STOCKHOLM – Arsonists set fire early on Wednesday to a giant straw statue of the Swedish Yule goat, a forerunner to Santa Claus in Sweden, defying security measures for a third year in a row. Police in Gavle, north of Stockholm, said an unknown …

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