Exclusive-Canada to re-start Turkey arms exports after Sweden NATO backing -sources
By Jonathan Spicer ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Canada and Turkey have reached a deal to restart Canadian exports of drone parts in exchange for more transparency on where they are used, and it…
ICA grocery retailers in Sweden found guilty of insider trading
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – A Swedish court on Wednesday found 16 people guilty of illegal insider trading linked to the 2021 acquisition offer for then-listed grocery company ICA Gruppen AB, sentencing some to…
US is “confident” Sweden will soon join NATO – US envoy to Hungary
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – The United States is “confident” that Sweden will soon be a member of NATO, the U.S. ambassador to Hungary said on Thursday, adding he had been assured by the…
Tesla faces pressure in Sweden as workers at supplier to strike
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Tesla is facing growing pressure in Sweden from unions backing mechanics demanding a collective bargaining agreement with the U.S. carmaker, with workers at one of its suppliers set to…
Brazil to negotiate sale of Embraer C-390 aircraft to Sweden
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazilian Defense Minister Jose Mucio said on Tuesday he will travel to Sweden next month to negotiate a potential sale of Embraer’s C-390 Millennium military cargo aircraft…
Instant View: SNB leaves rates unchanged, Sweden and Norway hike again
LONDON (Reuters) – In a big day for central banks across Europe on Thursday, Switzerland shocked markets by leaving its interest rates unchanged, while Sweden and Norway met expectations with a quarter-point…
Sweden says awaiting NATO ratification by Turkey
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden is ready to join NATO and is waiting for Turkey to start the process to ratify the application, Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said on Thursday. Sweden applied…
Swine fever detected in Sweden for the first time
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – A dead wild boar in Sweden has tested positive for African swine fever, Sweden’s Veterinary Institute said on Wednesday, the first such case in the country. African swine fever…
Sweden charges man with spying for Russia on Sweden and the US
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden charged a man on Monday with spying on it and the United States on behalf of Russia and unlawfully transferring advanced technology to Russia’s armed forces over a…
Analysis-How the ghost of 1990s property crash returned to haunt Sweden
By John O’Donnell FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Long before Europe faced its debt crisis, Sweden struggled through its own 1990s property crash. Now the country is preparing to use an old playbook to…
Limited political support in Sweden to ban Koran burnings
By Johan Ahlander STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – There is limited political will in Sweden to ban Koran burnings that have upset large parts of the Muslim world and it would be complicated to…
Ukraine, Sweden top Biden’s agenda at NATO summit
By Nandita Bose and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House on Friday said President Joe Biden and fellow NATO leaders will discuss at next week’s summit what steps Ukraine must…
NATO summit: Leaders to meet in Vilnius to talk Ukraine, Sweden and Russia
By Andrew Gray and Sabine Siebold BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO leaders gather in Vilnius next week aiming to overcome divisions on Ukraine’s push for a path to membership and end Turkey’s block…
Mass protest in Baghdad follows Koran burning in Sweden
By Maher Nazih and Amina Ismail BAGHDAD (Reuters) -Thousands of supporters of Shi’ite populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr held a protest in front of the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad on Friday to demand…
US condemns burning of Koran in Sweden
By Daphne Psaledakis and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Thursday said it condemned the burning of a Koran outside a mosque in Sweden, but added that issuing the…
Explainer-Turkey keeps Sweden waiting on NATO membership as key summit nears
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden’s path to NATO membership remains blocked by Turkey and Hungary ahead of a July summit in Vilnius where it hopes to join Nordic neighbour Finland as a full…
Turkey wants action from NATO hopeful Sweden over flag incident
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey called on NATO hopeful Sweden on Tuesday to prosecute those responsible for projecting the flag of an outlawed group onto the parliament building in Stockholm, on the day…
Sweden, Colombia interested in Embraer’s KC-390, says Brazilian minister
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazilian Defense Minister Jose Mucio said late Thursday that countries such as Sweden and Colombia had expressed interest in buying Embraer’s KC-390 military cargo aircraft. Mucio said…
‘Choreography’ of Finland, Sweden NATO entry ‘not our main concern,’ White House says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden wants both Finland and Sweden in NATO and is more focused on both countries joining rather than them doing so at the same time, the…
Germany asks Sweden for launchers to boost IRIS-T air defences for Ukraine: Spiegel
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany is talking to the Swedish government about buying mobile launchers that would boost the capabilities of IRIS-T air defence systems that Berlin is planning to send to Ukraine,…
Sweden to tighten terrorism law amid tensions with Turkey over NATO bid
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden said on Thursday it would tighten laws covering membership of terrorist organisations months after an agreement with Turkey on fighting terrorism aimed at overcoming its objections to Swedish…
Turkey’s Erdogan signals Finland’s NATO bid may be considered over Sweden
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan signalled on Sunday that Ankara may agree to Finland joining NATO ahead of Sweden, amid growing tensions with Stockholm. “We may deliver Finland a different…
Sweden to upgrade Berzelius supercomputer with Nvidia AI systems
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden will upgrade its Berzelius supercomputer using Nvidia’s latest artificial intelligence (AI) systems to aid in understanding various diseases such as cancer and make it among the world’s fastest…
U.S. says Finland, Sweden are ready to join NATO alliance
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department on Monday said Finland and Sweden are ready to join the NATO alliance, after Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Sweden should not expect Turkey’s support…
Russia suggests Sweden has ‘something to hide’ in Nord Stream blast probe
(Reuters) -Russia questioned on Thursday whether Sweden had “something to hide” over explosions that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines last year, as it slammed Stockholm for not sharing information in the…
Sweden in talks with the United States on closer military ties
OSLO (Reuters) – Sweden and the United States have begun negotiations to form deeper security ties in the form of a defence cooperation agreement (DCA), the Swedish government said in a statement…
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