February 14, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Nerikes_allehanda":
National: 13 Jan 12
Two young women were taken to hospital and two were detained by police after a violent fight erupted in Örebro, in central Sweden, on Wednesday.
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National: 5 Jan 12
Seven men in central Sweden have been charged with kidnapping and aggravated assault after having abducted and tortured a man, burning him with an iron and hitting him with computer cables.
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National: 4 Jan 12
The 25-year-old man who went missing from his Uppsala flat on December 28th has been found alive in Umeå, in the north of Sweden, according to police.
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National: 3 Jan 12
Police on Tuesday arrested a couple in their twenties on suspicion of kidnapping a 25-year-old man who went missing from his home in Uppsala in December.
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National: 28 Dec 11
The three men accused of planning to murder controversial Swedish artist Lars Vilks in a foiled attack in Gothenburg on September were released on Wednesday shortly after the conclusion of their trial.
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National: 28 Dec 11
A woman's refusal to be served by a "dark-skinnned" clerk at the local office of a public agency is not a crime, a Swedish court has ruled.
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National: 10 Nov 11
The Swedish town of Örebro, recently rocked by the hunt and capture of a serial rapist, is reeling from what police believe may be a new wave of attacks on young girls in the area.
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National: 6 Oct 11
The young Swedish father remanded into custody in September on suspicion of beating his two-month-old daughter to death, has been released after an autopsy revealed she died from the results of a viral infection.
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Society: 20 Sep 11
A woman in central Sweden was shocked to discover a living toad at the bottom of a bag of pre-packaged salad that had been in her fridge for almost a week.
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National: 9 Sep 11
A Swedish man from Örebro, in central Sweden, has been remanded into custody after one of his two-month-old twin daughters died and the other showed signs of similar injuries.
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National: 14 Aug 11
A van full of stolen goods, including a boat motor, previously confiscated by police in Sweden was returned to the man convicted of trying to move the items out of the country following his trial.
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Society: 3 Aug 11
Police in Örebro in central Sweden are hunting for a woman who reportedly brandished a bow and fired an arrow at group of teenagers.
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National: 3 Aug 11
An 11-year-old girl went missing Tuesday night near Kumla in central Sweden after being forced from a train because she was unable to show her ticket.
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National: 28 Jul 11
A thief who broke into a convenience store in central Sweden during Tuesday night was later forced to smash his way back out after evading a police unit.
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National: 27 Jun 11
A 24-year-old Chinese exchange student has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for the murder of a Chinese woman who was also studying at Örebro University in central Sweden.
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Education: 22 Jun 11
A 13-year-old girl with a pierced nose has been told she's not welcome at a Swedish school, prompting her mother to file a complaint with the country's education authorities.
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National: 17 Jun 11
New threats to Sweden have resulted in security service Säpo deciding to maintain the country's terror alert level at "elevated", the agency's head said in an interview on Thursday.
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National: 17 Feb 11
An English-language online publication with links to the al-Qaeda terrorist network has paid tribute to the suicide bomber who attacked in Stockholm in December while calling for new acts of terrorism in Sweden.
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Society: 15 Feb 11
A train and an elk were both stopped dead in their tracks when they collided with one another along a rail line in central Sweden on Monday night.
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Society: 28 Jan 11
The CEO of a taxi firm in Örebro in central Sweden has been criticised for his lewd choice of Christmas greeting sent out to staff.
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National: 12 Jan 11
A surveillance camera has recorded a Örebro University professor stepping into a black Cadillac owned by her colleague, now in detention as a suspect in her murder, the same day she was reported missing, a local newspaper reported on Wednesday.
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National: 11 Jan 11
A 51-year-old man is now in custody on suspicion of murdering a Örebro University professor and colleague whose body parts were positively identified on Tuesday afternoon.
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National: 4 Jan 11
Swedish prosecutors have requested a 50-year-old academic from Örebro University in central Sweden be remanded in custody on suspicions he was involved in the disappearance of a female colleague.
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Politics: 30 Dec 10
After the arrests of five people on suspicion of planning a "Mumbai-style" attack on the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten, the Swedish papers on Thursday argued that threats to the open society can not be met by draconian measures.
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Society: 14 Dec 10
Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who was named in a threat message sent prior to Saturday’s suicide bombing in Stockholm, said on Monday the attack was an attempt to destroy freedom of expression.
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National: 24 Nov 10
A Swedish member of a Somali militia group with ties to al-Qaeda has called upon Muslims to kill Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who once depicted the Prophet Mohammed as a dog.
