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The murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme on the night of February 28, 1986 was — and arguably still is — a national trauma for Sweden. But a new book by journalist Jon Jordås draws a ...

Swedish Social Democratic prime minister Olof Palme, photographed in Stockholm in September 1973 ... and even be buried by the movement’s own funeral home. The Social Democrats have been in power for ...

But 37 years and multiple investigations later, including a decade-long probe by famed crime writer Stieg Larsson, nobody has ever been brought to justice for Olof Palme's murder. Now a new four ...

When the Turkish Republic was founded on 29 October 1923, Sweden was the first Scandinavian state to recognise the Ankara government, and just a year later the two countries signed a “friendship ...

Nobody embodied this legacy better than Sweden’s prince of peace, Olof Palme, who served as the nation’s prime minister from 1969 to 1976 and again from 1982 until his death in 1986 as well as ...

Engstrom, who was known for his staunch opposition to Palme's leftwing policies and who died in 2000, was in June 2020 named as the main suspect in the case that has gripped the Scandinavian ...

The answer may be a lot more simple. On 28 February 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was gunned down in the street outside a cinema in Stockholm after taking in a movie with his wife and son.

The show is a five-part Netflix Swedish-language original, based around the story of Stig Engström - named by prosecutors as the probable killer of the Swedish prime minister, Olof Palme.

Olof Palme, the assassinated prime minister of Sweden ... Palme had requested that Theodorakis’s song Einai Megalos o Kaimos (The anguish is great) was to be sung at his funeral. A young Angela Merkel ...