<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Sweden</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/europe/westerneurope/sweden?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/sweden</link><description>Sweden</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Europe's Minority Politicians in Short Supply]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12396-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/sweden</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12396-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/sweden</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:04:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ PARIS  --  Mariam Osman Sherifay is a Muslim woman, born in Egypt. Coskun Coruz left his native Turkey as a child. And Paul Boateng is a soft-spoken and dapper lawyer, a black man who spent most of his childhood in Ghana.]]></description><author> Keith B. Richburg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europeans Ready to 'Turn the Page' on Disputes With U.S.]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38442-2005Feb19.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/sweden</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38442-2005Feb19.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/sweden</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:04:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As Bush arrives Sunday in Brussels, he will find European leaders going to enormous lengths to try to repair relationships that many analysts say had became dangerously frayed.]]></description><author> Keith Richburg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swedish Hate-Speech Verdict Reversed]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17496-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/sweden</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17496-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/sweden</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:04:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[PARIS, Feb. 11 -- A Swedish appeals court on Friday overturned the conviction of a Pentecostal pastor found guilty of violating the country's strict hate-speech law with a sermon that labeled homosexuality "a deep cancerous tumor in the entire society" and equated it with pedophilia.]]></description><author> Keith B. Richburg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swede's Sermon on Gays: Bigotry or Free Speech?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45538-2005Jan28.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/sweden</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45538-2005Jan28.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/sweden</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:04:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[One Sunday in the summer of 2003, the Rev. Ake Green, a Pentecostal pastor, stepped into the pulpit of his small church in the southern Swedish village of Borgholm. There, the 63-year-old clergyman delivered a sermon denouncing homosexuality as "a deep cancerous tumor in the entire society" and condemning Sweden's plan to allow gays to form legally recognized partnerships.]]></description><author> Keith B. Richburg  and Alan Cooperman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swedes Feel Tsunami Loss Without Closure]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29402-2005Jan22.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/sweden</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29402-2005Jan22.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/sweden</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:04:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[About 1,000 Swedes are listed as missing, and that number adds to the confusion and angst.]]></description><author> Keith B. Richburg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Demotion, Resignation Result From Racial Slurs]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8535-2005Jan14.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/sweden</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8535-2005Jan14.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/sweden</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:04:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- The head of media company Metro International SA's U.S. division is moving to a lower position and a company board member has stepped down over racial slurs the men admitted to making two years ago.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swedes Bring Home Dead And Millions Fall Silent]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51600-2005Jan5.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/sweden</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51600-2005Jan5.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/sweden</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:04:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The first six coffins carrying the bodies of Swedish tourists killed in southern Asia's tsunami arrived home early Wednesday morning from Thailand, and later in the day, millions fell silent throughout Europe for three poignant minutes to memorialize the nearly 140,000 dead.]]></description><author> Glenn Frankel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope Fades on Identifying Missing Foreigners]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41338-2005Jan1.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/sweden</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41338-2005Jan1.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/sweden</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:04:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[With thousands of decomposing bodies piled up in a temporary morgue on Thailand's southern coast, hope was fading Saturday that any of more than 6,000 foreigners still missing would be found alive.]]></description><author> Keith B. Richburg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tourists Bring Home Tales of Nature's Horror]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36930-2004Dec30.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/sweden</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36930-2004Dec30.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/sweden</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:04:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Europe is reeling from the waves, not just because of the ever-rising death toll but because of the growing realization that among the dead could likely be several thousand tourists who had traveled to southern Asia for the holidays.]]></description><author> Glenn Frankel</author></item></channel></rss>