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Teenager Bags Life Sentence For Killing 2 Teachers In Sweden

Teenager Bags Life Sentence For Killing 2 Teachers In Sweden

September 9, 2022 4:29 am

A court in  Sweden has sentenced an 18-year-old student to life in jail over the killing of two teachers with an axe sometime in March of this year. He is believed to be the youngest person to receive the sentence in Sweden’s modern history.

The young man was arrested shortly after the attack at Malmo Latin School, a creative arts high school, which has more than 1,000 students in Sweden’s third-biggest city Malmo in southern Sweden.

‘These are two very brutal murders where the victims greatly suffered and experienced severe fear of death,’ judge Johan Kvart said in a statement, …

Finland Emerges World’s Happiest Country In UN's 2022 Ratings

Finland Emerges World’s Happiest Country In UN’s 2022 Ratings

July 19, 2022 3:48 am

Africa Daily News, New York reports that going by the rankings the Nordic country and its neighbors Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland all score very well on the measures the report uses to explain its findings: healthy life expectancy, GDP per capita, social support in times of trouble, low corruption and high social trust, generosity in a community where people look after each …

Chances Of Swift NATO Admission For Finland, Sweden Dwindles

Chances Of Swift NATO Admission For Finland, Sweden Dwindles

June 21, 2022 5:32 am

While Finland and Sweden will meet in Brussels on Monday to discuss their delayed NATO bids with Turkey, experts say the chances of a resolution before the alliance gathering next week are dwindling.

Officials from the three nations were scheduled to meet with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg to discuss the Nordic countries’ membership applications, which have been stalled by Ankara.

‘I think it is possible but it would be very difficult,’ Paul Levin, director of the Institute for Turkey Studies at Stockholm University, told AFP, adding it would require both parties to compromise.

NATO and the two Nordic countries had …

Ukraine War Vladimir Putin Compares Self To Peter The Great

Ukraine War: Vladimir Putin Compares Self To Peter The Great

June 10, 2022 4:43 am

Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin has likened himself to Russian monarch Peter the Great, the tsar who led a conquest of the Baltic coast during his 18th-century war against Sweden as the ongoing war in Ukraine rages on.

Putin also made a case for his country’s need to ‘take back’ territory and ‘defend itself’ as the Kremlin’s forces continued a grinding war of attrition in eastern Ukraine on Thursday.

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Africa Daily News, New York recalls that after visiting an exhibition in Moscow dedicated to the 350th birthday of the tsar, Putin drew parallels between Peter the Great’s founding …

Turkey Opposed To Finland, Sweden NATO Membership - Erdogan

Turkey Opposed To Finland, Sweden NATO Membership – Erdogan

May 14, 2022 4:08 am

The President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed that it is not possible for Ankara to support Sweden and Finland in their decision to join the transatlantic military alliance (NATO) in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, signalling a possible hurdle to the two countries’ plans to join the organisation.

Speaking to correspondents in Istanbul on Friday, Erdogan observed that Turkey, which is already part of NATO, did not have what he described as ‘positive views’ on the Scandinavian countries’ moves to seek membership, accusing them of being ‘guesthouses for terrorist organisations’.

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Sweden didn't lock down, but economy to plunge anyway

Sweden Didn’t Lock Down, But Economy To Plunge Anyway

June 8, 2020 5:16 pm

Unlike most countries, Sweden never locked down during the coronavirus pandemic, largely keeping businesses operating, but the economy appears to be taking a hard hit nonetheless.

Under the Scandinavian country’s controversial approach to the virus, cafes, bars, restaurants and most businesses remained open, as did schools for under-16s, with people urged to follow social distancing and hygiene guidelines.

Whatever hope there may have been that this policy would soften the economic blow now seems dashed.

“As in most of the world, there will be a record decline for the Swedish economy in Q2,” SEB bank economist Olle Holmgren said.…

Sweden Admits Failure To Protect Elderly In Care Homes

Sweden Admits Failure To Protect Elderly In Care Homes

May 10, 2020 12:10 pm

Bjorn Branngard’s mother died in a Stockholm nursing home where five of the eight people in her section and more than a third of residents have so far succumbed to the new coronavirus.

“They didn’t have time to take care of my mother,” he told AFP.

Her coronavirus test came back negative two days after her death, but Branngard, who claims she died of neglect, says the nursing home staff lacked protective gear and were spreading the virus around the home.

Sweden, whose softer approach to the coronavirus has garnered international attention, admits it has failed to adequately protect the …

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