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Real Madrid's Kylian Mbappe, right, dribbles the ball past Lille's Benjamin Andre during the Champions League opening phase soccer match between Lille and Real Madrid at the Stade Pierre Mauroy in Villeneuve-d'Ascq, outside Lille, France, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Mbappe’s representatives dismiss Swedish reports of a rape claim

By Karl Ritter and Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Swedish government, Johan Floderus reunites with his family at Arlanda airport in Stockholm, Sweden on Saturday, June 15, 2024, after being released from prison in Iran. (Tom Samuelsson/Swedish government/TT News Agency via AP)

Sweden frees an Iranian man convicted over 1988 mass executions in exchange for 2 men held by Iran

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

In this image taken from video, fans pose with a life-size image of Taylor Swift at a club that plays only Swift's music in Gothenburg, Sweden, on Tuesday, April 30th, 2024. Swift is scheduled to kick off the 18-city Europe leg of her record-setting Eras Tour on Thursday, May 9, 2024. There will be three shows in Stockholm. (AP Photo/Chisato Tanaka)

Fans are following Taylor Swift to Europe after finding Eras Tour tickets less costly there

By Lisa Leff - Associated Press

FILE - AIK's supporters hold a banner against VAR during the Allsvenskan soccer match between AIK and Västerås SF FK at the Friends Arena in Stockholm, April 1, 2024. Swedish soccer has adopted an isolationist stance in eschewing technology to retain a pure version of the beautiful game. Sweden is the only one of Europe’s top-30 ranked leagues yet to have rolled out VAR in its domestic competitions. (Jonas Ekströmer/TT News Agency via AP, File)

Video reviews have changed the face of European soccer. One country is holding out.

By Steve Douglas - Associated Press

Photographers take pictures as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, center right, stands after addressing a Parliament session, on the day lawmakers are expected to approve Sweden's accession into NATO, in Budapest, Hungary, Monday, Feb 26, 2024. Hungary's Parliament is to vote Monday on ratifying Sweden's bid to join NATO, likely bringing an end to more than 18 months of delays that have frustrated the alliance as it seeks to expand in response to Russia's war in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos)

Hungarian Parliament ratifies Sweden’s NATO bid, clearing the final obstacle to membership

By Justin Spike - Associated Press

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson makes a statement on the shooting of two Swedish soccer fans in Brussels on Monday, at Rosenbad, Stockholm, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. Belgian police on Tuesday shot dead a suspected Tunisian extremist accused of killing two Swedish soccer fans in a brazen shooting on a Brussels street before disappearing into the night. (Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency via AP)

How Quran burnings in Sweden have increased threats from Islamic militants

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A bust of Alfred Nobel on display following a press conference to announce the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on Monday, Oct. 3, 2022. The first Nobel Prizes were presented in 1901, five years after Nobel's death. (Henrik Montgomery/TT News Agency via AP, File)

Nobel Prize announcements are getting underway with the unveiling of the medicine prize

By David Keyton and Mike Corder - Associated Press

Japan Prize 2022 laureates Hungarian-American biochemist Katalin Kariko, left, and American physician-scientist Drew Weissman, right, pose with their trophies during the Japan Prize presentation ceremony Wednesday, April 13, 2022, in Tokyo. The Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for enabling development of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, it was announced on Monday, Oct. 2, 203. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, Pool, File)

Nobel in medicine goes to 2 scientists whose work enabled creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19

By David Keyton and Mike Corder - Associated Press

FILE - Sweden's King Carl Gustaf adjusts a pillow for Queen Silvia at the Nobel award ceremony at Stockholm Concert Hall, in Stockholm, on Tuesday Dec. 10, 2019. (Claudio Bresciani / TT Pool via AP, File)

Things to know about Sweden’s monarchy as King Carl XVI celebrates 50 years on the throne

By Karl Ritter - Associated Press

FILE - The Nobel laureates and the royal family of Sweden during the Nobel Prize award ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Saturday Dec. 10 2022. The Nobel Foundation has withdrawn its invitation for representatives of Russia, Belarus and Iran to attend this year’s Nobel Prize award ceremonies after the decision to invite them “provoked strong reactions.” Saturday's U-turn came after several Swedish lawmakers said they would boycott this year’s Nobel Prize award ceremonies. (Pontus Lundahl/TT via AP, File)

Nobel Foundation withdraws invitation to Russia, Belarus and Iran to attend ceremonies

