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Lars Nicander, director of the Centre for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the Swedish National Defence College, fears that the Green Party, the junior partner of the Social Democrats in the Swedish coalition government, has been infiltrated by Islamists. How the Green leaders have alienated almost everyone (22 Apr 16) Politician quits after refusing to shake women's hands (20 Apr 16) Sweden's green leader in second Auschwitz gaffe (03 Jul 15) Making reference to the recent controversies involving Green Party politicians, Mehmet Kaplan and Yasri Khan, Nicander, speaking to Swedish television channel, TV4, drew parallels with the way the Soviet Union...

A New Year's CIA strike in northern Pakistan killed two top al-Qaeda terrorists long sought by the United States, including the man believed to be behind September's deadly suicide bombing at a Marriott hotel in the Pakistani capital, U.S. counterterrorism officials told The Washingon Post today. Agency officials determined in recent days that among the dead in the Jan. 1 missile strike were a Kenyan national who used the name Usama al-Kini and who was described as al-Qaeda's chief of operations in Pakistan and his lieutenant, identified as Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan, the sources said. Both men were associated with...

(Reuters) - The European Union could submit a proposal as soon as March on the creation of so-called 'return hubs' to expedite the removal of illegal migrants, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on Thursday. Kristersson sketched out the potential timetable during a meeting in Vienna with Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer, a fellow conservative, in which both men urged the European Union to step up efforts to counter illegal immigration....

The designation makes the breed eligible to compete for many best in show trophies, and it likely augurs more widespread interest in the small, sprightly dogs. The prospect both gladdens and concerns their biggest fans. ... Called the farmdog or DSF for short, the breed goes back centuries in parts of what are now Denmark, southern Sweden and some other European countries, according to the Danish-Swedish Farmdog Club of America. ... In their original homelands, the dogs’ main job was rodent patrol, but they also would herd a bit, act as watchdogs and play with farmers’ children. Some even performed...

It is welcome news that Sweden’s Aid Minister, Benjamin Dousa, has said that Sweden will no longer fund UNRWA, apparently satisfied with Israel’s evidence that it has been a HAMAS front. The Arabs there need not worry, though, because Sweden is going to increase the amount of its aid, only using other agencies. Lucky for them. However, Israel could help itself by going further and attacking the very idea that the recipients of UNRWA largesse are “Palestinian refugees” entitled to such aid when there are virtually no refugees among them. And in any case, there is nothing Palestinian about them....

The country’s prime minister said the incident, the latest in a series of disruptions to undersea infrastructure, underscored the danger of a so-called Russian shadow fleet.The Finnish police on Thursday boarded an oil tanker that the authorities said they suspected was involved in damaging vital undersea cables. They suggested the tanker was part of a shadow fleet used by Russia to avoid Western sanctions.The Estlink 2 submarine cable, which carries electricity between Finland and Estonia, was cut on Wednesday, Finland’s police said in a statement, the latest in a slew of disruptions to undersea infrastructure that are being investigated as...

A man has been detained following the explosion at an entrance on Östermalm in central Stockholm on Saturday evening, according to the police. I have no information about any circumstances or if he is known previously, says Anders Bryngelsson, press spokesperson for the Stockholm police region. The police do not want to disclose the man's age, when he was arrested, or how the arrest was made. The explosion occurred at an entrance on a street in central Stockholm at around 20:00 on Saturday. There is no information about any personal injuries. The man is suspected of reckless endangerment and violating...

Swedish rapper Gaboro has been shot dead in a car park as his killer filmed the execution - just six months after award-winning rapper C.Gambino was also killed in a car park. A disturbing video allegedly showing the murder of 24-year-old Gaboro, whose real name was Ninos Khouri, is circulating on social media. Footage which was filmed by the gunman appears to show him ruthlessly shoot his target over and over again as Gaboro tried to get away. Police were informed of a shooting in a parking lot in central Norrköping at around 8pm last night. Once they arrived at...

President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that he was granting 39 pardons and 1,499 commutations in what his administation called the “largest single-day grant of clemency in modern history.” But it’s not Thursday’s set of commutations that have caught the attention of concerned Americans — it’s those that were quietly given weeks ago to Chinese spies.X user Nick Sortor posted that “Joe Biden just pardoned multiple Chinese spies and an individual convicted of possessing child p*rnography. WHY?”But the thing is, Biden didn’t “just” commute the sentences for these criminals — he did it quietly only days before Thanksgiving.While most Americans...

A New Yorker-turned-ISIS recruiter nicknamed “Umm Nuteella” faces up to 70 years in prison after an appeals court tossed her initial “shockingly low” 48-month sentence for boosting the terror organization. Sinmyah Ceasar, 29, allegedly continued to chat with terrorist contacts — and even solicited money to help an ISIS supporter — while she was out on supervised release following her release from lockup, Brooklyn federal prosecutors said. “There is simply no other terrorism defendant who compares to the defendant’s history of recidivism, and her persistence and consistency in disobeying the lawful authority of the Court,” the feds wrote in a...