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National: 19 Nov 10
A doctor at Örebro University Hospital in central Sweden was attacked and kicked recently by the relatives of a critical ill woman who had just given birth, because they objected to him being male.
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Society: 16 Oct 10
A 40-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of assault after a stage guard had part of his ear bitten off during a concert by US hard-rock legends W.A.S.P. in Örebro, Sweden on Friday.
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Society: 14 Oct 10
A grandfather who agreed to pick up his grandchild from a daycare in Örebro in central Sweden on Monday took the wrong child.
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National: 28 Sep 10
Lars Vilks, the Swedish artist who courted controversy by depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a dog, will finish his lecture at Uppsala University, where he was attacked in May.
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National: 6 Sep 10
Two brothers sentenced to prison for firebombing the home of Swedish artist Lars Vilks in mid-May will appear in court on Monday to appeal the ruling.
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National: 1 Aug 10
A wedding ceremony had to be cancelled on Saturday after the 33-year-old would-be groom threatened to kill his wife-to-be on the eve of their big day.
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National: 19 Jul 10
The two brothers who last week were sentenced for firebombing the home of artist Lars Vilks will appeal the sentence, the younger brother's lawyer announced on Monday.
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National: 15 Jul 10
The two brothers accused of fire-bombing the home of Swedish Muhammad cartoonist Lars Vilks, have been imprisoned, with the older brother being served a three year sentence and the younger two years.
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National: 7 Jul 10
The trial of two brothers accused of fire-bombing the home of Swedish Muhammad cartoonist Lars Vilks opened on Tuesday with one of them describing the artist as "Islams's greatest enemy".
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National: 17 Jun 10
A teenager was convicted by a Swedish court on Thursday for assaulting a police officer during an attack on Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, who courted controversy with a drawing of the Prophet Muhammed.
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National: 26 May 10
Uppsala University has invited artist Lars Vilks to speak again after his lecture on May 11th was interrupted when he was attacked.
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National: 18 May 10
Two brothers suspected of targeting controversial Swedish artist Lars Vilks' home in Nyhamnsläge in southern Sweden have been remanded into custody for attempted arson.
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National: 16 May 10
Two men, aged 19 and 21, have been arrested in connection with an arson attack at the home in southern Sweden of artist Lars Vilks.
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National: 11 May 10
Muhammad cartoon artist Lars Vilks has emerged unharmed after being attacked while giving a lecture at Uppsala University.
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National: 7 May 10
A 24-year-old man has been arrested in connection with threatened massacre which forced the evacuation of Tullängsskolan in Örebro in southern Sweden has been evacuated in Friday morning.
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National: 26 Mar 10
A Swedish flag was set alight outside the country's embassy in Malaysia on Friday as protesters gathered to demand action be taken against cartoonist Lars Vilks over his caricatures of the Muslim prophet Muhammad.
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National: 19 Mar 10
Swedish artist Lars Vilks has confirmed that he has sold around 20 copies of his cartoon depicting the Muslim prophet Muhammad as a dog. A colleague has now created a similar piece with Vilks himself as the dog's head.
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National: 18 Mar 10
Colleen LaRose aka 'JihadJane', and the two men held in Ireland in connection with the alleged plot to kill Swedish artist Lars Vilks, are set to face court on Friday.
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National: 16 Mar 10
Two men arrested in Ireland last week in connection with a plot to murder Swedish artist Lars Vilks were remanded into custody on Monday. Five of the seven arrested last Monday have now been released.
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National: 13 Mar 10
Police in Ireland have released three of the seven people arrested earlier this week on suspicion of plotting to kill Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks. US media reports a second American Muslim woman has been arrested in the case.
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National: 12 Mar 10
A Swedish woman from Örebro in eastern Sweden was shot and killed in Kabul in January. The woman was visiting relatives in the Afghan capital.
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National: 11 Mar 10
The seven people arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of a suspected plot to assassinate Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks have had their periods of detention extended by an Irish court for another three days of questioning.
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National: 10 Mar 10
The American woman known as "Jihad Jane", charged by US authorities on Tuesday with conspiring to kill Swedish Muhammad cartoonist Lars Vilks, is reported to have paid a visit to Sweden in August.
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National: 10 Mar 10
Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks said he was undaunted by revelations of a plot on his life after seven people were arrested in Ireland on Tuesday.
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National: 10 Mar 10
A house in Hällefors in eastern Sweden burned to the ground on Sunday after fire fighters, satisfied that they had successfully extinguished a fire, left the still intact building.
