Four jailed in Denmark for Mumbai-style terror plot
June 4th, 2012 - 9:20 pm ICT by IANS
Copenhagen, June 4 (IANS) Four men were Monday sent to jail by a court in Denmark after they were found guilty of plotting a Mumbai-style terror attack on a Copenhagen-based ... Read more...
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BJP seeks structured debate on Bofors
April 26th, 2012 - 8:14 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) Even as both houses of parliament were disrupted over Bofors scam Thursday, they are expected to see peaceful proceedings Friday as the main opposition ... Read more...
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Bofors truth revealed repeatedly: Congress
April 26th, 2012 - 7:43 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) Asserting that truth had come out repeatedly and courts had given their verdicts, the Congress Thursday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of ... Read more...
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Bofors storm rocks parliament, fresh probe demanded (Second Lead)
April 26th, 2012 - 3:52 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) Almost a quarter century after it surfaced, the Bofors payoff scandal created a storm again Tuesday disrupting parliament, as the opposition vociferously demanded a ... Read more...
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MPs seek government explanation in Bofors issue (Lead)
April 26th, 2012 - 2:36 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) There was uproar in both houses of parliament with the BJP and other opposition parties demanding an explanation from the government on former Swedish police ... Read more...
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Rajya Sabha adjourned over Bofors issue
April 26th, 2012 - 1:27 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) The Rajya Sabha was adjourned twice Thursday as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) demanded an explanation from the government on former Swedish police chief ... Read more...
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Bofors resurrected, Congress again on mat over Quattrocchi (Intro Roundup)
April 25th, 2012 - 9:33 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) The Bofors ghost returned to haunt the Congress Wednesday with former Swedish police chief Sten Lindstrom giving a clean chit to the late Rajiv ... Read more...
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Lindstrom’s revelations clean chit for Rajiv: Congress
April 25th, 2012 - 8:19 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) The Congress Wednesday said former Swedish police officer Sten Lindstrom's revelations on the Bofors payoff scandal has given a clean chit to former prime ... Read more...
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What Lindstrom said on key players in Bofors scam
April 25th, 2012 - 7:58 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) Former Swedish police chief Sten Lindstrom has spoken out on the Bofors artillery guns payoff scandal, which broke out in 1987. Here, in a ... Read more...
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Bofors resurrected, Congress on mat over Quattrochchi again (Roundup)
April 25th, 2012 - 7:38 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) The Bofors ghost returned to haunt the Congress Wednesday with former Swedish police chief Sten Lindstrom giving a clean chit to the late Rajiv ... Read more...
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Parties should apologise for misleading on Bofors: Congress
April 25th, 2012 - 6:20 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) Political parties who had been misleading the nation on the issue of the Bofors gun deal should apologise, the Congress said Wednesday after former Swedish ... Read more...
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Opposition asks government to explain Bofors disclosures (Lead)
April 25th, 2012 - 6:12 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Left Wednesday asked the government to give an explanation on former Swedish police chief Sten Lindstrom's disclosures ... Read more...
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We’ve been vindicated, say Bachchans after Bofors revelations
April 25th, 2012 - 3:27 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, April 25 (IANS) With former Swedish police chief Sten Lindstrom giving him a clean chit in the Bofors gun payoff scandal, Amitabh Bachchan Wednesday said the accusations had ... Read more...
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BJP, Left want government’s explanation on Bofors revelations
April 25th, 2012 - 2:42 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Left Wednesday demanded an explanation from the government on former Swedish police chief Sten Lindstrom's revelations on ... Read more...
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Assange-hosted TV show to debut in Russia
April 13th, 2012 - 6:25 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, April 13 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A 10-part political discussion hosted by Julian Assange, founder of whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, will be broadcast on the Russia Today television channel starting April 17."The ... Read more...
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Goa’s drug mafia nexus: Swedish model’s statement recorded
March 23rd, 2012 - 7:22 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, March 23 (IANS) After nearly three years of delay, investigating authorities have finally managed to record the statement of Swedish model Lucky Farmhouse, whose video footage uploaded on the ... Read more...
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Wikileaks was warned Oz intelligence provided on Assange to US could lead to ‘dirty tricks’
March 16th, 2011 - 2:57 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar 16 (ANI): An Australian intelligence official is believed to have informed Wikileaks founder Julian Assange that he had become a subject of inquiries by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, last ... Read more...
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Assange’s accusers ’sent texts discussing revenge’
February 9th, 2011 - 12:46 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb 8 (ANI): The women who accused Julian Assange of sexually assaulting them sent text messages to each other, discussing 'revenge' and extracting money from the WikiLeaks founder, a London court ... Read more...
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Sweden deports Iraqi refugees
January 20th, 2011 - 4:02 am ICT by BNO News
STOCKHOLM (BNO NEWS) - Despite criticisms from activists and international organizations, a plane with 26 deported Iraqi refugees landed at Baghdad airport from Stockholm, Swedish police said Wednesday.Police arrested about 70 protesters ... Read more...
