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Ikea also used Cuban prison labour: report

Business & Money: 3 May 12
As Swedish furniture retailer Ikea probes revelations about the use of East German prisoners labour, new allegations emerged Thursday indicating the home furnishings giant also used Cuban prisoners to build furniture in the 1980s. READ »

Swedish team finds eggs from birdlike dinosaurs

Science & Technology: 7 Apr 12
A team of Argentine-Swedish researchers has reported finding fossilized bones and eggs from a giant-clawed birdlike dinosaur in a 70 million-year-old pocket in Patagonia. READ »

Cuba follows Sweden to combat prostitution

Society: 11 Nov 11
Cuba is mulling Sweden's model for fighting prostitution whereby buyers of sex are penalized rather than the sex workers, a Cuban sexologist said Thursday. READ »

Ex-politicians cash in on early pensions pay out

Business & Money: 21 Sep 11
During the first half of 2011 more than 450 former local politicians shared a total of 42 million kronor ($6.3 million) in "temporary" early retirement pensions pay out, according to a new report. READ »

The Local’s Quick Guide to Stockholm's Culture Festival 2011

Lifestyle: 15 Aug 11
As the Stockholm Culture Festival gets set to kick on Tuesday, The Local's Caroline Bursell offers up a few suggestions to help visitors get the most out of the Swedish capital's annual cultural odessy. READ »

Bolt sprints to victory in Stockholm

Sport: 30 Jul 11
World and Olympic champion sprinter Usain Bolt sprinted to victory in the 200m during Friday's Diamond League competition in Stockholm. READ »

UK court defers Assange extradition appeal

National: 14 Jul 11
Judges in the UK High Court on Wednesday deferred their decision an appeal by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange against his extradition to Sweden to face allegations of rape and sexual assault. READ »

Sweden slams Assange team over appeal

National: 13 Jul 11
Lawyers representing Swedish prosecutors accused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's representatives of having a "19th century" attitude to sexual consent as they opposed the Australian's bid to have an extradition order overturned. READ »

WikiLeaks slams paper after Gitmo Swede leak

National: 27 Apr 11
Whistleblower website WikiLeaks has slammed a Swedish tabloid as 'corrupt and politicized' the day after it published a scoop on Swedish Guantanamo detainee Mehdi Ghezali. READ »

US held Swedish terror suspect 'for information'

National: 26 Apr 11
Swedish citizen Mehdi Ghezali was held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, not because he had committed a crime, but to provide information about terrorist recruiting methods, according to documents made public by WikiLeaks. READ »

Unsolved Palme murder still hurts after 25 years

Analysis & Opinion: 28 Feb 11
Twenty-five years after Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was gunned down in central Stockholm, many Swedes still consider the murder an open wound, the AFP's Nina Larsson discovers. READ »

Death penalty 'unlikely' for Assange: experts

Politics: 9 Feb 11
Claims by lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange that extradition to the United States could land him in the Guantanamo Bay prison camp or on death row are "impossible", according to experts. READ »

WikiLeaks' conspiracy theories laid bare

Analysis & Opinion: 7 Feb 11
As WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange enters the next round of his legal battle stemming from sex crime allegations in Sweden, The Local’s Karen Holst takes a look at some of the conspiracy theories surrounding Assange and his secret-divulging website. READ »

What's On in Sweden: December 24th - 30th

Lifestyle: 23 Dec 10
What’s on in Sweden: Charles Dickens classic and new circus in Stockholm, Balkan beats in Gothenburg and electronica in Malmö. READ »

New details emerge about Assange accusers

National: 19 Dec 10
As WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange vows to fight against his extradition from the UK to Sweden, police reports have shed more light on the women and the events at the centre of the sex crime allegations against him. READ »

Medicine Nobel winner bows out of ceremony

National: 4 Dec 10
The 2010 Nobel laureate in medicine will not attend the December 10th Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm, the Nobel Foundation announced in a statement on Friday. China's ambassador to Sweden has also declined his invitation. READ »

