Swedish Police Hide Threatened Cartoonist
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STOCKHOLM, Sept. 17 -- A Swedish cartoonist who depicted the prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog said Monday that police have taken him to a secret location and told him he cannot return home because of a death threat from insurgents in Iraq.
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Norwegian police question their first suspect over the theft of Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream.
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Sweden said on Friday it had expelled a foreign diplomat, identified by a newspaper as a Libyan who had spied on his countrymen living in the Nordic state. "I can confirm that a diplomat has been asked to leave the country and that he has left the country," a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
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A gun-wielding cartoonist dressed in camouflage entered The Miami Herald's building and demanded to speak with an editor Friday, prompting an evacuation of employees, police said.
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Danish police said Tuesday they have arrested several people suspected of plotting to kill one of the 12 cartoonists behind the Prophet Muhammad drawings that sparked an uproar in the Muslim world two years ago.
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OSLO, Norway - The brazen daylight theft of Edvard Munch's renowned masterpiece "The Scream" left Norway's police scrambling for clues and stirred a debate across Europe over how to protect art if thieves are willing to use deadly force to take it.    Some expressed fears that works of art are in increasing danger from violent raids - unless, as Norway's deputy culture minister put it, "we lock them in a mountain bunker."   Armed, masked robbers stormed into Oslo's Munch Museum in broad daylight on Sunday, threatening an employee with a gun and terrifying patrons before they made off with a version of Munch's famous painting "The Scream" and another of his masterpieces, "Madonna."   A day after the theft and despite many tips, police said they have no suspects, no trace of the paintings and no theory on a motive...
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OSLO, Norway  - Police questioned a suspect for the first time in the bold robbery of two Edvard Munch masterpieces, but declined to say Thursday how close investigators might be to finding the missing paintings.
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Swedish police on Thursday revised downwards the number of Swedes missing after the December 26 Asian tsunami to 523 from 569 a week ago, indicating that the latest figure could be close to final.
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Swedish graffiti artists kidnapped a fiber-glass cow from the international art exhibit CowParade, held power drills to its head and threatened to "sacrifice" it unless the sculptures were declared "non-art."
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Suspiciously bulgy packages Swedish police have arrested seven people suspected of running an illegal online pharmacy.â¦
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Belgian police arrest a man suspected of threatening to kill a senator who criticised fundamentalist Muslims.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Two Swedish border control officers risk disciplinary action for keeping a photo collection of &quot;exceptionally beautiful&quot; women that passed through their checkpoint, police officials said Tuesday.
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A mock reporter for a TV comedy show who squirted water in the Swedish prime minister's face could face criminal charges, news reports said.
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Rapper Snoop Dogg is held overnight by Swedish police on suspicion of using illegal narcotics.
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It's morning rush hour in Stockholm's subway and the commuters are strangely silent: conversation is out of the question as all noses are buried in one of the many free daily papers that have become a roaring success in Sweden.
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A Swedish artist threatened with  death over his drawing of Islam&#39;s Prophet Mohammad has been  told by police he is no longer safe living at home.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden  - Authorities in Sweden arrested a man who shot mobile phones into the yard of a high-security prison with a bow and arrows, police said Saturday.