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Turkey´s foreign minister said Sweden’s failure to prevent Quran-burning protests is raising security concerns and questions.

Thousands of Muslims protested in major cities in Iraq on Friday, condemning the burning of a Qur’an during a protest in Sweden.

A 7-year-old boy who fell overboard from a passenger ferry and his mother, who jumped into he water after him, are both dead, police said.

Morawiecki said no to forced relocation of migrants, no to violations of veto rights, no to Brussels-imposed penalties on states.

We had five years to stop using fossil fuels to not wipe out “all of humanity”, Thunberg claimed five years ago today in a now-deleted Tweet.

Greta Thunberg was bodily removed from a multi-day port-blocking by police as they cleared space for fuel trucks to get through.

As many as 30,000 people in Sweden are involved in criminal networks. Justice minister says described figure as “breathtaking”.

Country’s top priority is to gain full NATO membership before the allied leaders gather for their next summit.

NATO must agree unanimously for countries to join. Turkey´s government accuses Sweden of being too lenient on Kurdish groups.

President Joe Biden has told Turkey to aid the U.S. in expanding NATO if the country wants to buy American fighter jets.

A climate activist was knocked on his rear end by a camera crane after storming the stage during Sweden’s Strictly Come Dancing final.

Police have arrested a 24-year-old Syrian migrant on suspicion of planning a “bomb attack” on a church in Sweden.

Swedish singer Loreen won the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday night with her power ballad “Tattoo” at the annual music competition.

The Eurovision Song Contest will hold its final competition on Saturday, pitting 25 of the continent’s most musical countries – and Australia, for some reason – against each other in an increasingly unsuccessful bid to prevent them from going to war.

It is “obvious” why Russia is interested in European infrastructure and there is suspicion cables and pipes may already have been “mined”. 

Sweden informed Russia that five employees of the Embassy in Stockholm were asked to leave as they were suspected of spying.

A classic of the Cold War — Russian spy trawlers — with ostensibly civilian ships loitering close to NATO exercises and underwater cables. 

The British defence minister appeared to have an unguarded moment on Wednesday, before his office walked the comments back hours later.

The Hungarian government has demanded Sweden pledge to stop attacking the country’s conservative domestic policies in order to secure Hungarian approval for Sweden to join NATO. Balázs Orbán, the chief of staff to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, told Hungarian media that

Swedish Moderate Party MP Kyell Jansson was allegedly blackmailed by a prostitute just days after buying sex and is now being investigated by authorities himself.

Budapest has been irked by “the very disrespectful behaviour of the political elites of [Finland and Sweden] towards Hungary.”

A Swedish academic has expressed concern about Sweden’s demographic situation as the country’s birthrate hits a 20-year low, with young people far less likely to have children.

The Swedish Supreme Court has ruled to uphold the disbarring of a female lawyer who maintained a romantic relationship with a known gang leader she represented as a public defender.

A man who lost his son to a fatal shooting in 2021 has blamed structural racism and Swedes for not keeping residents of his community safe. 

Swedish lawmakers voted in favour of Sweden joining NATO, signing off on the country’s membership along with the required legislation.

The Swedish government has announced it will be sending a delegation of police to Ukraine to investigate war crimes committed by Russia. 

A 26-year-old man was arrested by Swedish police for manufacturing automatic firearms, using a 3D printer to create components.

Sweden’s allegedly “conservative” centre-right coalition government, led by Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, has expressed a desire to change the country’s constitution to enshrine the right to abort babies.

German athletic giant Adidas has launched a new campaign in Sweden ahead of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, featuring tips for Muslim athletes undergoing fasting.

Several cars and a building in the Swedish city of Malmo were damaged in an apparent bombing as gang violence continues across the country. 

A parliamentary delegation from Hungary said that it supports Sweden’s NATO membership bid after meeting the Swedish parliament’s speaker.

Two brothers have been indicted in the Swedish city of Gothenburg for killing their own mother and injuring her boyfriend in an apparently honour-motivated murder.

Ten people have been arrested in the Stockholm region this week following two shootings that took place within an hour of each other on Tuesday evening.

A Swedish court of appeal has acquitted a man convicted of raping a ten-year-old girl because the girl used a childish term for vagina during her testimony, claiming the meaning of the word was unclear.

Finland’s Parliament gave final approval to the bid to join NATO, with lawmakers signing off on membership and the required legislation.

Muhammad was the most popular baby name in the Irish city of Galway last year, the country’s government has claimed.