Sweden

Calling Treatment of Julian Assange 'Psychological Torture,' UN Expert Demands End to US Extradition Attempt

Pompeo Cheers 'Opportunity' in Arctic From Climate Change as America Blocks Resolution Language

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

"The latest data shows that after a month of record temperatures in the Bering Sea, ocean ice in the Arctic is at an all-time record low for the date, crushing the record set … last April."

Pompeo, in Finland, Calls China Claims to Arctic 'Lawlessness'

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers remarks Monday at the Arctic Council meeting in Finland.

Pompeo likened the situation to the South China Sea: "fraught with...

Ahead of Global #ClimateStrike She Inspired, 16-Year-Old Greta Thunberg Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

"The massive movement Greta has set in motion is a very important peace...

Swedish Activist Fined for Viral Live-Streamed Protest Against Deportation of Afghan Asylum Seeker

Depressed and Then Diagnosed With Autism, Greta Thunberg Explains Why Hope Cannot Save Planet But Bold Climate Action Still Can

'We Have Not Come Here to Beg World Leaders to Care,' 15-Year-Old Greta Thunberg Tells COP24. 'We Have Come to Let Them Know Change Is Coming'

Teen Climate Activist to Crowd of Thousands: 'We Can't Save the World by Playing by the Rules Because the Rules Have to Change'

'Unprecedented' Heat Wave Fueling Arctic Fires Made More Than Twice as Likely by Climate Change: Analysis

'It Is Not Right to Send People to Hell': Swedish Woman's Plane Protest Stops Deportation of Afghan Refugee

As Wildfires Rage and Heat Records Broken Worldwide, Corporate Media Urged to Cover Climate Crisis' Link to Extreme Weather

Welcome to the 'Second Tier': US Failing Big League on Social Progress

Sweden Drops Investigation of WikiLeaks' Assange, But Threats in US, UK Remain

Eight Countries Join Global Fight Against Trump's Anti-Abortion Move

What's the 'Goodest' Country? Hint: It's Not the US

500 Scholars, Activists, and Nobel Laureates Call on UK and Sweden to Free Assange

Further

Never Forget: Grandson of Auschwitz Commandant Fights For A Nazi-Free Europe

With upcoming elections in a Europe beset by rising neo-Nazism, a new campaign by Swedish Social Democrats against the resurgence has a high-profile leader: Rainer Hoess, 48, the grandson of infamous Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess, who presided over the murder of a million Jews and thousands of others. Hoess has spent years speaking to German schoolchildren about a Nazi influence growing now, as then, because "the social safety nets have been torn, and people are left behind...Hopelessness...