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Alcohol seizures down despite tough new law

Society: 14 Apr 13
Despite the introduction of a new law strengthening the powers of customs officials, the number of seizures of alcohol ordered online has declined dramatically in 2013. READ »

Swedish princess inks her wedding invitations

Society: 20 Feb 13
Sweden's New York-based Princess Madeleine is getting ready to send out her wedding invites, but says she will forego the Anglo-Saxon tradition of bridesmaids as she marries her British-American fiancé. READ »

Madrid court remands Swede on terror charges

National: 16 Feb 13
A 65-year-old Swedish man was on Friday remanded into custody by a Madrid court on suspicion of terror crimes connected to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PPK). READ »

Princess steals the show at Sweden's gay gala

Society: 5 Feb 13
Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria made a surprise show-stealing appearance at Monday's Gay Gala in Stockholm to hand out the prize for Gay of the Year. READ »

Two arrested after bank robbery shoot-out

Business & Money: 10 Jan 13
Two men have been arrested after opening fire on police with automatic weapons in a north Stockholm bank robbery on Wednesday, while police in southern Stockholm were kept busy with another raid on an armoured car. READ »

God and Vikings: Ricky Gervais hits Stockholm

Lifestyle: 17 Dec 12
After British comedian Ricky Gervais performed in Stockholm on Sunday night, The Local’s Oliver Gee reflects on why a liberal Swedish crowd took such delight in the mostly dark and, many would argue, offensive humour. READ »

The octogenarian Saint Lucia choir: still in tune

Society: 13 Dec 12
A broken lift, missing batteries, and a wobbly 83-year-old Saint Lucia couldn't dampen spirits among the members of an elderly cooperative choir south of Stockholm, The Local's Lucia-themed pick for Swede(s) of the Week. READ »

Jonas Gardell named 'Swede of the Year'

National: 7 Dec 12
Comedian and author Jonas Gardell was named 'Swede of the Year' on Thursday, following the success of his book 'Never Dry Tears Without Gloves' (Torka aldrig tårar utan handskar) that chronicles the Aids epidemic in Sweden in the 1980s. READ »

The infected years: when HIV came to Sweden

Analysis & Opinion: 4 Dec 12
As Sweden marks 30 years since the first case of AIDS was diagnosed in the country, The Local's Christine Demsteader learns how Swedes have been forced to face an uncomfortable reality about the stigma surrounding those who first tested positive for HIV. READ »

Green Party calls for apology over HIV slurs

Politics: 1 Dec 12
Sweden's Green Party has called on the government to apologize to people infected with HIV during the eighties for having been "insulted by society and its institutions". READ »

Executive education: Climb the career ladder

Education: 1 Nov 12
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Police hunt knifeman after Örebro attack

National: 25 Oct 12
A woman in central Sweden is in hospital after having been stabbed in the throat with a sharp object on Wednesday evening. Police are still searching for her ex-boyfriend. READ »

Swedish art 'contributed' to Serb pride parade ban

Politics: 5 Oct 12
The Prime Minister of Serbia Ivica Dacic said on Thursday that Swedish artist Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin's controversial exhibition "contributed a great deal" to the ban on the pride parade. READ »

Swede's Jesus pics fuel Serb gay pride fury

Politics: 3 Oct 12
An exhibit of a Swedish artist's controversial photographs depicting Jesus surrounded by gay men has prompted calls to ban a gay pride festival in Serbia where Swedish Minister for European Affairs Birgitta Ohlsson is scheduled to speak. READ »

Dramatic drug raid at Stockholm school 'failed'

National: 11 Jul 12
Police have admitted that none of the more than a dozen Stockholm school students nabbed in a high-profile drug raid tested positive for drugs and no charges were filed, raising questions about the police's methods in the case. READ »

Let convicted HIV doc keep working: hospital

Science & Technology: 30 May 12
A Swedish doctor with HIV who was convicted for having unprotected sex should be allowed to keep practicing, hospital management has argued, prompting a group of employees to slam the move as "unethical". READ »

