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Masai Bjoerkwall, a junior high school teacher at Viktor Rydberg's School, teaches the history of NATO and the implications of Sweden joining NATO, in Stockholm, Sweden, Friday, May 17, 2024. Slogan reads “Should we be with authoritarian states?” (AP Photo/Chisato Tanaka)
Sweden seeks to answer worried students’ questions about NATO and war after its neutrality ends
Sweden became NATO’s 32nd member in March. The abrupt end to the Scandinavian country’s 200 years of neutrality following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has worried many.
 
General view of the Stockholm District Court ahead of the main hearing against the former Syrian brigadier general Mohammed Hamo, who stands accused of aiding and abetting war crimes in Syria in 2012, and whose trial starts today, Monday April 15, 2024 (Oscar Olsson/TT News Agency via AP)
The trial of a former Syrian general over alleged role in war crimes starts in Stockholm
The trial of a former Syrian army general over his alleged role in war crimes committed in 2012 in his home country started at a Stockholm court, a first according to a human rights organization. Brig.