May 28, 2012
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Science & Technology: 23 May 12
A doctor in Malmö in southern Sweden has been fired after punching and refusing to treat a female patient he thought was drunk. The matter has also been reported to police.
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Analysis & Opinion: 18 May 12
Abba's famous refrain fails to capture the true cause for concern when Swedish politicians leave government to fatten their wallets in the private sector, argues commentator and historian David Linden.
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Politics: 15 May 12
An African citizen resident in Örebro was arrested in central Sweden on Monday on the suspicion of intelligence gathering activities against Sweden's national security.
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National: 14 May 12
Police remain baffled as to the whereabouts of the driver of white Ford Mustang rented in the Czech Republic and found abandoned near the side of a road in northern Sweden with the keys still inside.
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Politics: 13 May 12
With 6.6 percent of voters backing them, the far-right Sweden Democrats have grown to be Sweden’s fourth-largest party, according to the latest poll from research institute Sifo.
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Business & Money: 10 May 12
A Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) pilot scheduled to fly a plane out of Sweden on Tuesday afternoon was stopped from leaving after failing a breathalyzer test.
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National: 9 May 12
Sweden’s mystery “snow man” who survived for several months in a snowed–under car in the north of the country, kept a journal before isolating himself in the woods, in which he describes his desperate financial situation.
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Business & Money: 2 May 12
Ex-Social Democrat minister Thomas Östros will be the new head of the Swedish Bankers' Association, it was revealed on Wednesday.
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Sport: 1 May 12
Swedish top flight football is facing the prospect of player strike action and a slew of postponed matches as a dispute over pay and conditions remained unresolved.
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National: 28 Apr 12
Stockholm city council has announced that all women in need of a secure refuge will be guaranteed a place, as part of measures to increase the safety of women in the Swedish capital.
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Business & Money: 24 Apr 12
Sweden's Riksbank on Tuesday released the long-awaited designs of new banknotes featuring the likes of Greta Garbo, Ingmar Bergman, Astrid Lindgren, and other cultural giants of the 20th century.
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Business & Money: 24 Apr 12
A planned solidarity strike by drivers of airport buses in Sweden has been called off after a public sector healthcare union reached a new wage agreement.
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National: 23 Apr 12
Two new names have recently been added to Sweden’s “most wanted” list and authorities are hoping that closer international cooperation may aid the arrest of some 300 criminals believed to be at large abroad.
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National: 23 Apr 12
Monday's planned strike among airport and flight transfer bus workers was postponed despite no agreement having been met.
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Politics: 20 Apr 12
The Moderates have named a local politician from Örebro to take over as party secretary from Sofia Arkelsten, who had only been on the post since October 2010.
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Politics: 15 Apr 12
The Social Democrats' recent dramatic rise in opinion polls has continued with the party climbing a further 3.1 percentage points to 36.8 percent according to the latest voter preference survey.
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Business & Money: 12 Apr 12
The Swedish government has proposed to loosen current restrictions facing flat owners who want to sublet their apartments in an effort to help ease the current housing crunch in large cities.
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Business & Money: 11 Apr 12
A 20-year-old Swede who has yet to graduate from high school has nominated himself to the board of Investor, one of Sweden's most powerful investment companies.
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National: 31 Mar 12
A family of elk have been causing consternation for police and motorists alike on a stretch of Sweden’s main motorway, with hunters set to be deployed in a bid to entice the animals away from danger.
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Business & Money: 30 Mar 12
Sweden is looking at loosening current restrictions facing flat owners who want to sublet their apartments in an effort to help ease the current housing crunch in large cities.
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Lifestyle: 28 Mar 12
This Saturday the Allsvenskan, Sweden’s premier football league, starts a new season. Contributor Nic Townsend takes a look at each team and their prospects for 2012.
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National: 25 Mar 12
After several drownings at Swedish water parks are believed to be due to park safety flaws, the incidents have prompted an official investigation by the Swedish Consumer Agency.
