Donald Trump's return to the White House will have a hugely negative effect on climate change action in the short-term but the longer term impact is less certain, experts say.
With world leaders meeting next week for the latest UN climate talks, (...)
The 13-year-old boy should have been in school last Thursday, instead of sitting in a police station in central Gothenburg. But police say he fired shots outside the offices of Israeli tech firm Elbit Systems.
"He was basically caught in the act," (...)
Sweden's gang violence has escalated to the point where its homicide rate linked to gang warfare is now one of the highest in Europe, with shooters often being minors.
There is an average of one shooting per day for every 10 million inhabitants, and (...)
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Han Kang, a South Korean author, for her "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life."
Han, 53, began her career with a group of poems in a (...)
The 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to a trio of scientists who used artificial intelligence to "crack the code" of almost all known proteins, the "chemical tools of life."
The Nobel Committee lauded David Baker, a US biochemist, for (...)
The 2024 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for their fundamental discoveries in machine learning, which paved the way for how artificial intelligence is used today.
Hopfield, a professor at Princeton (...)
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024 has been awarded to US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their work on microRNA.
Their discoveries help explain how complex life emerged on Earth and how the human body is made of a wide (...)
RIYADH — The National Center for Environmental Compliance has announced a national project aimed at inventorying and assessing Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) across the Kingdom. This initiative seeks to elucidate the environmental, health, (...)
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was released from a British prison and was making his way back to his home country Australia on Monday after his 12-year battle against extradition to the United States ended in a plea deal.
The controversial figure (...)
Suspected debris from a Chinese rocket was seen plummeting to the ground over a village in southwest China on Saturday, leaving a trail of bright yellow smoke and sending villagers running, according to videos on Chinese social media and sent to CNN (...)
Sweden and Iran carried out a prisoner exchange on Saturday, Sweden freeing a former Iranian official convicted for his role in a mass execution in the 1980s while Iran released two Swedes being held there, Reuters reported. The prisoner swap was (...)
Munitions made in the United States were used in the deadly Israeli strike on a displacement camp in Rafah on Sunday, a CNN analysis of video from the scene and a review by explosive weapons experts has found.
At least 45 people were killed and more (...)
Eurovision Song Contest organizers have said they "regret" that some delegations "didn't respect the spirit of the rules" in Sweden.
Italy's Angelina Mango and Ireland's Bambie Thug are among the contestants who complained of a "tense" and (...)
Swedish police have assured that fans need not be concerned about safety at this year's Eurovision Song Contest, despite heightened tensions due to the conflict in Gaza.
However, the competition continues to be overshadowed by protests against (...)
Military spending in Central and Western Europe is now higher than the last year of the Cold War, a new report has found.
According to new data released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Europe has seen a widespread (...)
Two individuals accused of planning a firearms attack on Sweden's parliament were arrested in Germany on Tuesday, according to a statement by the Office of the German Federal Prosecutor.
The pair, who authorities said are Afghan citizens, were (...)
Sweden has officially become the 32nd member of NATO after it completed its accession process in Washington.
The handover of documents took place at a ceremony two years after Sweden applied to join the military alliance following Russia's (...)
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said the country "stands ready to shoulder its responsibility" after the Hungarian parliament brought an end to more than 18 months of delays that have frustrated the alliance as it seeks to expand in response (...)
Hungary's parliament is on Monday expected to ratify Sweden's membership to the NATO military alliance, giving its stamp of approval 18 months after the Scandinavian country first made a bid to join.
Hungary is the last of NATO's 31 members to (...)
A "dangerous object" found outside the Israeli embassy in Stockholm has been destroyed, Swedish police say.
Local reports said the incident triggered a major response, with a 100m (328ft) area cordoned off around the embassy to protect the (...)
Turkish legislators on Tuesday endorsed Sweden's membership in NATO, lifting a major hurdle on the previously nonaligned country's entry into the military alliance.
The legislators ratified Sweden's accession protocol by 287 votes to 55, with four (...)
A warning to Swedes from two top defense officials to prepare for war has prompted concern and accusations of alarmism.
Civil Defense Minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin told a defense conference "there could be war in Sweden".
His message was then backed up (...)
The Swedish armed forces have delivered food and water to up to 1,000 cars and lorries stuck in heavy snow for over 24 hours.
Rescuers said they were working to free people stuck on the main E22 road in the Skane area of southern Sweden.
Many of (...)
In a recent four-page letter, ex-UN official Craig Mokhiber criticized the international community for failing to stop a "genocide unfolding before our eyes" in Gaza.
The US human rights lawyer accused the US, UK and much of Europe of being "wholly (...)
Gangland shootings and bombings that have plagued Sweden's biggest cities have spread to quieter suburbs and towns, shattering its reputation as a safe and peaceful nation.
Half an hour north of central Stockholm, Upplands-Bro features lakeside boat (...)
