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...demanded the government arrest his killers. If it doesn't, warned the MIP's Abdul Ghafoor Nadeem at a Karachi rally: "We know how to take revenge." Building a Case SWEDEN A Stockholm court ruled that the main suspect in the murder of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh could be held for two more weeks. Police said DNA tests conducted in the U.K. on the knife used to kill Lindh "strengthened their case" against Mijailo Mijailovic. First detained two weeks after the Sept. 10 killing, Mijailovic denies involvement in the attack. Big Blow to ETA FRANCE AND SPAIN Police arrested...
...resignations over the misuse of funds by Eurostat, the E.U.'s statistical office. But his defiant stand did little to convince doubters of the Commission's ability to account cleanly for its €94 billion annual budget. Try Again SWEDEN Police investigating the stabbing murder of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh released suspect Per Olof Svensson and cleared him of involvement in the attack. A new suspect, Mijailo Mijailovic, was taken into custody. Mijailovic was convicted in 1997 for repeatedly stabbing his father, who survived. Nuclear Fallout IRAN U.N. nuclear experts discovered traces of weapons-grade uranium at a site west...
DIED. ANNA LINDH, 46, popular, energetic Foreign Minister of Sweden and a potential future Prime Minister; after hours of surgery to repair wounds suffered when an unidentified man stabbed the mother of two as she was shopping in a department store; in Stockholm. The motivation for the assault is unknown, but it occurred days before a referendum on whether to adopt the euro, an expensive, controversial proposal Lindh had publicly championed...
Some allegiances matter more than others, and Sweden proved the point. No one in that country, grieving over the senseless murder of the pro-euro Foreign Minister, Anna Lindh (see box), considered it a blot on her memory that 56% of those voting wanted to keep the krona. Indeed, it was largely in her honor that 82.6% of the electorate turned out to vote - they paid their respects by participating, not by agreeing with her. Their anti-euro sentiment is shared by many in the U.K. Two key factors drive that opposition, and prevent Tony Blair from calling a referendum...
...soccer match on TV and stepped outside the pub to catch a breath of fresh air. That's when plainclothes police nabbed him in a Stockholm suburb last Tuesday night. Police say Svensson, although not formally charged, is a suspect in the Sept. 10 stabbing death of Anna Lindh, Sweden's popular Foreign Minister, in the upscale NK department store in central Stockholm. Swedish newspapers said Svensson, 35, was a high school dropout and had been convicted of more than 40 past crimes, including gross fraud, violence, physical abuse, theft and threats with a knife. Police used closed-circuit television...