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The leader of the Sweden Democrats Jimmie Åkesson delivers a speech at the party's election watch at Elite Hotel Marina Tower Tower in Nacka, near Stockholm, Sweden, early Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. An exit poll projected that Sweden’s ruling left-wing Social Democrats have won the most votes in a general election Sunday, while a right-wing populist party had its best showing yet. (Maja Suslin/TT News Agency via AP)

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Swedish conservatives close to election win amid crime fears
By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press
Sun,09/11/22-2:24AM , 103 Reads
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Near final results in Sweden's election Sunday show that a bloc of right-wing parties was expected to defeat a left-wing bloc headed by Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson. The conservative group includes a populist anti-immigration party that made its best ever showing.
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Prime minister Magdalena Andersson, leader of the Social Democrats, takes part in a political debate broadcasted on TV4 from Eskilstuna, Sweden, Thursday Sept. 8, 2022. General elections will be held in Sweden on September 11. (Christine Olsson/TT via AP)

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EXPLAINER: What to know ahead of Sweden's election Sunday
By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press
Sat,09/10/22-2:47AM , 96 Reads
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — Sweden is holding an election Sunday to elect lawmakers to the 349-seat Riksdag as well as to local offices across the nation of 10 million. Early voting began on Aug. 24. Here are some key things to know about the vote.

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The Monument to the Liberators of Soviet Latvia and Riga from the German Fascist Invaders falls during its demolition in Riga, Latvia, Aug. 25, 2022. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has led to a renewed push to topple the last remaining monuments to the Soviet army that remained in Europe. At the end of the communist era, when Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia regained their independence from the Soviet Union, those countries began renaming streets and toppling statues of Lenin and other communist figures. But many memorials to the Red Army remained. (Kaspars Krafts/F64 via AP, File)

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War protest: Statues fall as Europe purges Soviet monuments
By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press
Wed,08/31/22-1:09AM , 127 Reads
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — In the Latvian capital of Riga, an obelisk that soared high above a park to commemorate the Soviet Army’s capture of that nation in 1944 was toppled last week.
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Ukrainian refugee children play with a ball in the backyard of the Lauder Morasha Jewish school in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, July 28, 2022. A special summer camp run by Jewish organizations has brought Jewish volunteers from the former Soviet Union to Warsaw to help Ukrainian children. The camp, which ran for most of July and ended Friday, was organized to bring some joy to traumatized children, help prepare them for the school year ahead in Polish schools and give their mothers some time to themselves. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)

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Jewish volunteers bond with Ukrainian kids at summer camp
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Sat,07/30/22-2:05AM , 747 Reads
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A 5-year-old girl's drawing at a summer camp in Poland's capital caught the eye of one of her counselors. Why did she use black and white, and not red or pink, to make a heart, Rabbi Ilana Baird asked the child.

The girl, sighing heavily, said it was black like the dog she left behind in Ukraine.
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