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SWEDEN News:
20090128
Sweden
-  Military
-  Switzerland
-  Politics
-  US
-  Media
-  Entertainment
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 "Alba
schools Fox’s O’Reilly in WW II history." ... "Jessica
Alba is setting the record straight: Sweden was neutral during World War
II." ... "Alba and Fox TV show host Bill O’Reilly traded punches last week
after the presidential inauguration. After Alba told a Fox reporter that
O’Reilly was “kind of an a-hole;” he retaliated by calling her a “pinhead”
for telling a reporter to “be Sweden about it,” assuming she meant Switzerland."
... "“I want to clear some things up that have been bothering me lately,”
Alba blogged on MySpace Celebrity. “Last week, Mr. Bill O'Reilly and some
really classy sites (i.e.TMZ) insinuated I was dumb by claiming Sweden
was a neutral country. I appreciate the fact that he is a news anchor and
that gossip sites are inundated with intelligent reporting, but seriously
people... it's so sad to me that you think the only neutral country during
WWII was Switzerland.”" ... "Although Switzerland is more frequently cited
as an example of neutrality, Sweden did indeed follow a policy of neutrality
during World War II. History point to Alba." -By Courtney
Hazlett -MSNBC
20060607
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US
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 EU
-  Intelligence
-  Terrorism
-  Law
Enforcement -  Prisons
- Transport
- Human
Rights - Politics
-  Britain
-  Germany
-  Italy
- Sweden
-  Turkey
-  Spain
-  Romania
-  Poland
- "Probe
of CIA Prisons Implicates EU Nations." ... "Fourteen
European nations colluded with U.S. intelligence in a "spider's web" of
human rights abuses to help the CIA spirit terror suspects to illegal detention
facilities, a European investigator said Wednesday." ... "Swiss senator
Dick Marty's report to Europe's top human rights body was thin on evidence
but raises the possibility of a cover-up involving both friends and critics
of Washington's war on terror. It says European governments "did not seem
particularly eager to establish" the facts." ... "He listed 14 European
countries - Britain, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Bosnia, Macedonia, Turkey,
Spain, Cyprus, Ireland, Greece, Portugal, Romania and Poland - as being
complicit in "unlawful interstate transfers" of people." -By
Jan Sliva -AP
via -Forbes
20051212
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 Woman
-  Food
- Nutrition
- Sweden
- "Study:
Tea may help fight ovarian cancer." ... "Swedish
researchers have found tantalizing but far-from-conclusive evidence that
drinking a couple of cups of tea every day might help reduce the risk of
developing ovarian cancer." ... "Those [women in the study] who reported
drinking two or more cups of tea a day were 46 percent less likely to develop
the disease than women who drank no tea. Drinking less than two cups also
appeared to help, but not as much." -By Lindsey Tanner
-AP via -MercuryNews
20050929
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US
- Sweden
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 Canada
-  Japan
- Germany
-  Auto
- "Ford
to Cut Half of Suppliers to Improve Technology (Update4)."
... "Ford Motor Co. will cut half of its suppliers and sign long-term contracts
with the rest to reduce costs and improve technology as the world's third-largest
carmaker struggles to reverse declining profit and shrinking sales." ...
"Ford will announce agreements today with Sweden's Autoliv Inc., Delphi
Corp., Johnson Controls Inc., Lear Corp., Canada's Magna International
Inc., Visteon Corp. and Japan's Yazaki Corp., said Gabriele Gutscher, a
spokeswoman for Ford in Cologne, Germany." -By Alan
Katz -Bloomberg
20050907
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- Hurricane
Katrina - Disaster
- "Offers
of Aid Immediate, but U.S. Acceptance Delayed for Days."
... "Offers of foreign aid worth tens of millions of dollars -- including
a Swedish water purification system, a German cellular telephone network
and two Canadian rescue ships -- have been delayed for days awaiting review
by backlogged federal agencies, according to European diplomats and information
collected by the State Department." ... "Since Hurricane Katrina, more
than 90 countries and international organizations offered to assist in
recovery efforts for the flood-stricken region, but nearly all endeavors
remained mired yesterday in bureaucratic entanglements, in most cases,
at the Federal Emergency Management Agency." -By Elizabeth
Williamson-WashingtonPost
20031023
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- "Patients
given artificial blood: Doctors have for the
first time successfully used artificial blood to treat patients." ... "The
product is a powder which can be stored for years, say scientists at Stockholm's
Karolinska Hospital." ... "It is made from donated supplies of real blood,
which normally has a shelf-life of just 42 days." ... "The powder can then
be mixed into liquid form when needed, and used immediately regardless
of the patient's blood type."-BBC/News
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