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People attend a memorial ceremony at Sergels Torg plaza in Stockholm, close to the point where a truck drove into a department store two days before on April 9, 2017. AFP

Minute of Silence Observed for Stockholm Attack Victims

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 10, 2017 | World

Sweden on Monday observed a minute of silence for the victims of last week’s truck attack by a man whom police believe is a jihadist sympathizer and who had gone underground after receiving a deportation order. A solemn ceremony was held outside...

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A view of the street scene after people were killed when a truck crashed into a department store Ahlens, in central Stockholm, Sweden, April 7, 2017. Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency via REUTERS

Sweden Strengthens Border Controls

by Abdullah Mustafa | Apr 9, 2017 | World

Stockholm, Brussels – Swedish television reported police sources saying that the police had arrested a second man after a truck drove into a crowd of people on the busy Stockholm shopping street Drottninggatan killing four people and injuring at least 15. The incident...

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Police officers guard at the downtown in Stockholm. Reuters photo

Police: Man Arrested over Stockholm Attack Suspected Driver of Truck

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 8, 2017 | World

A man arrested on “suspicion of terrorist crime” was likely to be the driver of the truck that killed four people in central Stockholm, Swedish police said Saturday. “We suspect that the man who was arrested is the perpetrator,” Stockholm...

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People were killed when a truck crashed into department store Ahlens on Drottninggatan, in central Stockholm, Sweden April 7, 2017. TT News Agency/Rose-Marie Otter/via REUTERS

Stockholm: Terror Truck Driven into Crowd Kills Three, Wounds Eight

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 7, 2017 | World

A truck drove into a crowd on a shopping street and crashed into a department store in central Stockholm on Friday, killing three people and wounding eight in what the prime minister said appeared to be a terrorist attack. Part of central Stockholm was cordoned off...

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Skeletal and animal remains are seen at one of 12 newly discovered ancient Egyptian cemetaries dating back to the New Kingdom era at Gabal al-Silsila or Chain of Mountains area in Upper Egypt, north of Aswan, January 11, 2017, in this handout picture courtesy of the Ministry of Antiquities. The Ministry of Antiquities/Handout via Reuters

Swedish Archaeologists Discover 12 Ancient Egyptian Cemeteries near Aswan

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jan 11, 2017 | Middle East

The Egyptian-Swedish archaeological mission from Lund University has unearthed a dozen burial sites near the southern city of Aswan that date back almost 3,500 years to the New Kingdom era of ancient Egypt, the Antiquities Ministry said on Wednesday. Human and animal...