'Eat, Pray, Love' thinking a 'feminist challenge'

Analysis & Opinion: 26 Nov 10
While there are certainly benefits to positive thinking, Swedish feminist Jenny Sonesson argues that women might not have the right to vote today if suffragettes had been satisfied writing gratitude diaries. READ »

What's On in Sweden: October 8th - 14th

Lifestyle: 6 Oct 10
What’s on in Sweden: Fringe Festival and ice hockey in Stockholm, John Cleese silly walks into Gothenburg, and the sound of the Theremin haunts Malmö. READ »

What's On in Sweden: October 1st - 7th

Lifestyle: 30 Sep 10
What’s on in Sweden: Madchester and Action Impro in Stockholm, Open Culture in Gothenburg and The Red Sparowes fly into to Malmö. READ »

Sweden Democrats slam unions over freeze out

Politics: 29 Sep 10
Active Sweden Democrats will not be allowed to be members in one of Sweden's main healthcare professionals unions, the chair of the labour group said on Wednesday, prompting claims from the party that they are "politically corrupt." READ »

What's On in Sweden: August 20th - 26th

Lifestyle: 19 Aug 10
What’s on in Sweden: Magnificent men and their flying machines in Stockholm, midnight runners in Gothenburg, and it's festival time in Malmö. READ »

Liberals slam Left Party for dictatorship aid

National: 5 Jul 10
Liberal Party MP and foreign affairs spokesperson Fredrik Malm has accused the Left Party of funneling millions of kronor in development aid to leftist authoritarian and totalitarian regimes and causes. READ »

What's On in Sweden: July 2nd - July 8th

Lifestyle: 30 Jun 10
What’s on in Sweden: John Fogerty in Stockholm, Beach Volleyball in Gothenburg and a Cuban concert in Malmö. READ »

Swedish MPs take Disneyland 'study' tour

Politics: 18 Mar 10
Swedish parliament rules providing for expenses paid educational trips up to a value of 50,000 kronor ($7,000) per annum have prompted three Social Democrat MPs to use the system to 'study tourism' at California's Disneyland. READ »

What's on in Sweden: November 6 - 12

Lifestyle: 4 Nov 09
What's on in Sweden: Selam African festival & gospel munificence in Stockholm; Cirque du Soleil and MJ Thriller in Gothenburg; Oumou Sangaré in Malmö/Lund. READ »

American filmmakers take a crack at Swedish Midsummer

Lifestyle: 30 Sep 09
As Swedish cinemas prepare for Friday's opening of the romantic comedy “Äntligen Midsommar” ('Finally Midsummer'), The Local spoke with Ian McCrudden and Schif Musarra about how a pair of American filmmakers ended up making one very Swedish movie. READ »

Sweden confirms Pakistan arrests

National: 13 Sep 09
Sweden's foreign ministry confirmed on Saturday that three Swedes have been arrested in Pakistan. READ »

Swedish business incubator Iqube closes its doors

Business & Money: 11 Sep 09
A high-profile business incubator that many hoped would bring forward a new generation of Swedish entrepreneurs has shut its doors. READ »

'Guantánamo Swede' arrested in Pakistan

National: 11 Sep 09
One of the three Swedish nationals arrested nearly two weeks ago in Pakistan is Mehdi Ghezali, a former terror suspect who was released from the United States’ Guantánamo Bay prison in 2004. READ »

Three babies die of bacterial infection

Science & Technology: 1 Sep 09
Three newborn children have died at Västerås hospital in central Sweden following infection with a strain of multiresistant bacteria. READ »

What's on in Sweden: August 7 -13

Lifestyle: 6 Aug 09
What's on in Sweden: Culture Festival and new circus in Stockholm; International jazz festival in Gothenburg; Soha (Fr/DZ) & Festival for Gaza in Malmö. READ »

What's on in Sweden: June 12 - 18

Lifestyle: 11 Jun 09
What's on in Sweden: Neil Young & Ikea exhibition in Stockholm; Euro 2009 U-21 football in Gothenburg; Orchestra Baobab in Malmö. READ »

