May 28, 2012
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National: 27 May 12
A 17-year-old Swede was lazing by the pool during a family holiday in Turkey last Tuesday when he was shot in the back.
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Society: 27 May 12
Sweden's foreign minister Carl Bildt was among those who lavished praise on Eurovision contest winner Loreen as the manner of her crushing victory became clear in the early hours of Sunday.
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Society: 27 May 12
Sweden's Loreen brought home gold in the glitzy 2012 Eurovision Song Contest early Sunday morning with an impassioned rendition of her hit "Euphoria" from Baku in Azerbaijan.
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National: 26 May 12
Sweden's Trade Union Confederation on Saturday elected as its new president Karl-Petter Thorwaldsson, who proceeded to call for a restoration of the Swedish welfare model.
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National: 26 May 12
A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a man in connection with the shooting of an Uzbek imam in northern Sweden in February.
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National: 25 May 12
A jealous Swedish woman who murdered her ex-boyfriend’s new partner in September has been sentenced to 14 years in prison.
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Society: 25 May 12
After having lived in Sweden for a certain number of years, many ex-pats start asking, “Am I going native or what?” Check out The Local's guide to tell-tale signs that you may be more integrated into Swedish society than you first realized.
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Society: 25 May 12
The Paradise Wildlife Park in the UK has pledged their allegiance to Sweden in the Eurovision song contest by making their own film version of Loreen’s “Euphoria” – complete with dancing animals.
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Analysis & Opinion: 25 May 12
A recent report admonishing Swedes about their dental hygiene prompts Swedish journalist and columnist Ola Tedin to reflect on how a sometimes uncritical media appears to serve the interests of the Swedish state.
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Business & Money: 25 May 12
The CEO of Swedish defence contractor Saab claimed on Friday his phone had been bugged during talks with Switzerland about Saab's sale of 22 Gripen fighter jets.
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Education: 25 May 12
The "om" chant featured in yoga lessons at a Stockholm school has prompted a complaint calling for them to be banned because of the term's ties to the Hindu religion.
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National: 25 May 12
Swedish police are the worst in Scandinavia when it comes to clearing up home break-ins, a crime which has increased dramatically in Sweden in recent years.
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Society: 25 May 12
After Thursday’s second semi final of the glitzy Eurovision song contest in Baku, Azerbaijan, Swedish entrant Loreen secured a place in the final.
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Business & Money: 25 May 12
Moody's Investors Service on Thursday downgraded its long-term ratings on three Swedish banks, believed to be at risk if the European financial crisis deepens.
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National: 24 May 12
A man previously detained for the suspected murder of a 48-year-old man in January has had his remand period extended in Malmö on Thursday resulting in a dramatic court room scene.
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National: 24 May 12
A man has been found dead in the city of Malmö, in southern Sweden, and local police suspect foul play.
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National: 24 May 12
One person was killed and several injured in a serious traffic accident outside of Idre, in central Sweden, when an overcrowded minivan carrying Ukrainian forestry workers was overturned.
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National: 24 May 12
Anyone in Sweden who forces someone else to get married against their will can be sent to prison, according to proposed legislation presented Thursday which aims to criminalize forced marriages.
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Education: 24 May 12
Teachers should be able to tolerate violence inflicted on them by students, but at the same time have scope for using force against unruly pupils, according to two recent Swedish court rulings.
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Business & Money: 24 May 12
A gang of Lithuanian diaper smugglers is using Sweden as a transit country to ferry cheap nappies bought in Norway for resale at a stiff markup in eastern Europe.
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National: 23 May 12
Former students of prestigious Swedish boarding school Lundsberg have shared tales of "Lord of the Flies" bullying including forced oral sex and eating manure amid a battle over the school's refusal to acknowledge certain claims.
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Business & Money: 23 May 12
Nearly 17 million foreign tourists visited Sweden in 2011, and almost all of them enjoyed their stay, according to a new report.
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Analysis & Opinion: 23 May 12
Harald Kindermann, the German ambassador to Sweden, talks to The Local about the importance of the German language, nuclear power, and the legacy of the Stasi.
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Education: 23 May 12
Enrollment of non-European students in Swedish universities declined drastically following the introduction of tuition fees last year, with engineering students from Asia being among those most affected by the change, a new report has found.
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National: 23 May 12
The judgement in Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's continuing fight to avoid extradition to Sweden will be given on May 30th, Britain's Supreme Court said on Wednesday.
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National: 23 May 12
Four tanker trucks crashed in a serial collision in central Sweden on Tuesday, causing one of them to rise up high in the air and resulting in major delays in traffic.
