Prosecutors in Sweden said that two men will go on trial after burning the Muslim holy book the Quran during protests in 2023, causing outrage among the Muslim community and a spike in anti-terror alert levels, Reuters reported. Salwan Momika, a Christian Iraqi, and alleged accomplice,...
Read full story →
The Swedish parliament recently passed a law that will allow grandparents to receive paid parental leave to care for their grandchildren, a move that observers have hailed as a pioneering step in extending childcare benefits beyond parents, the International Business Times reported. Under the new bill,...
Read full story →
The Turkish parliament ratified Sweden’s bid to join NATO this week, a vote that brings Stockholm closer to the 31-member alliance which expanded following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine nearly two years ago, Politico reported. Turkey’s ratification comes after 20 months of diplomatic negotiations with Stockholm and...
Read full story →
Parents with children throwing tantrums in public to get attention often just try to move to the side, avoid eye contact with bystanders and pray the outbursts will pass quickly without too much notice. That approach hasn’t been working out too well for Sweden and Denmark...
Read full story →
Thousands of Iraqis protested near the Swedish embassy in Iraq’s capital Baghdad Friday, the latest display of anger from the Muslim world against Sweden following the burning of a Quran outside a Stockholm mosque, Agence France-Presse reported. It was the second day of demonstrations against Sweden,...
Read full story →
A Swedish appeals court ruled this week that authorities had no legal grounds to block protests involving the burning of the Quran earlier this year, despite police concerns that the planned demonstrations were a security risk, Agence France-Presse reported. The case centers on two planned book-burning...
Read full story →
Sweden will soon become “smoke free,” as the number of daily smokers in the European country continues to drop thanks to decades of anti-smoking campaigns, laws, and the prevalence of smokeless tobacco products, CBS News reported. With a population of more than 10 million, the European...
Read full story →
The Swedish government is drafting a new law that would allow the country to veto foreign investments on national security grounds, a move that Sweden’s business lobby worries would impact investment in the wealthy Nordic nation, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. The proposal comes a month after an...
Read full story →
A Swedish court ruled Tuesday that hundreds of climate activists, including well-known advocate Greta Thunberg, can sue Sweden’s government for having an “insufficient climate policy,” Al Jazeera reported. In November, Thunberg and 600 other young activists in a group called Aurora brought a class action lawsuit...
Read full story →
The Swedish government plans to abolish a decades-old requirement for restaurants and other venues to obtain permits to allow dancing on their premises, removing a law that observers have called outdated and overly moralistic, the Associated Press reported. The ruling center-right coalition said venues would no...
Read full story →
Sweden began the biggest wolf cull in modern times Monday, as the government is seeking to reduce the number of wolves in the country despite major opposition from nature organizations that it could drastically harm the population, the Guardian reported. Hundreds of hunters will conduct searches...
Read full story →
Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson resigned after the right-wing opposition bloc secured a narrow majority in Sweden’s close-fought parliamentary elections this week, a victory considered historic, the Wall Street Journal reported. Results showed that Andersson’s Social Democrats secured 107 seats in the 349-seat legislature, but failed...
Read full story →
A local politician in Sweden, Saida Hussein Moge, recently quit the ruling Social Democratic party after Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said she didn’t want Chinatowns, Somalitowns or Little Italys in the Nordic country. Moge is ethnically Somali. “The Social Democrats no longer stand for the...
Read full story →
A new report from Amnesty International said the Ukrainian military has occasionally put people at risk of Russian strikes by establishing bases in schools, homes and other sites in inhabited regions, the Associated Press wrote. A Russian court found WNBA star Brittney Griner guilty...
Read full story →
If Finland joins NATO, the Western Alliance will have opened a potential 800-mile-long front in a war against Russia. What’s more, as the Washington Post illustrated, this new front would come very close to Russia's nuclear submarine and Arctic navy bases on the Kola Peninsula. If...
Read full story →
Swedish authorities detained 26 people following weekend riots over a plan by a far-right and anti-Islam Danish group to burn the Muslim holy book, the Quran, in a number of towns, the Local Sweden reported Monday. Police said that at least 40 people were wounded, including...
Read full story →