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Politics: 25 Mar 12
Sweden will be going against Denmark's attempt to force all EU countries to decrease energy use. Sweden's minister for energy, Anna-Karin Hatt, says reduced usage would damage the country's high-energy industries.
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Science & Technology: 25 Mar 12
Sweden may be moving towards a law limiting industrially produced trans fats in food products, following the lead of several other EU countries.
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Politics: 21 Mar 12
Sweden's parliament voted in favour of the controversial EU data retention directive following a spirited debate on Wednesday, as some internet providers touted new measures to protect their customers' privacy.
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Society: 19 Mar 12
Sweden's Royal Court was scrambling on Monday after a county governor's scheduling conflict appeared to inadvertently reveal the as-yet-unreleased date when Princess Estelle will be baptized.
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Politics: 18 Mar 12
The Red-Green opposition has claimed 50.1 percent of the vote in a new poll, with support for the government falling to 43 percent as the Social Democrats continue to recover under new leader Stefan Löfven.
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Politics: 17 Mar 12
Swedish finance minister Anders Borg forecast on Saturday that youth unemployment will be the major issue in the 2014 election, expressing dissatisfaction over how government labour market programmes are working.
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Business & Money: 8 Mar 12
Eleven Swedes have made it onto the Forbes billionaires list for 2012, with H&M owner Stefan Persson ranking highest among the Swedes considered to be the world's wealthiest.
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Politics: 8 Mar 12
The Swedish export control council was informed of the secret plans to help the Saudis build an arms factory as early as May 2010, according to new secret documents.
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Analysis & Opinion: 7 Mar 12
The strategy of attacks and intimidation employed by critics of Lars Vilks is working, argues controversial Swedish artist, who has seen his lecturing activities dry up over organizers fears of riots and being labelled as "racist".
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Society: 5 Mar 12
A Swedish woman in need of renewing her driver’s licence, got so tired of being told her signature didn’t fit within the allotted space that she drew a star instead – and was approved.
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Science & Technology: 1 Mar 12
Four women who were convicted for buying what turned out to be stolen clothes on Swedish internet auction site Tradera lost their appeal on Wednesday as the court ruled the women should have known the low-priced clothes were stolen.
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Business & Money: 23 Feb 12
The birth of the new Swedish princess is causing Swedes to ransack bakeries for the traditional Swedish cake called ”Prinsesstårta” or ”Princess Cake” to celebrate the occasion.
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Society: 23 Feb 12
Archbishop Anders Wejryd called the birth of the new princess a "joy" and expert on the Royals, Sten Hedman, said the new baby is "just what the doctor ordered" as the congratulations started rolling in from all over the country.
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Society: 22 Feb 12
Controversial Swedish artist Lars Vilks was forced to dodge eggs thrown by angry audience members while giving a lecture about his Mohammad cartoons and free expression at the University of Karlstad on Tuesday.
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Education: 21 Feb 12
When figuring out how to manage an international team it's easy to fall back on tired stereotypes. But a better strategy is for managers to start closer to home, a new course at Företagsuniversitetet in Stockholm teaches.
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National: 21 Feb 12
A Swedish man who claimed he survived for two months in his snow-covered car without any food had reportedly been living in his car since mid-2011.
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National: 20 Feb 12
Many questions remain about how and why a 44-year-old Swedish man survived subzero temperatures in his snow-bound car for two months without any food.
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Science & Technology: 19 Feb 12
Circumcision of young boys for religious and non-medical reasons ought to be banned in Sweden, the Swedish Paediatric Society has argued, comparing the procedure to "assault".
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Business & Money: 13 Feb 12
Families of children in Sweden suffering from narcolepsy caused by vaccination for the swine flu can expect some form of compensation, Swedish health minister Göran Hägglund said on Sunday in response to new calls for help from parents.
