There is an expression in Swedish, “to be let into the warmth” – meaning to be welcomed into the fold. In a country shaped by long, dark winters, the image speaks for itself.A decade ago, the Sweden Democrats (SD), a far-right anti-immigration party with roots in Sweden’s neo-Nazi movement, were firmly shut out in the cold.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listBut after the 2018 general election, a political deadlock prompted right-wing parties to rethink their alliances – and their principles.Today, SD is Sweden’s second-largest party, providing the parliamentary support that keeps the current government in power. It is…
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For months, the Los Angeles Clippers have been embroiled in a massive salary-cap circumvention scandal.According to journalist Pablo Torre, team owner Steve Ballmer used Aspiration, a now-bankrupt company co-founded by Joe Sanberg — who has since been arrested for fraud — to pay Kawhi Leonard under the table.Torre has provided multiple smoking-gun pieces of evidence of circumvention, including whistleblower testimony and payment trails, but the NBA is still conducting its separate investigation. If found guilty, the Clippers face steep penalties, including — potentially — the voidance of the contract. As such, and given his resurgence and health, Leonard has been…
A few months ago, I sat across from a CEO who was genuinely proud. He had just implemented an AI-powered people analytics platform: real-time sentiment data, predictive turnover scores, and engagement dashboards. Beautiful system. His HR team had been cut by a third. “It does what they used to do,” he told me. Six months later, two of his highest-performing senior managers quit in the same quarter. No flags. No warning scores. Nothing on the dashboard. Just two people who had felt, for a long time, that no one knew them, who had finally stopped waiting for that to change.…
HPV vaccines have revolutionised cervical-cancer prevention since the first one became available in 2006Subaas Shrestha/NurPhoto via Getty Images No women in England aged 20 to 24 died of cervical cancer between 2020 and 2024. This is the first time that zero cervical-cancer deaths have been recorded for this age group, and it’s thanks to the introduction of a vaccine against the human papillomavirus, or HPV. “The results are stunning,” says Peter Sasieni at Queen Mary University of London. “It’s an awful thing when somebody dies very young from cervical cancer. This is a real triumph for vaccination, a real triumph…
After spending years defending him, campaigning for him, endorsing him, and standing beside him while anyone who questioned his fitness was attacked as a conspiracy theorist, Hillary Clinton now says Biden made a “terrible mistake” by running again. That is convenient, but the problem is that Biden did not act alone. The entire Democratic establishment knew exactly what was happening and saw his cognitive decline. They heard the incoherent speeches, watched the debates. Yet they all marched in lockstep behind a man they insisted was perfectly capable of serving another four years. Clinton is really attempting to do is rewrite…
Mike Myers is setting the record straight about the possibility of “Austin Powers 4,” a sequel fans have been hoping for since the release of the third movie, “Austin Powers in Goldmember,” in 2002. More than two decades later, Myers offered a one-word response that has ignited excitement among fans, though he stopped short of sharing any other details about the franchise’s future. It has been almost 30 years since Mike Myers first graced the silver screen as groovy British secret agent Austin Powers, and fans of the franchise have been waiting for a fourth film after the third installment…
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said there had been “significant progress” in long-running talks with Washington for a trade deal, according to a statement issued on Thursday (Jun 18) after his meeting with President Donald Trump.The leaders met on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Evian in France on Wednesday, their first face-to-face talks since February 2025 in Washington.”The leaders noted with particular satisfaction the significant progress made in negotiations towards an interim Bilateral Trade Agreement”, a readout of the meeting from India’s foreign ministry read.Asked if the US and India are close to a trade deal,…
Published On 18 Jun 202618 Jun 2026US President Donald Trump’s interim deal with Iran has drawn a backlash from fellow Republicans, who argue the agreement wastes billions of dollars of taxpayer money and does little to restrict Tehran’s nuclear programme.Under a 14-point memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed on Wednesday, the US and Iran committed to an “immediate and permanent end to military operations on all fronts,” including in Lebanon.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listTehran agreed to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which has been effectively closed since late February, while Washington pledged to “develop a definitive, mutually…
Trae Young immediately jumped to the forefront of the NBA discussion when he was drafted back in 2018. He was part of a high-profile trade that sent him to the Atlanta Hawks from the Dallas Mavericks in exchange for Luka Doncic. The trade was stunningly even for the first few years after Young and Doncic both led their teams to the conference finals within their first four seasons, but the former’s momentum has slowed a ton.The star point guard failed to win another playoff series after taking his team to the doorstep of the Finals in 2021 and was stuck in…
Get ready to break some bread in Texas this summer. Several Panera Bread locations that abruptly shuttered last year in the wake of a high-profile franchise dispute will soon reopen their doors, the new owner has confirmed with Fast Company. The Houston-area restaurants have been dark since August 2025, when their previous owner—ordered by a judge to stop using the Panera name—closed them down and sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Hamra Enterprises, a family-owned franchise that already owns dozens of Panera Bread locations across the Southeast, purchased the seven restaurants in a November 2025 bankruptcy sale, as Fast Company previously…