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February 14, 2012
Arvika
The following articles have been tagged with "Arvika":
Swedish music fans brace for summer festival frenzy
Lifestyle: 17 Jun 11
With Sweden's summer musical festival season hitting high gear, The Local's Geoff Mortimore highlights some of the hottest events taking place around the country this summer.
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Twelve dead in holiday traffic
National: 6 Jun 11
At least twelve people have died in traffic over the past five days as the Ascension and national day holiday weekend draws to a close.
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Swedish teen struck for using mobile in class
Education: 14 Apr 11
A schoolteacher in Arvika in central Sweden has been convicted of assault after striking a student talking on her mobile phone during class.
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Liberals want to appeal election results
Politics: 24 Sep 10
The Liberal Party, which lost two seats in the Riksdag by a razor thin margin, is looking to appeal the results of Sweden’s 2010 elections.
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Ballot irregularities keep Sweden on edge
National: 23 Sep 10
Sweden’s political landscape remained unsettled on Thursday following reports of ballot irregularities in several parts of the country.
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A musical August in store for Stockholm
Lifestyle: 4 Aug 10
If you're looking for music festivals in Sweden this month, you need look no further than the capital, writes David Stavrou.
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Police busy on alcohol-soaked Walpurgis Night
National: 1 May 10
Police across Sweden were kept fully occupied on Friday as cells filed up amid traditional Walpurgis Night excesses.
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Norwegian mafia tied to car trunk murder case
National: 11 Jan 10
Police in Oslo are to investigate suspicions that Norwegian drug gangs may be connected to the grisly find of two burned bodies in the boot of a car in western Sweden last week.
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Sweden starts 2010 in typically messy fashion
National: 1 Jan 10
The early hours of 2010 were marked by fights, drunkenness, and fires in many parts of Sweden, as a well as traffic accidents and stray rockets.
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Arvika festival campaign reaches its climax
Society: 4 Dec 09
In the latest marketing blitz from the Arvika Festival organizers, a twenty-year-old girl masturbates in front of the camera for a promo video. "People have sex at our festival," explains the festival's spokesman.
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Murder probe explores World of Warcraft ties
National: 24 Nov 09
Prosecutors are looking into what role the popular online adventure game World of Warcraft may have played in the weekend death of a woman in a Stockholm suburb.
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Agency pulls job ad seeking Swedes who like to get naked
Society: 3 Nov 09
A Swedish job advertisement seeking candidates who aren't afraid to get naked and are practiced in the art of making out in bars has been pulled due to concerns from the National Public Employment Agency.
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Two arrested for gang rape at music festival
Society: 6 Jul 09
Two people have been arrested on suspicions of gang rape on Saturday night at Arvikafestivalen, a synth and electronica music festival held every summer in western Sweden.
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July in Sweden: Clock off, tune in, chill out
Lifestyle: 1 Jul 09
The Year in Sweden - July: Journalist Kim Loughran sketches a month by month account of the country he has called home ever since his accidental migration in 1966.
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The Local's Swedish summer festival guide
Lifestyle: 26 Jun 09
From heavy metal to jazz and from pop to classical, Sweden’s roster of summertime musical festivals has something to suit all tastes.
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Mud, sun and Neil Young: The Local's festival survival tips
Lifestyle: 16 Jun 09
Stuart Roberts traipsed through the mud at Stockholm’s ‘Where the Action is’ to compile this season’s summer festival survival guide.
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Two convicted over Hitler salute
Society: 20 Feb 09
Two men have been convicted of agitation against an ethnic group after performing Nazi salutes in front of a crowd in Arvika in western Sweden last summer.
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New Swedish lay offs at Volvo Group
Business & Money: 23 Oct 08
Volvo Construction Equipment (CE), part of Sweden’s Volvo Group, announced on Thursday that 850 more employees would be laid off in Sweden.
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Hunter run over by own jeep
National: 30 Mar 08
A 70-year-old man died on Sunday morning after being run over by his own jeep.
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US fashion designer makes 'plagiarized' scarf payout
Society: 4 Mar 08
Göran Olofsson, 55, has received compensation from the Marc Jacobs fashion house following a suspected case of copyright infringement.
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'Marc Jacobs plagiarized my dad's scarf'
National: 19 Feb 08
Göran Olofsson from Arvika believes that fashion designer Marc Jacobs may have plagiarized a scarf created by his father in the 1950s.
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Shooting incident leaves two dead
National: 1 Jul 07
Two people were found dead on Sunday after a shooting incident near Arvika in western Sweden.
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Rising waters threaten trains
National: 11 Dec 06
Flooding in large parts of western Sweden has forced train operator SJ to cancel many services in and out of Gothenburg. Levels in lakes and rivers are rising by up to 5 centimetres a day.
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Luvvies' tiff
Lifestyle: 9 Jul 04
A very public spat between a screenwriter, a director and Swedish Television threatens to be more interesting than the project they're supposed to be working on. And Sweden's festival season gets into full swing.
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Two million join singalong
Lifestyle: 2 Jul 04
The first of The Local's weekly cultural trawls nets the year's most popular songfest, a gallery short of a curator and a dearth of Swedish artists.
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20 things to know before moving to Sweden
As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
How far can English take you in Sweden?
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »
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