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Swedish Far-Right Party Makes Gains in Elections

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09/10/2018

09/10/2018

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Swedish Far-Right Party Makes Gains in Elections

Top News: Sweden’s far-right Sweden Democrats party made significant gains in the country’s elections on Sunday, receiving 17.6 percent of the vote and leaving the centrist parties struggling to form a coalition government.

The center-left party, the Social Democrats, received 28.4 percent of the vote, its lowest share in about a century. The center-left and center-right coalitions collectively won roughly 40 percent of the vote, short of the majority needed to form a government.

“There is no side with a majority. So it is only natural to work across the political divide to make it possible to govern,” said incumbent Prime Minister Stefan Lovfen, the head of the left-leaning coalition.

Both main party blocs refused to work with the Sweden Democrats party, which was for years linked to neo-Nazis and other far-right groups. “We have a moral responsibility,” said Lovfen.

“We have strengthened our role as kingmakers,”said Jimmie Akesson, leader of the Sweden Democrats. “We are going to gain real influence over Swedish politics.”

North Korea: In a military parade to mark its 70th anniversary, North Korea took the unusual step of not displaying any long-range missiles. U.S. President Donald Trump thanked North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for the gesture, taking it as a “big and very positive statement from North Korea.”

AFRICA

•  Cameroon deployed troops to counter Anglophone separatists who blocked roads and burned buses in the northwest region’s capital.

•  Armed gunmen stormed the Libyan National Oil Corporation headquarters in Tripoli and killed at least two staff members.

•  A small commercial plane in South Sudan crashed into a lake, killing 20 people.

AMERICAS

•  Officials in the Trump administration reportedly secretly met with rebel military officials in Venezuela to discuss plotting a coup against President Nicolás Maduro.

•  A major storm, Hurricane Florence, is forecast to hit North and South Carolina this week.

•  Indigenous groups in Canada proposed an oil pipeline aimed at protecting indigenous rights.

ASIA

•  The death toll from an earthquake that struck northern Japan last week has risen to 39, with at least 641 people injured.

•  Taliban militants fought Afghan forces in a series of attacks in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 37 security personnel.

•  A Chinese state-owned company’s proposal to build an airport in Greenland prompted objections from Western security and defense officials.

EUROPE

•  Russian police detained more than 800 protesters on Sunday following demonstrations against the government’s controversial pension reform proposals.

•  Kosovo Albanians set up roadblocks and burned tires along a route the Serbian president plans to take on his visit to a province that was formerly in Serbia.

•  Conservative politicians in the United Kingdom rebuked former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson for his remarks likening Britain’s current Brexit plan to putting the constitution in a “suicide vest.”

MIDDLE EAST

•  The United States denied Russian military allegations that U.S. fighter jets dropped phosphorus bombs on an Islamic State stronghold in Syria.

•  The top U.N. human rights official urged Egypt to reverse a mass ruling of death sentences to 75 prisoners.

•  The Trump administration is expected to close the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s office in Washington.

- By Robbie Gramer

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