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Sweden eyes Nato membership with antiterror legislation

Business Day 31 May 2023
Stockholm — New antiterrorism legislation which comes into force this week should pave the way ... Turkey wants Sweden to prosecute individuals who projected the flag of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on the parliament building in Stockholm at the time of the Turkish elections.
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New anti-terror law should convince Turkey to back NATO bid, Swedish minister says

Reuters 31 May 2023
Turkey wants Sweden to prosecute individuals who projected the flag of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on the parliament building in Stockholm at the time of the Turkish elections ... in Lulea and Simon Johnson in Stockholm; Editing by Niklas Pollard and David Holmes.
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A rising backlash against green policies is energising Europe’s far right

New Statesman 31 May 2023
The German Green party is the century plant of European politics. Formed in 1979, the party lurked in the background for a long time before it quietly began setting the political agenda ... In Stockholm, the far-right Sweden Democrats have a confidence-and-supply agreement with a three-party centre-right minority government.
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Ankara Could Get F16s but US-Turkey Ties Remain Fraught

Voa News 31 May 2023
Aiming to secure support for Sweden's bid to join NATO, U.S ... "He still wants to work on something on the F-16s ... U.S ... F-16s ... The U.S ... But Sweden's bid is still held up because Ankara believes that Stockholm is harboring "terrorists" — militants from the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which took up arms against the Turkish state in 1984 ... .
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Swedish multi-millionairess should give her estranged husband more than £6.5m along with £60k a year ...

The Daily Mail 30 May 2023
He has outlined his conclusions in a written judgment and named the people involved ... 'The parties met in Stockholm and formed a relationship in March 2012,' the judge said ... 'The parties enjoyed the provision of high value London properties, staff, expensive holidays, limitless travel options and, overall, the best that money can provide.' ... .
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Swedish millionaire must pay ex-husband �6.5m despite him facing jail

Yahoo Daily News 30 May 2023
Louise Backstrom - Kirsty O'Connor/PA Wire ... “The parties met in Stockholm and formed a relationship in March 2012,” the judge said ... “The parties enjoyed the provision of high value London properties, staff, expensive holidays, limitless travel options and, overall, the best that money can provide.”Breaches are ‘clear and obvious’ ... ....
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Sydney’s surprising new party capital revealed

The Daily Telegraph Australia 27 May 2023
London, Stockholm and Dublin are all internationally recognised party capitals — and now Parramatta has been crowned the newest “Purple Flag” night-life precinct ....
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Sweden Yet to Receive List of People to Be Extradited to Turkey for Joining NATO ...

Urdu Point 26 May 2023
In March, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Ankara had handed Stockholm a list of around 120 members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which it regards as a terrorist organization due to its desire to establish a Kurdish autonomy in Turkey, and asked Sweden to extradite them in exchange for future approval of its NATO bid.
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Swedish ultranationalist party seeks friendship with Israel

Cleveland Jewish News 21 May 2023
Two members of the Swedish Democrats Party were in Israel last week seeking to cement their friendship with the Jewish state ... “They were challenged and thrown out of the party ... Israeli Ambassador to Stockholm Ziv Nevo Kulman said he has no contact with the party.Israeli officials said Sunday that there was no change in policy regarding the party.
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Erdogan hails ‘special relationship’ with Putin ahead of crucial Turkey runoff vote

Egypt Independent 19 May 2023
TurkeyNATO’s second largest army – has blocked Stockholm’s membership in the alliance, accusing it of harboring militants from the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) ... His ruling Justice and Development (AK) party also won a comfortable parliamentary majority.
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Swedish party with Nazi roots ‘wants to be friends of Israel, Jews’

The Jerusalem Post 17 May 2023
The Israeli Foreign Ministry has long had a policy of blacklisting political parties with Nazi or openly antisemitic roots, from the Austrian Freedom Party to the National Front in France and beyond ... The Swedish flag is seen at Gamla Stan, the Old City of Stockholm, Sweden, May 7, 2017 ... “The party is pro-Israel.
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Calls grow for SWEXIT as leader of Sweden's second-largest party renews criticism of Brussels, saying ...

The Daily Mail 16 May 2023
Calls for Sweden to leave the European Union grew on Monday as the leader of the country's second-largest party renewed his criticisms of Brussels while calling on Stockholm to take steps so it is prepared to leave the bloc ... The Swedish and EU flags fly in front of the Swedish parliament in Stockholm.
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Kurdish PUK party returns to regional cabinet meetings ending boycott

The Arab Weekly 15 May 2023
One of the dominant Kurdish parties in northern Iraq on ...There is a growing fatigue with the region’s two ruling parties, the KDP and the PUK, in charge since the inception of the region 1991,” said Shivan Fazil researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
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Yemen landmines kill 6 in Hodeidah in April, says Yemen mission

Arab News 15 May 2023
Even as the UN-brokered Stockholm Agreement, signed by Yemeni parties in late 2018, has brought relative calm to the province of Hodeidah over the last five years, thousands of landmines laid by the Iran-backed Houthis have continued to kill and maim hundreds of civilians while ...
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More toxic chemicals will be banned globally—but there’s a catch

Popular Science 12 May 2023
Those advocates scored a victory last week when parties to the Stockholm Convention — an international treaty regulating hazardous pollutants — agreed to add three new chemicals to a list of globally banned substances, including the plastic additives UV-328 and Dechlorane Plus.

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