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No to NATO: Protests against US-led military coalition held across Sweden
Apr 23, 2023 08:42Thousands of people have held protests across Sweden to voice their anger at the US-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the country’s NATO membership bid.
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US agrees to upgrade Turkey's F-16 aircraft despite NATO row over Sweden accession
Apr 19, 2023 02:57The United States has agreed to upgrade Turkey's F-16 aircraft despite a row with Ankara over Sweden joining NATO.
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'Sweden must take concrete steps to get into NATO'
Apr 07, 2023 09:15A day after Finland formally joined NATO, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Sweden needs to take further steps for Turkey to ratify its NATO membership bid. Turkey accuses Sweden of hosting members of the terrorist group, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), an allegation that Sweden denies.
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Finland set to join NATO, doubling US-led alliance’s land border with Russia
Apr 04, 2023 11:00Finland is set to formally become a member of the NATO military alliance on Tuesday in a historic shift that will end the country's years of “military non-alignment" and double the US-led alliance's land border with Russia.
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Finland forges ahead to join NATO after parliament approves its accession
Mar 02, 2023 10:47Finland has edged closer to joining NATO after its parliament overwhelmingly passed legislation necessary for allowing the country to be a member of the transatlantic military alliance and Hungary’s ruling party said it would support the bid.
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Iranian student says will not defend thesis without honoring Gen. Soleimani
Feb 24, 2023 14:17An Iranian Ph.D. student says he will not present his thesis at Stockholm University if authorities violate the freedom of speech and do not let him honor Iranian "heroes" such as Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.
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Turkish-Swedish talks on NATO bid suspended over row with Ankara
Jan 29, 2023 04:50Sweden has canceled talks with Turkey on Stockholm’s bid for membership of NATO, of which Turkey is an old member, amid an escalation of tensions between the two countries.
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Qur’an burning amounts to declaration of war against Muslim world, Ansarullah chief says
Jan 28, 2023 10:51The leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement has severely censured the desecration of the holy Qur’an by a far-right Swedish-Danish politician in Stockholm and Copenhagen, terming the sacrilegious move as a declaration of war against the Muslim world.
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Tens of thousands across Iran protest desecration of Qur'an in Europe
Jan 27, 2023 09:27Tens of thousands of Iranian people have taken to the streets in the Iranian capital Tehran and other cities to protest against the desecration of the Holy Qur'an in Europe.
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Iran blasts ‘deafening silence’ of so-called rights advocates on holy Qur’an desecration
Jan 26, 2023 12:15The secretary of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights and the Judiciary chief’s deputy for international affairs has blasted the “deafening silence” of the so-called rights advocates on desecration of the holy Qur’an by a notorious Swedish extremist, saying the sacrilegious move is a clear example of hate-mongering against Muslims.