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Counterfeit coins call Sweden’s Carl XVI Gustaf a ‘whore king’
Counterfeit Swedish coins bearing a reference to “whore king” Carl XVI Gustaf have been found in circulation, media reports said Thursday. The coins appear to make fun of the monarch over his rumoured infidelities, detailed in an unauthorised biography published in 2010 and which he never denied outright. At least…
Top court rules Assange can be extradited to Sweden
The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden, but his extradition was put on hold to give his lawyers a chance to re-open the case. Britain’s highest court rejected the argument from Assange’s lawyers that the Swedish prosecutor who issued the arrest warrant over sex crime allegations was not entitled…
‘Pirate’ religion of Kopimism arrives in the U.S.
Sweden’s Missionary Church of Kopimism, which was founded in the fall of 2010 and granted official recognition by the Swedish government this past January, has already established branches in eighteen countries, including the United States. Now the upstart religion is beginning to attract mainstream attention. Kopimism is currently featured in…
Nazi mine washes up in Sweden
Military bomb experts in Sweden successfully disarmed a Nazi-era mine Tuesday morning after it washed up near one of the country’s beaches. According to Sweden’s The Local, the World War II weapon was discovered over the weekend near the town of Lorudden. Bomb experts initially thought the mine would contain…
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