Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, at last signed a bill approving Sweden's bid to join NATO and sent it to parliament for ratification.Once Turkey’s legislature passes the bill Hungary will be the only nato country yet to approve Sweden’s app...

Denmark on Friday said it plans to ban Koran burnings after a string of desecrations of Islam's holy book in the Scandinavian nation sparked anger in Muslim countries.The government will present a bill that will "prohibit the inappropriate treatment...

Saudi Arabia summoned a Danish diplomat to protest desecration of the Koran by an extreme-right group in Copenhagen, state media reported early Friday.During the meeting on Thursday with the Danish charge d'affaires, foreign ministry officials delive...

Sweden does not live on another planet to ignore nations’ feelings and states’ positions, or to have laws that protect extremists and fanatics and encourage abuse, provoking and spreading hatred, because what happens in terms of offending followers of other religions or burning the Quran multiple times will not be accepted by Muslims or non-Muslims. The argument that says that what is happening is...

Middle East powerhouses Saudi Arabia and Iran have summoned Swedish diplomats to denounce Stockholm's permission for protests that desecrate the Koran on free speech grounds.The separate moves by both majority-Muslim countries, announced in statement...

A copy of the Quran was burned in Sweden, for the second time this year, on the first day of the Islamic Eid Al-Adha (feast of the sacrifice) holiday by a man of Iraqi origin, trigging the anger of Muslims, especially Iraqis, who stormed the Swedish...

Although Sweden was one of the European countries that adopted digital skills into its educational curricula since July 1, 2018, it has now announced going back to using textbooks rather than digital versions in an attempt to improve education.Sweden...

In protest against the burning of the Holy Quran in Sweden and Holland, Arab and Muslim nations have called for boycotting Dutch and Swedish products, amid calls by activists to adopt more efforts to prevent the recurrence of this blasphemous act.A S...

By AFPTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Sweden on Monday that it should not expect his backing to join NATO following the burning of the Koran outside Ankara's embassy in Stockholm.Erdogan's furious comments further distanced the prospect...

Turkey on Saturday called off a visit by Sweden's defence minister over a planned demonstration by a right-wing extremist in Stockholm.Turkey has been angered by permission obtained by Rasmus Paludan, a Swedish-Danish politician whose anti-Islamist a...

Swedish prosecutors said Friday they would conduct a new complementary crime scene investigation of the Nord Stream leaks, after the navy and the pipeline owner also began surveys this week."I have decided to together with the Security Service (Sapo)...