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AMERICANTHINKER (American Thinker Blog) - Sweden discovers deporting immigrant gangsters reduces crime

By Mike McDaniel Perhaps there’s a lesson there for our midterms and beyond.

STRIPES (Phillip Walter Wellman) - Sweden to buy US-made HIMARS as it builds long-range firepower | Stars and Stripes

Sweden’s government said it will buy U.S.-made High Mobility Artillery Rocket System launchers for striking targets at longer distances.

AMERICANGREATNESS (Maureen Steele) - Sweden Hit the Brakes on the Digital Classroom. Maybe We Should Ask Why.

For years, parents were told the future of education was digital. Out went textbooks. In came tablets. Out went handwriting. In came keyboards. Children barely […] Source

ABCNEWS - Victim of sword attack at Swedish school was a 17-year-old girl

Police in Sweden say the victim of a deadly sword attack at a school was a 17-year-old girl

JUSTTHENEWS (Nicholas Ballasy) - Swedish school sword attack victim was 17-year-old girl: report

An 18-year-old man armed with a sword attacked the Brinell School in Fagersta, northwest of Stockholm, on Friday while classes were underway.

THENATIONALPULSE (Pulse Wires) - Man Rampages Through Swedish School With Sword, Multiple Injured.

A sword-wielding attacker injured multiple people at a Swedish high school in Fagersta before being subdued by police.

PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: A sword attack at The Brinell School in Fagersta, Sweden, on Friday left several people injured. The attacker, whose description has not been released, was shot in the leg by police and taken into custody. Local authorities locked down nearby schools and secured the area. WHEN & WHERE: The attack occurred on Friday afternoon at the Brinell School in Fagersta, a small Swedish city with a population of about 12,000. KEY QUOTE: “We have been informed of a serious incident in Fagersta. The police are on site and working very intensively with the incident,” said Swedish Justice Minister Gunnar Strommer. IMPACT: The attack has prompted heightened security measures in the area, including roadblocks and…Open

THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Ted Galen Carpenter) - Gender Equality: A Trojan Horse for Universal Military Conscription?

Some European nations are mulling mandatory service for women. The post Gender Equality: A Trojan Horse for Universal Military Conscription? appeared first on The American Conservative .

Foreign Affairs Gender Equality: A Trojan Horse for Universal Military Conscription? Some European nations are mulling mandatory service for women. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images There are mounting indications that NATO countries are gearing up for a military showdown with Russia. The latest one goes beyond the usual confrontational, Russophobic rhetoric coming from the European Union’s foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas, the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, or NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. It even goes beyond the deepening support of NATO members for increased military spending and…Open

AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - Belgium's worst wildfire on record forces hundreds to flee as blaze scorches High Fens nature reserve

A wildfire burning roughly 30 square kilometers in eastern Belgium has become the country's largest on record, forcing some 600 residents from their homes and drawing emergency crews from across Europe. The fire tore through the High Fens nature reserve in Liège province, near the German border, burning more than twice the area of a […] The post Belgium's worst wildfire on record forces hundreds to flee as blaze scorches High Fens nature reserve appeared first on American Almanac .

A wildfire burning roughly 30 square kilometers in eastern Belgium has become the country's largest on record, forcing some 600 residents from their homes and drawing emergency crews from across Europe. The fire tore through the High Fens nature reserve in Liège province, near the German border, burning more than twice the area of a 2011 blaze that had held Belgium's previous record. By Sunday morning, more than 250 emergency personnel, including over 100 Belgian and German firefighters, police, military officers, and civil protection staff, were on the ground trying to hold the line against a fire that officials said was still spreading through terrain almost impossible to reach. Liège provincial governor Hervé Jamar confirmed the…Open

AI:Belgium is currently battling its largest wildfire on record as a massive blaze scorches the High Fens nature reserve in Liège province, consuming approximately 30 square kilometers of land. The fire has forced roughly 600 residents and tourists to evacuate from municipalities like Waimes and Bütgenbach due to heavy smoke and shifting winds. Because the fire is burning through dry peat bogs and heathland, it is resisting standard containment tactics and threatening residential zones near the German border. The disaster has triggered an international emergency response under the EU's civil protection mechanism, with water-bombing aircraft and crews arriving from Sweden, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, and Germany to support Belgian…Open