What's on in Sweden: March 27 - April 2

Lifestyle: 26 Mar 09
What's on in Sweden: English pop quiz and Soha in Stockholm; Jazz festival in Gothenburg; Bob Dylan & Jenny Wilson in Malmö. READ »

Swedish court grants asylum to ex-Guantanamo prisoner

National: 18 Feb 09
A Swedish court has overturned a deportation order for a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner from China. READ »

The Local's Winter Concert Guide: 20 shows worth seeing

Lifestyle: 28 Nov 08
Looking for some tips about where to go for live music in Sweden this winter? Omri Grinberg offers a number of enticing options to warm up the cool Swedish winter, including Abalone Dots, Katy Perry and Sebastien Tellier. READ »

Would you ever consider becoming a Swedish citizen?

Analysis & Opinion: 26 Nov 08
Ever week we ask a panel of readers to give their views on a particular issue concerning the international community. This week we wonder whether the panelists are keen to get their hands on a Swedish passport. READ »

The Panel: Claudia Tenenblat

Lifestyle: 1 Oct 08
Get acquainted with the members of our regular readers panel. READ »

'Swedish aid to challenge the world's dictatorships'

Politics: 27 Sep 08
The government has announced that it plans changes to pro-democracy aid. Aid minister Gunilla Carlsson warned that changes to working practices will strike fear among the world's dictatorships. READ »

Castro in show of solidarity with disgraced taekwando star

Sport: 26 Aug 08
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro on Monday defended the former Olympic taekwando champion who kicked a Swedish referee in the head at the weekend. READ »

Swedish taekwondo ref kicked in the head

Sport: 25 Aug 08
The sport of taekwondo's Olympic future is in doubt after a Swedish referee was kicked in the head on Saturday by a disgruntled competitor. READ »

What’s on in Sweden: August 22 - 28

Lifestyle: 21 Aug 08
What’s on: Peace concert and vaudeville theatre in Stockholm; theatre, dance & midnight running in Gothenburg and festival time in Malmö. READ »

Klüft falls short in triple jump qualifying

Sport: 15 Aug 08
Sweden's reigning Olympic heptathlon champion Carolina Klüft failed in her attempt to reach the triple jump final at the Beijing Games on Friday. READ »

The Local's guide to Sweden's Olympic favourites

Sport: 6 Aug 08
With the official opening of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games just days away, The Local offers readers a quick guide to some of Sweden’s medal hopefuls. READ »

Gothenburg club and concert tips: July 25 - 26

Lifestyle: 24 Jul 08
Looking to go out in Gothenburg this weekend? Monthly Magazine has the answers. READ »

Christian Olsson injury mars DN Gala track meet

National: 23 Jul 08
A thigh muscle injury to Christian Olsson, the defending Olympic triple jump champion, soured the DN Gala for Swedish fans in Stockholm on Tuesday. Olsson will now miss out on Beijing and his career could be over. READ »

What’s on in Sweden: July 18 – 24

Lifestyle: 17 Jul 08
What’s on: Ice Cube and international athletics in Stockholm, Mamma Mia! in Gothenburg, Solomon Burke and international dance & street festival in Malmö. READ »

Inequality thrives in Stockholm's embassy world

Society: 18 Jun 08
Stockholm's diplomatic community is shot through with gender inequality, according to an analysis of official figures carried out by The Local. READ »

Swedish jazz star dies in diving accident

Society: 16 Jun 08
One of Sweden's most prominent jazz musicians, Esbjörn Svensson, has died following a diving accident in the Stockholm archipelago. READ »

Left Party in favour of file sharing

Politics: 9 Jun 08
The Left Party has changed its tune about file sharing, having decided at its party congress that file sharing should be allowed for personal use. READ »

Swedish woman among missing divers in Indonesia

National: 6 Jun 08
A Swedish woman is one of five European divers missing in seas off remote islands in Indonesia. READ »

