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'Americans are narrow- minded about politics'

Analysis & Opinion: 5 Nov 12
Most Swedes won't be casting votes for Barack Obama or Mitt Romney in Tuesday's US presidential elections, but that doesn't mean they don't have an opinion. See what some Stockholmers think, and chime in with your own views on The Local's Have Your Say. READ »

Swedish 'descendants' vote Republican

National: 4 Nov 12
While a majority of Swedes are rooting for Barack Obama, Americans living in towns with Swedish origins overwhelmingly vote Republican. READ »

'This is how Cubans are treated everyday': Modig

National: 10 Aug 12
Swedish youth politician Aron Modig was interrogated by Cuban authorities for five days after the car crash that claimed the lives of two renowned critics of the Castro regime. READ »

Swedish youth politician injured in Cuba car crash

National: 23 Jul 12
Swedish politician Aron Modig, the current chair of the Christian Democrats youth wing, has been injured in a car crash on Cuba which claimed the lives of two renowned critics of the Castro regime. READ »

Experts baffled after first dive to Baltic 'shipwreck'

Science & Technology: 17 Jun 12
The plot thickens around the Baltic mystery "ship", as a first dive has been made down to the object which made headlines around the globe when it was discovered a year ago. READ »

Swedes targeted in 'Anonymous' hack

Business & Money: 27 Dec 11
Dozens of Swedes, including staff at government agencies and telecoms giant Ericsson, had their personal data exposed after a breach at US-based security company, reportedly carried out by activist hacking group Anonymous. READ »

CIA-backed IT firm offers view into the future

Science & Technology: 27 Sep 11
A CIA-backed Swedish-American company claims that it's new technology can predict disease, terrorist threats, economic swings and resource shortages. The Local’s Karen Holst explores. READ »

'We were all Americans, at least for a while'

Analysis & Opinion: 9 Sep 11
On the tenth anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terror attacks, The Local reaches out to a few Swedes and Americans for their thoughts about the attacks and their impact. READ »

Swedish inmates complain over 'poor TV'

Society: 17 Aug 11
Inmates at a detention centre in Kalmar, in southern Sweden, have written a letter of complaint to the board about the "poor channel selection" on the centre TVs. READ »

Yemeni blogger seeks asylum in Sweden

National: 15 Jun 11
A Yemeni blogger who has received death threats for criticising President Ali Abdullah Saleh has applied for asylum in Sweden amid mounting political violence in the country. READ »

Swede provides 'proof' in Obama birth debate

National: 29 Apr 11
A Swedish woman may have provided the last piece in a the puzzle to help settle the long-running controversy surrounding where US president Barack Obama was born. READ »

Live Blog: post-election developments

National: 22 Sep 10
Latest: The Liberal Party - and by extension the Alliance - has missed out one seat it needed to gain in Gothenburg to the Social Democrats - by just four votes. READ »

World's press hails 'fairytale romance'

Society: 20 Jun 10
Sweden’s royal wedding has made a major mark on media outlets around the world, although its impact has been greatly diminished by a boycott on the part of three leading international news agencies. 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 »

Turkish ambassador returns to Sweden

Politics: 25 Mar 10
Turkey has announced that its ambassador will return to Sweden, despite a vote by parliament in Stockholm to recognize as genocide the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks. READ »

US 'Jihad Jane' linked to plot to kill cartoonist

National: 10 Mar 10
An American woman known as "Jihad Jane" was charged by US authorities on Tuesday with conspiring to kill Swedish Muhammad cartoonist Lars Vilks. READ »

Swede held in Pakistan on terror suspicions

National: 10 Dec 09
A Swedish national is reportedly among five terror suspects arrested in Pakistan on suspicions of plotting a militant attack, Pakistani authorities said on Wednesday. READ »

Woods' Swedish wife in car crash rescue

Sport: 28 Nov 09
Tiger Woods' Swedish wife Elin Nordegren came to the rescue of her sporting superstar husband with a golf club after he was involved in a car crash outside his Florida home on Friday. READ »

Malmström handed weighty policy portfolio

Politics: 27 Nov 09
Incoming Swedish EU commissioner Cecilia Malmström has been offered the substantial portfolio covering the police, migration and organized crime, EU Commission President Manuel Barroso announced on Friday. READ »

Sweden mourns death of Michael Jackson

Society: 26 Jun 09
Pop music fans and musicians in Sweden were reeling on Friday following news of the unexpected death of Michael Jackson, who died suddenly on Thursday in Los Angeles at the age of 50. 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 »

Options abound for watching US elections in Sweden

Society: 28 Oct 08
With only a week to go before the US presidential election, Americans living Sweden, political junkies, as well as the merely curious are already making plans for how and where they plan to watch the historic vote. READ »

Interview: Lars Vilks

Lifestyle: 10 Mar 08
Swedish artist Lars Vilks sparked international controversy last summer when several Swedish newspapers published his drawings portraying the Muslim prophet Muhammad as a so-called roundabout dog. Rami Abdelrahman caught up with him at a seminar on International Women's Day. READ »

Triathlete to swim from Sweden to Lithuania

Society: 13 Jul 07
A Lithuanian triathlete has announced plans to embark on a potentially world record breaking swim from Kalmar in Sweden to the coast of his home country. READ »

Swedish television viewers sold short on Iraq

Analysis & Opinion: 2 Jul 07
Swedish public television would do well to avoid casting doubt on a legitimate story of US soldiers and their Iraqi allies uncovering fresh evidence of the horrific criminality of the ousted regime, argues Billy McCormac of think-tank Timbro. READ »

Ericsson in partnership with Turner Broadcasting

Business & Money: 5 Feb 07
Swedish mobile technology maker Ericsson has announced a partnership with the owner of CNN and the Cartoon Network to deliver news and programming to mobile phones. READ »

Two Swedes die in California plane crash

National: 9 Feb 06
A light aircraft crash near San Diego claimed the lives of two Swedes, it has been reported. Their Cessna aircraft collided in mid-air with another plane. READ »

Swedish doctors "wrote illegal ADHD prescriptions"

Science & Technology: 5 Feb 05
Sweden's state-owned pharmacy, Apoteket, has lost control over the distribution of Concerta, a variety of the Ritalin drug for children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. READ »

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