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Society: 23 Feb 13
Sweden's youngest princess and heir to the throne celebrated her first birthday on Saturday, but the party will be a private affair.
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Science & Technology: 6 Feb 13
A surge of patients suffering from infectious diseases has forced Karolinska University Hospital near Stockholm to postpone planned operations due to a lack of available nurses and beds.
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National: 15 Jan 13
Officials remain baffled as to why a cleaning lady commandeered a train in the upscale Stockholm suburb of Saltsjöbaden early Tuesday morning and crashed it into a house, where it remains while crews work out how to safely remove the wreckage.
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Society: 30 Dec 12
A Stockholm nursing home has been accused of severe neglect after a 95-year-old resident was rushed to hospital with a maggot-infested wound.
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National: 20 Nov 12
A woman in western Sweden who was arrested after police found skeletons in her apartment has now been charged for using the bones as sex toys, a hobby she claimed was motivated by an interest in history.
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Science & Technology: 2 Nov 12
Swedes who are unable to control their sexual urges have flooded a new hotline which experts say has likely enabled a number of paedophiles get help with their conditions.
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Society: 31 Oct 12
A woman who confessed to suffocating her 5-month-old child with the family's copy of the Koran is on trial in western Sweden, with her defense team arguing she had a psychotic breakdown, possibly due to postpartum depression.
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National: 30 Aug 12
The mother of a two-month old infant who was found dead in a home near Nyköping in eastern Sweden on Thursday is suspected of killing her own child before injuring herself.
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National: 22 Aug 12
Three people were stabbed after a local man went berserk with a knife in a small community in the Stockholm archipelago on Wednesday.
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National: 7 Aug 12
The condition of the 17-year-old girl who was shot in a northern Stockholm apartment on Monday afternoon is critical, and police have arrested the 18-year-old gunman, still in his underwear, on suspicion of attempted murder.
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National: 6 Aug 12
A man has been arrested and a woman has been taken to hospital after a shooting in Sollentuna, north of Stockholm, on Monday afternoon.
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National: 5 Jun 12
A woman has reported a midwife to the National Board of Health and Welfare after she was forced to go into childbirth on her feet while the nurse sat at a nearby table on the computer.
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Business & Money: 23 Apr 12
A record number of investors flocked to the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship Start-Up Day and have indicated that Sweden will be a hub for new start-ups in the wake of Spotify and Skype’s global success.
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Science & Technology: 7 Mar 12
A Swedish hospital has come under fire after it was reported that staff members were storing corpses “head-to-toe”, leaving the undertakers who made the discovery shocked and sickened.
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National: 23 Feb 12
The first picture of Sweden's newest princess has been released, with the Royal Court publishing the image on its official Facebook page.
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Science & Technology: 23 Feb 12
Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria was admitted to the maternity ward at Karolinska University Hospital shortly before 1am on Thursday morning.
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Education: 15 Feb 12
Stockholm beat out Helsinki and Copenhagen, as well as several other university towns in northern Europe in a ranking of the “Best Student Cities in the World” published this week.
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Business & Money: 10 Feb 12
Mats Sundin, the ex-Swedish hockey great, has made a donation supporting research into children's health at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and the University of Toronto.
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National: 23 Nov 11
A 65-year-old female guard was badly beaten by a prisoner at a south Stockholm detention centre on Wednesday morning.
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Science & Technology: 21 Nov 11
Despite tens of thousands of patients coming down with diseases caused by medications they're taking, awareness of the problem remains low at Sweden's emergency hospitals, according to a recent report.
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Science & Technology: 25 Oct 11
Several Swedish county councils are planning to pay three times as much as the current rate in order to entice more women to become egg donors, hoping to meet increasing demand.
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National: 21 Oct 11
A paediatrician charged for having caused the death of a newborn baby at Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital in 2008 has been acquitted by the Solna District Court in a case closely monitored by the Swedish medical community.
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Science & Technology: 1 Sep 11
Infants born to mothers who used moist snuff or 'snus' while pregnant are at a greater risk of suffering from apnea than children whose mothers merely smoked during gestation, a new Swedish study shows.
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Science & Technology: 30 Aug 11
Uncertainty about Swedish rules governing trade in human body parts has prompted Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm to seek guidance on its plans to buy human body parts to overcome a shortage of donated cadavers.
