Protesters try to storm Baghdad's Green Zone over the burning of Quran and Iraqi flag in DenmarkAn Iraqi asylum-seeker who burned a copy of the Quran during a demonstration last month in Stockholm had threatened to do the same thing ag...
22 Jul, 2023, 06.35 PM IST
Iraq expels Sweden envoy as Koran stomped in StockholmNews that Swedish authorities would permit the protest to proceed on free speech grounds had led hundreds of Iraqis to storm and torch Swed...
21 Jul, 2023, 12.28 PM IST
Pope Francis condemns burning of Koran, says UAE newspaperPope Francis said the burning of the Muslim holy book, the Koran, has made him angry and disgusted and that he condemned and rejected permi...
03 Jul, 2023, 12.36 PM IST
Sweden government condemns 'Islamophobic' Koran burning: ministryThe Swedish government has condemned the burning of a Koran outside Stockholm's main mosque as an "Islamophobic" act. The government expres...
02 Jul, 2023, 09.01 PM IST
Julian Assange loses latest bid to stop extradition to the US on spying chargesAssange has battled in British courts for years to avoid being sent to the US, where he faces 17 charges of espionage and one charge of com...
09 Jun, 2023, 07.17 PM IST
Finland's top diplomat hints at joining NATO without SwedenHis comment came a day after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Sweden not to expect support for its bid for NATO membership fol...
24 Jan, 2023, 06.28 PM IST
UK govt approves extradition of Julian Assange; appeal possibleHome Secretary Priti Patel signed the extradition order on Friday, her department said. It follows a British court ruling in April that Ass...
17 Jun, 2022, 03.15 PM IST
Pakistan condemns anti-Islamic acts in Sweden and NetherlandsThese mindless provocative Islamophobic incidents serve no purpose other than hurting the sensitivities of over 1.5 billion Muslims living ...
19 Apr, 2022, 12.41 AM IST
Russia's neighbours 'in danger', Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warnsSweden reopened its garrison on Gotland in 2018, in the wake of Russia's annexation of Crimea, after shutting it down in 2004. "It would me...
24 Mar, 2022, 05.08 PM IST
Neutral Finland, Sweden warm to idea of NATO membershipRussia's invasion of Ukraine has profoundly changed Europe's security outlook, including for Nordic neutrals Finland and Sweden, where supp...
03 Mar, 2022, 02.41 PM IST
India no longer a democratic country, claims Rahul GandhiThis comes after another global report by a US government-funded NGO, Freedom House downgraded India's status from "free" to "partly free" ...
11 Mar, 2021, 07.54 PM IST
PM Modi pitches for deepening ties with Sweden in tech, research sectorsIn his opening remarks at a virtual summit with Swedish premier Stefan Lofven, Modi said, "We can further our relationship in innovation, t...
06 Mar, 2021, 12.09 AM IST
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange denied bail in BritainOn Monday, the judge rejected an American request to send Assange to the U.S. to face espionage charges over WikiLeaks' publication of secr...
06 Jan, 2021, 05.25 PM IST
UK judge refuses extradition of WikiLeaks founder AssangeDistrict Judge Vanessa Baraitser is due to give her ruling at Londons Central Criminal Court, following a three-week extradition hearing in...
04 Jan, 2021, 11.03 PM IST
- Internet is a great spying machine: Assange
Dubbing the internet as the world's greatest spying machine, the co-founder of whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks Jullian Assange said that ...
16 Mar, 2011, 06.42 PM IST
- Indians beat Chinese at prosperity game
India fares better in overall prosperity, despite weak economic indicators, and is ranked 45th in the world, ahead of China’s 75th rank, ac...
27 Oct, 2009, 04.26 AM IST
- Taslima Nasreen in India for her visa extension
Taslima Nasreen, the controversial Bangladeshi writer, arrived in the national capital on Thursday for her visa extension, which is ending ...
06 Aug, 2009, 01.15 PM IST