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Pakistan-origin UK national Mahnaz becomes member of WB IFC Sanctions Board

The World Bank (WB) has appointed Mahnaz Malik, a Pakistan-origin British national, as a Sanctions Board Member of the International Finance Corporation (IFC)

China courts Central Asia as Russia's influence wanes

Mozambique's UN Envoy Says Wishes He Could Have Studied in Russia

Girma breaks 25-year-old 3,000m world indoor record, Duplantis wins

Sweden's 'crossfit priest' heals followers on Insta

Svante Paabo, Swedish medicine Nobel-winner follows in father's footsteps

Svante Paabo, Swedish medicine Nobel-winner follows in father's footsteps

Swedish paleogeneticist Svante Paabo, who won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for using DNA to reveal the link between humans and Neanderthals, drew early inspiration from his Nobel laureate father

Leaders blame Russia-Europe pipeline leaks on sabotage

Religious intolerance, India stoops to new low after arresting religious scholars

Patriotism on forcible sale in Modi's 'prosperous India'

Section of Indian media exposing its bias, hostility thru fabricated, false news contents

Hopes fade for swift NATO accession for Finland, Sweden

Duplantis clears 6.19m to break world pole vault record

Swedish skaters return to frozen lake in style

Andersson in sight of becoming Sweden's first woman PM

Two dead after person falls seven floors at Swedish concert hall

Sweden's Social Democrats tap finance minister to succeed PM Lofven

Sweden's ruling Social Democrats said Wednesday they were nominating finance minister Magdalena Andersson to lead the party after Stefan Lofven steps down, making her the frontrunner to become Sweden's first female prime minister

Higher dairy fat intake can lower cardiovascular risk

A new study amongst some of the world's biggest consumers of dairy foods has shown that those with higher intakes of dairy fat had a lower risk of cardiovascular disease compared to those with low intakes

Europe, WHO sound alarm over resurgent virus crisis

Sweden sticks to its guns as Covid cases rise

Sweden is seeing an uptick in coronavirus infections and introducing targeted measures, but the country that famously refused to lock down is sticking to its guns and insisting coercive methods are not the way to go

Scientists identify the cause of leakiness in eye diseases

Researchers have identified a key step in the process that leads to leaky vessels and harmful swelling in eye diseases, which could lead to improved treatments for diseases such as age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy

Swedish coronavirus model under fire as deaths rise

Sweden's softer approach to containing the new coronavirus was already an outlier in Europe and is coming under even more scrutiny as death rates leap ahead of its Nordic neighbours

Pakistani journalist exiled in Sweden missing: rights group

A Pakistani journalist living in exile in Sweden has been missing for nearly a month, stoking fears that his disappearance is tied to his reporting on Balochistan, a press rights group said Tuesday

Mutation makes TB resistant to common antibiotic

Scientists have discovered that strains of tuberculosis (TB) with a supposedly lethal mutation can, in fact, survive and that the mutation makes the bacteria resistant to an important antibiotic