Blind Syrian Refugee Writer Makes a New Home in Sweden
An aspiring Syrian writer adjusts to life in Sweden having fled Damascus and the civil war.
An aspiring Syrian writer adjusts to life in Sweden having fled Damascus and the civil war.
Sweden has taken in more than its share of Syrian refugees. But the influx is testing Sweden's famously tolerant identity.
Sweden's prostitution law, which bans the buying but not the selling of sex, is increasingly seen as a model globally. But there are ways to improve it so it doesn't victimize sex workers.
In Stockholm, where a 1999 law bans the buying but not the selling of sex, the red-light district is mostly empty.
The world's roads are still a place of carnage, with hair-raising instances of risky practices, unenforced laws and shoddy data. This quick survey of country facts also shows that progress is real.
With a delegation marooned inside the no man's land between North and South Korea since 1953, Switzerland maintains fragile ties with the North.