Swedes Expected to Become Minority in Their Own Country's Two Largest Cities

Despite being regularly laughed off by the press and politicians as a "right-wing hoax" and a "racist trope," a drastic population shift is clearly taking place. Sweden has until recently remained a largely homogeneous society, yet several decades of massive immigration starting from the 1980s altered its demographic composition beyond all recognition.

Among others, Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans have formed sizable communities in recent years alone, having eclipsed the traditional Finnish minority. While similar trends are being witnessed in neighboring Nordic nations and Western Europe at large, Sweden seems to be miles ahead. The rise in the percentage of people with a non-European background has risen very markedly from having been next to non-existent in the 1960s to an estimated 19% in 2022.

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❗️Latest statements by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov:

▪️Moscow regrets that the UN Security Council failed to adopt Russia's draft resolution on a probe into the Nord Stream blasts;

▪️Russia will do everything in its power to initiate an international investigation into the Nord Stream attack;

▪️Relations between Russia and Germany leave much to be desired;

▪️Germany is actively arming Ukraine, and getting more and more involved in the conflict;

▪️Putin and Lukashenko at a meeting of the Supreme State Council will discuss issues related to security against the backdrop of actions by unfriendly countries.

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🇨🇳 Taking part in the Boao Forum for Asia Dr. Carl F. Fey, professor of strategy at the Norwegian Business School, gave an interview to Sputnik in which he explained how international instability can be overcome when no one is ready to talk.

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📹 Dr. Carl F. Fey, professor of strategy at the Norwegian Business School, told Sputnik what role forums such as the Boao Forum for Asia - in which he participates - play in an unstable world.

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📹 Zafar Uddin Mahmood, Policy Advisor to the Secretary-General of the Boao Forum for Asia told Sputnik in an interview how he believes international instability can be overcome when no one is ready to talk.

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❗️Russian MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️Russian air defense systems intercepted a US-made GLSDB missile for the first time;

▪️Ukrainian losses in the Donetsk direction amounted to 240 servicemen;

▪️Russian troops eliminated up to 65 Ukrainian servicemen in the Kupyansk direction;

▪️Ukrainian losses in the Krasny Liman direction amounted to 125 servicemen, with eight pieces of equipment;

▪️The Russian Army eliminated up to 18 Ukrainian servicemen and five vehicles in the Kherson direction;

▪️Ukrainian losses in the South Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions amounted to about 20 servicemen;

▪️Russian air defense systems intercepted 18 HIMARS MLRS rockets;

▪️Russian troops destroyed a Ukrainian S-300 air defense radar in the Kherson region.

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Japan's Opposition Blasts PM Kishida's Silence on Depleted Uranium Ammo to Ukraine

The head of the Japanese government ostensibly dodged giving a direct answer, saying something to the effect that, “despite studies on the negative effects on human health, no concrete results have been obtained”.

Taro Yamamoto, leader of the opposition party Reiwa Shinsengumi, slammed the lack of response as sending a "bad message," and added, as a parting "broadside", that Kishida himself was "from Hiroshima.”

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🇬🇭 🇺🇸 US VP Kamala Harris has no moral right to talk about human rights in Ghana, local MP says

Harris, who is in Ghana on the first leg of her Africa tour, said that she had raised the issue of human rights with the country’s president, Nana Akufo-Addo, at the same time arguing that LGBTQ rights are a human rights issue.

🗣 “Do you think the Parliament of Ghana is going to be guided by the opinion of the vice president of the country that is one of the biggest abusers of human rights? Please,” Ghanaian MP Samuel George has told local radio.

George mentioned Monday’s shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, which saw at least six people killed, including three children, by a 28 year-old former student, who has been identified in US media as a transgender person.

The politician’s remark comes amid debate in Ghana’s parliament on a bill that is expected to criminalize advocacy for gay rights in the country and imprison those who identify as LGBTQ

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🇬🇧 Food price inflation in the United Kingdom has hit a record high of 17.5 percent, which could increase the average annual household grocery bills by £837 ($1,029), UK data analytics and consulting company Kantar said on Tuesday.

💬 "Grocery price inflation has climbed again to reach 17.5 percent over the four weeks to 19 March 2023, a record based on our latest market data. Households are now facing an £837 increase in their annual shopping bills if they don’t change their shopping behavior," the consulting company said.

📍 Home food sales as a whole rose 8.6 percent in 12 weeks since the beginning of the UK sales year, the statement read. Grocery store traffic also increased in March, with each household going to stores more than four times a week, which is the highest rate since the beginning of the pandemic except for the Christmas period, according to the statement.

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☦️ Supporters of the schismatic Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) seized the last church of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Ivano-Frankivsk.

💬 "The raiders entered through the side doors, opened the central ones and pushed the parishioners down the stairs. The police did not intervene," the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church's Telegram channel says.

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Mark Sleboda, Moscow-based international relations security analyst, joins us to discuss the threat to both human life and the environment posed by depleted uranium ammunition

🎧Listen to more of Sleboda’s analysis in our podcast Political Misfits