Sweden

USAID is the leading contributor to the Rohingya crisis response in Bangladesh, with nearly $2.4 billion in assistance since 2017. Photo: Reuters
Bangladesh

Sweden provides $12.7m in humanitarian aid for Rohingyas

The funding will be channelled through eight humanitarian partners, including the UNHCR, WFP, Norwegian Refugee Council, Islamic Relief, Action Against Hunger, Save the Children, and the...

Police officers work on the scene after a person was shot and died at Skarholmen in southern Stockholm, Sweden, April 10, 2024. Photo: Oscar Olsson/TT News Agency/via REUTERS/File Phot
Europe

Sweden recorded lowest number of homicides in a decade in 2024

Sweden sending peacekeepers to post-war Ukraine 'a possibility', PM says
Europe

Sweden sending peacekeepers to post-war Ukraine 'a possibility', PM says

Emergency personnel and police officers work at the adult education center Campus Risbergska school after a shooting attack in Orebro, Sweden, February 4, 2025. Photo: TT News Agency/Kicki Nilsson via REUTERS
Europe

Sweden's deadliest attack leaves 11 dead at Orebro adult school

Police operation underway at Risbergska School, following reports of a serious violent crime, in Orebro, Sweden, on February 4, 2025. TT News Agency/Kicki Nilsson/via REUTERS
Europe

Five people shot in attack at Swedish school

A demonstrator burns the Quran outside Stockholm's central mosque in Stockholm, Sweden June 28, 2023. Photo: REUTERS
World+Biz

Man who burned Quran reportedly shot dead in Sweden

Finnish tugboat Ukko is seen near Oil tanker Eagle S outside the Porkkalanniemi, Kirkkonummi, on the Gulf of Finland on December 28, 2024, Jussi Nukari/Lehtikuva/via REUTERS/File Photo
Europe

Sweden opens sabotage probe into Baltic undersea cable damage

Bangladesh's GDP to outpace Swiss, Swedish by 2039, but with huge per capita gap
Economy

Bangladesh's GDP to outpace Swiss, Swedish by 2039, but with huge per capita gap

A truck, marked with United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) logo, crosses into Egypt from Gaza, at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, during a temporary truce between Hamas and Israel, in Rafah, Egypt, November 27, 2023. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh/File Photo/File Photo
World+Biz

Sweden doubles aid to Gaza, but ends UNRWA funding

UNDP Resident Representative Stefan Liller and Swedish Ambassador Nicolas Weeks signed the agreement yesterday (11 December) at the Embassy of Sweden. Photo: BSS
Bangladesh

UNDP, Sweden partner to advance governance reforms agenda in Bangladesh

Swedish Ambassador Nicolas Weeks called on Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus at his Tejgaon office in Dhaka today (2 December). Photo: UNB
Bangladesh

CA Yunus seeks more Swedish investment

Embraer's C-390 Millennium military aircraft is seen at the firm’s headquarters in Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil June 18, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Gabriel Araujo/File Photo
Europe

Sweden picks Embraer's C-390 as new military cargo aircraft

Danish military Police guard the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen after two blasts went off nearby. Photo: AFP
World+Biz

Blasts, shooting around Israeli embassies in Nordic capitals