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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY SERENE ASSIR Iraqi refugee Ahmad (C), 27, and his four months old baby Adam walk on a railway line as he walks from Serbia to the Hungarian border on September 1, 2015. When an Iraqi refugee couple who survived a hellish journey through the Balkans crossed the border into Germany with their baby, they celebrated that their dream of a "beautiful life" far from bombs seemed finally within reach. On the plush train from Vienna that refugees, businessmen and tourists shared, Ahmad and Alia from Baghdad laughed as they looked back on their nightmarish week-long odyssey from Turkey to Greece, then Macedonia, Serbia, Hungary and Austria. All their difficulties, they hoped, were behind them now, the LCD route map on the evening train showing they were inside Germany and out of danger. AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINIS (Photo credit should read ARIS MESSINIS/AFP/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
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Swedish soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) are seen with their tanks in the outskirts of Mazar-i-Sharif on November 3, 2010. Sweden aims to pull its combat troops out of Afghanistan between 2012 and 2014 and will maintain a largely civilian support presence after that, Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said November 1. AFP PHOTO/Kazim Ebrahimkhil (Photo credit should read KAZIM EBRAHIMKHIL/AFP/Getty Images) Swedes Lean Toward NATO, Await Moscow’s Response
Moscow has warned Stockholm, but Russian aggression is pushing Swedes westward.
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GettyImages-455453032crop Shock Poll Rates Sweden’s Anti-Immigrant Right-Wing Party as Country’s Largest
The Sweden Democrats have their roots in the country's neo-Nazi movement.
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GettyImages-450814630crop Swedish Prosecutors Partially End Investigation of Assange on Sex Crimes
Swedish prosecutors dropped two charges because the statute of limitations ran out.
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French soldiers of the 13th Alpine Hunters Battalion (13th BCA) patrol near the northwestern city of Boda on April 7, 2014. Thousands of people have been killed in a wave of sectarian violence across the Central African Republic that has lasted for more than a year, despite the presence of African Union and French peacekeeping troops. AFP PHOTO/MIGUEL MEDINA (Photo credit should read MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP/Getty Images) The U.N.’s Very Own Civil War
A child sex abuse scandal in the Central African Republic has pitted the U.N.'s two top human rights officials against each other.
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CIUDAD DE GUATEMALA, GUATEMALA: Anders Kompass, representante del Alto Comisiondado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos en Guatemala, responde preguntas de la prensa en Ciudad de Guatemala, el 13 de Febrero de 2006. Para la ONU la complejidad del fenomeno de la violencia en Guatemala se agudiza por la debilidad en los sistemas de informacion y analisis y por escasa capacidad de la Policia Nacional Civil (PNC) y del Ministerio Publico (MP) para investigar y esclarecer los delitos. El 2005, segun la ONU, fue el mas violento de los ultimos anos en lo que se refiere al derecho de la vida en Guatemala, al registrarse 5.338 homicidios. AFP PHOTO/Orlando SIERRA. (Photo credit should read ORLANDO SIERRA/AFP/Getty Images) U.N. Tightens Noose on U.N. Rights Official Who Exposed Abuses
U.N. investigators expand investigation into veteran U.N. human rights official who disclosed abuses against children in the Central African Republic.
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Knausgardcrop Famed Writer Karl Ove Knausgaard Declares War on Sweden, ‘Land of the Cyclops’
The Norwegian super author goes to attack against what he sees as Sweden's narrow, parochial view of literature.
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79731068crop U.S. Assumes Arctic Council Leadership Amid Increasing Tension in the Far-North
As Washington steps back in the Arctic, other countries are investing in their military capabilities there.
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