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National: 14 Aug 11
Two men, a 16-year-old and a 25-year-old, have been forced to surgery after a gunman began shooting in Stockholm suburb Brommaplan on Saturday evening.
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Science & Technology: 8 Jul 11
An international team of surgeons have successfully carried out the world's first transplant of a synthetic windpipe, the Stockholm hospital where the groundbreaking operation took place announced on Thursday.
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National: 25 Mar 11
Around 30 Swedish kidney patients have travelled abroad since the 1980s to have transplants using organs bought from impoverished people in foreign countries, according to an unpublished study from Karolinska University Hospital.
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National: 12 Mar 11
A 37-year-old man died in hospital after being hit by a taxi in a Stockholm suburb. Police believe the man was deliberately run over.
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Society: 28 Feb 11
An addict with a criminal past, Christer Pettersson remains the only person ever put on trial for the killing of Olof Palme, and while he was exonerated, many still consider him guilty.
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Science & Technology: 17 Feb 11
A midwife at a Stockholm-area hospital used the same needle to treat a new mother as she had for another HIV positive patient.
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Society: 12 Feb 11
The recent slippery conditions across Sweden have resulted in record overcrowding in the country's emergency rooms.
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National: 31 Jan 11
Sweden's National Board of Health and Welfare said Monday that its review of her case revealed no grounds to criticise the care administered to former foreign minister Anna Lindh, following a fatal knife attack in 2003.
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Science & Technology: 24 Jan 11
Stockholm’s Karolinska University Hospital has been criticised for its failure to address “serious” shortcomings in how it handles patient information.
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National: 6 Jan 11
A young man was found dead on the island Ekerö, just outside Stockholm. A young woman was also found severely injured.
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National: 30 Oct 10
Two masked men shot a man at a strip club in central Stockholm on Friday evening in what police believe could be a battle for market share among the city's sex clubs.
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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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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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National: 15 Sep 10
A 19-year-old man suspected of robbing a branch of Swedbank south of Stockholm on Wednesday and taking a woman hostage, was shot and wounded by police after suspicions emerged that he was carrying explosives.
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Science & Technology: 15 Sep 10
Long waiting times for the childless and unfavourable Swedish reproductive laws has spurred the opening of a new online business: a private egg and sperm donor social networking site that can arrange surrogacies.
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Science & Technology: 15 Sep 10
Swedish researchers have concluded that antidepressant medication helps to save sufferers from depression from suicide, according to a new report.
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National: 12 Apr 10
A 15-month-old boy has been badly injured after being knocked down by a reversing car at a farm near Gnesta south of Stockholm on Monday.
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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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Society: 26 Jan 10
Corpses at the morgue of the Karolinska University Hospital in Huddinge, south of Stockholm, have started to rot due to a breakdown in procedures related to renovation of the facility.
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Science & Technology: 12 Dec 09
This year 60 people have applied to change their sex in Sweden. Most gender-reassigned people achieve a better life through their surgery, but a new study shows that the risk of attempted suicide and psychological problems remains high.
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Society: 23 Oct 09
The number of suicides reported among the Swedish adult population has declined considerably and anti-depressants are credited with saving up to 500-600 lives per annum, a new study argues.
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National: 15 Oct 09
A number of motorists were left needing hospital treatment on Thursday morning as icy road conditions caused accidents across Sweden.
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Science & Technology: 28 Aug 09
A pregnant young Swedish woman is critically ill with a life-threatening lung infection that is suspected to be swine flu.
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Science & Technology: 26 Aug 09
Four Swedes are described by medical authorities as having a life-threatening condition following infection with the A/H1N1 swine flu.
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National: 8 Aug 09
The condition of the 26-year-old pregnant Scottish woman being treated for swine flu in a special ward at Karolinska Hospital is no longer life-threatening, doctors say.
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National: 8 Aug 09
Several female refugees from Africa have died of AIDS after Swedish doctors failed to test them for HIV, reports Dagens Nyheter newspaper.
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Science & Technology: 29 Jul 09
Sweden’s prestigious Karolinska University hospital has been criticized by health authorities after three newborns died from infections caused by drug-resistant bacteria.
