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Obama and the Nobel: Just Bizarre

Jesse Larner | Posted 11.13.2009 | World

Now I know a lot of my friends are going to be very happy about this; a new day has dawned, etc. Personally I found it inexplicable. And disturbing. And vaguely annoying.

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Czech leader demands addition of footnote to Lisbon Treaty

The Independent | Independent | Posted 10.08.2009 | Home

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The Czech President, Vaclav Klaus, raised a new obstacle to ratifying the Lisbon Treaty yesterday, telling Sweden, which holds the EU presid...

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NOBEL PRIZE WINNER: Herta Muller

AP | KARL RITTER and MALIN RISING | Posted 10.08.2009 | Books

Read More: Literature Prizes, Sweden, Nobel Prize, Joyce Carol Oates, Nobel, Nobel Literature, Amos Oz, Books, Literature, Nobel Prize Winner, Literary Prizes, Books News

STOCKHOLM — Americans Joyce Carol Oates and Philip Roth join Israel's Amos Oz at the top of the buzz surrounding the Nobel Prize in literature, ...

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Britney Spears' "3": New Song Is About Threesomes

Posted 11.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Video, Max Martin, 3, Threesomes, Britney Spears, Sex, Britney Spears 3, Audio, Listen, Music, Sweden, Menage a Trois, Entertainment News

Britney Spears' new single "3" premiered on a New York radio station today. The song is about threesomes. The New York Daily News: News flash...

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Hyundai Latest To Pull Out Of 2009 Tokyo Motor Show

The Car Connection | CarConnection | Posted 11.28.2009 | Home

Read More: Detroit-Michigan, Germany, Sweden, South Korea, China, France, Home News

The Japan Automobile Manufacturers' Association (JAMA) has decided not to cancel this year's Tokyo Motor Show, despite most of the world's automaker...

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Sweden Robbery: Police Slammed After Hollywood-Style Helicopter Heist

AP | KARL RITTER | Posted 11.24.2009 | World

Read More: Crime, Sweden Robbery, Sweden Helicopter, g4s, Sweden Robbery Helicopter, Sweden, World News

STOCKHOLM — Swedish police faced stinging criticism Thursday for failing to stop helicopter-borne gunmen from pulling off a Hollywood-style heis...

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Swedish police criticized after helicopter heist

AP | KARL RITTER | Posted 11.24.2009 | Home

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Swedish police faced stinging criticism Thursday for failing to stop helicopter-borne gunmen from pulling off a Hollywood-style heist against a cash depot while blocking an air pursuit with a fake bomb.

Investigators had made no arrests as of Thursday morning, a day after the predawn raid on the G4S cash storage facility in southern Stockholm. Two men detained for questioning Wednesday were no longer suspects in the robbery, police spokesman Ulf Goranzon said.

Swedish media mixed awe of the robbers' military precision with anger against the police for not mounting a more effective response. The bandits prevented an air pursuit simply by placing a fake bomb at a poorly guarded helipad outside the capital.

"It's just embarrassing that criminals can knock out the police with tricks from a book for boys," columnist Lena Mellin wrote in tabloid Aftonbladet.

In an editorial, Stockholm daily Svenska Dagbladet police have to become better at protecting themselves and their property "or they won't be able to protect society and citizens."

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Sweden launches manhunt after helicopter heist

AP | KARL RITTER | Posted 11.23.2009 | Home

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With cinematic flourish, the masked robbers dropped from a helicopter onto the roof of a Swedish cash depot before dawn, broke into the building through a glass pyramid, set off explosions to get to the millions inside and escaped by hoisting themselves and their haul back up on rope lines.

All in 20 minutes, and all while Stockholm police were grounded by a fake bomb planted outside their own helicopter hangar.

Sweden has had its share of high-profile heists against cash storage facilities, post offices and armored cars in recent years, but police said Wednesday's commando-style robbery was the first to use a helicopter.

"There are about 100 hardcore criminals in this country who have specialized in this type of serious robbery," said Jerzy Sarnecki, professor in criminology at Stockholm University. "They are definitely no amateurs."

He said every successful heist inspires others to follow suit, which explains why they have become relatively frequent in Sweden.

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Scandinavia Fights Female Genital Mutilation

globalpost.com | Posted 11.20.2009 | World

Read More: Female Genital Mutilation Denmark, Women's Rights, Female Circumcision, Norway, Female Genital Mutilation, Scandinavia Female Genital Mutilation, Female Genital Cutting, Denmark, Sweden, Sweden Female Gentital Mutilation, Current Female Gential Mutilation, World News

STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- When she was 11, a Swedish-born girl was taken on vacation to her mother's native Somalia. The mother wanted to "make her daughte...

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Thanks Glenn Beck -- This 'Socialism' Sounds Great!

Paul Raushenbush | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Housing Market, Amazing Grace, Rush Limbaugh, Carter, Laissez-Faire, Michael Steele, Glenn Beck, Socialism, Jfk, Capitalism, Health Care, Christian, Forclosure, Arianna Huffington, Fdr, Russia, Marx, Rasmussen-Reports, Norway, Sweden, Politics News

Capitalism has been given a pass while Americans struggle. When will capitalism be a word as dirty as socialism?

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Health Care Reform: It's About Community, Stupid

Nathan Hegedus | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Continental Army, Community, Medicaid, Italy, Health Insurance, Wall Street Journal, The Gaggle, Barack Obama, Health Care Reform, Russia, Bill Mcinturff, Town Hall Meetings, Health Care, Sweden, Great Depression, Politics News

Here in Sweden, forsaking your neighbor is the unforgivable sin. Even if you let the state do the caring, even if you never smile at them, you do not forsake them.

