The following articles have been tagged with "Sarajevo":
National: 15 Jun 12
A 55-year-old resident of central Sweden was gunned down outside his rental property in Sarajevo late on Wednesday night after what police believe to be a botched burglary attempt.
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Politics: 8 Apr 12
Sweden's foreign minister Carl Bildt fumed on Saturday over what he described as the 'lies' spread by a French journalist who criticized his involvement in a war memorial ceremony in Sarajevo.
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Politics: 7 Apr 12
Sweden's foreign minister Carl Bildt got a frosty reception from a pair of foreign journalists in Sarajevo as he attended a commemoration ceremony to mark the outbreak of the Bosnian war 20 years ago.
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Science & Technology: 27 Sep 11
The air quality in Stockholm is worse than in Los Angeles, according to a recent study from the World Health Organization (WHO).
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Politics: 26 May 11
Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt on Thursday hailed the arrest of Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic, calling it the closing of a "dark chapter in European history".
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Politics: 2 Jun 10
Sweden has joined forces with Italy to call on the EU to demonstrate that the "door is open" to Balkan country membership of the union as the enthusiasm of some members starts to cool.
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Lifestyle: 21 May 10
A new museum on Stockholm's waterfront has created a buzz in the art world. Claire Hardman found Annie Leibovitz, the world's most revered photographer, was among those won over.
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Sport: 18 Feb 10
Sweden opened their Olympic hockey title defence with a 2-0 victory over Germany on Wednesday with goals from Mattius Öhlund and Henrik Lundqvist.
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National: 27 Oct 09
Ex-Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic left Sweden on Tuesday after being granted early release from a Swedish prison by the UN war crimes court, prison officials said.
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Politics: 18 Aug 09
Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic asserted on Monday that Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has submitted information backing his claims of an immunity deal.
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Politics: 15 Jul 09
Sweden’s foreign minister and former Balkans peace envoy Carl Bildt is set to meet the lawyer of Bosnian war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic next week in Brussels, the lawyer said Tuesday.
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National: 4 Jul 09
A 21-year-old Swedish man who was convicted of terror-related crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina has been transferred to a Swedish prison.
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Politics: 3 Jul 09
Foreign minister Carl Bildt has agreed to meet the lawyer representing former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to discuss the possibility of testifying at the accused war criminal’s trial.
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Politics: 3 Jun 09
Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt said he has no information to help prove Radovan Karadzic had cut a deal with Western diplomats to guarantee the Bosnian Serb leader’s immunity.
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Analysis & Opinion: 25 May 09
With a five-year-old son who's allergic to peanuts, EU election candidate Anna Maria Corazza-Bildt says her platform has sprung from personal experiences at an unlikely place: the grocery store.
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Politics: 5 May 09
Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic is pressing Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt for information the suspected war criminal says will help prove he’d been promised immunity by the United States.
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Politics: 8 Apr 09
Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has said Bosnia has a long way to go before joining the European Union.
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Society: 26 Jan 09
Convicted war criminal and former Bosnian leader Biljana Plavsic has retracted a confession made to the Hague war crimes tribunal in 2001. “I sacrificed myself. I have done nothing wrong,” she told Swedish magazine Vi.
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Politics: 9 Sep 08
Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt praised Belgrade's efforts to track down war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic during a visit to Stockholm on Tuesday of his Serbian counterpart Vuk Jeremic.
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National: 18 Jun 07
A 21-year-old Swede convicted of terror offences in Bosnia has had his sentence reduced substantially by a Sarajevo court. Mirsad Bektasevic's jail term was cut to eight years from the original 15.
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National: 11 Jan 07
The 19-year-old Swede convicted at a Sarajevo court on terror-related charges has said that he will appeal his sentence.
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National: 10 Jan 07
A Swede has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for by a court in Sarajevo after being convicted of planning terror attacks on European countries.
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National: 18 Dec 06
Swede Jackie Arklöv has been convicted of crimes against international law perpetrated in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1993. Arklöv was a mercenary for a Croatian militia during the conflict in the Balkans.
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National: 4 Nov 06
Seven years ago Jackie Arklöv shot two policemen dead. On Friday he will appear in court accused of Balkan war crimes. Now he is lecturing to police students who visit him in prison.
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National: 25 Sep 06
One of two masked men on a videotape threatening to carry out terror attacks in Europe was apparently the 19 year old Swede currently being held in Bosnia.
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National: 14 Jul 06
Jackie Arklöv, currently serving a life sentence for murdering two policemen in Malexander in 1999, was charged on Friday with crimes against international law in Bosnia.
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National: 26 Jun 06
The trial of Swede Mirsad Bektasevic began on Monday in Sarajevo. The 19-year old is said to have had a bomb belt, a gun and a detonator in his apartment in Bosnia.
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National: 30 May 06
British police raided an apartment in Gothenburg belonging to a Swedish Muslim who has congratulated suicide bombers. Swedish security services were also involved in the raid.
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National: 3 May 06
A 19-year old from Sweden has appeared in a Bosnian court to deny charges that he planned a terror attack in another European country.
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National: 19 Apr 06
A young Swedish man being held in Sarajevo on suspicion of terrorism was planning an attack on an EU military base in Bosnia, claim police in the country.
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Sport: 24 Feb 06
Anja Pärson threw away a great chance for another gold medal in the women's giant slalom on Friday - but fellow Swede Anna Ottosson claimed her first major podium place, storming home for a bronze medal.
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National: 21 Nov 05
A prosecutor from Sweden is travelling to Bosnia to question an 18-year old Swedish citizen arrested there suspected of planning a terrorist attack. The suspect claims he had collected explosives and guns "out of curiosity".
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National: 18 Nov 05
The Swedish teenager being held in Sarajevo on suspicion of terrorist offences visited the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, according to the British newspaper The Times.
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National: 12 Nov 05
An 18-year old Swede arrested in Bosnia suspected of involvement in terrorism may have had accomplices in Sweden, police say. Someone may have had influence over him, says a prosecutor.
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National: 10 Nov 05
A Swedish teenager being held in Sarajevo was part of a gang that planned to blow up the White House, Bosnian media are reporting. He has been identified as a radical Islamist known as Maximus, they say.
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National: 4 Nov 05
A Bosnian court has opened an investigation into a Swede and a Turk arrested in Sarajevo last month on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack. Over the past week, police in Denmark have arrested seven men in connection with the two men.
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National: 28 Oct 05
Police in Sarajevo say the Swede held on terror charges was to be a suicide bomber. On Thursday four men suspected of helping him were arrested by Danish police, who say that the target was "somewhere in Europe".
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National: 21 Oct 05
A Swede has been arrested in Bosnia along with two others suspected preparing a terrorist attack. Newspapers say one of the men had planned a suicide attack against "an embassy of an EU country".
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