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Swedish court orders WikiLeaks founder Assange detained (Reuters)

November 18th, 2010

Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, which has made public about 500,000 classified U.S. files on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, holds a news conference at the Geneva Press Club in Geneva, November 4, 2010, the day before the United Nation's Human Rights Council examines the U.S. human rights record in its universal periodic review programme. REUTERS/Valentin FlauraudReuters - A Swedish court on Thursday ordered the detention of Julian Assange, the founder of whistle blowing website WikiLeaks, on suspicion of rape and other sexual crimes, allegations he…

What a Shooting Spree Says About One Swedish City (Time.com)

November 10th, 2010

Time.com - In the southeastern city of MalmÖ, a 38-year-old will stand trial for ashooting spree that has rocked this ethnically diverse Swedish city

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Swedish police hold man in possible race shootings (Reuters)

November 7th, 2010

Reuters - A 38-year-old man has been taken into custody on suspicion of being behind a series of possibly racially motivated shootings in southern Sweden, police said on Sunday.

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Swedish gov’t courts Greens, shuns far-right (AP)

September 20th, 2010

Voters fill the booths at a polling station during general elections in Stockholm, Sweden Sunday Sept. 19, 2010. Voting started Sunday in Sweden's election with polls showing the center-right government heading for a historic second term, but an Islam-bashing far-right group could spoil its majority. (AP Photo / Janerik Henriksson)AP - Sweden’s prime minister sought help from the leftist opposition Monday to avoid a political deadlock after an Islam-bashing far-right group spoiled his center-right government’s control of Parliament.


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Swedish election too close to call (AP)

September 19th, 2010

Voters fill the booths at a polling station during general elections in Stockholm, Sweden Sunday Sept. 19, 2010. Voting started Sunday in Sweden's election with polls showing the center-right government heading for a historic second term, but an Islam-bashing far-right group could spoil its majority. (AP Photo / Janerik Henriksson)AP - Sweden’s election was heading for a nail-biting finish Sunday with a TV exit poll and partial results showing a far-right party challenging the center-right government’s majority in Parliament.


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Exit poll: Swedish far-right may become kingmaker (AP)

September 19th, 2010

Voters fill the booths at a polling station during general elections in Stockholm, Sweden Sunday Sept. 19, 2010. Voting started Sunday in Sweden's election with polls showing the center-right government heading for a historic second term, but an Islam-bashing far-right group could spoil its majority. (AP Photo / Janerik Henriksson)AP - A respected TV exit poll showed Sweden’s center-right government beating the left-wing opposition in Sunday’s parliamentary election but a far-right Islam-bashing party could end up in a kingmaker…

Polls: Swedish government poised for re-election (AP)

September 18th, 2010

AP - Sweden’s center-right government heads into Sunday’s election with a commanding lead in the polls, boosted by popular tax cuts and healthy public finances that stand out in debt-ridden…

Swedish vote could end love story with left (AP)

September 12th, 2010

Sweden's Social Democrat party leader Mona Sahlin, red-green coalition, left, and Prime Minister and leader of the center-right coalition Fredrik Reinfeldt during a debate at public service TV-channel SVT late evening Thursday Sept. 9, 2010. The sign in background reads '10 days left' to general election. Most recent polls suggest Reinfeldt can capitalize on the Swedish economy's strong revival after the global slump to pull off what no center-right leader has done before: winning re-election after serving a full term. (AP Photo/Henrik Montgomery) **  SWEDEN OUT  **AP - Swedish politics used to be like a long marriage with brief spells of infidelity.


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Swedish prosecutors defend WikiLeaks about-face (AP)

August 22nd, 2010

**ADDS THAT AUTHORITIES HAVE REVOKED ARREST WARRANT** FILE - In this July 27, 2010 file photo, founder and editor of the WikiLeaks website, Julian Assange, speaks to members of the media during a debate event held in London. A Stockholm prosecutor issued an arrest warrant for Assange on Friday, Aug. 20, 2010, saying he was suspected of rape and molestation in two separate cases. But chief prosecutor Eva Finne withdrew the warrant within 24 hours. (AP Photo/Max Nash, File)AP - Swedish prosecutors defended their handling of a rape allegation against the founder of WikiLeaks, saying Sunday that they had made no mistakes in issuing an arrest warrant and…

Was a Swedish Oil Company Complicit in Sudan’s Civil War? (Time.com)

July 4th, 2010

Time.com - After an NGO accuses Swedish oil company Lundin of being complicit in war crimes in Sudan, prosecutors open an investigation

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