Sweden does not share a border with Russia, but its coastlines stretch 3,218 kilometers to its east along the Baltic Sea.
Sweden officially joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a historic shift and the latest seismic upheaval to Europe's security landscape in the wake of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine.
The Nordic country's historic reversal of its lonstanding neutrality means it is now covered by the military alliance’s article 5, which obliges all other members to come to each other’s defense if they are attacked.
A Swiss-led U.N. Security Council committee will find it harder to deal with 'suspicions' of sanctions violations.
The symbolic clock will remain set at the closest point to the symbolic hour of apocalpyse it has ever been since 1947.
The U.N. nuclear watchdog has reported that Tehran increased its output of near weapons-grade uranium.
The U.N. agency's report last month concluded that Japan's plans were consistent with international safety standards.
Fourteen cases remain under investigation by U.N. investigators, who have met with authorities in Israel.
The chair of the talks called for optimism despite divisions among plastic-producing nations and those urging restraints.
The number of people facing high levels of acute food insecurity has increased every year since 2019.
The group of organizations that reviewed the U.N. agency recommends several ways of strengthening its neutrality.
