter": the main reason is the rapid technological progress.

As gas prices continue to jump up at the pump, the future of electric vehicles is looking bright.

Thirteen people aged between 18 and 25 have been arrested after protesters set fire to two schools in the fifth consecutive night of riots in Stockholm.

No fatalities after a bridge collapses in Wash. state, more riots in Sweden, Japan markets seesaw, Twitter arrests in Britain over alleged London murder comments and more must-knows for Friday.

And rill the media is crippled by its own self-censorship -beheadings in the streets of London, bombings in Boston, thousands of burning cars, Sweden under seige but still the media cannot say the M word.

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After hosting Swedish and Finnish dignitaries May 11 in Wilmington, Kalmar Nyckel has sailed to Lewes to host local school groups and kick off the summer sail season The ship left Wilmington after hosting their Majesties King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden and Speaker of the Parliament of Finland Eero Heinaluoma for an historic sail on ... (more)

Dutch authorities have arrested the director of a meat processing business at the center of an investigation into undeclared mixing of horse meat with beef.

The mission, dubbed EUBAM Libya, will deploy next month, and will "support the Libyan authorities in enhancing the security" of the country's land, sea, and air borders.