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National: 2 Feb 12
Guns are three times more common in Malmö compared to Stockholm when it comes to reported killings and attempted killings, new figures show.
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National: 29 Jan 12
Threats and attempts to scare off both crime victims as well as young witnesses have become more common in Sweden, with threats in connection with court cases up more than 70 percent in the last decade, according to a new report.
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National: 24 Jan 12
A Swedish family is risking eviction from their rental house in Stockholm after the new landlord claims that they oppose planned renovations, that their yard is like a ”gypsy-camp” and that the two have a problem with their personal ”exterior”.
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Politics: 21 Jan 12
Despite Friday’s announcement by the Social Democrat Executive Committee that embattled leader Håkan Juholt will remain at the helm, many now believe that he will announce his resignation on Saturday afternoon.
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Politics: 20 Jan 12
The Social Democrats' executive committee expressed its continued confidence in embattled party head Håkan Juholt on Friday following two days of intense meetings about his leadership.
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Business & Money: 20 Jan 12
Swedish furniture retailer Ikea announced record-breaking profits for 2011 on Friday with sales booming and market share increasing in nearly every country.
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National: 13 Jan 12
Two young women were taken to hospital and two were detained by police after a violent fight erupted in Örebro, in central Sweden, on Wednesday.
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Analysis & Opinion: 12 Jan 12
The grieving father of a murdered 15-year-old, attempting to climb down into his dead son's grave, was a sombre reminder of the consequences of the escalating violence in southern Sweden, reports contributor Patrick Reilly.
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Society: 12 Jan 12
The number of Swedish teen girls accused of committing violent assaults has more than doubled in the last decade, new figures show, while the number of girls who are victims has also increased.
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National: 7 Jan 12
A 30-year-old man from western Sweden has been sentenced to prison after he stripped down naked and assaulted passengers on a train in November, while under the influence of drugs.
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National: 5 Jan 12
The Öresund bridge has long been known to be an important route for weapons smugglers to get their wares into Sweden. Despite this, only seven illegal weapons were seized there over the course of 2011.
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National: 5 Jan 12
Seven men in central Sweden have been charged with kidnapping and aggravated assault after having abducted and tortured a man, burning him with an iron and hitting him with computer cables.
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National: 4 Jan 12
The 25-year-old man who went missing from his Uppsala flat on December 28th has been found alive in Umeå, in the north of Sweden, according to police.
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Science & Technology: 4 Jan 12
The Swedish Medical Products Agency can't estimate how many of the French PIP breast implants, used by some 4,000 Swedish women, have burst. Despite what the law says, beauty clinics often fail in reporting potential side effects.
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Business & Money: 3 Jan 12
The practice of sending fake invoices to companies and private citizens by fraudsters has increased by 340 percent in the last six years, making police label it Sweden's new "social problem".
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National: 3 Jan 12
Police on Tuesday arrested a couple in their twenties on suspicion of kidnapping a 25-year-old man who went missing from his home in Uppsala in December.
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Business & Money: 2 Jan 12
The government is to allow private transport companies to provide public bus services, in a bid to improve services and prompt people to use public transport.
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Politics: 1 Jan 12
The support for Sweden's Social Democrats continue to plummet and in the first survey of the year they only received 25.3 percent of votes, a decline by 1.2 percentage points since the last survey.
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National: 30 Dec 11
A man believed to be carrying 200 kilogrammes of the amphetamine-like substance khat in his car crashed into a guardrail after trying to flee Swedish customs officials at the Öresund bridge on Friday morning.
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National: 28 Dec 11
A woman's refusal to be served by a "dark-skinnned" clerk at the local office of a public agency is not a crime, a Swedish court has ruled.
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National: 26 Dec 11
Although storm Dagmar has moved on, "chaos" is reportedly left in its wake, with most rail traffic at a standstill, hundreds of thousands of households without power and fallen trees blocking many roads.