New revelations about the lengths to which 41-year-old Liberal Party politician Paulina Brandberg, Sweden’s Minister for Gender Equality, has her aides go to protect her from bananas have emerged in Sweden. Brandberg admitted to the fear in 2020, but the revelation that she has her staff clear rooms and “secure” them before she enters them hit headlines earlier this month. Now, Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet says it has seen no less than 44 emails from Brandberg’s office, where her staff have written ahead of very high-profile meetings to prevent fruit-based gaffes. Brandberg’s staff emailed EU summits, the Norwegian government, and the...

In Saint Helens, Oregon near Portland high school principal Dr.Katy Wagner accused of covering up sexual misconduct... At Mar-a-Lago tonight Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg... A Ukraine-wide air raid alert declared Thursday morning...Ukraine claiming a major Russian attack... The Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson says he wants a Chinese merchant vessel to return to Swedish waters as the probe... The US Food and Drug Administration okaying a clinical trial of marijuana as a treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder... The Biden Administration urging Ukraine to lower its draft age... Music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs denied bail for a third time......

European investigators believe a Chinese-owned commercial ship deliberately dragged its anchor to sabotage the two undersea telecommunications cables cut in the Baltic Sea earlier this month. However, Western law enforcement and intelligence officials told The Wall Street Journal that they don’t believe the Chinese government was involved. Instead, the probe is focused on whether Russian intelligence persuaded the vessel’s captain to carry out the operation. For the past week, NATO warships from Denmark, Germany and Sweden have surrounded the 225-meter-long Yi Peng 3. The ship’s Chinese owner, Ningbo Yipeng Shipping, is reportedly cooperating with investigators. The shipper allowed the commercial...

War Sweden & Finland Warn Prepare for War Sweden & Finland Warn Prepare for War Posted Nov 19, 2024 By Martin Armstrong | SPREAD THE LOVE Sweden wants war All the European leaders wanted war desperately so they could (1) try to hold together the failing Eurozone and (2) end up with an excuse to default on their debts. The average Russian, European, American, Canadian, Japanese, and Chinese are uninterested in war. The average person wants to get along and deal with everyday life. Sweden and Finland are telling their people to prepare for war. There is nobody in power...

Sweden is sending out some five million pamphlets to residents urging them to prepare for the possibility of war, with instructions on how to stockpile food and water amid growing fears of a conflict with Russia. Neighbouring Finland has also launched a new preparedness website while Norwegians recently received booklets instructing them on how to manage on their own for a week in the event of war and other threats. Both Sweden and Finland dropped decades of military non-alignment to join the US-led military alliance NATO in the wake of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Since the start of the...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he was positively surprised by his phone call with Donald Trump following the Republican's reelection as U.S. president last week. "That was — perhaps surprisingly — a very detailed and good conversation with the designated U.S. president," Scholz said in an interview with Süddeutsche Zeitung published on Friday. During the Nov. 10 call, they talked "at length about Ukraine," Scholz said. While stressing that it would be "inappropriate" to disclose the details of their conversation, Scholz added that he got "the impression that he has a more differentiated position than is often assumed here." Russian...

The Swedish minister for gender equality has admitted she needs help to tackle her phobia of bananas as she requires aids to sweep rooms to remove the fruit before she can enter. Paulina Brandberg said she is currently seeking medical treatment for what she has described as 'the world's weirdest phobia' after emails revealing her staff's 'banana-proofing' actions were leaked to Expressen. Emails reportedly sent before she made official visits requested there to be 'no traces of bananas' in the room she would be in, claiming Brandberg had a 'strong allergy' to the fruit.

Rasmus Paludan’s prosecution lays bare Sweden’s dangerous abandonment of free speech, where courts silence dissent and protect Islam from critique—even as they condemn a politician already hunted, violently attacked, and forced to live in constant fear for his life simply for defending Western values.In a decision that has ignited fierce debate over the limits of free speech and judicial interpretation, Danish-Swedish politician and lawyer Rasmus Paludan was sentenced to four months in prison by the Malmö District Court. The case, rooted in Paludan’s 2022 Quran-burning protests and speeches on Islam, questions the extent of free expression protections in Sweden, the...

While digging to find an ancient settlement in southern Sweden, archaeologists made a completely unexpected discovery: an enormous Viking Age cemetery with more than 100 graves and several ship-shaped mounds...The cemetery was initially found in 2017 in the village of Tvååker, in southwestern Sweden, ahead of planned road construction. Although Tvååker is mentioned in historical sagas, the aboveground remains of this particular cemetery were lost to time until recently."The problem is that the land has been plowed and leveled to create pastures," Nordin said, "so all the occupation levels, above-ground remains, and burials have been plowed to pieces."During excavations carried...

Key PointsSweden is often viewed as a liberal utopia in Europe, known for its stable economy, high quality of life, and open and progressive society.But its center-right coalition government — which is propped up by the nationalist and right-wing Sweden Democrats party — has adopted an increasingly restrictive stance on immigration.The country is trumpeting its lower numbers of immigrants, but economists say the economic benefits are debatable, with growth and productivity among the factors to consider.Sweden is often viewed as a a liberal utopia in Europe and beyond, with the country of 10.5 million people known for its stable economy,...