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Former Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme makes the victory sign after the Social Democrats’ election victory, Sept. 19, 1982.

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Sweden halts probe into former PM Olof Palme’s murder

by David Keyton Associated Press, and Jan M. Olsen Associated PressJune 10, 2020

A man wearing a protection mask as he pass the subway sign 'Theresienwiese', the Oktoberfest beer festival area, in Munich, Germany, Tuesday, April 21, 2020. Bavarian state governor Markus Soeder and Munich mayor Dieter Reiter announced at a news conference that the Oktoberfest is cancelled this year because the coronavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

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Virus forces cancellation of Oktoberfest

by Colleen Long Associated Press, Cara Anna Associated Press, and Jan M. Olsen Associated PressApril 21, 2020

The Las Vegas Strip is deserted as casinos and other business are closed because of the coronavirus outbreak, Tuesday, April 14, 2020, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

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US relief checks begin arriving as economic damage piles up

by Christopher Rugaber Associated Press, Paul Wiseman Associated Press, and Jan M. Olsen Associated PressApril 15, 2020

FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 16, 2015 file photo, actor Max Von Sydow attends the Lumiere Award ceremony of the 7th Lumiere Festival in Lyon, central France. Max von Sydow, the self-described “shy boy”-turned-actor who played the priest in the horror classic “The Exorcist,” has died. He was 90, it was reported on Monday, March 9, 2020. He was known to art house audiences through his work with Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. But it was his role as the devil-evicting priest in William Friedkin's controversial 1973 film "The Exorcist" that brought him to international attention. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani, File)

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‘Exorcist’ actor Max von Sydow dies at age 90

by Jan M. Olsen Associated PressMarch 9, 2020

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before departing on Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019, in Washington. Trump is headed to Kentucky. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Trump miffed at Danish leader’s snub over Greenland

by Jan M. Olsen Associated Press, and Laurie Kellman Associated PressAugust 21, 2019

Suspected gunman Philip Manshaus appears in court, in Oslo, Norway, Monday, Aug. 12, 2019. A suspected gunman accused of an attempted terrorist attack on an Oslo mosque and separately killing his teenage stepsister "will use his right not to explain himself for now" in a detention hearing, his defense lawyer said Monday. (Cornelius Poppen, NTB scanpix via AP)

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Muslims foil would-be mosque attacker

by Jan M. Olsen Associated Press, and Vanessa Gera Associated PressAugust 12, 2019

Anne-Elisabeth Falkevik Hagen, wife of Norwegian multimillionaire Tom Hagen, is shown in an undated photo.

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Norwegian police: Tycoon’s wife was abducted

by Jan M. Olsen Associated PressJanuary 10, 2019

The old Stock Exchange Building, home of the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on Thursday May 3, 2018. For the first time since 1943, there's a notable risk that no Nobel Prize in literature will be awarded this year. (Fredrik Sandberg/TT via AP)

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No Nobel literature prize this year but 2 prizes in 2019

by Jan M. Olsen Associated PressMay 5, 2018

Prosecutor Jakob Buch-Jepsen arrives at the courthouse where the trial of Danish inventor Peter Madsen, charged with murdering and dismembering Swedish journalist Kim Wall aboard his homemade submarine begins, in Copenhagen, Thursday, March 8, 2018.

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Danish inventor denies killing journalist at murder trial

by Jan M. Olsen Associated PressMarch 8, 2018

In this April 5, 2016, photo, an employee sorts Legos in the the new LEGO flagship store unveiled as part of the new Les Halles shopping mall during the press visit in Paris. Danish toy maker Lego said Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017, it will cut 1,400 jobs, or about eight percent of its global workforce, after reporting a decline in sales and profits in the first half of 2017.

Lego to cut 1,400 jobs and ‘reset company’ after sales drop

by Jan M. Olsen Associated PressSeptember 5, 2017