The leaders of Japan and Sweden agreed Sunday to work together to fight terrorism following a deadly attack on April 7, when a truck drove into people outside a department store in the center of Stockholm, killing five and injuring more than a dozen. "We ...
SoftBank Team Japan beat Sweden's Artemis Racing in their second head-to-head encounter on Tuesday to go 3-1 up in their best-of-nine America's Cup semi-final. Rough seas and high winds in Bermuda's Great Sound made for challenging conditions, with Artemis Racing losing ground soon after the ...
Ecuador's new leftist President Lenin Moreno said on Monday Julian Assange is a "hacker," making his strongest comments to date against the WikiLeaks founder while still stressing he could stay on in the country's London embassy. Moreno, who was sworn in earlier this month, has ...
Swedish prosecutors on Friday dropped a seven-year rape investigation into Julian Assange, a legal victory for the WikiLeaks founder, who has been holed up in Ecuador's embassy in London since 2012. "Director of Public Prosecution, Marianne Ny, has today decided to discontinue the investigation regarding ...
Japan and Sweden have requested a U.N. Security Council meeting to obtain specific details of a Russia-backed agreement on establishing safe zones in Syria, diplomats said Tuesday. The meeting, which is likely to be held this week, would help council members decide on whether to ...
A truck plowed into a crowd on a shopping street and then crashed into a department store in central Stockholm on Friday, killing four people and wounding 15 in what Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said appeared to be a terrorist attack. Police said they had ...
Japan defeated Germany 7-4 to pick up its third win on the third day of the Men's World Curling Championships but lost 8-5 to Sweden on Monday. In the 12-team round-robin competition, world No. 9 Japan, with three wins against two losses, sits in a ...
Sweden is planning to pay compensation to transsexuals who were forced to undergo sterilization during the sex change procedure, the health minister said on Saturday. The government is to introduce a bill that would award 225,000 kronor (€24,000 or $26,000) to every person who was ...
Swedes have been scratching their heads and ridiculing President Donald Trump's remarks that suggested a major incident had happened in the Scandinavian country. During a rally in Florida on Saturday, Trump said "look what's happening last night in Sweden" as he alluded to past terrorist ...
Fewer sex toys contain dangerous chemicals than children's toys, a Swedish inspection authority said in a report published on Monday. In its study conducted in 2016, 2 percent of the 44 surveyed sex toys that had been imported to Sweden contained banned chemicals, the Swedish ...
Queen Silvia of Sweden says the royal palace where she resides is haunted, according to a documentary to be aired on public television on Thursday. "There are small friends ...ghosts. They're all very friendly but you sometimes feel that you're not completely alone," Queen Silvia ...
Hope Solo says she hopes that someday she can return to the U.S. women's national team, but in the meantime she vows to keep fighting for equal pay for the players. Solo was handed a six-month suspension and her contract with U.S. Soccer was terminated ...