What's on in Sweden: May 30 - June 5

Lifestyle: 29 May 08
What’s on in Sweden: May 30th – June 5th. Stockholm marathon, folk music in Gothenburg, Salsa dancing in Malmö. READ »

WHO adopts Swedish alcohol resolution

Politics: 25 May 08
The WHO has announced the adoption of a Sweden-backed global alcohol resolution at its annual World Health Assembly which was concluded in Geneva on Saturday. READ »

Swedes enjoy 'Jesus in Guantanamo'

Society: 3 May 08
A comedy show entitled 'Jesus: The Guantanamo Years' by Irish comedian Abie Philbin Bowman has proved a hit with Swedes on YouTube. READ »

Communism new focus for history agency

National: 10 Mar 08
Sweden's Living History Forum has launched a project to highlight crimes against humanity committed by communist regimes. READ »

Something for the weekend: Footloose, electro and a Pulitzer nominated play

Lifestyle: 22 Feb 08
Something for the weekend: Footloose runs in Stockholm, British electro band Client play Malmö and the Pulitzer-nominated play Blue Surge opens in Gothenburg. READ »

Bildt welcomes Castro resignation

Politics: 19 Feb 08
Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said on Tuesday that Fidel Castro's decision to give up Cuba's presidency would enable the island nation to shift towards democracy. READ »

Three Swedish women under house arrest in Cuba

Politics: 10 Dec 07
Three young Swedish women have been placed under house arrest in Cuba. READ »

Jenny Lind 'scarecrow' expected to fetch thousands

Lifestyle: 21 Nov 07
A ship's figurehead depicting Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind was kept for years as a scarecrow on a farm near Gothenburg. READ »

The Swedish E-Vikings are back

Analysis & Opinion: 23 Oct 07
New Swedish companies are bursting with ideas in IT and biotech. It's time for international investors to sit up and take notice, says leading entrepreneur Johan Staël von Holstein. READ »

Learning Swedish: accept no substitutes

Lifestyle: 10 Oct 07
Swedes might speak great English, but there's no substitute for getting your tongue around the Swedish language. Fiona Basile finds that learning the lingo needn't be a nightmare. READ »

How persistent can a failed ideology be?

Analysis & Opinion: 27 Aug 07
Ninety percent of Swedish students aged 15-20 do not know what a gulag was, and some still insist that schools should not teach about the crimes of communism. How long will the elites continue defending a failed ideology, asks Captus's Nima Sanandaji. READ »

Guantánamo Swede gives up case against US

National: 14 Aug 07
A Swedish former Guantánamo Bay prisoner has given up on attempts to sue the United States government for damages. Mehdi Ghezali was imprisoned in the American military base on Cuba for more than two years. READ »

'Enemy combatant' lived in Sweden

National: 14 Aug 07
A man who previously lived in Sweden as an asylum seeker, and is now imprisoned in Guantánamo Bay, has been officially classed by US authorities as an 'enemy combatant'. READ »

Sweden 'risks becoming terror base'

National: 6 Aug 07
Sweden's security service, Säpo, has warned that the country risks becoming a base for recruitment of terrorists. READ »

Beans, sandals and Japanese tea ceremonies

Lifestyle: 31 Jul 07
Tipping Point: Kathleen Harman enjoys a Japanese tea ceremony, eschews beans and brown rice and savours the bijoux charms of Stockholm's Ethnographic Museum. READ »

Pregnant in Sweden - I'll drink to that

Lifestyle: 11 Jul 07
While recently awaiting the arrival of a new baby, Elizabeth Dacey-Fondelius found herself not so much restricted by her bulging belly as by the opinions of those around her - especially when it came to alcohol consumption. READ »

Revealed: CIA spied on Swedish 'extremists'

Politics: 27 Jun 07
Documents released this week by the CIA have revealed that the agency sent spies to Stockholm in the early 1970s to gather information on Swedish 'efforts to support domestic US extremism'. READ »

