February 14, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Lebanon":
National: 19 Jan 12
A Lebanese-born Swede arrested in Thailand last week on terror suspicions has professed his innocence, claiming he was set up by Israeli intelligence service Mossad.
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National: 16 Jan 12
A man carrying a Swedish passport who was arrested on terror suspicions in Thailand last week was indicted on Monday after leading police to a massive stash of bomb-making materials. The Swedish foreign ministry is still working to ascertain the identity of the man.
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Science & Technology: 3 Jun 11
Swedish scientists are concerned that it may be some time before the properties of the bacteria causing the current EHEC infection in Europe are fully understood.
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Politics: 11 Feb 11
A report jointly funded by the Swedish and Swiss governments warned on Thursday of acute water shortages in the Middle East that would force feuding neighbours in the region to cooperate to address them.
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National: 31 Jan 11
The men from Sweden currently being held in Copenhagen on suspicions of planning a terror attack against the Jyllands-Posten newspaper planned on slitting the journalists' throats, police wiretaps reveal.
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National: 13 Jan 11
The 37-year-old man suspected of plotting a terror attack on a Danish newspaper is a "normal Muslim," his wife told a Swedish newspaper on Thursday. At the same time, he and three others from Sweden believed to be behind the plot were ordered to remain in custody.
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National: 10 Jan 11
The head of the Muslim Council of Sweden has said she had no idea that the man with whom her daughter has two children was suspected of plotting an attack on a Danish newspaper when he was arrested last month.
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National: 1 Jan 11
A foiled terrorist plot involving three Swedes who planned an attack on a Danish newspaper was destined to fail, a Swedish terrorism expert said on Saturday.
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National: 30 Dec 10
The 37-year-old Swede arrested in connection with a terror plot against a Danish newspaper was remanded in custody by a Stockholm court on Thursday on suspicion of preparing terror crimes.
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National: 30 Dec 10
Three men from Sweden were remanded in custody by a Danish court on Thursday after police foiled their plot against a newspaper that published caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
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Politics: 30 Dec 10
After the arrests of five people on suspicion of planning a "Mumbai-style" attack on the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten, the Swedish papers on Thursday argued that threats to the open society can not be met by draconian measures.
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National: 29 Dec 10
Three Swedes were among five people arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of preparing to commit a terrorist act against the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten, which published the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
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Society: 1 Nov 10
Swedish-Lebanese director Josef Fares was voted best director at the Doha Tribeca Film Festival in Qatar on Saturday for his newest film, "Farsan."
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National: 4 Oct 10
Sweden paid several million kronor to buy the release of a Swedish UN worker and a Norwegian colleague who had been kidnapped in Lebanon, according to a new book.
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Business & Money: 10 Sep 10
Sweden came in 45th place among 153 countries in a survey measuring charitable behaviour around the world, tied with neighbouring Finland, as well as Lebanon, Zambia, and Ghana.
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National: 29 Jul 10
More than 600 travellers from Sweden are stranded in Iraq after tour operator Flyhome declared bankruptcy on Wednesday. According to the company's trustee, no help is available from the bankruptcy estate.
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Analysis & Opinion: 3 Jun 10
The Ship to Gaza incident was, to say the least, badly handled by Israel. The blockade of Gaza is wrong. But Swedish activists need to ask themselves tough questions about the consequences of their actions, says Stockholm-based Israeli journalist David Stavrou.
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Education: 19 Feb 10
Student groups have roundly criticised the Swedish government's move to charge fees to non-EU/EEA college and universty students from the autumn term 2011.
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National: 18 Feb 10
Swedish tourists who get caught up in natural disasters and other crises abroad will in future have to pay for their own healthcare and trips home, Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has said.
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Politics: 9 Jan 10
Veteran Swedish diplomat and former UN envoy to Iraq, Steffan de Mistura, has been offered the job of top UN representative to Afghanistan according to the US pointman for the country.
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Lifestyle: 6 Nov 09
The Local's Charlotte Webb sits down with World of Comics festival co-ordinator, Caroline Lund, to talk masks and multiculturalism in Malmö.
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National: 15 Sep 09
Swedish citizen Ousama Kassir was sentenced to life imprisonment on Tuesday by a New York court after being found guilty earlier this year of planning to set up an Al-Qaeda training camp in the United States.
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National: 22 Aug 09
A Swedish court on Friday sentenced six men to prison for their involvement in a major counterfeiting ring specializing in fake euro and dollar notes.
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Business & Money: 26 Jun 09
Thirteen people were indicted by a Swedish court on Thursday after being caught with 2.5 million kronor ($318,000) in counterfeit dollar and euro bills.
