May 27, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Flen":
National: 1 Apr 12
A 42-year-old man was arrested on Saturday evening on suspicion of attempted murder after hitting another man in the head with an axe in Flen in eastern Sweden.
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National: 3 Nov 11
A devout Muslim was kicked off a train bound for Flen, south of Stockholm, in May, after failing to show his ticket to the conductor as he was deep in prayer.
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National: 20 May 11
A prestigious auction house in central Stockholm was robbed around midday on Friday when two masked robbers ran in and ordered the shocked clients to drop to the ground.
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National: 18 May 11
A branch of Handelsbanken in Flen in eastern Sweden was robbed on Wednesday morning by masked men armed with machine guns. Police later issued a nationwide-alert in hopes of catching the perpetrators.
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National: 10 May 11
A Muslim group plans to turn a church into a mosque after Swedish pentecostalists decided to sell a superfluous property in a display of "Christian love".
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National: 23 Dec 10
Train traffic on southbound lines out of Stockholm came to a complete halt on Thursday afternoon, while many roads were impassable.
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Politics: 21 Oct 09
Stockholm-area taxpayers help fund the rest of Sweden to the tune of 14 billion kronor ($2 billion) a year to put the country’s municipalities on an equal financial footing.
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Society: 28 Jan 09
Hurtful gossip about teachers and staff published on a blog by two girls from a middle school in central Sweden have led to the filing of a defamation claim with Sweden’s Chancellor of Justice.
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Business & Money: 14 Mar 08
Officials in a small Swedish town have tired of receiving junk mail and will in future return any unwanted post to the sender.
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National: 6 Dec 07
Inhabitants of an eastern Swedish village have lost the battle to shed the name Fjuckby.
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Society: 12 Apr 07
An order has been issued to destroy a dam built by beavers near a town in central Sweden, after the construction forced dirty water into a water works, threatening residents' drinking supplies.
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National: 7 Mar 07
The Swedish Migration Board is setting up four new units to handle a marked increase in the number of asylum applications to the country. The units will focus on asylum seekers from Iraq and Somalia.
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Society: 27 Feb 07
Residents of Fjuckby, keen to put their village back on the map with a name less likely to arouse ridicule, have had their appeal for a name change turned down.
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National: 14 Dec 06
The people of Fjuckby have finally taken a stand against the "ridicule, teasing and hilarity" that is their daily lot.
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Politics: 3 Oct 06
Among the new recruits to the Riksdag is one woman who moved to Sweden only 14 years ago. As granddaughter of the last Austrian emperor and a keen European, Walburga Habsburg Douglas hopes to bring a different perspective.
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National: 17 Jun 06
Swedish prime minister Göran Persson was formally accused on Friday of breaking the law in relation to the building of his new house in Sörmland.
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Politics: 10 Aug 05
All Göran Persson wants from his new house in the country is a bit of peace and quiet. But as the plans are made public he comes under fire from political commentators who say he's lost touch with the people, and from architects who say the design is dull.
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Politics: 29 Apr 05
Sweden's security police has demanded secrecy around the plans for Göran Persson's new manor house in Södermanland, despite the normal policy of allowing the public access to plans for all new buildings.
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Smörgåsbord: 13 Aug 04
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