February 14, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Olof_palme":
Lifestyle: 1 Feb 12
Is there any truth in the image of Sweden portrayed in the Millennium books and films? Stockholm University ethnologist Jonas Engman argues that the stories have tapped into Swedish fears that their society’s success is not all they had been brought up to believe.
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Politics: 31 Jan 12
Exiled Iranians will gather in Stockholm over the coming weekend to discuss how to help implement democracy in Iran, the organisers of the conference announced on Tuesday.
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Politics: 27 Jan 12
Stefan Löfven was formally installed as the new leader of Sweden's struggling Social Democrat party on Friday, following the resignation of Håkan Juholt last weekend.
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Society: 23 Jan 12
Roberto Saviano, author of Italian mafia exposé 'Gomorrah', and Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho were named the 2011 recipients of the Olof Palme Memorial Prize in Stockholm on Monday.
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Politics: 11 Oct 11
Syrian opposition leaders meeting in Stockholm on Monday called for the deployment of international observers in their country but were largely opposed to foreign military intervention.
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Analysis & Opinion: 9 Sep 11
On the tenth anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terror attacks, The Local reaches out to a few Swedes and Americans for their thoughts about the attacks and their impact.
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Lifestyle: 4 Jul 11
Sweden’s annual political week, the “Almedalen Week” (Almedalsveckan), started on Sunday and will go on for eight days on the Baltic Island of Gotland. Contributor Oliver Gee talks to representatives from the two largest political parties; the Social Democrats and the Moderates, to find out more.
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Politics: 3 Jul 11
Swedish politicians, journalists and lobbyists have gathered on Gotland to partake in Almedalsveckan, an annual political event that is set to cost Swedish authorities 5.2 million kronor ($829,000) according to a Swedish newspaper.
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National: 16 Jun 11
The grave of murdered Swedish prime minister Olof Palme, gunned down on a Stockholm sidewalk 25 years ago, has been vandalised with graffiti, it was discovered on Thursday.
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Analysis & Opinion: 11 May 11
While conspiracy theorists have long viewed the exclusive global network of elites known as the Bilderberg Group as a secretive global government, a new book by a Sweden-based academic argues the group's influence is often overstated, The Local's Peter Vinthagen Simpson explains.
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Politics: 26 Mar 11
Håkan Juholt, the new leader of Sweden's Social Democrat party, attacked the government's record on youth unemployment, child poverty and 'growing divides' in society, in his inaugural speech on Saturday.
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Politics: 28 Feb 11
Ordinary Swedes and political luminaries piled roses on the grave of Olof Palme on Monday, marking 25 years since the former prime minister was gunned down by an unknown assassin in central Stockholm.
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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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Analysis & Opinion: 28 Feb 11
As the 25th anniversary of Olof Palme’s murder is remembered The Local’s Karen Holst explores the political legacy left by the man who delivered Sweden from obscurity and into the globalising world.
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Analysis & Opinion: 28 Feb 11
Like many other high-profile murders, the killing of Olof Palme has spawned more than it's fair share of conspiracy theories, The Local's Geoff Mortimore discovers.
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Lifestyle: 28 Feb 11
A quarter century after the assassination of former Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, contributor Anita Badejo talks to Swedes about their memories of the killing and how it affected the country.
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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.
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Politics: 26 Feb 11
Former ministers, party colleagues and family all gathered in Stockholm on Saturday to pay tribute to former prime minister Olof Palme who was assassinated 25 years ago.
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National: 21 Feb 11
With the 25th anniversary of the assassination of former Swedish prime minister Olof Palme a week away, Swedish police revealed on Monday that 130 people have confessed to the killing.
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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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National: 17 Jan 11
The murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was carried out by a contract killer hired by Yugoslav security services, according to German media reports.
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Society: 4 Jan 11
A Palestinian psychiatrist has been awarded the 2010 Olof Palme Prize for his efforts to foster “common sense, reconciliation, and peace" in the Middle East the award’s Swedish jurors announced on Tuesday.
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National: 13 Dec 10
Swedish intelligence officials on Monday said they are "98 percent" certain about the identity of the man who blew himself in central Stockholm on Saturday, adding he was "completely unknown" to intelligence agencies.
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National: 11 Dec 10
Two nearly simultaneous explosions rocked central Stockholm on Saturday evening, killing one person and injuring two others in what is believed to be a suicide attack.