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National: 28 Jul 09
The 13-year-old girl that was badly burned in the fire in an apartment in Rinkeby in western Stockholm on Saturday evening has died of her injuries. The fire has now claimed seven victims.
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Science & Technology: 24 Jul 09
A gravely ill pregnant woman from Britain who is suffering from the swine flu is in Sweden for treatment due to a lack of specialist beds in Britain.
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National: 21 Jul 09
There are enough respirators in Sweden's 21 counties to handle the care of the patients who have been infected by swine flu. But questions remain as to whether there are enough trained staff to operate the machines.
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Science & Technology: 20 Jul 09
Doctors at at Vrinnevi hospital in Norrköping in eastern Sweden fear for the life of the 22-year-old Swede being treated for a swine flu infection after he failed to respond to treatment.
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Science & Technology: 13 Jul 09
A new Swedish study reveals that the connection between low intelligence and increased risk of premature death becomes non-existent when individual lifestyle factors are taken into account.
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Society: 15 Jun 09
A Swedish government inquiry has proposed establishing a national abortion register and distributing free contraceptives to students over fifteen in a bid to lower the number of unwanted pregnancies and abortions.
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National: 14 Jun 09
A man was seriously injured when he was attacked by an axe-wielding man near Stockholm on Saturday. The axeman fled, crashed his car and was later found bleeding at a nearby metro station.
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National: 31 May 09
A woman in her twenties shot herself by accident during an argument on a Stockholm street on Saturday afternoon. Police now suspect attempted murder.
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National: 26 May 09
A 16-year-old boy has been arrested for the attempted murder of a 16-year-old girl at a bus stop in Upplands-Väsby near Stockholm on Monday afternoon.
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Science & Technology: 26 May 09
Patients at Karolinska University Hospital in Solna were housed last summer in the same department as those with the resistant MRSA bacteria, due to overcrowding.
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National: 25 May 09
A manhunt is underway in eastern Sweden after a 16-year-old girl was stabbed in the back at a bus stop in the town of Upplands Väsby on Monday afternoon.
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National: 11 May 09
An 81-year-old man from Norrtälje in eastern Sweden reported to police on Monday morning that he had hit his 67-year-old common law wife with an axe. The woman died from her injuries during the afternoon.
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Education: 27 Apr 09
The number of students enrolled at Swedish universities climbed in 2008 for the first time since the early 2000s, new statistics show. Foreign students account for a large part of the increase.
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National: 27 Apr 09
The 41-year-old bouncer suspected of having shot a couple in Gamla Stan in central Stockholm last Tuesday was remanded in custody on Sunday on suspicion of attempted murder.
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National: 24 Apr 09
Police confirm that they have received a wealth of tips and information about the dead baby that went missing from a Stockholm church mortuary prior to burial this week.
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National: 24 Apr 09
A second person has been detained in connection with the shooting earlier this week of a Swedish aristocrat and his girlfriend in Gamla Stan in central Stockholm.
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National: 23 Apr 09
The ex-wife of a Swedish aristocrat has been arrested on suspicions that she hired a gunman in an attempt to have her former husband and his new girlfriend killed.
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National: 22 Apr 09
Two people were shot and seriously injured in Stockholm’s historic Gamla Stan district Tuesday evening.
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Science & Technology: 16 Apr 09
A Swedish prosecutor thinks that health professionals who prescribe birth control pills to girls younger than 15-years-old should be charged as accomplices to rape.
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Science & Technology: 31 Mar 09
Claims made in a recently published Swedish study into the health benefits of suntanning have been dismissed as dangerous speculation by one of Sweden’s leading cancer researchers.
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Science & Technology: 25 Mar 09
Exposure to the sun strongly reduces the risk of suffering blood clots, a new Swedish study has shown.
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National: 15 Mar 09
Two men were stabbed in Stockholm on Saturday night. A man was found stabbed in a cellar in Skärholmen and another man was stabbed in the back in a fight on Hötorget in the centre of the city.
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National: 7 Mar 09
The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) is to open its own investigation into the death of a newborn baby at a Solna hospital as the arrest of the attending doctor sparks a storm of controversy.
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National: 27 Feb 09
All three suspects charged in the stabbing death of 23-year-old Ahmed “Romario” Ibrahim Ali were acquitted on Friday by a Stockholm-area court.
