Swedish Foreign Ministry

Protesters angered by the planned burning of a copy of the Quran stormed the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad early Thursday, breaking into the compound and lighting a small fire.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on July 18 sharply criticized the arrest of German human rights activist Peter Steudtner in Turkey as "absolutely unjustified" and said the German government would do all it could to secure his release.

BELGRADE - There are no more excuses for delays on the Community of Serb Municipalities, the head of the Serbian Office for Kosovo-Metohija, Marko Djuric, said at a meeting with Anna-Karin Enestrom, Director-General for Political Affairs at the Swedish Foreign Ministry, with whom he discussed the state of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue.

There are no more excuses for delays on the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO), head of the Serbian Office for Kosovo Marko Djuric, said on Monday.

He made the statement during a meeting in Belgrade with Anna-Karin Enestrom, Director-General for Political Affairs at the Swedish Foreign Ministry, with whom he discussed the state of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue.

I have to admit that I was a little late in catching up with the tension between Sweden and Saudi Arabia. For latecomers like me, let me summarize the situation.

First let me start by recalling that the Swedish government announced a ?feminist? foreign policy when it took office in September.

Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to Stockholm has been recalled in response to a decision of Sweden to scrap a bilateral defense cooperation agreement.

The news was announced by the BBC, which cites the Swedish Foreign Ministry.

The document, which had been in force nearly ten years, was due to expire in May, but Sweden announced Tuesday it would unilaterally suspend it.

A Swedish journalist has been freed from captivity in Syria after a week-long detention by Syrian government forces, local media reported Feb. 22.