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National: 13 May 09
A Swedish man of Lebanese origin charged with planning to set up an Al Qaeda training camp in the United States was convicted by a New York court on Tuesday, according to prosecutors.
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National: 22 Apr 09
As the trial of a Swedish citizen facing terror charges began in New York on Tuesday, prosecutors argued that the man planned to set up an Al-Qaeda terrorist training camp in the United States.
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Analysis & Opinion: 27 Mar 09
Malmö suburb Rosengård has come to symbolise Sweden's struggles with integration. AFP's Marc Preel examines a community grappling with its identity after a winter marred by rioting and clashes with the police.
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Society: 21 Jan 09
Sweden's foreign ministry has characterized as unfair national public broadcaster SVT's depiction of the country's overseas diplomatic missions in a new series of documentaries.
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Sport: 19 Jan 09
With the new season just around the corner, The Local has teamed up with Långholmen FC, a football club that more than makes up for its short tradition with an ever lengthening list of nationalities.
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Politics: 7 Jan 09
Police in Sweden are on heightened alert following a spike in anti-Semitic attacks around the country in the wake of Israel’s campaign against Gaza-based Hamas militants.
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Analysis & Opinion: 16 Dec 08
As Sweden opens its borders to a new wave of labour migration, the country is becoming more diverse than ever before, writes Olle Wästberg, director-general of the Swedish Institute.
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Politics: 16 Nov 08
Sweden has decided to sign up to the international treaty, framed in Dublin in May, to ban current designs of cluster bombs.
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Society: 6 Nov 08
Syrian-Lebanese singing star George Wassouf arrived back in Beirut on Wednesday following his detention on cocaine charges in the Swedish capital.
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Society: 4 Nov 08
A court in Stockholm has decided not to remand Syrian-Lebanese singing star George Wassouf in custody, but police said the artist remained under suspicion for possession of drugs.
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Society: 4 Nov 08
Syrian-Lebanese crooner George Wassouf faces a remand hearing on Tuesday in Stockholm where he is being held on suspicions of drug possession.
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Society: 3 Nov 08
Police in Stockholm arrested Syrian-Lebanese singing star George Wassouf at his hotel on Saturday on charges of drug possession shortly before he was due to perform a concert.
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Lifestyle: 18 Sep 08
What’s on: Stevie Wonder, Beer & Whisky festival and American Football in Stockholm; Japanese tattoo art and Masters golf in Gothenburg; Prince and Tibet tributes in Malmö; Puppet theatre in Lund.
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Analysis & Opinion: 15 Jul 08
By emphasizing welfare programmes over work and entrepreneurship, Sweden makes it harder for Iraqi immigrants to achieve success in their new country, argues Nima Sanandaji of the Captus think tank.
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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.
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National: 5 Jun 08
The Swedish navy has its corvettes ready to hunt pirates along the African coast.
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National: 4 Jun 08
The 32-year-old Swedish man suspected of involvement in a spectacular 1995 Berlin bank robbery has already been convicted and served his sentence for the crime in Lebanon.
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Politics: 29 May 08
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday backed Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s appeal for his country's debts to be cancelled while addressing a global conference in Sweden.
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Politics: 29 May 08
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has urged the world community ahead of an international conference in Sweden to seize on improved security to accelerate aid to Iraq.
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National: 2 Apr 08
The Swedish state should be responsible for evacuating Swedes from major catastrophes which occur outside of the country like the 2004 tsunami, suggests a new report.
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Lifestyle: 27 Mar 08
What to do for the week: Sing along with the von Trapps in Uppsala, learn about Sweden’s last great war in Stockholm and see one of Nigeria’s top reggae artists in Gothenburg.
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Lifestyle: 17 Feb 08
AFP's Sophie Mongalvy pays a visit to a school in Södertälje where transition classes have been set up to help ease Iraqi kids into the Swedish way of life.
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Lifestyle: 17 Feb 08
Part 1: Having taken in more Iraqi refugees per capita than any other Swedish town, officials in Södertälje are now warning that the town's infrastructure may be close to bursting point.
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National: 4 Jan 08
A memory-stick containing classified documents was found left on a public computer in Stockholm.
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National: 23 Nov 07
A man has been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the 1985 murder of an agent who had defected from Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
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National: 26 Sep 07
A Lebanese-born Swedish man arrived in the United States Tuesday to face terrorism-related charges after being extradited by the Czech Republic. "Mr. Judge, are you a better judge than a judge in Sweden? They don't judge me in Sweden," he told the New York court.
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Analysis & Opinion: 31 Jul 07
New research shows us that people around the world, including in the West, are satisfied with their lives and are enjoying a rising quality of life. So why are westerners so pessimistic, asks Nima Sanandaji, of think-tank Captus.