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Education: 19 Jan 09
A medical student in Lund convicted for raping a minor will not be able to gain employment within the Swedish healthcare sector without prior approval, the National Board of Health and Welfare has ruled.
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National: 18 Jan 09
A 65-year-old man died as a result of his snowmobile crashing through thin ice on a lake near Rättvik in central Sweden on Saturday evening. One of several accidents across the country over the weekend.
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National: 14 Jan 09
Karolinska University Hospital has announced that 900 jobs will be cut from its facilities in the greater Stockholm region.
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National: 29 Dec 08
Three people have been taken to hospital with serious injuries following a crash involving four cars on the E4 motorway just south of Stockholm.
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National: 26 Dec 08
The police chase for the gunman who injured three people at the Casino Cosmopol in Stockholm on Christmas Eve has so far returned little result. On Boxing Day morning the man remained on the loose.
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National: 25 Dec 08
Police were on Thursday searching for an unidentified gunman who left three people nursing gunshot wounds after he opened fire when refused entry to the Casino Cosmopol in central Stockholm on Christmas Eve.
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National: 15 Dec 08
An 18-year-old girl has died in Stockholm after overdosing on mephedrone, a drug that until now has been freely available for purchase on the internet.
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National: 17 Nov 08
A large crowd gathered in central Stockholm on Sunday for a demonstration in honour of Ahmed "Romario" Ibrahim Ali, a 23-year-old footballer stabbed to death in a Stockholm suburb last month.
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National: 28 Oct 08
The day after his funeral, friends and family of Ahmed Ibrahim are still wondering why the 23-year-old was stabbed to death in a Stockholm suburb and why the case has drawn such limited attention.
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National: 18 Oct 08
A man in his twenties was dumped at Karolinska University hospital in Solna on Saturday morning - police report that the man had been stabbed to death.
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Society: 13 Sep 08
Fast-food chain McDonald's has announced the withdrawal of musical toys sold with Happy Meals in Sweden. The toys have been widely criticized as dangerous to children's hearing.
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Society: 31 Aug 08
A cannon salute was fired in honour of the happy couple at a reception near Stockholm on Saturday. A guest was left in no mood to celebrate however as the cannon exploded and left her with a broken leg and burns.
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National: 25 Aug 08
A group of 50 animal rights activists forced a gate at the entrance to the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control in Stockholm on Monday morning.
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Society: 24 Aug 08
The number of abortions performed in Sweden increased by 17 percent between 2000 and 2007. The declining use of the contraceptive pill is to blame, experts argue.
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National: 23 Aug 08
A woman was seriously injured and a man sustained minor injuries as their home-made gyrocopter aircraft crashed in Upplands-Bro, north of Stockholm on Saturday.
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National: 22 Aug 08
A platoon commander who gave the order that led to a Swedish conscript being killed in a military exercise in the Stockholm archipelago in May has been cleared of any wrongdoing by the Armed Forces.
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Society: 11 Aug 08
A staff member at Karolinska University Hospital is to undergo an internal investigation for taking photographs of an operation and making the pictures available for viewing on social networking site Facebook.
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National: 6 Aug 08
A worker was seriously injured when an escalator fell on top of him at Stockholm’s central train station on Tuesday night.
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National: 28 Jul 08
Two men were stabbed and robbed of their mobile telephones in the Tantolunden area of Södermalm in Stockholm on Sunday night in an attack police are classifying as a hate crime.
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National: 16 Jul 08
Police have launched an investigation into a building site collapse in the Stockholm suburb of Kista which claimed the life of one man and left two in hospital on Tuesday evening.
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National: 20 May 08
A Swedish conscript has died after being shot in a military exercise in the Stockholm archipelago on Tuesday afternoon.
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National: 21 Apr 08
Health services in several parts of Sweden began redirecting ambulance traffic so that emergency rooms participating in the healthcare workers strike can close as planned at noon on Monday.
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National: 7 Apr 08
A 39-year-old man was shot in the back on Sunday night in Alby south of Stockholm.
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Science & Technology: 23 Jan 08
Young Swedish men have become so overweight that they may soon pose problems for the healthcare system, new research has shown.
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National: 25 Dec 07
A brawl involving several young people resulted with three men in the hospital and several questions as to what caused the violence.
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