Sweden celebrates Bergman's legacy
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Film stars, top politicians and members of Sweden's royal family were among those who celebrated the life and work of directing legend Ingmar Bergman on Monday in a ceremony at Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theatre.
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PARIS -- For Sweden's prime minister, celebrating New Year's after the Asian tsunami felt ''completely wrong." Paris, its heart heavy with the tragedy, draped black cloth along the Champs-Elysees. Elsewhere, prayers substituted for parties in the final minutes of 2004.
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(Stockholm, Sweden-AP) Sept. 11, 2004 - Hundreds of Swedes gathered outside a Stockholm department store to remember their popular foreign minister on the first anniversary of her murder.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden  - Hundreds of Swedes paused outside a department store Saturday to remember their former foreign minister, a popular politician who was stabbed to death by a mentally ill man while shopping one year ago.
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As the coffins of the first Swedish victims were brought home, Europe was to fall silent in memory of thousands of its nationals now thought to have been consumed by the tsunamis in south Asia.
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Sweden greeted the new year with a day of mourning Saturday to honor 59 Swedes confirmed dead and 3,559 missing, while Italy raised its death toll from the earthquake and tsunami disaster to 18 and said more than 600 Italians had not been found.
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On Wednesday, girls across Sweden took part in an age-old celebration of light. They donned white robes tied with red sashes, settled crowns of candles on their heads, and served their families coffee.
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In the late 1940s, the Swedish Academy finally got around to honoring the founders of the modernist literary movement.
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The Swedish Film Institute will dedicate a weekend to the life and works of Ingmar Bergman.
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Sweden became the first country on  Wednesday to open an embassy in the virtual world Second Life.
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STOCKHOLM, Dec 30  The final tally of Swedes killed by the Asian tsunami could be more than 1,000, Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson said today.
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Thousands of cheering onlookers gathered outside the royal palace in Stockholm Saturday to greet Crown Princess Victoria, the heir to the Swedish throne, on her 30th birthday.
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Sweden, long known for its cradle-to-grave welfare state, has already embraced a pension system that partly resembles White House proposals for Social Security.
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International delegates meet in Sweden to explore ways of combating so-called "honour killings".
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The people of Sweden are honouring the memory of Anna Lindh, the charismatic foreign minister who died a year ago after being stabbed in Stockholm.
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LONDON, ENGLAND.-Rhodes + Mann are delighted to present a show of new work from Sweden curated by John Peter Nilsson, recently appointed curator at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
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"But they are asking for an apology and a promise that I never again publish a similar image ... and that I cannot do."  Swedish Muslims demonstrated Friday against a newspaper that published a drawing depicting the Prophet Muhammad with a dog's body and demanded its chief editor apologize.The rally outside the newspaper Nerikes Allehanda in Orebro followed formal protests by the governments of Iran and Pakistan over the cartoon by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.Sweden's prime minister called for mutual respect between Muslims, Christians and nonreligious groups in an attempt to avert a wider conflict. Last year, fiery protests erupted in Muslim countries after a Danish newspaper published 12 cartoons of Muhammad. Read more