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National: 20 Dec 12
Sweden’s Queen Silvia appeared in a new video released on Thursday in which she offers her final comments on the investigation into her father’s alleged Nazi connections.
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Business & Money: 24 Oct 12
After an investigative Swedish TV programme claimed H&M paid “low” factory wages in Cambodia, the clothing giant has blasted the show and the claims, explaining that they are in fact working hard to raise local salaries.
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Business & Money: 24 Oct 12
Swedish clothes giant H&M has been accused of using suppliers in Cambodia that underpay their textile workers. But the company counters the workers have unions and collective agreements.
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National: 19 Oct 12
The Parken Zoo animal park in central Sweden has suspended its head zookeeper for misleading statements about the killing of endangered animals at the zoo in a widening scandal that has prompted a response from the authorities.
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Society: 17 Oct 12
A zoo in eastern Sweden has come under fire for reportedly putting down animals and claiming they had simply been transferred to another zoo, misleading information the zoo now regrets sharing.
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Society: 20 Jan 12
Sweden's Queen Silvia was reportedly "shattered" following an investigative journalism report criticizing the findings of a probe meant to clear the air regarding her father's Nazi connections.
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Analysis & Opinion: 5 Dec 11
The Swedish media's obsession with investigating the ties Queen Silvia's father had to the Nazis during the Third Reich is misplaced, argues former Royal Court information secretary Juan Navas.
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National: 2 Nov 11
Over 19,000 children attending pre-schools in Sweden 2008-2010 were injured so badly that they required emergency care, according to figures releases on Tuesday.
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Society: 9 Aug 11
Queen Silvia has revealed that her father conducted a business deal with a prominent Jewish businessman whereby he took over his company in Berlin in 1939 and thereby facilitated the man's emigration from Nazi Germany.
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National: 18 May 11
Swedish defence firm Saab has announced that it intends to investigate new allegations that a secret payment of over 50 million kronor was paid to an advisor in the deal to sell JAS Gripen aircraft to South Africa.
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Society: 15 May 11
Sweden's Queen Silvia has announced that she intends to investigate reports of her father's alleged links with Nazism.
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Society: 9 May 11
Leading members of the Salvation Army in Sweden told an undercover journalist that “homosexual sex is a sin” and offered to ask God to help "free" the reporter from the condition.
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National: 20 Oct 10
Sweden's National Board of Health and Welfare will review the care former foreign minister Anna Lindh received after she was stabbed in central Stockholm in September 2003.
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Sport: 3 Oct 10
Players, coaches and referees plying their trade in the Swedish Allsvenskan top flight are increasingly becoming the target of threats from supporters, often from their own clubs.
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Business & Money: 30 Sep 10
Disgruntled savers from a small Swedish community flooded into a Jönköping court on Thursday to follow the case of Habo Finans, an investment firm which folded taking the savings of almost 780 people with it.
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National: 29 Sep 10
Karolinska University Hospital has requested an inquiry into the care it gave former foreign minister Anna Lindh after her fatal stabbing in September 2003.
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Society: 22 Mar 10
Clubbers and partygoers in Stockholm consume around 3,000 doses of cocaine per weekend night, according to tests on the city's sewage water.
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National: 1 Nov 09
Almost one in five Swedes aged under 30 think that George W Bush's US government lay behind the attacks on September 11th 2001, according to a new survey.
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National: 25 Oct 09
Tobacco company Swedish Match has been accused of adding a substance to moist snuff or 'snus' to purposely increase user dependency and, in turn, boosts sales of their products.
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Politics: 12 Oct 09
Former Social Democratic justice minister Thomas Bodström has been accused of abandoning his duties as a member of the Riksdag in favour of high paying engagements as a trial attorney.
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National: 28 Sep 09
For the past 25 years the Swedish Security Service has been sitting on documents attesting to the innocence of a man charged in Sweden with espionage in 1983, a new investigation has revealed.
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Analysis & Opinion: 4 Nov 08
The field of complementary and alternative medicine is misguided at best and may even be dangerous, agues Joel Jansson.
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National: 3 Nov 08
Nearly 95 percent of violent crimes and robberies committed in Sweden go unsolved, and an individual police officer solves an average of three crimes per year, according to a recent analysis.
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Education: 10 Mar 08
At least 75 convicted sex criminals have worked as substitutes in Swedish schools and daycare centers since 2003.
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Society: 19 Sep 07
Police have raided the house of prizewinning TV reporter Trond Sefastsson, following allegations of fraud, making illegal threats and bribery. TV4's CEO described the move as "an extraordinary abuse of justice".
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Society: 28 Sep 06
A senior Swedish officer has been accused of risking national security after hard-core porn was found in his possession. Major General Tony Stigsson made himself vulnerable to blackmail, it is alleged.
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National: 19 Jan 06
Three activists clambered up the facade of the head office of Findus on Thursday morning, protesting against the company's alleged sale of cod caught illegally.
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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.
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