Sweden's child rights prize awarded

Society: 21 May 12
The Swedish-founded World's Children's Prize has been awarded to Anna Mollel of Tanzania for her efforts in helping disabled Maasai children, and will be presented in Stockholm on Wednesday by Queen Silvia. READ »

Trio charged in wealthy Swede's abduction

National: 5 Apr 12
Three people were charged on Thursday with drugging and kidnapping a 25-year-old student from a wealthy Swedish family and holding him prisoner for more than a week in what one of the suspects said was a "prank". READ »

Police raid shutters Swedish file sharing site

Business & Money: 28 Feb 12
Swepiracy, one of Sweden's largest file sharing sites, has been closed down following a coordinated raid by authorities in Sweden and the Netherlands. READ »

Sweden seeks new tools to aid file sharing hunt

Business & Money: 16 Feb 12
The Swedish government wants police and prosecutors to have more power to crack down on illegal file sharing by making it easier to force internet service providers to reveal the identity of individual computer users. READ »

Valentine's Day in Sweden - readers' sweet tweets and love stories

Society: 14 Feb 12
With Valentine's day upon us again, The Local called for messages from the star-crossed lovers of Sweden, who sent us their loving letters and sweet tweets in a celebration of love in Sweden. READ »

Swedes' anti-gay flyers not free speech: court

Society: 9 Feb 12
Sweden’s Supreme Court was right to convict four men of hate crimes for distributing "offensive" homophobic flyers at a school, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. READ »

Swedes arrested in major European drug bust

National: 12 Jan 12
Europol said Thursday it has busted a major synthetic drugs-making network following the confiscation in Sweden of large amounts of amphetamine, resulting in the arrest of nine suspects in four countries. READ »

Ministry official fired over dodgy massage parlours

Society: 10 Jan 12
A high-ranking civil servant in Sweden's defence ministry has been sacked after it was revealed he was involved in running several Thai massage parlours on the side. READ »

Disabled at risk after assistance centre theft

Society: 26 Dec 11
A home assistance centre in Kronoberg, central Sweden, was left reeling after a burglary on Christmas day, where thieves took off with both cars and computers after demolishing the centre's offices. READ »

Thai massage parlours in sex trade raids

National: 24 Oct 11
Police and the tax authorities have launched closer surveillance of Thai massage parlours in Sweden, suspecting that the sharp increase in their number indicates sex trafficking and tax evasion. READ »

Asylum seekers used as car wash 'slaves'

National: 23 Oct 11
Asylum seekers and undocumented immigrants in Sweden are being treated like slaves and paid far less than the legal minimum wage at car washes around the country, according to the police. READ »

Police child porn sting snags twelve Swedes

National: 19 Oct 11
Twelwe people were arrested in Sweden early on Wednesday morning suspected of spreading child pornography, according to the Swedish National Bureau of Investigation. READ »

23 Swedish women guilty in child porn case

National: 18 Oct 11
All 23 women on trial for possessing and distributing child pornography were convicted by a Swedish court on Tuesday, along with a 43-year-old man believed to be the mastermind behind the network. READ »

Fine weather aids oil spill clean-up

National: 25 Sep 11
Clean-up work following the oil spill off Sweden's west coast was helped by good weather conditions, and on Saturday evening roughly 35 tonnes of oil had been taken out of the water. READ »

Agency forces amputee to prove leg still gone

National: 9 Sep 11
Even though ten years have passed since Fredrik Jansson from Skellefteå in northern Sweden had his leg amputated, he must still prove his leg hasn't grown back in order to keep his disabled parking permit. READ »

Man stabbed in Stockholm gang brawl

National: 7 Sep 11
A man was left nursing stab wounds to the neck after a mass brawl involving some 20 men belonging to rival biker gangs in central Stockholm on Tuesday. READ »

