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A new Freedom Flotilla has set sail from Europe to break the siege on the Gaza Strip, Israeli media reported today. The Hebrew Maariv newspaper stated that four large...

Swedish #WalkToPalestine activist Benjamin Ladraa was presented with a prize at the International Mount of Olives Peace Awards earlier this week in recognition of his activism for the Palestinian...

Emergency food aid for around a million Palestinians in Gaza may run out from June if the UN agency for Palestinian refugees cannot raise another $200 million following a...

The United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, said Monday that the UN does not have a magic solution for the Syrian crisis. Speaking at a press conference with Swedish Prime...

Swedish activist Benjamin Ladraa will be arriving in Ankara this week after having spent time in Istanbul with supporters of his #WalkToPalestine campaign. Ladraa, who has travelled over 3,000...

The United Nations Security Council will meet twice on Monday following rival requests by Russia and the United States after a deadly chemical attack in Syria and a warning...

Sweden's ambassador to Israel has rejected claims that the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign is 'antisemitic', and said that there is a tendency in Israel to "demonise" his country...

Swedish activist Benjamin Ladraa has completed two thirds of his trip to Palestine as he leaves Bulgaria and enters Turkey

The Swedish Saab aerospace and defence company plans to open a radar production plant in the UAE, sparking controversy in the Scandinavian country over fears that Abu Dhabi might...

Residents of Syria's eastern Ghouta district said they were waiting their "turn to die" on Wednesday, amid one of the most intense bombardments of the war by pro-government forces...

Swedish activist Benjamin Ladraa is continuing his journey to Palestine, 200 days after he started walking from his home city of Gothenburg. Ladraa has travelled through Slovakia, Austria, Slovenia...

Sweden has granted citizenship to a Stockholm-based scientist being held in Iran under sentence of death, the country's foreign ministry confirmed on Saturday. Ahmadreza Djalali, a medical doctor and...

Almost a dozen countries have agreed to advance their annual contributions to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees to help it plug a major shortfall after a partial cut-off...

Swedish activist Benjamin Ladraa is making his way toward the Serbian capital of Belgrade, six months after he started his walk to Palestine to raise awareness of the on-going...

Iran's Supreme Court has upheld a death sentence against a Sweden-based Iranian academic convicted of spying for Israel, reports Reuters. Ahmadreza Djalali, a medical doctor and lecturer at the Karolinska...

European Union leaders appealed for unity in a last-ditch effort to break their deadlock on sharing out refugees by June, telling reluctant eastern states they could otherwise be outvoted...

Swedish activist, Benjamin Ladraa, continues his walk to Palestine

Eight European Union member states have demanded €30,000 ($35,400) in compensation from Israel for the confiscation and demolition of structures in the occupied West Bank. The official protest letter,...

Three months after he started his #WalkToPalestine, Benjamin Ladraa has arrived in Czech Republic

A Turkish prosecutor has called for jail sentences of up to 15 years on terrorism charges for a group of rights activists including the local head of Amnesty International,...

A Syrian soldier has been convicted of a war crime and jailed for eight months in Sweden, New York Times reported yesterday. In a landmark ruling, a Swedish court...

The United States, Britain and other countries opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will not support the reconstruction of the country until there is a political transition "away from...

Over a month after he started his #WalkToPalestine, Benjamin Ladraa has arrived in Germany and is making his way towards its capital, Berlin.

A month after he started his #WalkToPalestine campaign, Swedish activist Benjamin Ladraa is in good spirits having met a number of people of his way. He has swapped carrying his backpack...

The Israeli intelligence service Mossad has been accused of assassinating a Palestinian man living in Sweden, according to Israeli daily Haaretz. Mohammad Tahsin Al-Bazam, a former Gaza resident, was...

Earlier this month, pro-Palestinian activist Benjamin Ladraa set off from the Swedish city of Gothenburg to Palestine, a journey he will make entirely on foot.

Sweden is sending soldiers to Somalia to fight piracy, The Local reported. Thirty-four soldiers will be stationed off the coast of Somalia as part of an international effort to...

A pro-Palestinian Swedish activist started a 4,800 kilometre trek to Palestine to raise awareness of the ongoing Israeli occupation on 5 August. Benjamin Ladraa started his journey ten days...

Seven Palestinians have been killed over the past 10 days and 1,090 have been injured at the hands of Israeli forces

Ship to Gaza, a Swedish-registered NGO, has bought a new boat measuring nine metres in order to sail to Gaza and break the Israeli siege on the coastal enclave,...

Three Nordic countries have lifted their travel ban to Tunisia, the Tunisian foreign affairs ministry announced yesterday. The countries include Denmark, Norway and Iceland. In 2015, the European countries...

The Israeli foreign ministry yesterday summoned the Swedish ambassador, Carl Magnus Nesser, and reprimanded him over Stockholm's support for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) resolution...