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...Olof Svensson took a break from the 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...
...Omen For Blair U.K. Tony Blair's Labour Party lost one of its safest seats to the Liberal Democrats in a parliamentary by-election in the London suburb of Brent East. The 29% swing against Labour was the largest for almost a decade. The vote came amid the inquiry into the suicide of weapons expert David Kelly and mounting frustration over Blair's policy on Iraq. The opposition Conservative party came in a poor third...
...didn't look like locals. They wore long, dark beards, for one thing and, though it was past midnight, didn't know where they were going. They first told the driver to take them into the city, then changed their minds and asked to be driven to a secluded suburb. Then they pulled guns on the driver and forced him out. "Do not look back," one of the strangers said, before speeding off. In any other part of the world, the crime might be deemed the work of low-level thugs, but in Iraq even minor incidents can take...
...then about 80 bodies had been counted. With more than 150 injured, the main hospital in Najaf was straining to cope with the load. "This is a catastrophe for Iraqis," said Hassan al-Naji al-Moussawi, imam of the Mohsen Mosque in Sadr City, Baghdad's Shi'ite-dominated suburb, once known as Saddam City. "And for it to happen at the walls of the Imam Ali shrine, it's as if somebody has reached into the body of Iraq and cut off an organ...
...group dedicated to avenging last year's massacres of Muslims by Hindu mobs in the western state of Gujarat. In addition to the most recent blasts, police say the Hanifs and Ansari have also been charged with?and confessed to?planting a bomb on a bus in the Bombay suburb of Ghatkopar on July 28, which killed three and injured 42, and to planting another bus bomb that failed to explode in December 2002. "They show no remorse at all," says Maria...