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Analysis & Opinion: 16 Nov 10
Sweden's Social Democrats, for decades the dominant force in Swedish national politics, are facing chaos after leader Mona Sahlin announced her imminent departure over the weekend, with no clear successor to fill her shoes, writes the AFP's Rita Devlin Marier.
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Analysis & Opinion: 15 Nov 10
While Mona Sahlin bears ultimate responsibility for the Social Democrats' poor electoral performance, her departure as party leader can also be seen as an indictment of a party in deadlock, writes social democratic commentator Eric Sundström.
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Analysis & Opinion: 1 Nov 10
On the eve of the US mid-term elections, libertarian Swedish commentator and author Fredrik Segerfeldt takes a look at the evolution of Swedes' attitudes toward the United States – with some help from one of Sweden’s most revered singer-songwriters.
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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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Analysis & Opinion: 22 Sep 10
Limping forward after their worst election result since World War I, Sweden’s Social Democrats find themselves forced to look for a new identify, writes the AFPs Marc Preel.
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Politics: 16 Aug 10
Security for Social Democratic leader Mona Sahlin has been tightened due to serious threats against her just over a month before elections, Swedish media reported on Monday.
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National: 16 Mar 10
Iranian journalist and women's rights activist Parvin Ardalan has accepted Sweden's offer of refuge after she was sentenced to several jail terms in her native country.
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Analysis & Opinion: 15 Feb 10
With Sweden's royal wedding year now upon us, writer and commoner Allan Burnett hoists the flag for an influential group catering for the anti-monarchy needs of a large and flabbergasted minority.
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Politics: 3 Feb 10
The investigation into the 1986 assassination of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme is to remain open indefinitely after the parliament passed a bill on Wednesday abolishing the statute of limitations for murder.
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National: 8 Oct 09
Sweden's government has proposed abolishing the statute of limitations for crimes that can lead to life imprisonment. Under current laws, suspects for a number of serious crimes can not be prosecuted if 25 years have elapsed since the crime was committed.
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Analysis & Opinion: 3 Sep 09
With an important meeting of EU's foreign ministers taking place in Stockholm this weekend, David Stavrou examines the changing roles of Sweden and the EU in world affairs.
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Analysis & Opinion: 8 Jul 09
British author Andrew Brown talks to James Savage about living in Sweden in the seventies, fishing, and how immigration has changed the country.
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Analysis & Opinion: 7 Jul 09
Anyone who doubts that Sweden is a country characterised by openness and informality should visit Visby during the first week of July, writes Olle Wästberg, Director-General of the Swedish Institute.
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Lifestyle: 1 Jul 09
The Year in Sweden - July: Journalist Kim Loughran sketches a month by month account of the country he has called home ever since his accidental migration in 1966.
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National: 6 Apr 09
Leading members of the far-right Sweden Democrats sang racist songs while attending a party conference. Party leader Jimmie Åkesson was among the singers.
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National: 17 Mar 09
New research has shown that Sweden's relations with the United States ran more deeply during the Cold War than was previously known.
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Society: 25 Feb 09
As a new poll shows that Swedes believe Daniel Westling is the right choice for Crown Princess Victoria, one of the country’s most respected historians said that a royal wedding can only strengthen Sweden’s monarchy.
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Analysis & Opinion: 23 Feb 09
The Local’s David Landes attempts to shed some light on the Swedish media’s sometimes peculiar practice of omitting the names of criminal suspects.
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Society: 8 Jan 09
The 2008 Olof Palme Prize was awarded on Thursday to Congolese gynecologist Denis Mukwege for his work to help women victims of rape and war crimes in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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National: 10 Nov 08
The investigation into the assassination of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh in 2003 was just as poorly handled in the first 24 hours as the Olof Palme investigation in 1986, according to a former police chief.
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Politics: 22 Oct 08
Sweden's former Finance Minister Pär Nuder has criticized the country's security service over its failure to protect assassinated Foreign Minister Anna Lindh.
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National: 17 Sep 08
Demonstrators are set to gather in Stockholm on Wednesday to protest the impending deportation of an Iranian woman’s rights activist and anti-Islam blogger after she was denied a Swedish residence permit.
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Politics: 11 Sep 08
On the fifth anniversary of the assassination of foreign minister Anna Lindh, Sweden is reflecting more on the legacy of her work in politics than the tragic circumstances surrounding her death.
