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Hugues HONORE
US President Donald Trump addresses a rally at the Orlando Melbourne International Airport on February 18, 2017 in Melbourne, Florida. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP)
February 21, 2017, 1:31 am
After Trump comments, the reality of crime and migrants in Sweden
President’s reference to non-existent terror incident over weekend drew ridicule; he later said his remarks were in wake of Fox News story on immigration, violence
By Hugues HONORE
Jamala, representing Ukraine with the song "1944," attends a press conference after winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 grand final in Stockholm, Sweden, on May 15, 2016. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP)
May 15, 2016, 4:13 am
Ukraine stuns Russia to win politically-charged Eurovision
Amid ongoing row over Crimea, Moscow had tried to get singer Jamala’s song about Soviet deportations of Crimean Tatars disqualified
By Hugues HONORE
Singers and delegations celebrate as they advance to the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden, on May 12, 2016. (AFP/Jonathan Nackstrand)
May 13, 2016, 11:49 am
Eurovision, a well-oiled diplomatic machine
Expert says organizers ‘will never successfully depoliticize’ the song contest, which this year includes entrants from 26 countries
By Hugues HONORE
A makeshift memorial with a text in Swedish reading "Rest in Peace" is seen by candles outside the primary and middle school Kronan in Trollhattan, southwestern Sweden, on October 23, 2015, a day after a masked man armed with a sword killed two people before being arrested and shot by police. (AFP PHOTO/JONATHAN NACKSTRAND)
October 23, 2015, 2:45 pm
Police: Sweden sword attack was racist hate crime
Investigators say man who killed 2 at school targeted ‘those with dark complexions’; attacker was obsessed with Nazis
By Hugues HONORE
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