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The Turkish parliament will on Tuesday resume debate on approving Sweden’s request to join NATO, which has been on hold since May last year. Sweden and Finland dropped decades of military non-alignment and sought the nuclear protection…
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The Turkish parliament’s decision to postpone a vote on Sweden’s NATO membership bid — the latest twist in an 18-month saga — has raised questions about the reasons for the delay and its potential implications. Experts suggest the…
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Belgian police on Tuesday arrested a suspected gunman who shot dead two Swedish football fans in what authorities said was a “terrorist attack.” The arrest, in the Brussels neighborhood of Schaerbeek, followed an intensive manhunt in the…
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As young children went back to school across Sweden last month, many of their teachers were putting a new emphasis on printed books, quiet reading time and handwriting practice and devoting less time to tablets, independent online research…
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Sweden on Monday urged Iran to free one of its nationals it says has been held in the country arbitrarily since April 2022 in a case exacerbating bilateral tensions. “A Swedish citizen — a man in his thirties — was detained in Iran in…
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The Arab Parliament — the legislative body of the Arab League — on Saturday welcomed the Danish government’s move to make it a crime to desecrate any holy book in Denmark. Denmark’s center-right government introduced the proposed law…
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An assailant threw a Molotov cocktail at Sweden’s embassy in Beirut, causing no casualties, Stockholm’s foreign minister and a diplomatic source said Thursday, amid anger over recent Qur'an desecrations. “We confirm that there was a…
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The leader of Lebanon’s militant group Hezbollah said on Saturday that if governments of Muslim-majority nations do not act against countries that allow the desecration of the Holy Qur’an, Muslims should “punish” those who facilitate…
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The Saudi foreign minister spoke with his Swedish counterpart over the phone on Friday during which he renewed the Kingdom’s “total rejection” of all attempts to offend the Holy Qur’an, Saudi Press Agency reported. Prince Faisal bin…
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Algeria said Monday it had summoned the Danish and Swedish envoys to condemn recent desecrations of the Qur'an in Copenhagen and Stockholm. The foreign ministry said it had on Monday “summoned the Danish ambassador and the charge…
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