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Sweden was once known for welcoming migrants.
But over the past decade, the country has not only shut its borders – its right-wing government is now paying some foreign-born residents huge sums to leave.
In 2015, Sweden took in 163,000 asylum seekers. That was the second highest per capita in Europe.
By 2025, that number had fallen by 96 per cent.
And since the start of 2026, the coalition government – which ran on a pledge to cut both immigration and crime – has been offering those with non-EU residency permits up to 350,000 Swedish crowns (£27,100) to leave the country.
The Sweden Democrats, a far-right party that is outside the government but backs it in parliament, has thrown its support behind the scheme.
open image in galleryA pedestrian walks past election campaign posters featuring Social Democrats leader Magdalena Andersson and other candidates in central Stockholm (AFP/Getty)The party launched ads on buses in July promoting the scheme to Somali immigrants.
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A New Jersey gun range owner and his employee have been identified as the passengers who stepped up and duct-taped an out-of-control traveler to his airplane seat after he had a meltdown on an American Airlines flight last week.
Richard O’Lenick, who owns Gun for Hire in Woodland Park, was on Flight 618 from Dallas to Newark last Thursday when Arthur Layne Lundeen, 67, of Tucson, Arizona, allegedly began attacking the passenger next to him.
“Everyone on the entire plane was on alert that something was not right but we didn’t know what was going on or why,” O’Lenick told The Daily Voice.
When flight crew tried to intervene, Lundeen allegedly launched into a racist and homophobic rant and refused to follow their commands. During the outburst, he hit and grabbed another passenger by their throat, and hit the woman sitting behind him, O’Lenick said.
Once Lundeen became violent, O’Lenick and his employee, Luan Mejia, a retired police officer, stepped in to protect the other passengers, h..

A Missouri foster mother accused of swapping a teenage girl for a monkey has been found guilty of child endangerment but escaped jail time.
Brenda Deutsch, 70, was sentenced to seven years last week after she sent the girl, now 17, to live in Texas with a friend. ​Court documents, reviewed by Fox News Digital, stated that Deutsch told the friend that they could keep the teenager but that she would be “keeping the check.”
According to the San Antonio Express News, the “check” was a reference to a government stipend given to Missouri foster parents.
While at the address in Texas, the girl was forced to endure dirty conditions and live among exotic animals, the records state.
Last Thursday, Deutsch, of Winfield, had her sentence suspended and was placed on three years’ probation by the judge, according to Fox 2 KTVI.
open image in galleryBrenda Deutsch, 70, who had fostered more than 200 children over the years, also had her foster care license revoked (Facebook/Brenda Deutsch)Deutsch,..

The European Union responded to repeated threats from U.S. President Donald Trump to take over Greenland by reassuring the territory with promises of an enhanced partnership and hundreds of millions of euros in investment.
European officials have turned greater attention toward Greenland since Trump insisted the United States must assume control of the island for security reasons.
The persistent claims generated concerns regarding sovereignty, prompting pushback from Greenlandic and Danish leaders while heightening strain among NATO allies.
On a visit to the capital, Nuuk, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pledged 200 million euros ($232 million) in support across the next two years to assist Greenland with tackling climate change, expanding internet connections, and improving education, fisheries, and hydropower plants.
“Greenland’s future is for the people of Greenland and Denmark to decide. No one else,” von der Leyen said. “Territorial integrity, sovereignty, the ..