King Filip hopes to reach New York this week, which King Willem-Alexander achieved only three years earlier; the Belgian king is going to try to win enough souls to give Belgium a seat in the Security Council of the United Nations for two years from 2019 onwards.
A blue megapenis that can be admired since Wednesday on the edge of a flat in Stockholm, is not to everyone's liking. The artwork received a lot of comment in a short time and will soon be repainted.
The committee that annually awards the Nobel Prize for Literature is in serious crisis. A large number of members of the so-called Swedish Academy have resigned after a scandal about the man of one of the members, Katarina Frostenson, who would have harassed or abused eighteen women.
The Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs calls the Russian ambassador Tuesday on the carpet. The summons comes after the claim of Moscow that Sweden could be the source of the nerve gas that was used in the attack on a former Russian double spy in England.
The Swedish and North Korean Foreign Ministers concluded their talks after three days. One initiate said that there was a 'constructive dialogue', which lasted a day longer than initially planned.
The North Korean foreign minister Ri Yong-ho, who is a guest in Stockholm, also talks to the Swedes on Saturday. This reinforces the suspicion that the summit meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will be held in the Scandinavian country.
The North Korean Foreign Minister, Ri Yong-ho, will be visiting Sweden very soon.
Turkey, according to Turkish media, has now also asked Sweden to arrest the Kurdish politician Saleh Muslim. Ankara also recently asked two other EU countries for the extradition of the former Syrian-Kurdish PYD leader.
The Russian gas company Gazprom has begun breaking the contracts with the Ukrainian state energy company Naftogaz. Gazprom has stepped to an arbitration court in Stockholm before that, says the deputy chief of Gazprom, Aleksander Medvedev.
Sweden has a scientist who is detained in Tehran for espionage and has been sentenced to death for it, in order to prevent any execution of that sentence. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced this on Saturday.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), up to one billion children in the world experience physical, mental or sexual violence or are neglected. This means that half of all two to seventeen year olds are involved, the organization reported Friday.
The Swedish Public Prosecution Service wants a life sentence for the suspect of an attack with a truck in Stockholm. 'This crime is so serious that only the maximum sentence is sufficient,' said Prosecutor Hans Ihrman. The lawsuit against the man starts next month.
Two activists from the Russian protest group Pussy Riot try to get asylum in Sweden. Lusine Dzjanjan, Aleksej Knedljakovski and their son have been in the country for about ten months, report television channel SVT. The duo is currently living in an asylum seekers' center.
The Netherlands is among the world leaders in countries that are good at educating, retaining and attracting talent. The Scandinavian countries score even better from the European countries.
An app that should serve as a contraceptive, Natural Cycles, does not seem to work well. A Swedish hospital claims that dozens of women who have used the app have become pregnant. Natural Cycles indicates daily on the basis of body temperature whether a woman is fertile or not.
In an explosion in a subway station in Stockholm, a man was seriously injured on Sunday. He was transported to the hospital, the police reported.
Of the four men who were arrested on Sunday in Rotterdam on suspicion of involvement in terrorism, two Wednesday were released. It is a 21-year-old man from Vlaardingen and a 29-year-old Swede.
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Music streaming service Spotify opts for an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
In order to better protect civilians and cities from terrorist attacks, the European Commission launches an action plan to be formed over the next sixteen months. Brussels has more than 118 million euros extra free to stop attacks in public space, such as recently in Barcelona, London and Stockholm.
The Swedish and Danish police are investigating whether the DNA of Peter Madsen, the submarine captain suspected of the murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall, has also arisen in unresolved murder cases.
The English writer Kazuo Ishiguro is the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017. This has been announced by the Nobel Committee in Stockholm.
The Nobel Prize for Chemistry has gone to three scientists for the development of cryo electron microscopy. The researchers are Jacques Dubochet (Switzerland), Germany-born Joachim Frank (USA) and Richard Henderson (Great Britain). They have developed special applications. The winners were announced in Stockholm on Wednesday.
Professor Ben Feringa from Paterswolde will hear Wednesday who succeeds as winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. The winners receive a total of 9 million Swedish crowns (940,000 euros), a medal and eternal fame.
The Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded this year to the Americans Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young. They get the prize for their biological clock research. The winners receive a total of 9 million Swedish crowns (940,000 euros), a medal and eternal fame.
Google has attracted a number of Microsoft employees, reports Variety. They work in Stockholm with Skype and threatened to become unemployed because their department is being lifted.
In the Swedish capital of Stockholm, a police officer was attacked at a subway station from behind and stabbed in the neck with a knife. The agent was able to warn colleagues who were soon on the spot and could suspect the suspected perpetrator, reports Swedish media.
It is now possible to listen to Spotify via the Xbox One without interrupting a game. The Spotify app is available in 34 markets worldwide in the Xbox Store.
Dutch eggs containing the pesticide fipronil have also been imported into Sweden. The Swedish food inspection department announced this Friday. The service stressed that there was no danger to public health.
A brown bear killed a nineteen-year-old boy in a zoo in Sweden. That happened during a tour of public in Orsa park, the police reported in the Dalarna province on Friday.