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Sweden suicide bomber named his son Osama
December 14th, 2010 - 6:00 pm ICT by IANS
London, Dec 14 (IANS) The Britain-based suicide bomber who blew himself up in a terror attack in Sweden Saturday named his son Osama in honour of the Al Qaeda chief, a media ... Read more...
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Sweden suicide bomber studied in British university
December 13th, 2010 - 4:32 pm ICT by IANS
London, Dec 13 (IANS) The suicide bomber who blew himself up in a terror attack in Sweden Saturday was based in Britain and studied sports therapy at Bedford University, a media ... Read more...
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WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange’s rape case gets murkier
December 9th, 2010 - 11:50 am ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 9 (ANI): Are the sexual assault charges against Julian Assange really true or is he being framed? As more details surface, the case gets murkier by the minute.Assange is currently ... Read more...
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Spurned lover sparks bomb scare on Pakistan plane (Lead)
September 28th, 2010 - 2:34 pm ICT by IANS
London, Sep 28 (IANS) A woman angry about her separation from her boyfriend triggered a bomb scare on a Pakistan International Airlines plane, forcing the aircraft to make an emergency landing in ... Read more...
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Spurned lover triggered bomb threat on Pakistan plane
September 28th, 2010 - 3:16 am ICT by IANS
London, Sep 28 (IANS) A woman angry about separation from her ex-boyfriend triggered a bomb threat on a Pakistan International Airlines plane and forced the aircraft to make an emergency landing in ... Read more...
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Pakistan plane leaves Sweden after no explosives found
September 26th, 2010 - 3:46 am ICT by IANS
Stockholm, Sep 26 (IANS) A Pakistan International Airlines plane left Sweden and a suspect was released after no explosive was found on board the aircraft despite an extensive search following a bomb ... Read more...
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WikiLeaks founder to cooperate with police on molestation allegations
August 27th, 2010 - 6:33 pm ICT by ANI
New York, Aug 27 (ANI): WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said that he will cooperate with the Swedish police on the molestation allegations, but he is still clueless about them.According to Swedish ... Read more...
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Sweden drops rape allegation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
August 22nd, 2010 - 3:34 am ICT by BNO News
STOCKHOLM (BNO NEWS) -- Swedish authorities on Saturday dropped a rape allegation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange just hours after Chief Prosecutor Eva Finné ordered an arrest warrant.Finné "has come to the ... Read more...
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Wikileaks founder Assange wanted on rape charges in Sweden, says charges ‘without basis’
August 21st, 2010 - 7:38 pm ICT by BNO News
STOCKHOLM (BNO NEWS) -- Swedish authorities on Saturday issued an arrest warrant for Julian Assange, the founder of whistle-blowing website Wikileaks.Karin Rosander, the Director of Communication for the Swedish Prosecution ... Read more...
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Wikileaks founder accused of rape
August 21st, 2010 - 7:28 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 21 (IANS) Julian Assange, founder of whistle-blowing website Wikileaks, has been charged with rape and molestation and authorities in Sweden have issued an arrest warrant in this regard.
The warrant was ... Read more...
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Former Swedish police chief sentenced to prison for rapes
July 30th, 2010 - 7:49 pm ICT by IANS
Stockholm, July 30 (DPA) A former Swedish police chief was convicted Friday on several counts of sexual crimes, including rape, and sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison.
Goran Lindberg is guilty of aggravated ... Read more...
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Crown Princess Victoria’s Royal Wedding
June 19th, 2010 - 7:31 pm ICT by GD
By Meena Kar
June 19, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden is set to marry her personal trainer on June 19. In what could be the biggest wedding day celebrations in the ... Read more...
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Crime branch not to probe death threat to Swedish model
May 17th, 2010 - 4:31 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, May 17 (IANS) Citing 'jurisdictional issues', the crime branch Monday said it cannot take any action vis-a-vis alleged death threats by an Israeli drug dealer to a Swedish model who exposed ... Read more...
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Arrests Made In Swiss IBM Bomb Plot
April 27th, 2010 - 1:39 am ICT by Angela Kaye Mason
Apr 26 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The Swedish police have arrested two men and a woman who are suspected of making plans to bomb a research facility which belongs to IBM. The facility, which ... Read more...
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First woman to be appointed as UN police chief
March 9th, 2010 - 2:56 am ICT by BNO News
UNITED NATIONS (BNO NEWS) – United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appointed the first woman in history as the UN police chief on Monday.Ann-Marie Orler, an experienced Swedish police officer, who first ... Read more...
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Former neo-Nazi arrested in connection with Auschwitz sign theft
February 12th, 2010 - 4:33 pm ICT by ANI
Stockholm, Feb. 12 (ANI): A former neo-Nazi has been arrested by Swedish police in connection with the theft of the "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign from Auschwitz concentration camp.Anders Hoegstroem, 35, who ... Read more...
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