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Foreign Minister Tobias Billström, background, listens, during a press briefing together with U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, foreground and Gregory Meeks, in Stockholm, Friday, Sept. 1, 2023. The United States House Foreign Affairs chair says that a partnership of the Russian and Chinese leaders worries him, saying: “We have never seen a threat this large-scale to Europe and the Pacific, I would argue, since World War II.” (Henrik Montgomery/TT News Agency via AP)

McCaul calls Russia-China alliance the biggest threat since WWII

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In this photo released by police, three of the four hostages and bank robber Clark Olofsson, standing right, are seen in a bank in Stockholm, Sweden, Aug. 27, 1973, shortly before the gunmen were overwhelmed by police. This week marks 50 years since a failed bank robbery that gave rise to the Stockholm syndrome, a term used in psychology to describe the bond that victims of kidnappings or hostage situations sometimes develop with their captors. (AP Photo, File)

What is Stockholm syndrome? It all started with a bank robbery 50 years ago

By Karl Ritter and Jan M. Olsen - Associated Press

People board the Bibby Stockholm accommodation barge at Portland Port in Dorset, England, Tuesday Aug. 8, 2023. Britain’s government on Monday, Aug. 14, 2023, rejected claims that it had been slow to evacuate asylum seekers from a barge moored off the south coast of England once traces of the bacteria that causes Legionnaire’s disease were found in the ship’s water system. (Ben Birchall/PA via AP)

U.K. gov’t rejects claims it was slow to evacuate asylum seekers after bacteria detected on barge

By Danica Kirka - Associated Press

The Bibby Stockholm accommodation barge at Portland Port in Dorset, England, Tuesday August 1, 2023. Britain is removing 39 asylum seekers from a barge moored in southern England after environmental samples showed legionella bacteria in the water system. The move came just days after the men were moved to the floating hostel amid government efforts to reduce the cost of sheltering the growing number of people seeking asylum in Britain.(James Manning/PA via AP)

Britain’s barge for asylum seekers faces new setback as legionella bacteria found in water system

By Danica Kirka - Associated Press

Protestor Salwan Momika outside the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm, Thursday, July 20, 2023, where he plans to burn a copy of the Koran and the Iraqi flag. (Oscar Olsson/TT via AP)

Iran says it won’t accept new Swedish ambassador amid outrage over Koran desecration in Stockholm

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Worshippers chant slogans during a protest against Sweden after the Nordic nation allowed an Iraqi man to insult the Muslim holy book, the Quran, after their Friday prayers in Tehran, Iran, Friday, July 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Thousands of Muslims take to the streets to express outrage over Quran desecration in Sweden

By Abby Sewell - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron, right, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speak to reporters before their talks Wednesday, June 28, 2023 at the Elysee Palace in Paris. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said earlier that he has called a meeting of senior officials from Turkey, Sweden and Finland on July 6 to try to overcome Turkish objections to Sweden joining the military organization. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Erdogan signals Turkey isn’t ready to ratify Sweden NATO membership, saying there’s more work to do

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Norway's Karsten Warholm in action during mens 400m hurdles during the Diamond League in Stockholm, Sweden, on Sunday, July 2, 2023. Olympic champion Warholm won his 400-meter hurdles race on Sunday and then turned to join in the crowd booing environmental protesters who disrupted his Diamond League event near the finish. (Fredrik Persson/TT News Agency via AP)

Olympic champion Warholm boos protesters on track who disrupted his 400-meter hurdles race

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Stockholm-Are delegation members celebrate during the presentation final presentation of the Stockholm-Are candidate cities the first day of the 134th Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), at the SwissTech Convention Centre, in Lausanne, on June 24, 2019. Sweden is moving closer to a ninth bid to host the Winter Olympics for the first time in what's shaping up to be a race for the 2030 Games with only one obvious candidate. Swedish sports officials say there's a desire for the Nordic country to stage the Olympics following a four-month feasibility study. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP, File)

Sweden moves closer to launching a bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics

By Graham Dunbar and Steve Douglas - Associated Press

People enjoy drinks and snacks in the evening sun on a terrace overlooking Stockholm, on Tuesday, May 30, 2023. Smoking is prohibited in both indoor and outdoor areas of bars and restaurants in Sweden, which has the lowest share of smokers in the European Union. (AP Photo/Karl Ritter)

Sweden close to becoming first ‘smoke free’ country in Europe as daily use of cigarettes dwindles

By Karl Ritter and Charlene Pele - Associated Press