Turkiye expects Sweden to fulfil its promises made under last year’s Madrid memorandum for its North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) bid, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Friday, citing a pact signed with Turkiye, Norway and Sweden at a NATO summit. Speaking at a military graduation ceremony in Istanbul,[…]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned Sweden that it should not expect his backing to join NATO following the burning of the Quran outside Ankara’s embassy in Stockholm during a protest. “Those who allow such blasphemy in front of our embassy [in Stockholm] can no longer expect our support for their[…]
Sweden has reaffirmed its decision to distance itself from Kurdish militant groups in its bid to join NATO, as it attempts to secure Turkiye’s approval to join the military alliance. Earlier this year, Sweden and Finland applied to join NATO as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the[…]
By: Aneeqa du Plessis With South Africa known for its sporadic droughts and more recently, drier winter season, two high-school learners from Heatherlands High in George Western Cape, created a water-wise innovation that would stop continuous leakages from taps and ultimately help the country save water. Under the watchful eye[…]
At least 20 graves belonging to Muslims and Orthodox Christians were vandalised in a cemetery in the southern Swedish city of Malmo, local media reported Monday, says Anadolu Agency. Many tombstones were also scrawled with red paint by unidentified people at Ostra Cemetery, reported Swedish public broadcaster SVT, citing police spokesperson Nils[…]
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), on Tuesday, strongly condemned the burning of copies of the Muslim Holy Book, the Quran, in Sweden, Anadolu News Agency reports. In a statement, OIC Secretary-General, Hissein Brahim Taha denounced “the provocative actions of burning copies of the Holy Quran during anti-Muslim demonstrations, which have been[…]
Four NGOs have announced they have filed a criminal complaint in Sweden against members of the Syrian government, including President Bashar al-Assad, over chemical weapons attacks in 2013 and 2017. In the complaint filed with Swedish police, the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), Civil Rights Defenders,[…]
Swedish prosecutors will not pursue their rape investigation of WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange any further, they announced, having successfully fulfilled their role in the years-long scheme to put Assange behind bars. Investigators determined the evidence was simply not strong enough to support an indictment, Deputy Chief Prosecutor Eva-Marie Persson told[…]
Yemen’s government has said it has agreed to a large-scale prisoner swap with its adversaries, the Houthi rebels, as part of a “confidence-building measure”, suggesting the warring sides could come to a ceasefire agreement at peace talks in Sweden later this week. Yemen’s foreign minister, Khaled al-Yamani, said on Tuesday[…]
A day after falsely suggesting there was an immigration-related security incident in Sweden, US President Donald Trump said on Sunday his comment was based on a television report he had seen. Trump, who in his first weeks in office has tried to tighten US borders sharply for national security reasons,[…]
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