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By Johannes LEDEL Sweden’s NATO membership bid, submitted in the wake of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, cleared its final hurdle as Hungary’s parliament voted to ratify it on Monday. Accession to the US-led alliance means stark changes for both Sweden’s defence and the geopolitical balance in the region. – Why did Sweden decide to join NATO? – At the end of the Napoleonic wars of the early 19th century, Sweden adopted an official policy […]
STOCKHOLM, Feb 26, 2024 (AFP) – Sweden on Monday cleared its final obstacle to joining NATO after Hungary’s parliament ratified the bid in what Sweden’s prime minister called a “historic day”, while other alliance members expressed relief at the move spurred by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Sweden would make the alliance “stronger and safer” while the United States, the main alliance power, as well as Britain and Germany welcomed Sweden’s […]
Sweden said Tuesday it would give 7.1 billion kronor ($682 million) worth of military equipment to Ukraine, in a boost for the country as it struggles to fight off Russia’s invasion. “The reason we are continuing to support Ukraine is a matter of humanity and decency. Russia started an illegal, unprovoked and indefensible war,” Defence Minister Pal Jonson told a news conference. The package will consist of artillery shells, air defence, boats and underwater weapons […]
STOCKHOLM, Feb 13, 2024 (AFP) – Swedish rescue services said Tuesday they were still battling a major blaze at the country’s largest amusement park, more than 24 hours after it broke out. One person was still missing after the fire erupted on Monday at the Oceana water park that was still under construction at the Liseberg amusement park in the western city of Gothenburg. Firefighters had indicated earlier on Tuesday that the blaze was […]
STOCKHOLM, Feb 6, 2024 (AFP) – Swedish radio reported Tuesday that an Iranian couple, believed to be working for Iranian intelligence, were deported after being suspected in a plot to kill Swedish Jews. According to an investigative report by Swedish Radio (SR), the couple, Mahdi Ramezani and Fereshteh Sanaeifarid, had applied for and been granted asylum in Sweden posing as Afghans. Suspected of plotting to kill Swedish Jews, the couple were arrested in April 2021 […]
STOCKHOLM, Jan 31, 2024 (AFP) – Israel’s embassy in Stockholm was the target of an attempted attack, the ambassador said Wednesday, after a bomb squad destroyed what Swedish police called “a dangerous object”. Police said the “live” device had been found by staff on the premises of the Israeli embassy in the Swedish capital, without specifying what the object was. “We were alerted at 1:08 pm (1208 GMT) by the embassy that they had found […]
BUDAPEST, Jan 24, 2024 (AFP) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Wednesday said he reaffirmed in a phone call with NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg his “support” for Sweden’s membership to the security alliance. Budapest remains the last holdout to ratify Stockholm’s bid to join NATO. “I reaffirmed that the Hungarian government supports the NATO membership of Sweden,” Orban wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “I also stressed that we will continue to urge the Hungarian […]
STOCKHOLM, Jan 4, 2024 (AFP) – Hundreds of cars were stuck along highways in southern Sweden and Denmark on Thursday, authorities said, with heavy snowfall behind the gridlock as a cold snap hit the region. In Sweden, military personnel were dispatched to assist rescue services working to aid stranded motorists between the towns of Horby and Kristianstad in Sweden’s far south. After drivers who requested help were evacuated, the people who remained in the area […]
STOCKHOLM, Jan 3, 2024 (AFP) – Sweden on Wednesday recorded its coldest January night in 25 years, with a reading of minus 43.6 degrees Celsius in the far north as a cold snap hit the Nordics. “To put that into perspective, that is the lowest January temperature in Sweden since 1999,” Mattias Lind, meteorologist at Sweden’s national weather agency SMHI, told AFP. In January 1999, a temperature of minus 49 degrees Celsius (minus 56.2 Fahrenheit) […]
RIYADH, Dec 24, 2023 (AFP) – Former world champions Anthony Joshua and Joseph Parker re-established their heavyweight title credentials with victories on the same Riyadh bill on Saturday. British boxer Joshua produced one of his best performances of recent times by stopping Sweden’s Otto Wallin, who was pulled out by his corner after the fifth round of a one-sided bout. Earlier, Parker enjoyed a unanimous points-decision win over fellow former world champion Deontay Wilder, the […]
By Matthieu DEMEESTERE BRUSSELS, Oct 17, 2023 (AFP) – Two Swedish nationals were shot dead in Brussels late Monday by a suspect who remains at large, in an attack the Belgian prime minister described as “terrorism”. The gunman fled on a scooter and Belgium’s security observatory raised its terror alert to level four or “very serious” — the highest — for Brussels, and level three nationally. Belgium’s premier, Alexander De Croo, said the shooting had […]
By Pia OHLIN STOCKHOLM, Oct 2, 2023 (AFP) – Researchers Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for work on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that paved the way for groundbreaking Covid-19 vaccines. The pair, who had been tipped as favourites, “contributed to the unprecedented rate of vaccine development during one of the greatest threats to human health in modern times”, the jury said. The World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a […]
