Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson By Anadolu Agency Political crisis in Sweden is threatening to come to a head after Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson warned on Friday that she would resign if Justice Minister Morgan Johansson is voted out of office in a no-confidence vote initiated by the far-right Democrats of Sweden. “The political decisions

Queen Elizabeth II waves to the crowd during the Platinum Jubilee Pageant outside Buckingham Palace in London, Sunday, June 5, 2022, on the last of four days of celebrations to mark the Platinum Jubilee. The pageant will be a carnival procession up The Mall featuring giant puppets and celebrities that will depict key moments from

By Reuters President Vladimir Putin warned the West that Russia would strike new targets if the United States started supplying Ukraine with longer-range missiles, the TASS news agency reported on Sunday. If such missiles are supplied, “we will strike at those targets which we have not yet been hitting,” Putin was quoted as saying in

By Anadolu Agency Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Saturday that the West does not allow Ukraine to conduct talks with Russia. Lavrov accused the West, led by the UK and the US, of turning Ukraine into an instrument of restraining and exhausting Russia. He said in an interview with the public broadcaster of the

By The Associated Press Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei acknowledged Saturday that Iran took two Greek oil tankers last month in helicopter-launched raids in the Persian Gulf. The confiscations were retaliation for Greece’s role in the U.S. seizure of crude oil from an Iranian-flagged tanker the same week in the Mediterranean Sea over violating

USS KEARSAGE aircraft carrier is seen moored in Fortojning pa strommen in Stockholm, Sweden on June 03, 2022. More than forty warships belonging to NATO countries arrived in Stockholm in the frame of Baltic Operations “Baltops 22” where sixteen nations participate with over forty-five maritime units, more than seventy-five aircraft and approximately seven thousand personnel.

A police vehicle removes a car following a security incident near Trafalgar Square, as Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations continue, in London, Britain, June 4, 2022. Reuters/Phil Noble By Reuters British police on Saturday briefly evacuated London’s Trafalgar Square, close to where celebrations are to be held later to mark Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee, after

By Reuters Senegal’s President Macky Sall said Russia’s Vladimir Putin had told him on Friday he was ready to enable the export of Ukrainian grain to ease a global food crisis that is hitting Africa especially hard. “President #Putin has expressed to us his willingness to facilitate the export of Ukrainian cereals,” Sall wrote on

Mining By The African Exponent For many years, mining companies operating in Africa have continued to exploit the continent. Their crimes go unpunished due to the activities of corrupt local officials who mortgage their future and those of unborn generations for bribes and contracts. However, it appears that the law has begun to catch up

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett delivers a speech during the annual Yom Hazikaron Remembrance Day ceremony for fallen Israeli soldiers, in the Yad LaBanim Memorial in Jerusalem May 3, 2022. Menahem KAHANA /Pool via Reuters By Reuters Israel told the U.N. nuclear watchdog on Friday it would prefer a diplomatic resolution to the standoff over