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Society: 23 May 12
An 84-year-old Swedish woman enjoying the warm sunshine on her balcony, unexpectedly fell through the seat and remained stuck for nearly 48-hours before she was rescued by anxious friends.
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Science & Technology: 23 May 12
A doctor in Malmö in southern Sweden has been fired after punching and refusing to treat a female patient he thought was drunk. The matter has also been reported to police.
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Business & Money: 23 May 12
Police are searching for the men involved in a dramatic highway robbery in Stockholm on Tuesday night, in which one car was stolen at gunpoint and an armoured transport vehicle was rammed.
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Society: 22 May 12
Princess Estelle, second in line to the Swedish throne, was baptized in the Royal Chapel in Stockholm as a host of European royals, government ministers, and family members looked on.
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Travel: 22 May 12
With a history spanning over 1,000 years, the German state of Saxony has transformed over time from medieval duchy, a state of the Holy Roman Empire, kingdom and republic.
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Politics: 22 May 12
The American intelligence service CIA prompted an investigation by Sweden into the Wallenberg case in the 1970s, using false witness statements, according to a new Swedish book.
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Lifestyle: 22 May 12
Sweden's newest princess, Princess Estelle, is to be baptized in the Royal Chapel on Tuesday. The Local brings you all the latest news, reactions, and details surrounding the baptism of Sweden's future head of state.
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Science & Technology: 22 May 12
A 20-year-old man allegedly forced a woman to sex at a party in the Stockholm archipelago last summer only to apologize to her via Facebook the day after.
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Society: 22 May 12
A female probation officer from central Sweden is in danger of losing her job after it was revealed her live-in boyfriend was a one of the area's most feared criminals.
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Politics: 21 May 12
Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt was bugged during meetings in Moscow last year, according to a Russian media report which also claims that Swedish intelligence services are aiding the Russian opposition.
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Science & Technology: 21 May 12
A woman has reported a hospital in southern Sweden to the health authorities after doctors failed to notice that her uterus had burst, leaving half of her unborn child inside her abdominal cavity.
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Society: 21 May 12
Sweden's Royal Court has broken tradition by inviting Princess Madeleine's US banker boyfriend as well as the girlfriend of Prince Carl Philip’s to Princess Estelle's baptism on Tuesday.
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National: 21 May 12
The feared Black Cobra criminal gang is abandoning Sweden in the wake of a police crackdown that has left many prominent members in prison.
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National: 21 May 12
Prosecutors on Monday formally charged two men suspected in a gruesome double murder of an elderly couple on a farm in Alingsås in southwestern Sweden last autumn.
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Business & Money: 21 May 12
Sweden's historically generous social safety net isn't as robust as it once was, according to a new report, which reveals Sweden has fallen below the average for many other developed countries when it comes to various types of social insurance.
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National: 21 May 12
Viagra and other impotency drugs appear to have replaced cocaine as the drug of choice for Swedish motorcycle gangs looking to profit from the illegal drugs trade.
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Business & Money: 21 May 12
An error involving a Swedish printing press has turned into a very expensive headache for South African central bank officials who have been forced to destroy millions of dollars' worth of faulty banknotes.
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National: 20 May 12
The house of a suspected paedophile was set ablaze on the night to Sunday, in what the police believe to be an arson attack.
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National: 20 May 12
Four young men were severely injured in a car accident on Sunday morning, when their car skidded off the road and hit a tree.
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National: 19 May 12
A decade-old case of suspected rape and repeated sexual abuse of a seven-year-old girl led to charges being pressed by Luleå district court on Friday.
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Business & Money: 19 May 12
Sweden's work environment watchdog has made ten percent fewer inspections on construction sites over the past seven years, despite twice as many work-site employees since 2007.
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Science & Technology: 19 May 12
File sharing is still going strong in Sweden as a new study reveals that levels have barely been affected by the new, harsh laws.
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Society: 18 May 12
A job ad for a personal assistant for a 35-year-old man who wanted an "easily trained" woman and was prepared to offer a clothing allowance, has been pulled due to a flood of applications from women eager to fill the position.
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Business & Money: 18 May 12
Ikea is sacking four managers at its French subsidiary following allegations that they spied on employees and customers using an illegal police database, the Swedish home furnishing retailer announced on Friday.
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National: 18 May 12
Two South Africans will stand trial in July in the murder case of Swedish honeymooner Anni Dewani, despite the delay in the extradition of her British husband from the UK, a judge said on Friday.
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National: 18 May 12
A ferry moored at Stockholm's Frihamnen harbour received a bomb threat around midday on Friday, prompting a swift evacuation of the vessel.