Cuba blocks Swedish alcohol demands

Society: 24 May 07
Swedish attempts to get the international community to adopt a tough strategy to curb alcohol abuse have been blocked by Cuba at the World Health Organization. READ »

Michael Moore attacks Sweden's healthcare reforms

Society: 21 May 07
Filmmaker Michael Moore has attacked the Swedish government for opening up the health service to the private sector. This shows how little he knows about Swedish healthcare, says MP Johan Pehrson. READ »

Swedish Castro broadcast 'too positive' about dictator

Society: 16 Apr 07
An evening of documentaries and discussions on SVT 'celebrating' the 80th birthday of Fidel Castro were biased, according a ruling from the Swedish Broadcasting Commission. READ »

Swedish-Cuban diplomatic spat escalates

Politics: 23 Mar 07
Sweden and Cuba remain at loggerheads after a war of war of words led to what Carl Bildt has described as a "diplomatic crisis". READ »

Sweden and Cuba in diplomatic crisis

Politics: 21 Mar 07
Diplomatic ties between Sweden and Cuba are fraught following suspicions that Cuba may have opened Swedish diplomatic post. A Cuban UN delegate has also accused Sweden of ethnic cleansing. READ »

The Swede who puts Madonna and Gore on the spot

Lifestyle: 16 Mar 07
Sweden's top interviewer Stina Lundberg Dabrowski tells Christine Demsteader about asking awkward questions of Madonna, discovering Margaret Thatcher's sense of humour and her 20-year pursuit of Fidel Castro. READ »

USA confiscates Swedish aid money

National: 15 Jan 07
When Swedish trade union confederation LO-TCO tried to send aid money to Liberia it saw the payment blocked by an American bank. READ »

US law bans Cubans from Swedish hotels

National: 4 Jan 07
American-owned Swedish hotels have policies to turn away official delegations from Cuba due to US laws. The issue came to light after a Scandic hotel in Norway refused to admit Cuban trade representatives. READ »

Recharge with a Swedish winter weekend

Travel: 15 Dec 06
Is the darkness of winter getting you down? Time to recharge those flickering energy reserves. Elizabeth Dacey-Fondelius has top tips for winter breaks near Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö. READ »

Castro tributes reveal Swedish journalists' bias

Analysis & Opinion: 11 Dec 06
When Swedish public TV channel SVT broadcast a series of programmes praising Fidel Castro's reign in Cuba it showed that Swedish journalism's left-wing bias remains, argues Nima Sanandaji. READ »

Television chief regrets evening with Castro

National: 5 Dec 06
SVT regrets showing a four-hour Fidel Castro marathon with no dissenting voices. "We should have been clearer about the fact that Cuba is a dictatorship", said boss Eva Hamilton. READ »

Storm grows over Swedish TV's Castro night

National: 2 Dec 06
Criticism of SVT's Fidel Castro theme night is growing. Now, several national newspapers' editorials have attacked the TV special linked to the Cuban dictator's 80th birthday celebrations. READ »

Pro boxing returns to Sweden

Sport: 29 Nov 06
The first pro boxing gala in Sweden for 26 years has been given a licence by the national Martial Arts Delegation. But the match will follow stricter rules than those laid down by the international federations. READ »

Swedes drown at Cuban resort

National: 20 Nov 06
Two Swedes have died after apparently getting caught in currents while bathing in the sea off Cuba. There were heavy currents in the area, and a red flag was flying. READ »

Hultsfred sets off a rocking Swedish summer

Lifestyle: 2 Jun 06
While there will be music for all tastes, those who like their music loud and heavy will be particularly well catered for in June, with Lordi, Def Leppard and Alice Cooper all putting in appearances in Sweden. READ »

Stockholm Syndrome: Sporting loyalty

Analysis & Opinion: 1 Mar 06
Sweden's success in the Winter Olympics turns a diverse bunch of immigrants into yellow-and-blue-flag-waving vikings (sort of) - but does that make them any more Swedish? READ »