Stockholm police break up human trafficking ring

National: 26 Aug 11
Stockholm police have identified a large number of sex-buyers following the arrests of six men on suspicion of trafficking and pimping charges in a case involving at least 20 Lithuanian women. READ »

Sex and the human form - Robert Mapplethorpe raises eyebrows

Lifestyle: 12 Jul 11
US photographer Robert Mapplethorpe is the subject of a major new exhibition at Stockholm’s Fotografiska museum which recently fell foul of the social media censor, contributor Katherine Dunn paid a visit to see what all the fuss is about. READ »

Swedish doc supplied drugs in overdose deaths

National: 16 Jun 11
A Swedish doctor has been reported to health authorities for prescribing massive amounts of narcotics to three young adults, after which they overdosed and died. READ »

Stephen Lynch - laughing in the face of the inferno

Lifestyle: 8 Jun 11
American funnyman Stephen Lynch, the self-professed "musician trapped in the body of a comedian", is all revved to bring his "Beefy Burrito" back to Sweden, The Local's Geoff Mortimore discovers. READ »

How to give the perfect presentation to Swedes

Lifestyle: 11 Apr 11
Being a native English speaker is not always the advantage you would expect when you are giving a presentation in English to an international audience. But there are ways to improve. READ »

Elmander strike aids Bolton FA Cup progress

Sport: 13 Mar 11
Swedish striker Johan Elmander's first goal since January 8th helped Bolton to overcome Birmingham and qualify for the semi-final in the FA Cup on Saturday. READ »

Favourable weather aids oil slick clean up

Science & Technology: 19 Feb 11
The Swedish and Norwegian coast guard continued work to clean up the oil spill caused by a grounded Icelandic vessel just north of the Swedish border on Thursday, reporting that weather conditions remained favourable. READ »

High earners jump surgery queue: study

Science & Technology: 3 Feb 11
Wait times for general surgery are 34 percent shorter for people with high incomes compared to those with lower salaries, according to a new Swedish study. READ »

Health fund pledges 'zero tolerance' on corruption

Politics: 25 Jan 11
The head of the Global Fund Against AIDS, TB and Malaria pledged "zero tolerance" for corruption on Monday after Sweden announced it would not commit to its contributions amid reports of "grave misuse" of about $34 million in four African countries. READ »

Nicotine replacement therapy sales soar

Society: 24 Jan 11
Sales of nicotine replacement therapy products in Sweden jumped 10 percent last year compared to 2009 as they become more easily available across the country, according to figures from the Apoteket Service. READ »

Sweden refuses health aid due to corruption

Politics: 23 Jan 11
Sweden has announced that it will not pay its 1.5 billion kronor ($226 million) contribution to the global fund to fight AIDS unless more is done to ensure the cash does not fall into the wrong hands, a report said Saturday. READ »

Handball ref exposed himself to hotel maids

Society: 22 Jan 11
A handball referee who was arrested for exposing himself to cleaners in a Gothenburg hotel has been banned from the men’s handball World Championships currently being held in Sweden READ »

Swedish law behind rise in HIV cases: experts

Science & Technology: 1 Dec 10
Four experts on HIV and criminal law have called for an overhaul of the law against infectious diseases act on World AIDS Day, alleging that the duty of disclosure has resulted in a spike in new Swedish HIV cases. READ »

Swedish woman in coma after botched breast op

Society: 17 Nov 10
A Swedish woman who underwent breast enlargement surgery in Poland after booking with a medical tourism company remains in a coma three months after the operation. READ »

Swedish coastguard aids blazing ferry

National: 17 Nov 10
The Swedish coastguard on Wednesday came to the aid of a Danish ferry travelling from Oslo to Copenhagen after a fire broke out onboard. READ »

Men locked in mosque during terror raid

National: 11 Nov 10
The Gothenburg police are facing more criticism following revelations that they locked eight men in a mosque when responding to a terror threat on October 30th. READ »

