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Business
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Markets & Companies
7/20/2023 5:57:19 PM
Swedish multinational appliances company Electrolux Group will sell $976.46 million worth of brands and factories in Egypt and South Africa, as a part of a reprioritization plan, according to a press release on Thursday.
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World
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Region
7/20/2023 3:44:10 PM
Iraq's prime minister ordered the expulsion of the Swedish ambassador from Iraq and the withdrawal of the Iraqi charge d’affaires from Sweden on Thursday as a man desecrated of a copy of the Koran in Stockholm.
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World
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Region
7/20/2023 10:25:11 AM
Protesters set fire to Sweden's embassy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad early Thursday, an AFP journalist said, ahead of a planned burning of a Koran in Sweden.
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Sports
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Omni sports
7/18/2023 1:36:29 PM
Swedish tennis star Mikael Ymer said Tuesday he had received a 18-month suspension for having missed three doping tests in 2021, a punishment he called "unfair."
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World
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Region
7/15/2023 5:50:34 PM
The man who said he would burn the Torah and the Bible outside the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm gave up his plan and instead held a one-person demonstration on Saturday against the burning of holy books, the media reported.
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World
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Region
7/12/2023 6:54:17 PM
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday that Turkey would not be able to ratify Sweden's NATO candidacy until at least October because parliament was not in session.
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World
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International
7/12/2023 2:24:14 PM
The UN Human Rights Council voted Wednesday to condemn recent Koran burning incidents, but many countries declined to back the measure, fearing it encroached too much on free speech.
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World
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Region
7/11/2023 9:01:39 PM
US President Joe Biden thanked his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday for his "courage" in dropping opposition to Sweden's entry to NATO.
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World
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Region
7/10/2023 11:24:13 PM
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed Monday to forward Sweden's application to join NATO to his parliament for approval, the alliance's head Jens Stoltenberg said.
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World
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International
7/10/2023 10:00:31 PM
The United States supports Turkey's bid to enter the European Union but does not believe Ankara should link that to accepting Sweden's entry into NATO, a senior American official said Monday.
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World
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Region
7/10/2023 5:31:51 PM
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday he would only back Sweden's NATO candidacy if the European Union resumes long-stalled membership talks with Ankara.
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World
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International
7/10/2023 12:11:35 PM
Sweden's prime minister will meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday in a last-gasp attempt to bridge a diplomatic impasse over his Nordic state's stalled NATO membership drive.
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World
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War in Ukraine
7/10/2023 10:20:14 AM
Russia’s war in Ukraine will top the agenda when U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts hold a summit in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius over two days starting on Tuesday.
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World
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International
7/7/2023 2:47:40 PM
Muslims in Pakistan were holding rallies on Friday to observe a "Day of the Sanctity of Quran” after the South Asian Islamic nation’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif issued a call for anti-Sweden protests over last week’s burning of the Islamic holy book in Stockholm.
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World
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International
7/6/2023 10:39:09 PM
The leaders of Turkey and Sweden will meet on the eve of a NATO summit next week to try and unblock Stockholm's stalled membership bid, alliance head Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday.
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World
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International
7/6/2023 8:40:30 PM
A Quran burning and a string of requests to approve protests involving the destruction of more holy books have left Sweden torn between its commitment to free speech and its respect for religious minorities.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
7/6/2023 8:13:00 PM
Turkey may be using the recent burning of a copy of the Holy Quran in Sweden to put pressure on the Swedish government and its hopes of joining NATO.
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World
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International
7/5/2023 7:54:11 PM
President Joe Biden greets Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson at the White House on Wednesday to discuss Sweden's stalled bid to join NATO and Western support for Ukraine ahead of the military alliance's summit next week.
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World
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International
7/5/2023 2:01:44 PM
Canada, Britain, Sweden and Ukraine have taken Iran to the International Court of Justice to seek damages for families of passengers on a jetliner downed by Tehran in 2020, the tribunal said Wednesday.
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World
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Region
7/3/2023 9:21:11 AM
Saudi Arabia has summoned Sweden's ambassador to denounce a Koran burning outside a Stockholm mosque that sparked a diplomatic backlash across the Muslim world, state media reported early Monday.
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