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Analysis & Opinion: 18 May 12
Abba's famous refrain fails to capture the true cause for concern when Swedish politicians leave government to fatten their wallets in the private sector, argues commentator and historian David Linden.
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Business & Money: 18 May 12
The manufacturer of the bikini suspected of having caused severe bust-line burns on a Swedish woman claims that test results reveal the beach garment is not responsible for the woman's scorched skin.
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National: 18 May 12
The editor-in-chief of Swedish tabloid Expressen and two other journalists with the paper have been convicted of weapons crimes related to a report about how easy it is to buy guns in Malmö in southern Sweden.
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Science & Technology: 18 May 12
Racist comments on the Stockholm police's Facebook page beneath a plea for tips from the public have prompted a backlash from the Swedish Bar Association over how police use social media.
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National: 18 May 12
Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg had at least 15 kilogrammes of gold and jewellery in his car when the Red Army arrested him in 1945, according to a new book by a Swedish author.
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Sport: 18 May 12
Sweden's hopes of returning to the finals of the ice hockey world championships were dashed in bitter fashion on Thursday by a late goal which gave the Czech Republic a dramatic 4-3 victory.
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Sport: 17 May 12
After guiding Sweden to their first major football tournament for six years, Swedish coach Erik Hamrén has promised that Sweden approach at Euro 2012 will be to "try to win... with as positive and attack-minded play as possible".
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National: 17 May 12
Swedish ferry the Stena Spirit was involved in an accident in the Polish harbour of Gdynia on Thursday morning which left a damaged crane and three port employees requiring hospital treatment.
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National: 17 May 12
Eight teenagers were arrested on Wednesday night on suspicion of offences including throwing stones at police, vandalism and setting fire to a school in the Stockholm suburb of Tensta.
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Business & Money: 17 May 12
Swedish trade union Unionen has opened legal action against a firm from Piteå in northern Sweden on behalf of two employees fired after posting "threatening" comments against a manager on Facebook.
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Analysis & Opinion: 16 May 12
Sweden needs to change rules that strip foreign doctoral candidates of the same rights as other tax-paying migrant workers, argue a group of doctoral candidates from the Royal Institute for Technology (KTH).
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National: 16 May 12
Two men have been arrested in connection with the attempted murder of an imam who remains in a coma nearly three months after being shot in the head in northern Sweden.
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Lifestyle: 16 May 12
With Sweden’s comedian of the year Al Pitcher releasing his first book this week, The Local catches up with him to find out more, and we preview our first ever “Local Lockdown” video segment.
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Society: 16 May 12
The highly publicized appeal of a Swedish translator of Japanese manga comics convicted of child pornography crimes was brought up in Sweden’s Supreme Court on Wednesday, to an auditorium filled to the rafters.
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Politics: 16 May 12
William Petzäll, an independent Swedish MP who quit the Sweden Democrats last year amidst a battle with substance abuse, was convicted on Wednesday of drugs crimes.
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Science & Technology: 16 May 12
A man in Sweden who went to a Stockholm beauty clinic to have fat reducing treatment has reported the salon after his agonizing 25 minute procedure became a “catastrophic” experience.
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Society: 16 May 12
A Fiat 500 frozen in time by Google Maps in front of Volkswagen's headquarters in Sweden has been hailed as a public relations coup for the Italian automaker, despite an alternate explanation for the pic from its German rival.
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Society: 16 May 12
Six out of ten mosques in Sweden gave women advice about how to deal with spousal abuse and polygamy that contradicted Swedish law, a new investigation has revealed.
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Society: 16 May 12
A Swedish woman who went on a sun-soaked retreat sporting a newly acquired bikini and came back with serious burns under her breasts is suspecting that the underwiring in her bra caused her bust injury.
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National: 16 May 12
The lawyer of the Swedish safari guide charged with the murder of 13 people in the Central African Republic, has blamed Ugandan rebels for the gruesome killings.
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Society: 16 May 12
A man who in April pretended to be a policeman and asked a “cute” Swedish woman for her phone number was arrested by police on Tuesday for impersonating a police officer.
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Business & Money: 16 May 12
The growth of the Swedish economy is vulnerable due to its exposure to weak European economies, International Monetary Fund wrote in a report released on Tuesday.
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Society: 15 May 12
The “Swedish” national who was arrested in Kenya on suspicions of having links to the Somali Islamist militia al-Shabaab turned out not to be Swedish at all but Swiss.
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National: 15 May 12
The guests at an exclusive hotel in central Stockholm were forced to leave on Tuesday afternoon, with six fire engines currently fighting the blaze in the adjacent building.