Police reported over Gothenburg terror threat

National: 4 Nov 10
The arrest of four people on suspicion of preparing a terrorist crime has been reported and will be reviewed by a prosecutor, while confusion remains over just how many suspects are involved in the investigation. READ »

Turkish terror suspect 'a member of the PKK'

National: 26 Oct 10
A Turkish citizen arrested at Stockholm's Arlanda Airport on Friday on terror charges is thought to be a member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Belgian prosecutors said on Monday. READ »

Four Swedish women still held in child porn sting

National: 22 Oct 10
Police in Sweden are still holding four of the 20 women arrested on Wednesday in a series of raids directed at a suspected child pornography network. READ »

Police arrest 20 women in child porn raids

National: 20 Oct 10
Swedish police on Wednesday raided a series of locations across the country, arresting 23 people on suspicion of serious child pornography offences. Twenty of the suspects were women, described by the police as 'very unusual'. READ »

Swedes snatched in global sex-pill sting

National: 14 Oct 10
Twelve Swedes have been arrested in a global sting targeting illicit trade in Viagra-like impotence medication. READ »

Sweden raises terror alert

National: 1 Oct 10
The Swedish Security Service has raised the terror alert in Sweden to "elevated" due to an increased threat level. READ »

Swedish police raid file sharing 'scene'

National: 7 Sep 10
Swedish police raided locations across the country on Tuesday, including WikiLeaks' ISP PRQ, acting on information from Belgian police in an international operation targeting the file sharing network known as "The Scene". READ »

The Royal Wedding: Live Blog

National: 19 Jun 10
Today's the day that Crown Princess Victoria will get her man of the people. We'll be following the whole thing live - with reporters around Stockholm providing the latest news, reactions and (hopefully) informed speculation from the Royal Wedding. READ »

'Thank you for giving me my Prince'

National: 19 Jun 10
Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria has got her Prince. In front of a crowd of thousands outside Stockholm’s Royal Palace following her marriage to Daniel Westling, she thanked the Swedish people for letting her marry the man she loves. READ »

Roxette star among wedding guests

National: 17 Jun 10
Roxette’s Per Gessle, Eurovision contestant Malena Ernman and businesswoman Cristina Stenbeck: the great, the good and the celebrated of Sweden will be out in force at Saturday's royal wedding. READ »

Sweden pulls out the stops for royal wedding

Society: 17 Jun 10
Wedding fever has gripped Sweden this week amid frenzied last-minute preparations for Crown Princess Victoria's nuptials on Saturday with her former personal trainer Daniel Westling after more than eight years of courtship. READ »

Hate cleric will not participate in Swedish conference

National: 3 Apr 10
A US-born Muslim preacher who has described Jews as "filthy" and advocates the execution of homosexuals will not be participating in a Swedish young muslim conference he was scheduled to speak at over Easter weekend. READ »

Gay-hate imam to speak at Swedish conference

Society: 24 Mar 10
An organisation for young Muslims in Sweden has outraged the country's largest gay rights group by inviting an imam in favour of executing homosexuals to speak at its April conference. READ »

Black Cobra gang steals selection of small cakes

National: 12 Mar 10
Criminals with connections to the Black Cobra network are suspected by police of pilfering 120 boxes of almond tarts, punch rolls, apple crowns and brownies from a delivery truck in southern Sweden on Thursday. READ »

Irish police foil plot to kill Swedish cartoonist

National: 9 Mar 10
Seven Muslims were arrested by Irish police on Tuesday on suspicions of conspiracy to murder a Swedish cartoonist who drew the prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog. READ »

Police bust record studio cannabis ring

National: 9 Mar 10
Stockholm police have busted a network of cannabis growers. One of the suspects is a record producer who cultivated the plants in his studio. READ »

Swedish police conduct file sharing raid

National: 3 Feb 10
Suspected file sharers were targeted in four raids at locations across Sweden on Tuesday, as police acted on information from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). READ »

