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In Sweden, a supporter of the extremist militia Islamic State has been charged with genocide, crimes against humanity and serious war crimes, the Swedish Prosecution Authority announced on Thursday in Stockholm. Prosecutors said in a statement that the 52-year-old Swedish woman is alleged to have held Yezidi women and children captive in her house in northern Syria between 2014 and 2016. According to the indictment, she treated them like slaves. “The woman is suspected of, on different occasions, being complicit in selling or handing over women and children to other persons within [the Islamic…

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