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Politics: 5 Sep 08
Sweden’s foreign minister Carl Bildt took aim at Iran on Friday, condemning the country for sentencing women’s rights activist Parvin Ardalan to prison.
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National: 20 May 08
Foreign minister Carl Bildt remains convinced that Soviet vessels entered Swedish waters in 1982 despite fresh revelations about one famous submarine hunt.
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National: 30 Apr 08
The Örebro District Court ruled on Wednesday that John Ausonius, better known as the ‘Laser Man’, would not be granted an early release from his lifetime prison sentence.
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National: 23 Apr 08
After 16 years behind bars, John Ausonius, better known as the Laser Man wants to have a time limit placed his lifetime prison sentence.
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Society: 7 Mar 08
Iranian feminist Parvin Ardalan's sister has accepted the Olof Palme Prize on her behalf.
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National: 6 Mar 08
Iran has expelled a Swedish diplomat from his post in Tehran.
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National: 3 Mar 08
The organizers of the Olof Palme Prize urged Iran to drop a ban on Parvin Ardalan leaving her country.
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National: 3 Mar 08
Iranian feminist and journalist Parvin Ardalan said she was prevented from leaving the country.
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National: 26 Feb 08
Sweden has said it will not award damages to two women claiming to have been exploited in a major prostitution scandal in the 1970s.
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National: 14 Feb 08
Parvin Ardalan is honoured for her work editing the first online newsletter on Iranian women's rights.
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National: 13 Jan 08
The Americans saw the young activist and future prime minister as a key figure for countering communist influence in student organizations.
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Politics: 5 Dec 07
Two women at the centre of a major prostitution scandal have demanded compensation from the state.
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National: 15 Sep 07
The Stasi, East Germany's secret police, carried out its own investigation into the 1986 murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, identifying a suspect, according to newly-uncovered documents.
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Lifestyle: 9 Jul 07
In 1968 Mark Shapiro - a deserter from the Vietnam War - was among a group of Americans who staged a sit-down protest at the US Embassy in Stockholm. He spoke to The Local about his experiences in the Swedish capital during a visit to the city to mark the anniversary of that protest.
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National: 28 May 07
Tests on a revolver which had been linked to the 1986 murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme have not been able to confirm whether it was the murder weapon, police have said.
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Politics: 18 Mar 07
Mona Sahlin's first speech as the leader of the Social Democrats was received warmly by the party faithful at their conference in Stockholm on Sunday morning.
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Society: 30 Jan 07
Former United Nations boss Kofi Annan has been awarded the Olof Palme Prize in honour of the "courage" he was said to show during his ten years at the top. He shared the prize with Darfur lawyer Mossaad Mohamed Ali.
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Lifestyle: 17 Jan 07
Writer Claudio Tamburrini, whose life is portrayed in a new film, talks to Eddie de Oliveira about surviving torture, playing football and building a new life in Sweden.
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National: 17 Jan 07
The Stockholm grave of assassinated Swedish prime minister Olof Palme was vandalised on Wednesday morning, in an attack which appeared to have ritual elements.
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Analysis & Opinion: 4 Jan 07
Sweden's Social Democrats are looking for a new leader and Mona Sahlin seems to be the front runner. The Local asked political expert Stig-Björn Ljunggren to help us size up the contenders.
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National: 23 Nov 06
Christer Pettersson, prime suspect for the assassination of Olof Palme, may have bought a weapon found this week in a lake in Dalarna. The revelation comes from one of the men linked to the gun.
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National: 22 Nov 06
A weapon found in a lake in Dalarna that was identical to that used in the killing of former Swedish leader Olof Palme contained live ammunition, police say. But a former investigator doubts it was the gun used to kill the PM.
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National: 21 Nov 06
Police investigating the 1986 murder of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme have confirmed that a gun discovered in a lake in Dalarna is the same revolver they have been looking for ever since the day of the assassination.
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Analysis & Opinion: 12 Oct 06
Knee-jerk condemnations of Israel have been a frequent characteristic of Sweden’s reaction to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The new government should start supporting moderates on both sides, argues David Stavrou.
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National: 19 Sep 06
Aftonbladet and Expressen did not violate a man's privacy when they reported that he was suspected of murdering Swedish prime minister Olof Palme, the European Court of Human Rights rules.