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National: 15 May 12
On Tuesday the suspected serial killer Peter Mangs denied the court’s charges of the murder of 20-year-old Trez West Persson and the attempted murder of 22-year-old Xhafer Dani.
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Politics: 15 May 12
An African citizen resident in Örebro was arrested in central Sweden on Monday on the suspicion of intelligence gathering activities against Sweden's national security.
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Society: 15 May 12
A Swedish teenage girl, shopping at a discount department store in southern Sweden, was allegedly subjected to shopping cart rage when a 40-year-old woman rammed her with her trolley after a perceived insult.
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Politics: 15 May 12
Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt is facing a storm of criticism from several quarters after using the term "ethnic Swedes" in response to a question about Sweden's high level of unemployment.
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Business & Money: 15 May 12
Another 400 jobs will be cut from Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical manufacturer Astra Zeneca, the company has announced, with the majority of the redundancies in Södertälje, south of Stockholm.
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National: 15 May 12
The Swedish head of a safari company in the Central African Republic and ten of his staff have been charged with murder after 13 miners were found murdered in the northeast of the country.
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Sport: 15 May 12
A recent injury to Johan Elmander didn't stop Swedish coach Eric Hamrén from naming the veteran striker to his 23-man squad for the Euro 2012 football championships.
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National: 15 May 12
A Swedish national has been arrested in Kenya on suspicions he has links to the Somali Islamist militia al-Shabaab.
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Society: 14 May 12
A 101-year-old woman fought back when a thief intruded into her home in northern Sweden, beating him over the head with a stick and frightening him from the house.
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National: 14 May 12
Two Romanian men were sentenced on Monday to six years prison for smuggling eleven women to Sweden as part of a brutal and far-reaching prostitution ring.
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National: 14 May 12
The Swedish man accused in a deadly shooting spree against immigrants in Malmö had no motive for shooting the victims, according to his lawyer, who did his best to cast doubt on the case against his client on the opening day of the highly-anticipated murder trial.
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Society: 14 May 12
A group of tourists hoping to pitch their tents in central Sweden may face criminal charges after disrupting a live-fire exercise taking place in a restricted military area.
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Business & Money: 14 May 12
A growing trend in northern Sweden has seen cheap houses being snapped up by cannabis enthusiasts who use the houses as drug labs, with police shutting down another on Sunday.
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Science & Technology: 14 May 12
One of the founders of Swedish file share site The Pirate Bay is turning to the European Court of Human Rights in the hopes of having his guilty verdict overturned, claiming his conviction violates his freedom of speech.
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Sport: 14 May 12
Swedish Olympic gold medalist triple jumper Christian Olsson is abandoning his bid to compete at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, the one-time world record holder said as he announced on Monday he was retiring from the sport.
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National: 14 May 12
The man suspected in a series of racially-motived shootings which claimed three lives in Malmö and left the city gripped in fear appeared in court amid tight securiy on Monday for the start of his high-profile murder trial.
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National: 14 May 12
Police remain baffled as to the whereabouts of the driver of white Ford Mustang rented in the Czech Republic and found abandoned near the side of a road in northern Sweden with the keys still inside.
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National: 14 May 12
A double-decker bus carrying 72 passengers crashed north of Stockholm on Sunday evening after the driver passed out while behind the wheel.
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Politics: 13 May 12
With 6.6 percent of voters backing them, the far-right Sweden Democrats have grown to be Sweden’s fourth-largest party, according to the latest poll from research institute Sifo.
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Sport: 13 May 12
At Euro 2012, the Swedish football team is looking to prove that they have returned to form following their failure to reach the 2010 World Cup.
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National: 13 May 12
The father died, but his three year-old son survived the ordeal, when their little inflatable dinghy capsized in the middle of a lake in western Sweden on Saturday afternoon.
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Sport: 12 May 12
At Friday night’s ice hockey match at Stockholm’s Globe Arena, Russia came back from two goals down beat Sweden, giving the Swedes their first loss at the 2012 world ice hockey championships.
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National: 12 May 12
The man found dead down a well by a house in Odeshög, in south-eastern Sweden, has now been identified as the owner of the house.
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National: 12 May 12
The Malmö police began staking out suspected serial killer Peter Mangs’ apartment two hours before he killed one of his victims, which led to his arrest.
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Prime Minister Reinfeldt chats with The Local »
"If you missed it yesterday, here’s The Local’s editor David Landes snagging Prime Minister Reinfeldt for a chat before Princess Estelle’s baptism. Always nice to know the PM has time for TL!" READ »
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