Police raids uncover cannabis-growing network

National: 30 Jan 10
Six men have been arrested on suspicion of growing cannabis in three apartments in the Stockholm area. Police believe the green-fingered gang are part of an extensive network of plant growers and dealers. READ »

Swedish police crack down on Topdogz gang

National: 14 Jan 10
Six suspected gang members were arrested on Wednesday as police in southern Sweden seized weapons and explosives in a sting operation targeting the Topdogz criminal organization. READ »

Dozens arrested in Swedish doping raid

National: 9 Dec 09
Swedish police have arrested 40 people in a nationwide doping raid, according to a statement. READ »

Malmö meter maids get spy cams in caps

Society: 21 Oct 09
Parking attendants in Malmö are to have miniature video cameras attached to their caps as part of a bid to increase the safety of members of a profession often exposed to threats and harassment. READ »

Encouraging results for Swedish HIV vaccine

Science & Technology: 19 Oct 09
A Swedish HIV vaccine, Hivis, has shown the best preliminary results the world has seen so far, according to experts. READ »

Several arrests made in helicopter heist probe

National: 27 Sep 09
Several people were arrested on Sunday afternoon for their suspected involvement in last week’s spectacular helicopter robbery of a cash depot south of Stockholm. READ »

Wife held for murder of Swedish 'oil millionaire'

National: 9 Sep 09
Four people - including the wife of the victim - have been arrested for their involvement in the murder of a 45-year-old business man outside his home in Fagersta in central Sweden in April. READ »

Refugees died after HIV misdiagnosis

National: 8 Aug 09
Several female refugees from Africa have died of AIDS after Swedish doctors failed to test them for HIV, reports Dagens Nyheter newspaper. READ »

FARC guerillas armed with Swedish weapons

Politics: 27 Jul 09
The Colombian rebel group the FARC is in possession of advanced weaponry manufactured by the Swedish firm Saab Bofors Dynamics, according to Colombian news reports. READ »

Agency puts its foot down in Sweden's battle with killer slugs

Science & Technology: 18 Jun 09
Agriculture authorities in Sweden are setting up battle stations in the country’s continuing struggle to fight off killer slugs. READ »

Belgium aids Volvo in bid to protect jobs

Business & Money: 25 May 09
The Flemish government has responded positively to an appeal from Volvo Cars CEO Stephen Odell to support its Belgian operations including guaranteeing European Investment Bank loans. READ »

Prosecutor: giving the pill to teens aids rape

Science & Technology: 16 Apr 09
A Swedish prosecutor thinks that health professionals who prescribe birth control pills to girls younger than 15-years-old should be charged as accomplices to rape. READ »

Third man arrested after file sharing raid

National: 5 Apr 09
The police raid on two apartments in Skövde in southern Sweden on Thursday has led to the arrest of a third person on suspicion of breach of copyright legislation. READ »

Two Swedes arrested in file sharing raid

Science & Technology: 3 Apr 09
Two men have been arrested in Skövde in southern Sweden on suspicion of breaching copyright legislation. READ »

Sweden aids US over North Korea journalists

Society: 1 Apr 09
Swedish diplomats in Pyongyang are continuing their efforts to help secure the release of two US journalists being held by North Korea. READ »

Swedish MP to Pope: Ditch fundamentalism

Politics: 26 Mar 09
Prominent feminist politician Birgitta Ohlsson is demanding that the Swedish government launch a formal protest with the Vatican over the “religious fundamentalism” of Pope Benedict XVI. READ »

Physio back in business after rape conviction

National: 25 Mar 09
A man convicted for the statutory rape of a minor is free to continue practicing as a physiotherapist in Sweden pending a ruling from the country’s medical responsibility board about whether or not to recall his licence. READ »

