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Spain's Sergio Ramos celebrates after scoring the opening goal with a penalty during the Euro 2020 Group F qualifying soccer match between Spain and Sweden at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Monday June 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Spain beats Sweden to stay ahead in Euro 2020 qualifying

By TALES AZZONI - Associated Press

In this May 1, 2019, file photo, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange puts his fist up as he is taken from court in London. The Justice Department has charged Assange with receiving and publishing classified information. The charges are contained in a new, 18-count indictment announced May 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

Swedish court rules not to extradite Assange for rape probe

By JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press

United States women's national soccer team members, from left, Carli Lloyd, Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe speak to reporters during a news conference in New York, Friday, May 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

US faces greater challenges this time around at World Cup

By ANNE M. PETERSON - Associated Press

Corrective: Sweden-Burger King 1st Ld-Writethru story

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In this Wednesday, May 1, 2019, file photo, buildings are reflected in the window as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is taken from court, where he appeared on charges of jumping British bail seven years ago, in London. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Sweden requests detention order for WikiLeaks’ Assange

By JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press

British police arrive and guard the Ecuadorian Embassy as protesters in support of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange demonstrate outside the embassy in London, Monday, May 20, 2019. Swedish authorities on Monday issued a request for a detention order against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is now jailed in Britain, a Swedish prosecutor said. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Battle breaks out for WikiLeaks founder Assange’s computers

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Israeli singer Dana International, left, the winner of the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest and Israeli Netta Barzilai, the winner of the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest perform during the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest grand final in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, May 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

The Netherlands wins Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv

By ARON HELLER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, May 19, 2017 file photo, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange looks out from the balcony while claiming political asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Swedish prosecutors are to reopen rape case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a month after he was removed from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

AP Explains: WikiLeaks founder has multinational legal woes

By GREGORY KATZ - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, May 1, 2019, file photo, buildings are reflected in the window as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is taken from court, where he appeared on charges of jumping British bail seven years ago, in London. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Sweden to reopen rape case against WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange

By DAVID KEYTON and JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, May 1, 2019, file photo, buildings are reflected in the window as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is taken from court, where he appeared on charges of jumping British bail seven years ago, in London. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

The Latest: Assange case reopening hailed by Swedish accuser

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FILE - In this file photo dated Friday, Dec. 8, 2017, Ostersunds FK chairman Daniel Kindberg poses at the team's party after its 1-1 Europa League draw with Hertha Berlin in Berlin, Germany. Kindberg will go to court next week, April 22, 2019, accused of serious financial crimes allegedly involving funnelling taxpayers’ money into Ostersund soccer club (AP Photo/Ciaran Fahey, File)

Court case threatens to take gloss off Ostersund’s rise

By STEVE DOUGLAS - Associated Press

This Monday, April 8, 2019 photo shows the headquarters building of UNAIDS in Geneva. Documents obtained by The Associated Press reveal the U.N.’s AIDS agency is grappling with previously unreported allegations of financial and sexual misconduct involving a staffer who went public in 2018 with claims she was sexually assaulted by a top deputy. (AP Photo/Jamey Keaten)

AP Exclusive: UN whistleblower targeted in misconduct probe

By MARIA CHENG and JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

Police bundle WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, center right, from the Ecuadorian embassy into a police van in London after he was arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police and taken into custody Thursday April 11, 2019. Police in London arrested WikiLeaks founder Assange at the Ecuadorean embassy Thursday for failing to surrender to the court in 2012, shortly after the South American nation revoked his asylum. (@DailyDOOH via AP)

UK pressured not to overlook Swedish claims to Assange

By GREGORY KATZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2011, file photo, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures as he speaks during a news conference in central London. The arrest of Assange reignites a debate with no easy answer: Is the former computer hacker and founder of WikiLeaks a journalist or not? His lawyers are quick to characterize the case against him as a threat to all journalists. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

Swedish prosecutors could pursue Assange for sex-crimes case

By JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press

Kristinn Hrafnsson, editor of WikiLeaks, center right, and barrister Jennifer Robinson speak to the media outside Westminster magistrates court where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was appearing in London, Thursday, April 11, 2019. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was forcibly bundled out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and into a waiting British police van on Thursday, setting up a potential court battle over attempts to extradite him to the U.S. to face charges related to the publication of tens of thousands of secret government documents. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Julian Assange finds sympathy after Ecuador Embassy welcome ends

By Benjamin Plackett and Jabeen Bhatti — Special to The Washington Times

In this file photo, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov looks toward an interpreter's booth during his talks with Spanish Fernando Arias, Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, April 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) **FILE**

Putin outlines ambitious Arctic expansion program

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and IRINA TITOVA - Associated Press

Myrtilla Miner Elementary School students wave the Swedish national flag as they await for the arrival of H.R.H. Prince Daniel of Sweden for his visit to Myrtilla Miner Elementary School in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

Swedish case of Dmitry Lisov shows how the West went off the rails

By L. Todd Wood - The Washington Times

Swedish national flags placed between flowers in fence near the department store Ahlens following a suspected terror attack in central Stockholm, Sweden, Saturday, April 8, 2017. Swedish prosecutor Hans Ihrman said a person has been formally identified as a suspect &quot;of terrorist offences by murder&quot; after a hijacked truck was driven into a crowd of pedestrians and crashed into a department store on Friday. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

EDITORIAL: Violent crime comes to Sweden

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Swedish domestic spy agency notes rise in xenophobia

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Swedish court sentences Uzbek man for preparing attack

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