Stockholm Syndrome: Networking is not working

Analysis & Opinion: 15 Dec 05
Not since Rubik's Cube has there been a fad more time-consuming and pointless than networking. But, as our Stockholm Syndrome correspondent discovers, everyone's at it. READ »

Stockholm Syndrome: Nothing private about property

Analysis & Opinion: 9 Dec 05
Sweden's property fad comes to the language class - giving our Stockholm Syndrome correspondent useful vocab for the bizarre experience of a Swedish apartment viewing. READ »

CIA plane story unfounded - Freivalds

National: 18 Nov 05
SEE ALSO: Sweden begins "quick" CIA plane investigation
Foreign minister Laila Freivalds has dismissed claims that CIA planes could have landed at Swedish airports, saying "the whole story is as flat as a pancake". The media aren't so sure. READ »

Sweden begins "quick" CIA plane investigation

Smörgåsbord: 17 Nov 05
Sweden launches an investigation after reports that planes used by the CIA landed at Swedish airports. And the government wants the report back within three weeks. READ »

Political storm grows over CIA planes

Politics: 16 Nov 05
The news that aircraft used by America's CIA touched down at several of Sweden's airports has not gone down well with the government's coalition partners, the Left Party and the Greens. No comment, says the Prime Minister. READ »

CIA planes used Swedish airports

National: 14 Nov 05
At least two planes used by the CIA have landed at Swedish airports, according to news agency TT. Arlanda, Örebro, Sturup and Bromma airports have all hosted the organisation's aircraft. READ »

Stockholm Syndrome: Teacher training

Analysis & Opinion: 21 Oct 05
There's shock for our Stockholm Syndrome correspondent's Swedish class this week as their popular teacher announces that he is moving on. READ »

Sweden "made promises" over Guantanamo release

National: 27 Sep 05
"No guarantees" said the Swedish government when Mehdi Ghezali was released from the Guantanamo base on Cuba. But according to a TV programme, Sweden agreed to keep Ghezali under observation and to report back to the United States. READ »

Sweden's boxing ban on the ropes

Sport: 6 Sep 05
A government report two years ago dealt the first blow to Sweden's ban on professional boxing. Now, as other combat sports grow in popularity, a proposal from the Ministry of Justice threatens to deliver a knockout. READ »

Swedes warned to cancel Sinai trips

National: 23 Jul 05
The Swedish foreign ministry warns travellers to cancel any planned trips to the Sinai peninsula following bombings in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh that killed at least 88 people. READ »

New sex disease diagnosed in Stockholm

Science & Technology: 18 Jul 05
A sexually transmitted disease that has already infected hundreds of people in the rest of Europe has found its way to Stockholm. Three men have so far been diagnosed with the disease, which is related to chlamydia. READ »

Vatican slams Sweden on religious freedom

Society: 30 Jun 05
A report from the Catholic Church has said that religious freedom in Sweden is under threat. The prosecution of anti-gay pastor Åke Green has put Sweden on a Catholic blacklist with China and Nigeria. READ »

"Prisoner of Guantanamo" Ghezali to sue Rumsfeld

National: 17 Mar 05
Mehdi Ghezali, who spent over two years in the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison camp, is set to sue US Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld "for millions". Coincidentally, a new book is out, detailing his story from arrest in Pakistan to his special Säpo home-coming in Örebro. READ »

Swedish troops to join EU strike force

Politics: 25 Nov 04
The Green Party clarifies its opposition to an EU army by supporting the government's proposal to commit Swedish soldiers to an EU army, while the leader of the Left Party explains how "Sweden has become an accessory to the violence against Iraqi civilians". READ »

Ohly?s communist admission causes Left Party rumpus

Politics: 6 Oct 04
He blocked an apology to victims of Stalin's camps, and still proudly calls himself a commmunist. So is Lars Ohly fit to lead the Left Party? READ »

Guantanamo Swede seeks damages

National: 23 Jul 04
Mehdi Ghezali speaks out against his American captors and the Swedish government, defends his actions in 2001 - and wants some cash. READ »


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