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National: 9 Mar 10
Seven Muslims were arrested by Irish police on Tuesday on suspicions of conspiracy to murder a Swedish cartoonist who drew the prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog.
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National: 21 Jan 10
A 38-year-old man has been jailed for four years for his part in running a smuggling ring specialized in spiriting Indians through Sweden to other countries in Europe.
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Society: 20 Jan 10
A 20-year-old Swedish man has been acquitted of smuggling charges after convincing a court that the 1,600 litres of beer and 30 litres of spirits found by customs officials were simply a few of the items on his birthday party beverage list.
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Society: 18 Jan 10
A workplace spat at a McDonald’s in central Sweden spilled over onto the internet last week, prompting an angry reaction from union representatives after the details of a worker’s sacking were detailed on Facebook.
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Sport: 18 Nov 09
A Swedish ice hockey player who was sentenced to two months in prison after fighting with an opposing player has had his conviction upheld upon appeal, but will not have to spend time behind bars.
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Politics: 3 Nov 09
A once moderate Muslim spokesperson who last year came out as an Islamist radical has announced plans to start a political party uniting all of Sweden’s anti-Zionists.
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Science & Technology: 3 Nov 09
Liberal Party politician Jan-Erik Brohede has died of a swine flu-related illness at the age of 48.
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Society: 29 Oct 09
A number of major Swedish websites were rendered inaccessible on Thursday in what is believed to be a malicious distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.
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National: 5 Aug 09
The Örebro district court has sentenced a 28-year-old man to six-and-a-half years in prison for raping four women.
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Society: 17 Jul 09
A 35-year-old man who had been seen masturbating near the entrance of a Willy’s grocery store on more than one occasion was arrested on Friday by police in Örebro.
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National: 18 Apr 09
The Swedish press weighs in on prosecutorial victory yesterday in the Pirate Bay case. Although the guilty verdict was not surprising, they write, the harsh sentencing was.
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Society: 23 Nov 08
Swedish artist Lars Vilks is at the centre of a new controversy as his new musical Dogs premiered in Stockholm on Saturday.
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Society: 30 Oct 08
A Swedish woman stopped by police for driving while intoxicated did her best to get officers to turn a blind eye toward her offence.
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Society: 11 Oct 08
Ismail Abdullah, a hard-working pizza chef from near Örebro, has won his case against the tax authorities who could not believe that he had worked alone all year and taxed him accordingly.
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National: 3 Oct 08
The remains of a Viking-era stave church, including the skeletal remains of a woman, have been uncovered near the cemetery of the Lännäs church in Odensbacken outside Örebro in central Sweden.
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National: 26 Sep 08
A 94-year-old man from Lindesberg in central Sweden died after caregivers failed to discover his set of false teeth had been lodged in his throat for several days.
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Society: 12 Sep 08
Six grave sites dated from late in the Viking era have been uncovered in Lännäs outside of Örebro in central Sweden.
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Society: 2 Aug 08
The 60,000 Swedes currently on sick leave are to lose their benefits rights by the year 2010.
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Politics: 1 Aug 08
The municipal council Örebro in central Sweden has announced that new routines will allow private e-mails to written to council staff can be read by anyone at the office. The new routines - in force from September 1st - are intended to improve efficiency.
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National: 19 May 08
Police in Örebro are investigating a woman’s claims of being held imprisoned for several years during which time she was sold as a sex slave.
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National: 3 May 08
Journalists in Sweden are being increasingly subjected to threats and violence. Almost two in three editorial offices have been threatened, according to a new report.
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National: 13 Feb 08
A map of the home of the Swedish artist at the center of a Muhammad cartoon controversy was seized in a terrorism investigation.
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National: 10 Feb 08
An Oslo gallery has banned Swedish artist Lars Vilks from exhibiting caricatures of the Muslim prophet Muhammad.
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Society: 5 Feb 08
The Swedish Food Workers' Union has blockaded two Örebro bakeries. The traditional Shrove Tuesday buns are now under threat.
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National: 15 Jan 08
Forensic experts have salvaged video footage from Örebro that was initially thought to be unusable.
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Politics: 20 Sep 07
A cartoon depicting Prophet Muhammad as a dog, published in a local Swedish newspaper in August, did not constitute incitement to racial hatred, Sweden's justice chancellor ruled on Thursday.
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Society: 18 Sep 07
The World Association of Newspapers has expressed its support for the Swedish publishing community following death threats made at the weekend against artist Lars Vilks and newspaper editor Ulf Johansson.
