STOCKHOLM (dpa): Britain's Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, arrived in Sweden Thursday as part of a week-long visit to Scandinavia marking the 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's ascension to the throne.
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Oslo (dpa) – A Norwegian court on Friday said it would not allow live broadcasts of self-confessed mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik's testimony at his trial, due to open next month.
Announcing the decision Friday, Judge Wenche Elizabeth (...)
OSLO (dpa) – Norwegian prosecutors said Tuesday they were prepared to publish charges to be brought against self-confessed mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik the next day, said officials.
Police officers from the team investigating the July 22 (...)
COPENHAGEN (dpa): Four men will stand trial in April over plotting an attack on the Danish newspaper that published controversial caricatures of the Muslim prophet Mohammed, Danish prosecutors said Friday.
They were arrested in December 2010 (...)
CAIRO (dpa) – Several Swedish and foreign companies have made non-binding bids for Swedish carmaker Saab, which filed for bankruptcy in December, receivers handling the carmaker's bankruptcy estate said Tuesday.
“We have received a number of (...)
CAIRO (dpa): Prosecutors on Tuesday called for a Kurdish Islamic cleric to receive a five-year sentence for making threats against the leader of Norway's opposition Conservatives.
The trial, which opened in Oslo on February 15, has centered on (...)
CAIRO (dpa) – Two hostages died when the Danish navy stormed a Danish ship seized by pirates off the coast of Somalia, officials in Copenhagen said Tuesday.
The navy had been tracking the hijacked vessel for some time and ordered it to stop when (...)
Stockholm (dpa) – Global arms sales increased in 2010 to 411 billion dollars, despite the global recession, with arms-producing groups in the US and Western Europe dominating sales, a Swedish-based research institute said Monday.
Of the top 100 (...)
Oslo (dpa) – A Kurdish Islamic cleric went on trial in Norway on Wednesday charged with making threatening statements against the leader of the opposition Conservatives, among others.
The trial centers on remarks Mullah Krekar, who uses the name (...)
Stockholm (dpa) – British Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday said there was need to continue to pile pressure on the government of Syria over its bloody crackdown on the opposition.
“Clearly what we are seeing on our television screens is (...)
Copenhagen (dpa) – Danish Foreign Minister Villy Soevndal was due Tuesday to visit Nigeria for talks with President Goodluck Jonathan and other officials, amid reports of fresh attacks attributed to the Islamist group Boko Haram in the north of the (...)
Oslo (dpa) – Two men were convicted and a third acquitted Monday by a Norwegian court of planning a bomb attack on a newspaper in neighboring Denmark.
The three were arrested in July 2010 after the Norwegian security service PST foiled an attempt (...)
Stockholm (dpa) – A Swedish court on Friday acquitted three men charged with plotting to kill artist Lars Vilks, whose depiction of the Muslim prophet Mohammed as a dog sparked outrage worldwide in 2007.
Abdi Aziz Mahamud, and Salar Sami Mahmood (...)
Stockholm (dpa) – Sweden's education agency on Wednesday rejected a blanket ban on veils but said that teachers had in some situations the right to ban students from wearing them.
A general ban on Islamic garments such as the full-face niqab or (...)
Copenhagen (dpa) – A Danish naval vessel has freed 14 hostages and detained 25 suspected pirates off the coast of Somalia, the navy said Sunday.
The 14 hostages, who were nationals of Iran and Pakistan, had been held “for a couple of months,” (...)
Stockholm (dpa) – Swedish prosecutors on Wednesday demanded a minimum three-year jail term for three men accused of plotting to kill a Swedish artist who outraged the Muslim world in 2007 when he depicted the Prophet Mohammed as a dog.
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Stockholm (dpa) – Swedish telecommunications equipment maker Ericsson's 1-billion-dollar deal to acquire software and services developer Telcordia will not be completed in 2011, the group said Tuesday.
When the deal, worth 1.15 billion dollars, (...)