The Nord Stream pipeline leaks were caused by "at least two detonations" with "several hundred kilos" of explosives, Denmark and Sweden said in a joint letter to the United Nations Security Council.
"At least two detonations occurred underwater, (...)
Sweden's prime minister has resigned after her government was defeated in Sunday's election.
Magdalena Andersson's center-left coalition looks set to narrowly lose to a bloc of right-wing parties, 176 seats to 173, with 99% of the votes (...)
Sweden's Social Democrat Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson accepted defeat on Wednesday after a close-fought election, handing the four-party right-wing opposition bloc victory and the first go at forming a new government.
With 99% of the vote (...)
The anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats have already started talks with other right-wing parties about forming the Nordic country's next government.
According to Swedish media outlets, Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Åkesson met at lunchtime in Stockholm (...)
Sweden's election was too close to call on Sunday night, Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said.
Exit polls at first predicted victory for the incumbent left-wing coalition, but results later suggested the right-wing bloc could narrowly win.
Crime (...)
Sweden's ruling left-wing Social Democrats won the most votes in the country's general election Sunday, while a right-wing populist party had its best showing yet, exit polls showed.
The eight parties running to win seats in the 349-seat Riksdag are (...)
The political race to form the next Swedish government couldn't be any tighter. With a general election coming up next Sunday (Sept. 11) the left-wing Social Democrats, who have been the dominant party at every election for the last hundred years, (...)
Groundwater, which sustains drinking water supplies, sanitation systems, farms, industries and ecosystems, is being overused, polluted and neglected, speakers warned at a World Water Week event on Thursday.
"It is our duty to ensure groundwater has (...)
On Tuesday, UN Children's Fund UNICEF warned that children in the Horn of Africa and the vast Sahel region "could die in devastating numbers" without urgent intervention and support. In the last five months, the number of people in Ethiopia, Kenya (...)
Standing in front of the historic Red Fort in Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday pledged to transform India into a developed country in the next 25 years.
"The way the world is seeing India is changing. There is hope from India and the (...)
With 161 votes in favor, and eight abstentions, the UN General Assembly adopted a historic resolution on Thursday, declaring access to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, a universal human right.
The resolution, based on a similar text (...)
In late July, the UN General Assembly is expected to vote on a draft resolution recognizing the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment.
Costa Rica, the Maldives, Morocco, Slovenia and Switzerland presented the draft text to the (...)
The conviction of an Iranian official by a Swedish court for his part in the mass execution and torture of political prisoners was welcomed on Friday by a top UN-appointed independent rights expert.
The development came after Hamid Nouri – a former (...)
Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said Ankara wanted 12 suspects from Finland and another 21 from Sweden.
Turkey says it will now be pushing for the extradition of 33 "terror" suspects from Finland and Sweden, under a deal that lifted Ankara's (...)
NATO's plans to add two more Nordic countries to the military alliance "will likely drag on" as Turkey puts a block on accepting Sweden and Finland as members.
That's the conclusion of a new report from the International Crisis Group which found (...)
Saudi Development and Reconstruction Program for Yemen (SDRPY) is participating in the Yemen International Forum 2022 in Stockholm organized by the Sanaa Center for Strategic Studies in cooperation with the Folke Bernadotte Academy, to boost the (...)
The world's stockpiles of nuclear weapons are expected to increase over the next decade, reversing a decline seen since the end of the Cold War.
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI, said on Monday that all nine nuclear-armed (...)
UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, appears at the Austrian World Summit on Tuesday to deliver an important message about climate change.
"It is fifty years since the United Nations convened the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. But (...)
Finland and Sweden are preparing for an enlarged NATO naval exercise in the Baltic Sea on Sunday, amid Turkish concerns over their membership.
NATO's fortnight-long 'Baltops 22' is being hosted this year by Sweden, with the Finnish Navy and Air (...)
Saudi Arabia has reviewed its local and global efforts to protect and preserve the environment by launching a number of programs and initiatives to achieve the national environment strategy and sustainable development goals and confronting the (...)
Mental health support must be included in national responses to climate change, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a new policy brief, launched on Friday at the Stockholm+50 environmental summit.
Climate change poses serious risks to (...)
The Stockholm+50 environment conference came to a close on Friday with a call for real commitments to urgently address global environmental concerns, and for a just transition to sustainable economies, that work for all.
"We came to Stockholm 50 (...)
"This planet is our only home," Secretary-General António Guterres said in his message for World Environment Day, to be marked this Sunday, warning that the Earth's natural systems "cannot keep up with our demands".
"It is vital we safeguard the (...)
Global wellbeing is at risk, and it's in large part because we haven't kept our promises on the environment, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Thursday.
Although there have been successes in protecting the planet since 1972, including (...)
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has reviewed its local and global efforts to protect and preserve the environment by launching a number of programs and initiatives to achieve the national environment strategy and sustainable development goals and (...)
