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Instagrams of the Rich and Egocentric Drakes Anchorman Outfit Karl Lagerfelds Lego Twin and Miley Cyruss Explicit Aerobics Wear
Each weekend, we review the most delightful dispatches from celebrity Instagram feeds, curating them here for you. In today's edition: Drake hangs with Judd Apatow on the set of Anchorman 2, Karl Lagerfeld is Lego-fied, and Miley Cyrus goes to ...
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Miller Park Lego model on display at Louisville Slugger Museum
Tim Kaebisch, the former Milwaukee School of Engineering architectural engineer who spent seven years building a Lego model of Miller Park, is getting his moment of fame again. The Miller Park Lego model is now on display at the Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory in Louisville, Ky., as part of a new exhibit called "Big Leagues, Little Bricks." Here is a video of some of the ...
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Music fans can rock out at Swedish Days festival
Geneva Chamber of Commerce's 64th annual Swedish Days Festival runs from June 18-23 in downtown Geneva and has an array of talent that offers something for every type of music fan at three different venues. "We've brought back some favorites and invited some special newcomers to continue our tradition of quality entertainers for all types of music lovers," noted Jean Gaines, ...
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Rioters in Sweden protest alleged brutality racism after police shoot elderly man
Violence Rioters took to the streets of a Stockholm neighborhood on Sunday, torching cars and throwing stones at police. Officers reportedly called residents "monkeys" and other derogatory terms as they protested against a recent police shooting. Between 60 to 100 people - most of them young men - took part in the riots which began around 10pm local time in the Stockholm district of ...
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About 100 cars burned in riots sparked by police shooting in Sweden
About 100 vehicles were set ablaze in a riot in a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden, in what a group claims was a reaction to the police shooting of an elderly man. A car set on fire in a nearby garage caused about 50 people to be evacuated from their apartment building, the Swedish news agency TT reported Monday. Police said they were met by about 50 to 60 youths throwing stones when they responded ...
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Assange reveals British intels messages discussing Swedish extradition plans
London, May 20 : British government's intercept intelligence agency GCHQ is facing embarrassing revelations about internal correspondence in which Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been ...
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Pirate Bay co-founder on trial in Sweden
A SWEDISH co-founder of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has gone on trial, charged with hacking and stealing data from an IT services company with ties to the Swedish tax authority and other government agencies. Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and a 36-year-old man from central Sweden denied the charges of stealing data from Logica, a company that handled classified personal records for the ...
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Some Swedish youth riot over police shooting death
STOCKHOLM Gangs of youth angered by the police shooting death of an elderly man hurled rocks at police and set cars and buildings on fire in a Stockholm suburb early Monday, forcing the evacuation of an apartment block. Around 50 youths were involved in the riots in the suburb of Husby, west of Stockholm, police spokesman Lars Bystrom said. The youths set light to a parking garage, compelling ...
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Swedish extradition request for Assange ‘a fit-up’ - UK intel chatter
WikiLeaks WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange cited unclassified messages exchanged inside a UK intelligence agency to back his refusal to be extradited to Sweden. One of the messages calls sex-related allegations against Assange "a fit-up". The Australian, who has been stranded at Ecuadorian embassy in London for almost 12 months, cited instant messages he received from Government ...
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Denmark's Russian relationship
Danish relations with Russia have existed for several centuries, with the first recorded diplomatic relations dating from 1493, when King Hans and Ivan III signed a treaty aimed at planning an offensive against Sweden and Lithuania. Since then the relations between the two countries have grown closer, frayed, become tense, reconciled and stagnated at different points throughout the history of their respective political development.
Denmark and Russia have always been economically and politically important to one another though. Denmark, since the end of the Cold War, has acted as a bridge between the east and west, and during much of the tumultuous politics of the post-war and Cold War period, remained largely neutral in many affairs concerning Russia. In 1939 the country refused to support measures to expel Russia from the then-League of Nations, and resisted attempts by Nordic countries to set up a defense alliance for the region. Read more
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