| April 11, 2008 | - Twenty U.S. soldiers were killed last week fighting across Iraq, and 1,300 Iraqi officers and soldiers were fired for poor performance. The Bush Administration said it was optimistic that many more refugees from the estimated 4.4 million people who had fled Iraq or had been “internally displaced” would be allowed into the United States. Since the war began the United States has accepted only 5,000 Iraqi refugees. Sweden has taken 34,000.
| Source 1:
Reuters
Source 2:
IHT
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| April 11, 2008 | - Scientists identified a group of 8,000-year-old Norway spruce trees in western Sweden, believed to be the oldest on earth. The trees, which took root after the last Ice Age, stayed at a shrublike size for most of their lives. “The past few decades we have seen a much warmer climate, which has meant that they have popped up,” said tree expert Leif Kullman.
| Source:
Reuters
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| June 19, 2007 | - The Swedish government recognized that one man's preference for heavy metal music constitutes a disability, making the man eligible for state benefits.
- The Swedish government recognized that one man's preference for heavy metal music constitutes a disability, making the man eligible for state benefits.
| Source:
The Local
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| December 4, 2006 | - A forty-three-foot-tall Swedish straw Christmas
goat was doused with flame-retardant chemicals so that only its hooves could be burned.
| Source:
Associated Press via nj.com
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| June 7, 2006 | - A report by the Council of Europe charged that European countries (including Germany,
Spain,
Sweden,
Greece, and Italy) served as a “global spider web” for the CIA's secret abduction and unlawful transfer of terrorism suspects to its network of torture camps around the world.
| Source:
New York Times
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| April 5, 2006 | - A Swedish doctor in Norway was fired for using an "anal massage" technique to cure different kinds of pain, such as headaches. "I am different," explained the doctor.
| Source:
The Local
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| April 2, 2006 | - A Swedish
study linked heavy cell-phone use to malignant brain tumors.
| Source:
The Jerusalem Post
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| January 20, 2006 | - A man in Sweden was in trouble for eating his foster sisters.
| Source:
BBC News
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| December 4, 2005 | - In Gavle, Sweden, vandals burned a huge straw Christmas
goat.
| Source:
BBC News
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| November 17, 2005 | - A Swedish study linked oral sex to mouth cancer.
| Source:
News24.com
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| November 11, 2005 | -
Swedish authorities removed the Storsjo monster, a mythical serpentine creature that lives in Lake Storsjon in Jamtland, from their endangered-species list; hunters may now pursue the animal.
| Source:
AP
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| October 24, 2005 | - A new Swedish passenger train was being praised because it runs on the entrails of dead cows.
| Source:
BBC News
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| February 13, 2005 | - A Swedish woman found a “medium-sized” penis in a bottle of ketchup. “I will never buy this brand again,” she said.
| Source:
Mail and Guardian Online
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| February 3, 2005 | -
Sweden was considering raising taxes.
| Source:
The Financial Times
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| October 29, 2004 | -
Osama bin Laden released a new video message and said that it was U.S. foreign policy, particularly U.S. support for the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, that led him to plan the September 11 attacks. "Bush says and claims that we hate freedom, let him tell us then, 'Why did we not attack Sweden?'"
| Source:
CNN
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| June 3, 2004 | -
Swedish teenagers were charged with planning to kill people at their school to commemorate the Columbine massacre.
| Source:
New York Times
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| April 21, 2004 | - King Carl Gustav of Sweden, who is exempt from prosecution, was seen driving his yellow Porsche around in southern Sweden at speeds well over 100 mph.
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 24, 2004 | - It was reported that the permafrost is disappearing from the bogs of subarctic Sweden because of climate changes, resulting in large emissions of methane, which as a greenhouse gas is 25 times worse than carbon dioxide.
| Source:
Geophysical Research Letters
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| January 17, 2004 | - The Israeli ambassador to Sweden attacked and damaged an artwork at the Historical Museum in Stockholm; the work, by an Israeli artist and his Swedish wife, consists of a portrait of Hanadi Jaradat, a Palestinian suicide bomber who killed 19 people at a cafe in Haifa, on a boat floating in a pool of red liquid. The ambassador ripped electrical wires out of the piece and threw a light into the pool.
| Source:
Reuters
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| December 26, 2003 | - A Swedish
mother was arrested for trying to bake her five-month-old baby.
| Source:
Sydney Morning Herald
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