This city launches world’s first fully-electric urban ferry
- 09-Jun-2023
A self-driving electric ferry set sail in Stockholm on Thursday, making the Swedish capital the world’s first city to put the technology to use, the company behind it said. A captain oversees the autonomous craft but doesn’t need to touch the controls, and from Monday, the MF Estelle will begin plying short routes between islands […]
Swedish PM condemns desecration of Holy Quran in Stockholm
- 22-Jan-2023
STOCKHOLM: Sweden’s prime minister has condemned as “deeply disrespectful” the desecration of the Holy Quran in Stockholm, which has raised tensions with Turkey as the Nordic country courts Ankara over its NATO bid. Far-right politician Rasmus Paludan set fire to a copy of Holy Quran on Saturday in front of Turkey’s embassy in the Swedish […]
Sweden to introduce bank tax to fund defence boost
- 31-Aug-2019
Swedish Finance Minister Magdalena Andersson said on Saturday the centre-left coalition government would introduce a bank tax to help fund greater defence spending
Stockholm truck attacker pleads guilty as trial opens
- 13-Feb-2018
STOCKHOLM: An Uzbek asylum seeker who confessed to wanting to mow down “infidels” in an April 2017 Stockholm truck attack that killed five people pleaded guilty to terrorism charges on Tuesday as his trial opened. Rakhmat Akilov appeared handcuffed in Stockholm’s special high-security courtroom, wearing green prison clothes and with a shaved head and a […]
One dead, one hurt in blast outside Stockholm area metro
- 07-Jan-2018
STOCKHOLM: One person died and another was slightly hurt Sunday in a blast outside a metro station in a Stockholm suburb, police said. A man in his 60s died after succumbing to injuries sustained when “according to witesses he picked up an object off the ground which promptly exploded,” police spokesman Sven-Erik Olsson told AFP. […]
Amsterdam on ‘high alert’ as 120,000 watch Ajax v Man Utd
- 25-May-2017
AMSTERDAM: Police were on high alert in Amsterdam Wednesday after the Manchester attack, as more than 120,000 people streamed to the Dutch capital to watch Ajax take on Manchester United in the Europa League final. The match was being shown live from the Stockholm Friends Arena on a giant screen set up in Amsterdam’s famous […]
Sweden arrests man for ‘terrorist crime’ after truck attack
- 08-Apr-2017
STOCKHOLM: Sweden early Saturday arrested a man for a “terrorist crime” hours after a beer truck ploughed into a crowd outside a busy department store in central Stockholm, killing four and injuring 15. The man was arrested “on suspicion of a terrorist crime through murder,” Karin Rosander, a communications director at the Swedish Prosecution Authority, […]
Sweden: Four killed by truck driven into crowd in Stockholm
- 07-Apr-2017
STOCKHOLM: A truck plowed into a crowd on a shopping street and crashed into a department store in central Stockholm on Friday, killing four people and wounding 15 in what the prime minister said appeared to be a terrorist attack. Swedish police said they had arrested one person after earlier circulating a picture of a man […]
Bob Dylan finally to receive Nobel prize in Stockholm
- 29-Mar-2017
STOCKHOLM: Music icon Bob Dylan will finally receive his Nobel Literature Prize this weekend at a meeting with the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, it announced on Wednesday. But no media will be allowed to cover the meeting, and the famously-reclusive Dylan will only give a lecture required of him in a taped version at a […]
Swedish queen says royal palace is haunted by ‘friendly ghosts’
- 05-Jan-2017
STOCKHOLM: Queen Silvia of Sweden says the royal palace where she resides is haunted, according to a documentary aired to 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 says in the documentary by SVT. “It’s really exciting. But you […]