ISTANBUL (AA) – Thousands of demonstrators gathered Saturday in Stockholm to protest Israeli actions in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, condemning Western governments for supplying weapons to Israel despite civilian casualties. The rally, held in the Odenplan area, was organized by several civil society groups and drew 2,000 participants. Proteste...
ANKARA (AA) – The 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Monday was awarded to scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun, the Nobel Assembly in Sweden announced. They were awarded “for the discovery of the microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation,” the assembly said. Victor Ambros, a professor of natural ...
Sweden’s recently-appointed Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard was forced to flee parliament hall after tomatoes and onions were thrown at her during a debate about how Sweden should vote on a United Nations referendum about Israel and the West Bank. Stenergard fled when those in the stands suddenly started shouting and throwing th...
LONDON (AA) – The Bosnian Mosque in the Swedish city of Norrkoping has been attacked in a “targeted hate crime” in which windows were broken and neo-Nazi slogans written on the walls. “With great shame and deep sadness, we condemn the disgusting attack on the construction of our mosque in Norrkoping, where windows were broken, […]...
LONDON (AA) – Swedish prosecutors have charged two people with inciting hatred during several sacrilegious protests last year, which sparked widespread outrage in Muslim countries. Salwan Momika and Salwan Najem have been formally charged with “offences of agitation against an ethnic or national group” four separate times which they had commit...
Canberra, Australia — AFP WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is “marvelling at the horizon” as he tastes freedom in Australia after a five-year stretch in a London high-security prison, his wife has said. The 52-year-old landed in Canberra the night before, hours after pleading guilty in a US Pacific island court to a single co...
Stockholm, Sweden – AFP Sweden has alleged that Iran was recruiting members of Swedish criminal gangs, some of them children, as proxies to commit “acts of violence” against Israel and other states and groups in Sweden that Tehran considered a threat. These claims were made by Sweden’s intelligence agency on Thursday. T...
Malmö, Sweden – – AFP After a run-up in the shadow of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, the Eurovision Song Contest final gets underway on Saturday in Sweden’s Malmo, where representatives from 26 countries will compete. Up to 30,000 demonstrators from the Free Palestine Movement are expected to protest against IsraelR...
An Iraqi refugee and a radical Christian have stirred controversy by demanding permission to burn a copy of the Quran in Malmo, Sweden, just before the Eurovision Song Contest begins on May 7. Salwan Najem and Jade Sandberg aim to carry out the act in protest against Islam, with Sandberg advocating for a ban on […]
Stockholm, Sweden — AFP Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has led some 500 people in a march in Stockholm to demand politicians do more to address the issue of climate change. Demonstrators of all ages braved chilly spring temperatures of 3C (37F), wearing parkas and woolly bonnets and chanting “International solidarity! We o...