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Lifestyle: 14 Jun 07
The war that tore through Lebanon in the 1980s brought 15,000 Lebanese to Sweden. One result of this is that Swedes are becoming connoisseurs of Middle Eastern cooking – and belly dancing – as Rami Abdelrahman reports.
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Society: 25 Apr 07
A Czech court has decided to extradite Oussama Kassir to the USA. The 41-year-old Swede is accused of running a terrorist training camp in Oregon.
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National: 24 Apr 07
A Swede being held in Prague on terror charges should be extradited to the United States, a prosecutor has said. The man was arrested in 2005, accused of running a terrorist training camp in Oregon.
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National: 31 Jan 07
Iraq's ambassador to Sweden was called to the foreign ministry on Wednesday amid reports that the Stockholm embassy had issued some 26,000 passports on false grounds.
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Politics: 31 Jan 07
Iraq's ambassador to Sweden has admitted that his embassy has issued thousands of passports based on false documentation.
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Politics: 7 Jan 07
Foreign minister Carl Bildt has called for clearer rules governing the assistance that can be given to Swedes who find themselves caught up in disaster situations abroad.
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Society: 13 Dec 06
The bearer of a banner equating the swastika with the Star of David at a demonstration in Malmö during the summer will not face criminal charges.
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National: 20 Sep 06
Swedish coastal patrol vessel HMS Gävle has left Sweden to join an expanded UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon.
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Politics: 13 Sep 06
Respected by some as a skilled statesman and criticised by others as a power-loving politician, Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson, who has been in power for a decade, is an innately political animal.
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National: 31 Aug 06
Donor countries meeting in Stockholm on Thursday pledged more than 900 million dollars in aid for immediate reconstruction efforts in Lebanon, Swedish officials said.
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National: 31 Aug 06
A conference to raise $500 million for the reconstruction of Lebanon opened in Stockholm on Thursday. Officials from more than forty countries are due to gather in the capital.
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National: 29 Aug 06
A Lebanon donors' conference to be held in Stockholm aims to raise 500 million dollars for the country's humanitarian and reconstruction needs, Sweden said on Tuesday.
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National: 24 Aug 06
Sweden will contribute a coastal patrol vessel to the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon, but will not contribute ground troops, the government said on Thursday.
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National: 24 Aug 06
Jan Eliasson is discussing with other EU foreign ministers how Sweden might contribute to a United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon.
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National: 20 Aug 06
Swedish Aid Minister Carin Jämtin arrived in Beirut on Sunday to prepare a donors' conference aimed at helping Lebanon recover from the devastation inflicted by Israeli attacks.
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Lifestyle: 18 Aug 06
Ever the controversialist, Swedish novelist Jan Guillou's latest book deals with the touchiest subject of all: the Israel-Palestinian crisis. He talks to James Savage about America, Gay Pride and Säpo.
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National: 16 Aug 06
An anti-Semitism awareness group has said the Swedish conference on rebuilding Lebanon is discriminatory for not addressing the needs of Israeli victims of the conflict.
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Politics: 14 Aug 06
Representatives of 60 governments have been invited to Stockholm for an international conference on August 31st to discuss the reconstruction of Lebanon.
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Politics: 14 Aug 06
Only 39 percent of people asked in a new survey think that Göran Persson is the best candidate for prime minister. Fredrik Reinfeldt gets the support of 47 percent.
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Politics: 13 Aug 06
Sweden has offered to host an international aid conference for Lebanon at the end of the month, the prime minister's office said on Sunday.
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Politics: 13 Aug 06
The leader of Sweden's Left Party, Lars Ohly, fiercely attacked the government's foreign and criminal justice policies in a summer speech at the launch of his party's election campaign on Sunday.
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Politics: 8 Aug 06
Around 1,000 people marched in Gothenburg on Monday to protest against the participation of Israeli athletes in the European Athletics Championships in the city.
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Politics: 27 Jul 06
A conservative government would not have reacted to the ongoing Middle East crisis any differently to Göran Persson's Social Democrats, says the leader of the Moderates, Fredrik Reinfeldt.
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Politics: 26 Jul 06
A group of Swedish Social Democrat parliamentary candidates have called on the government to expel Israel's ambassador in Stockholm, but a government minister calls the suggestion "crazy".
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Politics: 26 Jul 06
Confidence in both Sweden's government and the opposition Alliance has increased, according to a new survey. But the government has much lower approval ratings than before the 2002 election.
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Society: 25 Jul 06
Prosecutors in Malmö have said they will not press charges over placards comparing the Star of David to the swastika, which were carried during a demonstration over the situation in Lebanon.
