After a few months of relative stasis, engagement with North Korea has shifted into high gear — on two fronts. A top military figure from Pyongyang arrived in Washington last night after a first trip got canceled two months ago. Neither side...
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STOCKHOLM (Sputnik) - The Swedish parliament on Friday backed Stefan Lofven, the leader of the Social Democratic Party, for his second term as the prime minister.
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A fragile truce between the Hadi government and Houthi forces in Yemen was secured in December after weeklong negotiations in Sweden. A small UN monitoring mission was rushed to the Yemeni port of Al Hudaydah to observe the agreement. Will the...
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A Frenchman at the centre of a scandal that led to the postponement of the 2018 Nobel Literature Prize has appealed his rape conviction to Sweden’s Supreme Court, the highest court said Thursday. Once an influential figure in Stockholm’s...
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Ankara is planning to buy US-manufactured F-35 fighter jets amid concerns that the transfer might be cancelled, according to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Radio Sputnik discussed Ankara's plans with Abdullah Bozkurt, president of the...
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Climate change threatens plants as the risks of flooding increase. A new study from Stockholm University shows that special genes are key to keeping plants from withering, remaining healthy and resistant to a lack of oxygen when they are underwater...
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Olivia Nuzzi: “Mulvaney does have one advantage: He has demonstrated his loyalty to the president since the beginning.”
Said one person close to the White House: “It’s cultish. It’s Stockholm syndrome. There’s this thing that’s...
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The first peace talks on Yemen in two years are scheduled to end Thursday, with U.N. mediators hoping to make progress on several key issues.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will join the final day of talks near Stockholm to encourage both...
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Global military spending increased by 3.9% in 2017, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. The global rise was driven partially by a $9.6 billion hike in U.S. spending...
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Both porches, gates, walls and at least one statue of one of Stockholm's most iconic buildings have been tarnished with various colours in an act of vandalism.
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STOCKHOLM (Sputnik) - The arms sales of the Russian companies listed among the world's 100 largest arms manufacturers accounted for 9.5 percent of the hundred's total in 2017, making Russia world's second biggest arms producer after the United...
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STOCKHOLM (Sputnik) - The Houthi movement is ready to release all its detainees if the Yemeni government agrees to respond in kind, Abdul Majid Hanash, a member of the Houthi delegation to the talks in Sweden, said.
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STOCKHOLM (Sputnik) - The Houthi militants should withdraw from Al-Hodeida as the Yemeni government forces are close to regaining control of the port city, Osman Hussein, the Yemeni minister of agriculture and a member of the government delegation...
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STOCKHOLM (Sputnik) - The delegations of the Yemeni government and the Houthi militants have signed an agreement on the exchange of detainees and prisoners of war during peace talks in Stockholm, UN Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths has...
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Starbreeze is not doing so well following the release of Overkill’s The Walking Dead. The PayDay publisher has filed for reconstruction with the Stockholm District Court. Reconstruction is the Swedish term for administration, a legal procedure...
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Stockholm:"How should we think about inflation?” asked the Strategic Asset Allocation Committee. “Is inflation something that should have been much lower were it not for such low...
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The Court of Appeal of Svea County in Sweden will hold preliminary hearings on Russian energy giant Gazprom’s appeal against a Stockholm arbitration court’s verdict.
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Voice of Europe keeps us abreast of the never-ending cultural enrichment resulting from massive colonization by the Third World:
A 25-year-old woman has been gang raped by Africans in a playground in central Stockholm. …
Two are citizens of...
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STOCKHOLM (Sputnik) – The majority of lawmakers in the Swedish parliament on November 14 voted against the centre-right Moderate Party leader Ulf Kristersson as the country’s prime minister. Kristersson’s candidacy was rejected by a 195-154...
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Apple growers should increase the amount of flowers around their apple orchards if they want to increase their harvest. A new study by researchers from Stockholm University, among others, shows that more pollinators, such as bees and flower flies,...
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