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Business & Money: 22 Dec 11
Letting Swedes hold on to their account numbers when switching banks is one way to put pressure on banks thought to be gouging customers with high mortgage rates, financial markets minister Peter Norman said Thursday.
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Politics: 22 Dec 11
The full extent of threats and violence directed against Swedish politicians is to be mapped for the first time in what is thought to be the world's largest investigation of its kind.
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National: 19 Dec 11
A Swedish court approved Saab Automobile's bankruptcy petition on Monday afternoon after a dejected Victor Muller, CEO of the embattled Swedish automaker, told reporters it was “the darkest day in Saab's history”.
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Society: 18 Dec 11
Ever-growing numbers of commuters between Malmö and Copenhagen require new infrastructure solutions. A bold new suggestion currently being investigated involves a subway line connecting the neighbouring countries.
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Politics: 18 Dec 11
Support for Sweden's Green Party rose to 12.3 percent, yet another record-high result, while the Social Democrats hit a new low in research institute Sifo's December poll.
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Politics: 11 Dec 11
Swedish minister for the environment, Lena Ek, welcomed the deal to decrease emissions of greenhouse gases, reached on Sunday following intense negotiations during the UN Climate Change Conference in South Africa.
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National: 9 Dec 11
The day before a massive right wing demonstration is set to take place in Sweden and shortly before the anniversary of the Stockholm suicide bombing, the government on Friday presented their new plan to combat extremism.
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Science & Technology: 9 Dec 11
Icy roads and harsh weather conditions have caused several accidents on Swedish roadways over night, resulting in at least one fatality, and left thousands of residents without power.
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National: 29 Nov 11
In the two months since Sweden adopted a new law against stalking, as many as 125 cases have been reported to the police.
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National: 28 Nov 11
This year's anniversary of the death of Swedish warrior king Karl XII, traditionally commemorated by the extreme right in Sweden, is said to be a low key affair, saving resources for a demonstration planned for December.
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National: 28 Nov 11
Some 80,000 households remained without electricity in southern Sweden on Monday morning in the wake of the weekend's storm, while rail and air traffic continued to suffer disruption.
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National: 27 Nov 11
The World Deaf Futsal Championship was marred by a stabbing incident at the closing ceremony of the indoor football tournament in Örebro on Saturday.
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Science & Technology: 27 Nov 11
With parts of southern Sweden still reeling from the damage caused by the storm dubbed Berit, residents have been warned that even worse weather is on its way and urged not to go out unless absolutely necessary.
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Lifestyle: 24 Nov 11
Christmas markets are a feature of Yuletide in Sweden and The Local has put together a pick of the best, all featuring warm spiced "glögg" for the adults, and plenty of fun activites for the children.
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Society: 23 Nov 11
A 30-year-old man from western Sweden has been detained after he allegedly smoked marijuana before stripping down naked on a train and demanding passengers have sex with him.
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Business & Money: 22 Nov 11
A worker at a Swedish meatball plant lost two fingers on Tuesday morning while trying to unjam a meat grinder at a processing facility in central Sweden.
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Business & Money: 17 Nov 11
Comments from a European court official on a Swedish court case regarding the release of customer details by internet service providers should be welcome news for file-sharers, according to some Swedish researchers.
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Business & Money: 16 Nov 11
Sven Hagströmer and long-term business partner Mats Qviberg have announced that their holding firm Öresund is to be divided in the wake of a scandal involving the now defunct HQ bank.
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Society: 15 Nov 11
Swedish name laws have been slammed as ”ridiculous” after a couple in Örebro in central Sweden were told the best way to ensure they all share one family name would be to get divorced.
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Society: 15 Nov 11
Swedish men travelling to Copenhagen to partake of the Danish capital's plethora of sex clubs, massage parlours and swinger clubs have been warned that they face a heightened risk of being infected with sexually transmitted diseases.
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Politics: 13 Nov 11
The latest voters' poll shows support for the Social Democrats has risen by 1.9 percentage points while the Moderates dropped 2 percent.