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National: 25 Jul 06
Sweden would 'look positively' on sending troops to take part in a UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, prime minister Göran Persson has told Kofi Annan.
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Society: 24 Jul 06
Sweden has said it will give a total of 40.5 million kronor in humanitarian aid to war-torn Lenanon, as part of a response to a UN appeal.
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National: 24 Jul 06
Palestinian groups carried swastikas during a demonstration on Saturday in Malmö against the war in Lebanon. Now the Liberals want to freeze funding to the Malmö Palestinian Association.
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National: 24 Jul 06
Over 200 Swedes have arrived in Turkey, having been evacuated by sea from war-torn Lebanon. They came on ships with 1,500 Australians and Canadians.
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National: 22 Jul 06
Some 2,000 people demonstrated in central Stockholm on Saturday against Israel's offensive in Lebanon, with two people arrested after clashes with police.
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Society: 21 Jul 06
A bomb threat was taped to a synagogue in Malmö on Thursday evening. Police suspect a 'direct connection' with the crisis in Lebanon and Israel.
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National: 21 Jul 06
Swedes being evacuated from Lebanon are to have all their costs for returning home covered by the Swedish national and local governments, including transport within Sweden when they return.
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Society: 20 Jul 06
Lebanese nationals who are currently visiting Sweden will be allowed to extend their visas after they expire, says the Swedish Migration Board.
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Analysis & Opinion: 20 Jul 06
Despite reports of disorganisation and chaos, Sweden's evacuation of its citizens has been held up as a model of order by commentators in other countries. Louis Roper explains how text messaging has played a key role.
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National: 20 Jul 06
See also: Mobile technology aids Swedish evacuation
A passenger ferry carrying 280 Swedes arrived in the southern Turkish port of Mersin from Beirut on Thursday, in the latest wave of evacuations from Lebanon.
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National: 19 Jul 06
A ferry carrying over 800 Swedes caught up in the conflict in Lebanon has arrived in Cyprus. Another ship chartered by Sweden is on its way to pick up more evacuees.
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National: 18 Jul 06
1,645 Swedes are expected to be evacuated from Lebanon on Tuesday. If everything goes to plan, a boat chartered by Sweden will depart from Beirut harbour at lunchtime.
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National: 17 Jul 06
A Swede in Lebanon tells The Local that French citizens have been evacuated from her hotel in Jounieh, 20km north of Beirut, while Swedish officials say the town is not dangerous. "We're hearing constant explosions," says Sonitta Dawood.
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National: 17 Jul 06
An Italian ferry carrying 49 Swedes evacuated from Lebanon arrived in Cyprus on Monday evening. But up to 200 Swedish citizens are stranded in southern Lebanon, as it currently considered too dangerous for an evacuation.
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National: 17 Jul 06
The first plane carrying Swedes evacuated from the escalating conflict in Lebanon has arrived in Stockholm.
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National: 16 Jul 06
As Israel steps up its military campaign against Hezbollah militants in Lebanon, officials began evacuating thousands of Swedes from the country on Sunday morning.
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National: 13 Jul 06
Sweden, Norway and Denmark have condemned both Hezbollah attacks and Israel's actions in Gaza and Lebanon. Swedish foreign minister Jan Eliasson calls Israeli attacks 'disproportionate'.
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Smörgåsbord: 9 Feb 06
A Swedish far-right party has published caricatures of the prophet Muhammad on its website, apparently causing uproar in Syria. Sweden's foreign minister has called on the party to act responsibly.
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National: 6 Feb 06
Sweden's party leaders back the government's stance on the publication of pictures of the prophet Muhammad in Denmark's Jyllands-Posten. But the crisis has led the travel company Apollo to cancel charter trips from Sweden to Egypt.
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National: 6 Feb 06
Syria apologises over Swedish embassy fire
Swedish embassy attacked in Syria
Violence following the publication of cartoons depicting Mohammed has prompted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to warn Swedes against travelling to Syria and Lebanon. Security at embassies is also to be increased.
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National: 15 Dec 05
The Swede being held in the Czech Republic on suspicion of planning terrorism has accused the domestic US intelligence agency of "manufacturing" a case against him, adding that it was "politically directed against Islam".
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National: 14 Dec 05
US authorities have 40 days to convince their Czech counterparts to hand over a Swede who has been detained in Prague on an international arrest warrant for allegedly conspiring to help terrorists.
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Lifestyle: 29 Sep 05
A film about a young boy from Lebanon forced to move to Sweden due to violence in his homeland is nominated for an Oscar as 'best foreign language film'.
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As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »
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