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Swedish team impressed by its only away supporter

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, April 29, 2013 - 2:34pm

STOCKHOLM — Standing strong alone has paid off for the one supporter cheering on Swedish football team Brommapojkarna in an away match against Mjallby.

Dressed in the team’s red-and-black shirt, 57-year-old Anders Ung was the only person in the section for visiting fans as Brommapojkarna lost the match 4-2 on Sunday.

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Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia.

Tough year for the Swedish royal family

LOUISE NORDSTROM The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, December 29, 2011 - 11:31am

STOCKHOLM -- A book that accused Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf of visiting strip clubs and media reports claiming the queen was on the verge of a nervous breakdown made 2011 a very tough year, the royal family said in a documentary being shown on national television Thursday.

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The Roda Sten art exhibition, center foreground, in Goteborg, Sweden, with the Gota Alv river and the oil terminal on the opposite bank seen Sunday Sept. 11, 2011. Swedish police arrested four people on suspicion of preparing a terror attack and evacuated an arts center in Sweden's second largest city on the eve of the 9/11 anniversary, officials said Sunday. The four were arrested in the west coast city of Goteborg and were suspected of plotting terrorism. (AP Photo/Adam Ihse / SCANPIX)

Swedish police arrest 4 terror suspects

Malin Rising The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, September 12, 2011 - 9:47am

STOCKHOLM -- Swedish police arrested four people on suspicion of preparing a terror attack and evacuated an arts center in the country's second largest city, security officials said Sunday.

The four were arrested in the west coast city of Goteborg and were suspected of plotting terrorism, security service spokeswoman Sara Kvarnstrom said. She declined to give details on the arrests and wouldn't say whether they were linked to the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

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Stockholm bomber seen as radical by UK Muslims

Jim Lawless, Marlin Rising, The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, December 13, 2010 - 1:19pm

LONDON -- At his local mosque in England, Taimour Abdulwahab alarmed elders with his extreme views on Islam. On the Internet, he posted videos of Chechen fighters and abused Iraqi prisoners.

On Saturday, officials say, he died in a botched suicide bombing in Stockholm.

Authorities are now trying to learn when he was radicalized, whether he had accomplices -- and how a man whose radical views were displayed both online and in person escaped official notice.

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