Stockholm - A Swedish district court Tuesday cleared a Swedish man charged with violating a ban against raising funds to organizations linked to the radical Islamic movement Hamas.

Khalid al-Yousef, was charged as head of the local al-Aqsa Grain Foundation described as the Swedish branch of the al-Aqsa Foundation. According to its own estimates it has raised some 4 million kronor (478,000 dollars).

In a case pertaining to copyright theft, four men working at The Pirate Bay file-sharing Web site go on trial in Stockholm. All four of them - Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom, and Fredrik Neij - were supposedly accomplices in breaking copyright law.

If convicted, the four men face a fine of $143,500, and a two-year prison term.

Jena, Germany - German police were seeking three Swedish nationals Monday, two days after neo-Nazis assaulted a group of leftists at a highway rest area at the end of a day of demonstrations in Dresden.

A 42-year-old man was hospitalized with serious head injuries in the eastern city of Jena after the Saturday evening violence.

Police took the names of 41 far-rightists riding in a chartered coach after the incident. They stressed Monday they had no evidence yet that the Swedes on the coach were specifically to blame, but wanted to catch them before they left Germany to go home to Sweden.

Switzerland - The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Monday said that a Swedish wrestler would not get back a medal he won last year at the Beijing Olympics.

Ara Abrahamian, who won a bronze medal in the middleweight Greco- Roman wrestling competition in Beijing, caused a scandal at the victory ceremony when he took off his medal and placed it on the floor and walked away from the ceremony, which was still in progress.

The Swede, who won a silver medal in Athens in 2004, claimed he had been cheated in his semi-final loss against Andrea Minguzzi.

Stockholm - A Swedish appeal court Monday upheld a life sentence against a German woman previously convicted for beating to death two young children in Sweden.

Christine Schuerrer was convicted in October of killing a three- year-old boy and one-year-old girl and seriously injuring their mother in an attack on March 17, 2008.

Schuerrer, 32, was convicted without forensic evidence such as DNA or fingerprints linking her to the crime scene in Arboga, central Sweden.

Stockholm - Four men Monday refuted charges that they were accessories in violating copyright law as operators of a popular website that allegedly acts as a hub for illegal file sharing.

Prosecutor Hakan Roswall presented the charges against the four, alleging they helped others "breach copyright laws" and made illegal gains by selling advertisements on the Pirate Bay website.