Author: Miranda Bryant

Most of the people killed by a gunman in the Swedish city of Örebro last week had an immigrant background, police have said, after the prime minister paid tribute to the victims as “people who wanted to do something good, who wanted to contribute to a better society”. Among those understood to have been killed…

Sweden’s government has announced plans to strengthen its gun laws, including by restricting access to semi-automatic weapons, after the country’s worst mass shooting. On Tuesday, a gunman killed 10 people at an education centre in Örebro, west of Stockholm, before shooting himself. Police have not said what type of weapon he used but they have…

Almost half of Danish people now consider the US to be a considerable threat to their country and the overwhelming majority oppose Greenland leaving to become part of the US, new polling has found. The research by YouGov, shared exclusively with the Guardian, comes after weeks of tension between Denmark, Greenland and the US over…