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LONDON—A legal battle over whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be extradited to Sweden to face a sexual-assault investigation entered its second day...
made popular Feb 9 2011
Julian Assange today defended his decision not to return to Sweden for questioning over allegations of sexual assault, saying he did not need to be “at the beck...
made popular Dec 21 2010
Julian Assange has told the BBC that he is fighting a Swedish extradition warrant because he believes “no natural justice” would occur in Sweden.
made popular Dec 21 2010
New details of the Swedish sexual-misconduct accusations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange shed more light on the deepening and complex legal problems he faces...
made popular Dec 20 2010
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said he is expecting to be charged by the US with spying, a day after being released on bail from a British jail over sexual assault...
made popular Dec 17 2010
The Swedish authorities are turning the sexual assault case against Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, into a “show trial”, his lawyers claimed.
made popular Dec 15 2010
STOCKHOLM — Two days after a bomber killed himself and slightly wounded two people in a commercial district here crowded with Christmas shoppers, investigators...
made popular Dec 14 2010
Police continued searching a house in Bedfordshire today as part of an investigation into the UK connections of the suicide bomber who struck in Stockholm on Saturday...
made popular Dec 13 2010
The Stockholm Criminal Court on Thursday issued an international arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on probable cause, saying he is suspected of rape,...
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STOCKHOLM — A Swedish prosecutor requested a court order Thursday to detain WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for questioning on suspicion of rape, sexual...
made popular Nov 18 2010
When a western reporter, Declan Walsh, from “Guardian News Services” asked a native Baloch at Dera Bugti Foj Ali about the Pakistani rulers, his answer was...
made popular Nov 10 2010
Americans are socialists. It’s true.
Americans feign rugged individualism and fierce capitalism, but the American people are at heart social democrats....
made popular Sep 27 2010
They waved banners and shouted slogans criticising the Sweden Democrats, who oppose immigration and have been accused of racism and intolerance.
Its 5.7% of the vote...
made popular Sep 21 2010
Fredrik Reinfeldt became Sweden’s first sitting center-right prime minister to win re-election, but was deprived of a majority by the first-time entry into...
made popular Sep 20 2010
A senior Swedish prosecutor has ordered the reopening of a rape investigation into Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
Public Prosecutions Director Marianne Ny said...
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The founder of WikiLeaks, accused of molestation in Sweden, said Australian intelligence had warned him of plans to discredit the whistle-blower website as it prepares...
made popular Aug 23 2010
Newsweek magazine has ranked living conditions in 100 countries around the world. In the magazine’s analysis, Finland was judged to be the best.
The analysis...
made popular Aug 17 2010
Henna Virkkunen (cons), the Finnish education minister, told the Finnish News Agency (STT) that Sweden’s foreign student quota, introduced earlier this year, was...
made popular Aug 7 2010
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Two Finnish climbers died on Tuesday while ascending Kebnekaise, Sweden’s highest mountain.
The police said a man in his late 20s and a woman in her early 20s had...
made popular Jul 28 2010
This week’s winner for the most misguided, offensive, out-of-touch protest comes to us from Sweden, idyllic land of supposed equality ... where women still...
made popular Jul 9 2010
Sweden’s future queen Crown Princess Victoria was set to wed her former personal trainer Saturday in one of the largest public celebrations ever organised in...
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The activists entered Forsmark some 115 kilometers north of Stockholm early on Monday and several gained access to a building rooftop, police said. The protestors did...
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One has to wonder why religion attracts so many pedophiles. I suppose it’s a great place to hide one’s sexually deviant...
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Prince Carl Philip, who is second in line to the throne, broke off his decade-long relationship with an advertising executive after meeting the 25 year-old bikini model...
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Finland and Sweden have criticised Canada for not inviting the two countries to a meeting of countries with Arctic shoreline, writes the Associated Press on Tuesday.
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Our “freedoms” are rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Religious fanatics and their oversensitivity to anything that runs counter to their tiny, pious...
made popular Mar 27 2010
The point of a caricature depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a dog was to show that artistic freedom allows mockery of all religions, including the most sacred symbols...
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NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen wants to strengthen relations between the alliance and non-member “partnership countries” such as Finland and Sweden,...
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Rantamaki gave the Finns their second women’s hockey bronze when her centring pass ricocheted off a skate in a crowd in front of the Swedish net past Sara...
made popular Feb 26 2010
When she first arrived in Sweden after her rescue from a Nazi concentration camp, Judith Popinski was treated with great kindness.
She raised a family in the city of...
made popular Feb 22 2010
Coming into the Vancouver Games, the Finnish hockey team was a little fish in a pond filled with sharks. But they have stepped up and shown that they are a force to be...
made popular Feb 22 2010
Do Muslim men consider a handshake a sexual act or even a prelude to sex? Because I’d like to inform them, it’s not. In the west it is customary to shake...
made popular Feb 9 2010
In the latest fashion to attract students, many universities and academies related to arts are coming into existence. Everyday, advertisements by scores of new...
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A teenager has grown back her entire face after being struck down by a rare skin disease.
Eva Uhlin, 19, suffered a bizarre one-in-a-million allergic reaction to...
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The Swedish government has held emergency talks with unions to prepare for the possible closure of Saab, despite new offers for the carmaker.
Enterprise Minister Maud...
made popular Dec 23 2009
Remember the Israeli outrage and accusations of anti-Semitism when a Swedish publication wrote about an Israeli organ harvest. The Israeli government when so far as to...
made popular Dec 21 2009
It was bad enough that nearly 300 reindeer tragically drowned before Christmas after the ice collapsed on a Swedish river crossing.
Then a company wanted to grind the...
made popular Dec 18 2009
The European Union’s 27 foreign ministers have partially accepted a Swedish proposal to recognized Holy Jerusalem as the joint capital of both the Palestinians...
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Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi’s medal.The seizure of her prize is an expression of the Iranian government’s harsh...
made popular Nov 27 2009
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Leif Ostling, CEO of Swedish truck and bus maker Scania AB during a news conference on Monday April 27, 2009. Scania AB on Monday reported a 93 percent drop in first-quarter net profit, as the global financial crisis continued to weigh on demand .
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