List of Sweden articles
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GettyImages-457426498 Fearing Russian Bear, Sweden Inches Toward NATO
The deal, known as a host nation support agreement, will grant NATO more room to operate on Swedish territory for training exercises or in the event of a conflict in the region.
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Sweden's Housing Minister Mehmet Kaplan (L) speaks next to Prime minister Stefan Lofven at a press conference to announce his resignation on April 18, 2016 in Stockholm following his comments on Israel. Kaplan likened Israel's treatment of Palestinians to what happened to Jews in Nazi Germany. / AFP / TT News Agency / Jessica Gow / Sweden OUT (Photo credit should read JESSICA GOW/AFP/Getty Images) Hopefully Sweden’s New Deputy Prime Minister Won’t Call 9/11 an ‘Accident’ on Live TV
Sweden's cabinet reshuffle came after a series of incredibly awkward missteps.
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GettyImages-509218540 A Far-right Vigilante Group May Soon Be Synonymous with Unicorns and Glitter
A Finnish university student trademarked the name of an anti-immigrant vigilante group to start a unicorn-themed clothing line.
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FP_podcast_article_artwork-1-globalthinkers Sweden’s Foreign Minister Has No Time for Giggles
2015 Global Thinker Margot Wallström explains how she took on critics of her “feminist foreign policy"—and why gender equality is a matter of national security.
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Worker prepares the collaborative dual-arm robot YuMi at the Swiss automation group ABB booth at the Hannover Messe industrial trade fair in Hanover, central Germany on April 13, 2015. India is the partner country of this year's trade fair running until April 17, 2015. AFP PHOTO / TOBIAS SCHWARZ (Photo credit should read TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP/Getty Images) The Brainbelt Awakening
It’s time to stop championing the "lonely heroes" of innovation like Apple, Google, and Amazon and rally around the ingenuity of the world’s waning industrial communities.
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<> on July 21, 2012 in Portland, Maine Sweden Wants to Stop Live American Lobsters From Entering Europe
Europe has quite an appetite for Maine lobsters. Sweden wants to see that change.
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GettyImages-507094742 Will the U.S. Break This Fundamental Law of Finance?
The EU, Japan and others are doing something economists thought was impossible. Will the U.S. join them?
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An island of Stockholm Archipelago pictured on 15 January, 2010 During the winter, ferries continue sailing in the Baltic Sea, partly frozen between Sweden and Finland. AFP PHOTO/ OLIVIER MORIN (Photo credit should read OLIVIER MORIN/AFP/Getty Images) The Death of the Most Generous Nation on Earth
Little Sweden has taken in far more refugees per capita than any country in Europe. But in doing so, it’s tearing itself apart.
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GettyImages-508571658crop The Obscure U.N. Body Behind the Ridiculous Claim Assange Is Arbitrarily Detained
The decision by the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has come under harsh criticism.
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TORNIO, FINLAND - OCTOBER 4: Immigrants, mostly from Iraq, walk from a bus station in Sweden to Finland to a makeshift customs checkpoint in the northern border in Tornio, Finland on October 4, 2015. Most have journey a week or two, through multiple countries including Sweden who put them on a train, then a bus to the Finnish border. There are families with small children, some women traveling alone but mostly there are young men from the Baghdad area. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post) When ‘Underage’ Refugees Look Anything But
Under strain from an influx of asylum-seekers claiming to be children, Sweden is now considering instituting mandatory age tests.
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GettyImages-498966078 Abortion Clinic Attacks Are Largely Limited to U.S. Shores
A research scientist at a reproductive health advocacy group says she can't think of any attacks at legal abortion clinics outside of the U.S.
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Moroccan refugees and migrants demonstrate as they wait to cross the Greece-Macedonia border near Idomeni on November 24, 2015. Since last week, Macedonia has restricted passage to northern Europe to only Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans who are considered war refugees. All other nationalities are deemed economic migrants and told to turn back. Over 1,500 people are stuck on the border, mostly Iranians, Moroccans, Bangladeshis and Pakistanis. AFP PHOTO / SAKIS MITROLIDIS / AFP / SAKIS MITROLIDIS (Photo credit should read SAKIS MITROLIDIS/AFP/Getty Images) Swedish Official Hates Her New Refugee Policy So Much She Is Literally Crying About It
Sweden is tightening its refugee policies, and its officials are already upset about it.
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Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas (R) poses for a picture with Sweden's King Carl Gustaf on February 10, 2015 at the Royal Palace in Stockholm. AFP PHOTO/JONATHAN NACKSTRAND (Photo credit should read JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP/Getty Images) Israel to Sweden: Don’t Make the Paris Attacks About Palestine
Israel is demanding an explanation for remarks from Sweden's foreign minister, who said extremism is in some ways tied to the the Israel-Palestine conflict.
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A man hold a placard reading "Help Europe" as Syrian and Afgan refugees attend a protest rally to demand to travel to Germany on September 2, 2015 outside the Keleti (East) railway station in Budapest. Hungarian authorities face mounting anger from thousands of migrants who are unable to board trains to western European countries after the main Budapest station was closed. AFP PHOTO / FERENC ISZA (Photo credit should read FERENC ISZA/AFP/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
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11076213_1430233203938029_8873183916435980021_n These Aren’t the Beards You’re Looking For
A group of bearded men were stopped in Sweden after they were mistaken for terrorists.