Swedish hairdresser behind youth drugs ring

National: 13 Mar 09
Swedish police on Thursday carried out raids against 447 suspected drugs buyers across the entire country. They had all bought their drugs from a 44-year-old hairdresser in Eskilstuna. READ »

Eating fish makes teenage boys smarter: Swedish study

Science & Technology: 9 Mar 09
Teenage boys who eat fish at least once a week score higher on intelligence tests, according to a Swedish study. READ »

Sweden looks to toughen conditions for development aid

Politics: 9 Mar 09
Dismay over the how several United Nations (UN) organizations have used development aid from Sweden has led the government to propose tougher conditions for allowing aid groups to receive Swedish funding. READ »

What’s in a name: crime suspects and the Swedish press

Analysis & Opinion: 23 Feb 09
The Local’s David Landes attempts to shed some light on the Swedish media’s sometimes peculiar practice of omitting the names of criminal suspects. READ »

Swedes sought in Germany following neo-Nazi violence

National: 16 Feb 09
Police in Germany have issued an arrest warrant for three Swedes suspected in a roadside attack by a group of neo-Nazis against left-wing activists in eastern Germany on Saturday. READ »

Health board slams refugee medical clinic

Science & Technology: 23 Jan 09
Sweden’s National Board of Health and Welfare has directed a scathing critique against a medical centre for asylum seekers in Stockholm County. READ »

HIV infection risk dependent on blood type: Swedish researchers

Science & Technology: 12 Jan 09
The risk of being infected by HIV may be determined by the presence of a molecule in a person’s blood cells, according to a discovery made by Swedish scientists working as part of an international research team. READ »

Home-grown cannabis flourishes in Sweden

National: 8 Jan 09
Marijuana in Sweden is increasingly being grown domestically rather than smuggled into the country, and police suspect Vietnamese crime networks are behind the proliferation in cannabis growing operations. READ »

Four in custody after major cannabis bust in Stockholm

National: 12 Dec 08
Police in Stockholm confiscated 140 kilogrammes of cannabis and arrested four men last weekend in raids carried out at several suburban locations last weekend. READ »

ABB under investigation in EU cartel probe

Business & Money: 11 Dec 08
The European Commission is investigating Swedish-Swiss Engineering group ABB as part of a large-scale investigation into alleged anti-competitive practices, the company revealed on Thursday. READ »

Nobel laureates receive prizes in Stockholm

Society: 10 Dec 08
Princess Madeleine and economics laureate Paul Krugman were among the guests at the Nobel banquet in Stockholm's City Hall on Wednesday evening. READ »

UK citizen wanted in record pot bust

National: 3 Dec 08
Swedish authorities plan to issue an arrest warrant for a 33-year-old British citizen wanted in connection with one of the largest marijuana busts in the country’s history. READ »

Swedish men's condoms need more rubber: study

Society: 1 Dec 08
Swedish men come second only to the French in a study of the state of European members, a new study has shown. READ »

Free fake penises raise functionality flap

Society: 6 Nov 08
A decision to allow transsexual men in Sweden to get prosthetic penises free of charge from local health authorities has drawn criticism because the prostheses on offer don’t get erect. READ »

Swedish police accused of concealing evidence

National: 26 Oct 08
Swedish prosecutors and police have illegally withheld evidence from courts and defence counsel in several hundred cases, according to lawyer Per Althin and public prosecutor Nils-Eric Schultz. READ »

Huge doping ring uncovered in Sweden

National: 21 Oct 08
Swedish police rounded up 40 people on Tuesday in series of pre-dawn raids across the country in an effort to crack a massive doping scam. READ »

Local Stories: Matilda Dagba

Lifestyle: 21 Oct 08
For every Local reader there's a Local Story. This month Jonquille Okhiria introduces Miss Africa in Sweden 2008. READ »

Three share Nobel Prize for Medicine

Science & Technology: 6 Oct 08
The 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine has been awarded to Harald zur Hausen, Francoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier. READ »

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