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Biden: Finland and Sweden joining Nato has ‘complete backing’ of US
President Biden has been meeting the prime minister of Sweden and president of Finland at the White House.
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Nato goes Nordic: why Finland and Sweden want to join
Finland’s Parliament has overwhelmingly endorsed joining Nato, while Sweden’s ruling party has broken with 200 years of neutrality to follow their Nordic neighbours in jumping on the alliance bandwagon.
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UK agrees to protect Finland and Sweden if attacked
Boris Johnson has promised the UK will not hesitate to protect Sweden if it was attacked by Russia, describing Vladimir Putin as a “21st Century tyrant”.
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Finland and Sweden ‘will be members of Nato’, says former Finnish PM
Away from the frontline, the diplomatic war of words is escalating. Western nations – including the US and UK – are pledging to pump Ukraine full of defensive weaponry, while Russia says that doing so will provoke a ‘lightning-fast’ response.
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Are lockdowns our only option? Sweden took a different path, and found out.
Our foreign affairs correspondent Jonathan Rugman, has been to Sweden to figure out why they decided to go it alone – and why it was always a risky strategy.
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Boris Johnson sought advice from Sweden over Covid strategy
Sweden’s Chief Epidemiologist has told Channel 4 News that the UK having a lockdown – and then ending it – was probably the biggest cause of a surge in British Covid cases
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Is Sweden’s controversial approach to coronavirus lockdown working?
President Trump has justified America’s lockdown, claiming that Sweden is – by contrast – ‘paying heavily’ in lives, with its more relaxed approach.
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From prisoner of war in Iraq to a new life in Sweden
Last month, I received a letter from a Swedish woman. She had seen an old news film shot in 1980, in which I had reported from the frontline of the Iran/Iraq war. She said my team had filmed a man, who then had been a young Iranian soldier languishing in an Iraqi prisoner of war…
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Far-right Sweden Democrats make gains in elections
In Sweden, the increased vote for the nationalist Sweden Democrats has shifted the political landscape for the two traditional political blocs who are trying to form a coalition government. The general election result has left the Social Democrats and Alliance Party neck and neck with around 40 per cent of the vote. The far-right SD…
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Sweden goes to the polls for closely fought general election
Some seven million Swedes have been going to the polls today in a general election that’s split the nation.
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Sweden’s prime minister condemns far-right party as racist
Sweden’s prime minister has condemned the country’s far right Sweden Democrats as racist and a threat to the country’s European values – on the eve of parliamentary elections.
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Far-right Sweden Democrats expected to make gains in elections
The anti-immigrant, euro-sceptic Sweden Democrats are set to make historic gains in this weekend’s elections.
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No, 84 per cent of “child migrants” in Sweden are not adults
Leave.EU have made one claim that’s misleading, and another claim that’s simply wrong. FactCheck takes a look.
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Sweden truck attack: suspect device found
Swedish police confirm they discovered a suspect device – thought to be explosives – inside the lorry which was driven into a Stockholm shopping centre.
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Sweden truck attack: at least three killed
At least three people have been killed and eight others were injured after a delivery truck crashed into an upmarket department store in the Swedish capital Stockholm before bursting into flames.