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National: 10 Nov 11
The Swedish town of Örebro, recently rocked by the hunt and capture of a serial rapist, is reeling from what police believe may be a new wave of attacks on young girls in the area.
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National: 7 Nov 11
A new website set up by a Swede with ties to neo-Nazi groups and featuring the names and contact information of dozens of convicted child sex offenders has been reported for data privacy violations.
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Society: 6 Nov 11
The All Saints holiday weekend brought trouble throughout Sweden, with a notable spike in drunkenness, fights and other assaults in the north of the country.
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Society: 4 Nov 11
Customs officers acting on a tip about a case of alleged drug smuggling in southern Sweden were surprised to discover a stinking diaper full of baby poo instead of illegal drugs.
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National: 3 Nov 11
A local politician in northern Sweden, openly opposed to excessive wolf hunting, was hospitalized on Tuesday night after being knocked out by a rock thrown through his bedroom window.
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Society: 2 Nov 11
"Continental" drinking habits among Swedes have had a positive impact on violent crime levels, despite a rising alcohol consumption, according to a report on Tuesday.
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Business & Money: 31 Oct 11
Despite the turbulent financial climate, Swedes aren't cropping their beauty budget, according to recent figures from Statistics Sweden.
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National: 31 Oct 11
Four guys out shoe shopping on a Sunday afternoon suddenly found themselves detained and whisked to the edge of town by police, mistaking them for a gang of criminal football hooligans.
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National: 28 Oct 11
Swedish police officers' slow response to the spectacular helicopter robbery of a cash depot south of Stockholm in 2009 has come in for stinging criticism from the National Swedish Police Board’s own inspection unit.
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National: 28 Oct 11
The number of elderly criminal suspects in Sweden is increasing, according to new statistics, with indecent exposure and drunk driving among the most common offences.
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Society: 26 Oct 11
Three out of four young Swedes today think that breastfeeding mothers ought to keep their tops on in restaurants, bars and on public transport, according to a new survey.
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Lifestyle: 26 Oct 11
For those planning a grand wedding in Sweden and searching for a suitable location to host a reception, The Local has put together a list of top spots, from fairytale castles to 19th century homes, as well as some more modest options.
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National: 26 Oct 11
A doctor in Eskilstuna in eastern Sweden was on Tuesday charged with raping and sexually assaulting several female patients.
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Society: 25 Oct 11
When Irishman Morty McCarthy came to Sweden for love a decade ago, he had no idea he'd end up teaching English to folically flamboyant Swedish rock n'roller Magnus Uggla live on national radio, The Local's Geoff Mortimore explains.
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Society: 24 Oct 11
A nationwide programme aimed at tackling drinking among young people, used in 190 Swedish municipalities, has 'no effect' at all on drinking habits, according to a new study.
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Society: 21 Oct 11
A Sweden Democrat politician from Malmö who was called a “bloody foreigner” by the chair of her housing association has been awarded 180,000 kronor ($27,000) in damages for racial discrimination.
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Politics: 21 Oct 11
Foreign minister Carl Bildt is not among the initial 40 people called to answer questions about oil company Lundin Petroleum’s activities in the Sudan, as prosecutors in Sweden continued an investigation into the company's activities.
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Sanna is one of 2 million people in Sweden under the age of 18. Sweden is seen as a good place to grow up. The law makes sure children are well-protected and defends their rights and any organizations work with children's well-being. Read more »
August Strindberg's plays shocked society, dazzled audiences and revolutionized drama. A century after his death, Strindberg, with his powerful, timeless themes, is celebrated around the world. Read more »
Prime Minister Reinfeldt chats with The Local »
"If you missed it yesterday, here’s The Local’s editor David Landes snagging Prime Minister Reinfeldt for a chat before Princess Estelle’s baptism. Always nice to know the PM has time for TL!" READ »
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