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Politics: 18 Sep 07
Algeria's ambassador to Sweden on Monday condemned death threats from al-Qaeda in Iraq against a Swedish artist who drew a cartoon of Prophet Muhammad and a newspaper editor who published it.
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National: 16 Sep 07
The Swedish media and Prime Minister rallied Sunday behind a cartoonist whose depiction of the Islamic prophet as a dog earned him death threats from Al-Qaeda in Iraq, as Swedish companies braced for a backlash.
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National: 15 Sep 07
The purported leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq has called for the murder of artist Lars Vilks and newspaper editor Ulf Johansson. The organization also threatened to target "Ericsson, Scania, Volvo, IKEA and Electrolux" unless an apology is forthcoming.
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National: 12 Sep 07
Sweden has denied claims by the Organization of the Islamic Conference that a diplomat apologized for the controversy over the publication in Sweden of a cartoon depicting the Muslim Prophet Muhammad as a dog.
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National: 7 Sep 07
A large group of protesters gathered outside the offices of a second Swedish newspaper on Friday evening protesting at the publication in August of a cartoon depicting the Muslim prophet Muhammad.
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Politics: 7 Sep 07
Sweden's prime minister met on Friday with ambassadors from 22 Muslim countries for talks surrounding the publication in a Swedish newspaper of a caricature of the Muslim prophet Muhammad.
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Society: 7 Sep 07
A 'roundabout dog' sculpture created by the artist at the centre of the Muhammad cartoon controversy was set on fire on Thursday night.
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Society: 6 Sep 07
Ambassadors from Muslim countries have indicated that they intend to present the Swedish prime minister with a list of demands when they meet on Friday.
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Society: 5 Sep 07
Artist Lars Vilks has spoken out about the controversy surrounding the publication of his picture of Muhammad as a dog in a local newspaper.
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Society: 5 Sep 07
Swedish Muslims said Wednesday they had called off a demonstration planned for Friday against a newspaper cartoon depicting Prophet Muhammad as a dog following talks with the prime minister.
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Politics: 4 Sep 07
Sweden's prime minister said on Tuesday he was sorry if Muslims were offended by a cartoon depicting Prophet Muhammad as a dog but he also stressed that freedom of expression was an "inalienable" right in Sweden.
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Politics: 4 Sep 07
As Swedish civil servants warn of a growing security threat, Integration Minister Nyamko Sabuni accentuates the positives in the ongoing Muhammad cartoon controversy.
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Society: 4 Sep 07
Egypt's lawmakers on Tuesday condemned the publication by a Swedish newspaper of a cartoon of Islam's prophet Muhammad as a dog saying such "odious" acts fanned religious hatred.
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National: 4 Sep 07
Hundreds of copies of Nerikes Allehanda newspaper were burned in Örebro during the night. The newspaper is at the centre of the ongoing Muhammad caricature row.
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Society: 3 Sep 07
Jordan condemned on Monday the publication in Sweden of a cartoon of Islam's prophet, warning it could undermine inter-faith dialogue and co-existence. The Managing Editor of the Jordan Times tells The Local that many Jordanians are angry about the cartoon.
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Society: 2 Sep 07
Egypt and a Saudi-based Muslim organization have joined the condemnation of the publication in Sweden of a cartoon of Islam's prophet.
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National: 2 Sep 07
The cartoonist behind a caricature of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad has said he has no intention of apologizing. Meanwhile, Afghanistan has joined Pakistan and Iran in condemning the publication.
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National: 31 Aug 07
Around 300 demonstrators - led by the Islamic Cultural Centre in Örebro - assembled outside the offices of Nerikes Allehanda on Friday afternoon to protest against the newspaper's publication of a caricature of the Muslim prophet Muhammad.
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National: 31 Aug 07
The artist behind the controversial caricature of the Muslim prophet Muhammad published in Nerikes Allehanda, Lars Vilks, claims to have begun receiving death threats.
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National: 30 Aug 07
Pakistan has condemned the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in newspaper Nerikes Allehanda. A Swedish diplomat says he is "sorry if the publication hurt Muslim feelings."
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Society: 28 Aug 07
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that "Zionists" were behind a cartoon in a Swedish newspaper depicting the head of the Prophet Mohammed on a dog's body.
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Society: 28 Aug 07
Leading figures in Sweden's media industry have backed newspaper Nerikes Allehanda, which has been criticised by Iran for publishing a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a dog. The paper itself has meanwhile defended its decision to publish.
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Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
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