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The Free Press Defense: Sweden, Aftonbladet and What Wallenberg Would Think

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Blood Libel, Foreign Minister Bildt, Sweden, Red Cross, European Union, Congressman Hastings, Palestinians, World News, Iran, Eichmann, Israel, Senator Cardin, Wallenberg, Budapest, World News

A country's leading newspaper publishes a lurid attack, and no-one less than the Foreign Minister invokes 'freedom of speech' to protect the newspaper and its reporter. Iran? No. Sweden.

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Controversial Swedish Article Spurs Palestinians To Seek Organ Theft Probe

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 09.25.2009 | Home

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Several Palestinians in the West Bank have called for an international inquiry into a Swedish newspaper report that suggests members of the Israeli ar...

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Sweden summons Israel envoy for talks over IDF organ harvesting article

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 09.21.2009 | Home

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Sweden's foreign ministry has summoned the Israeli ambassador to Stockholm in a bid to solve the developing crisis between the two nations over a rece...

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Occam's Razor Can Cut Down the Health Care Lobbyists

Gary S. Chafetz | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: National Health Insurance, Electronic Medical Records, Sweden, Jack Abramoff, Cigna, President Obama, OpenSecrets.Org, Catastrophic Health Insurance, Canada, The Health-Care Industry, Aig, General Motors, Nancy Pelosi, Paul Krugman, Pharmaceutical Industry, Aetna, Federal Deficit, Occam's Razor, Lobbyists, United Health Group, The National Debt, Cyberounds.com, Peter Orszag, Single Payer, Cookbook Medicine, Single Payer Health Care, Japan, Blue Cross Blue Shield, France, Chrysler, Dow Jones, Great Britain, Wellpoint, Max Baucus, Medicare, Health Care Reform, Cuba, Holland, Scandanavia, Politics News

Private health-insurance and pharmaceutical industry lobbyists are threatening the health and stability of America. Some argue that this is equivalent to crimes against humanity.

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Robot Attack Of Swedish Man Leads To Fine For Company

Huffington Post | Posted 08.29.2009 | World

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A Swedish company is being fined $3,000 for a 2007 incident when a robot attacked and seriously injured a factory worker, The Local reports. The inci...

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Pirate Party On The Rise In Sweden (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 08.23.2009 | World

Read More: Pirate Party, European Elections, Pirates, Music, Internet Piracy, Illegal Music Downloading, Sweden, World News

In Sweden, the party for internet piracy is on the rise. Christian Engstrom, 49, is the world's first democratically elected Internet pirate and a new...

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Top 10 Green Countries (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Ami Cholia | Posted 08.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Top Green Countries, Costa Rica, Greenest Countries, Slideshow, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany Tuvalu, Green News

The United States is slowly starting to embrace shades of green, but a large part of the world is far ahead. See what our global neighbors are up to, ...

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Sweden's SEB bank posts 2Q loss

AP | Posted 08.20.2009 | Home

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Swedish bank SEB AB on Monday posted a second-quarter loss as credit losses for its operations in the Baltic countries increased more than eight-fold.

The bank said net loss for the quarter was 193 million kronor ($24.7 million) compared with a profit of 2.8 billion kronor in the same period a year earlier. The result was well below analysts' expectations of a profit of 1.4 billion kronor.

SEB, which is the core holding of Sweden's powerful Wallenberg family, said total credit losses increased to 3.6 billion kronor ($461 million) from 448 million kronor – 74 percent of which was attributable to its operations in the Baltic countries.

It also said the result was weighed down by a 2.4 billion kronor ($307 million) write-down on goodwill in the Baltics and Russia.

Net interest income, the bank's main source of revenue, rose to 5.4 billion kronor ($691 million) from 4.4 billion kronor in the second quarter 2008.

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Iranians Worldwide Roll Out Green Scroll Against Ahmadinejad (SLIDESHOW, UPDATES)

Diane Tucker | Posted 08.19.2009 | World

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Updates, and video screen grabs from the ceremony in Paris, follow the post. AUSTIN, TX -- When a reporter asked Vaclav Havel to comment on Iran's p...

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Swedish Newspapers Threaten To Boycott Britney Concert Over Photo Restrictions

AP | Posted 08.10.2009 | Media

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STOCKHOLM — Four major Swedish newspapers have threatened to boycott a Britney Spears concert in Stockholm because of restrictions imposed on th...

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If Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm Had Resigned Instead of Sarah Palin

Susan J. Demas | Posted 08.09.2009 | Comedy

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Sarah Palin is wading back into the warm bowels of victimhood, whining that everyone's pilin' on about her steppin' down.

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Sweden EU Presidency Begins: Challenges Expected

New York Times | Posted 08.01.2009 | World

Read More: European Union, Sweden, Europe, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, EU Presidency, Sweden Eu, Sweden Eu Presidency, World News

The last time Sweden ran the European Union, eight years ago, its reign was a mostly quiet one, memorable only for a riot that marred a summit in Goth...

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Swedish Sex Ed Angers Muslim Immigrants

GlobalPost | Posted 07.30.2009 | World

Proper condom use, sex positions and same-sex relationships are all part of the curriculum for 14-year-old students in Swedish high schools....

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Pirates Have Boarded The Good Ship Europe: Will Music, Media and Movie Companies Walk The Plank?

Nathan Hegedus | Posted 07.10.2009 | Media

Pirates have been the scourge of the music and film industry for years, swapping and "stealing" songs and movies with no regard for the law. But now the pirates will be making the law.

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