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South Korea's experimental novelist Han Kang wins 2024 Nobel literature
STOCKHOLM - South Korean author Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature for "her intense poetic prose that confronts historical...
Oct 11, 20244 min read


Nobel chemistry prize 2024 goes to trio of protein pioneers
STOCKHOLM - U.S. scientists David Baker and John Jumper and Briton Demis Hassabis won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for...
Oct 11, 20243 min read


Nobel prize in physics goes to machine learning pioneers Hopfield and Hinton
STOCKHOLM - U.S. scientist John Hopfield and British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for...
Oct 11, 20243 min read


2024 Nobel prizes announced this week
STOCKHOLM - The Nobel prizes are to be announced this week, starting with the award for medicine or physiology on Monday. The awards,...
Oct 11, 20242 min read


Sweden accuses Iran of hacking messaging service after Koran burnings
STOCKHOLM - Swedish authorities said on Tuesday that Iran hacked into a text messaging service last year and sent thousands of messages...
Sep 24, 20241 min read


UN advisory body makes seven recommendations for governing AI
STOCKHOLM - An artificial-intelligence advisory body at the United Nations on Thursday released its final report proposing seven...
Sep 20, 20242 min read


Sweden and Denmark to pressure tech platforms over gang crime ads
STOCKHOLM/COPENHAGEN - Sweden and Denmark will summon tech companies over ads on their platforms that are posted by gangs to recruit...
Aug 22, 20242 min read


Some EU states won't send ministers to presidency meetings in protest at Orban's Russia trip
STOCKHOLM - Sweden and several other European Union countries will not send ministers to government meetings linked to Hungary's EU...
Jul 12, 20241 min read


How Sweden's youth homes nurtured killers, creating Europe's gun crime capital
GOTHENBURG, Sweden - The killer was only 14 and had lived in youth homes as a ward of the authorities since he was eight. A year ago, a...
Jun 24, 20246 min read


Sweden and Iran carry out prisoner swap, officials say
STOCKHOLM - Sweden has freed convicted former Iranian official Hamid Noury, Iran's top human rights official Kazem Gharib Abadi said on...
Jun 15, 20241 min read


Sweden protests to Iraq over death sentence given to Swedish citizen
STOCKHOLM - Sweden said on Thursday it had called in Iraq's charge d'affaires in Stockholm to protest against a death sentence handed...
Jun 15, 20241 min read


Ukraine concludes long-term security deals with Sweden and Norway
STOCKHOLM/KYIV -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy concluded long-term security agreements with Sweden and Norway on Friday, a sign...
May 31, 20242 min read
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