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National: 17 Sep 06
Sten Andersson, Sweden's former foreign minister and party secretary for the Social Democrats, has died at the age of 83. One of the strongest Social Democrat figures of the past 50 years, says Göran Persson.
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Politics: 4 Jul 06
The opposition Alliance has agreed to do away with property tax if it wins September's general election. The tax would be frozen next year, and gradually abolished altogether.
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Analysis & Opinion: 29 May 06
The economy is growing well, official unemployment is falling, and the welfare state is still supported by most Swedes. Are Social Democrats a victim of their own success, asks David Stavrou.
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Lifestyle: 27 Apr 06
This weekend will see King Carl XVI Gustaf feted by foreign royalty, parliamentarians and thousands of his people. As he celebrates his 60th birthday, Sweden's king can satisfy himself with approval ratings that would make a politician green with envy.
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Politics: 27 Mar 06
President of the UN General Assembly Jan Eliasson has been named as Sweden's new foreign minister. The announcement was made by Göran Persson at a press conference at Rosenbad on Monday morning.
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National: 28 Feb 06
World's press reflects on Palme murder
At 11.21pm on February 28th 1986, Olof Palme was shot dead in central Stockholm as he left a cinema. On Tuesday morning roses and candles were laid at his grave.
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Lifestyle: 27 Feb 06
It is twenty years since Sweden was shaken by the murder of one of its most controversial politicians. But what impact does the radical, campaigning prime minister Olof Palme have on modern Sweden?
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Smörgåsbord: 27 Feb 06
Sweden's fascination with the murder of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme on February 28th 1986 is not fading with time - and a wave of articles and reports around the world this week show that the global interest is still alive too.
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National: 24 Feb 06
Rules limiting murder investigations to 25-years will be scrapped under proposals from Sweden's justice minister, meaning the probe into former prime minister Olof Palme's death can continue. Meanwhile, new claims emerge about the night of the murder.
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Smörgåsbord: 24 Feb 06
The email campaign against Fredrik Reinfeldt is almost unprecedented in Swedish politics, a leading political expert has said. Peter Esaiasson says the Social Democrats have lost the moral high ground.
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National: 20 Feb 06
The coat worn by Swedish prime minister Olof Palme on the night of his assassination 20 years ago is to undergo advanced DNA testing in Britain and Germany in the hope that it will reveal the identity of his killer.
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Politics: 14 Feb 06
A note on the door of a cinema where leading feminist Gudrun Schyman was giving a lecture raises fears for her safety. "I see it as a death threat," says Schyman.
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National: 13 Feb 06
Police failed to make a link between bullets found at a Stockholm drug dealer's home and the 1986 murder of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme, a new documentary will allege.
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Smörgåsbord: 31 Jan 06
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Lifestyle: 7 Dec 05
Murdered Swedish prime minister Olof Palme will be the main protagonist of a new production of Giuseppe Verdi's opera "A Masked Ball" (Un Ballo in maschera) to be staged next year, Sweden's Malmö Opera said on Wednesday.
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National: 17 Oct 05
Divers searching for the weapon used in the 1986 murder of former Swedish prime minister Olof Palme failed to find anything in a creek near Gävle.
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National: 11 Oct 05
Thomas Hammarberg has been made head of a major European human rights watchdog, joining a long and distinguished line of Swedes who have led international organizations.
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National: 31 Jan 05
As two more messages appear on the Siba website, the Bengtsson family appear to be getting increasingly desperate to get Fabian home safely. But what do the messages mean? What's actually going on? What are the police doing? Nobody seems to know, but you can always have a guess...
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Politics: 6 Jan 05
The government goes on the defensive as the foreign secretary expresses her regret over "that theatre visit" on the day the tsunami struck. Göran Persson also admits that maybe the government didn't get everything right while the press tries to find out what really happened at the UD and Harpsund.
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Politics: 30 Sep 04
The man once convicted of the murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme dies at the age of 57. Despite having been freed on appeal, Christer Pettersson was still considered guilty by many, and following his death there were reports that he had confessed to the killing.
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Business & Money: 29 Sep 04
Christer Pettersson, who was convicted and later cleared of the murder of prime minister Olof Palme, has died in hospital.
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Smörgåsbord: 8 Sep 04
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Politics: 23 Jul 04
Sweden's leaders are the worst educated among all EU politicans and they have embarrassingly old-fashioned tastes in music. No wonder that the country's kids are the least politically motivated in Europe.
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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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