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Analysis & Opinion: 21 May 13
Internet policy experts gather in Stockholm this week to grapple with online data protection and surveillance issues that everyone who surfs the web should care about, reports technologist Stefan Geens.
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Business & Money: 19 May 13
Gas pipeline firm Nord Stream will hold an information meeting on the Baltic island of Gotland on Monday to introduce a proposal to extend its controversial gas pipeline project.
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Lifestyle: 18 May 13
The 2013 Eurovision Song Contest Final is live in Malmö, southern Sweden. The Local brings you all the latest news, reactions, and details surrounding Europe's biggest pop music spectacle.
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Sport: 18 May 13
Ice hockey World Championships co-hosts Sweden and Finland continue their long-standing rivalry on Saturday with a place in the gold medal match at stake.
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Sport: 17 May 13
Sweden edged Olympic champions Canada 3-2 in a penalty shootout on Thursday night to set up semi-final clash against arch rivals Finland at the ice hockey World Championships.
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National: 17 May 13
A woman-on-woman kiss during the semi-finals failed to raise eyebrows among Eurovision Song Contest fans, but AFP's Sören Billing finds out why the "Gays World Cup" may not please socially conservative eastern European authorities.
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Lifestyle: 16 May 13
From Bonnie Tyler and a Ukrainian giant, to a song by Avicii and Abba legends and a rumoured appearance by Malmö-native Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Sweden's Eurovision Song Contest packs a glitzy punch without the hefty price tag.
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Politics: 15 May 13
Carl Bildt hailed a decision taken by the Arctic Council in Kiruna on Wednesday to grant India, China and five other nations permanent observer status at a summit boycotted by Greenland over what it felt was a snub by Sweden.
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Politics: 14 May 13
Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt on Monday downplayed concerns of a growing Russian military threat against Sweden, claiming Russia had neither the "will nor the capacity" to attack Swedish territory.
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Society: 13 May 13
Swedish comedian Magnus Betnér has leaked what he claims to be a confidential script for a Eurovision sketch that he refused to be part of, stating that he hopes the "unfunny" piece is never aired.
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National: 3 May 13
A Swedish woman has died after playing what appeared to be a game of Russian roulette in western Sweden. The 23-year-old man who provided the weapon was charged for manslaughter on Thursday.
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Business & Money: 3 May 13
Ikea, Sweden's budget furniture giant, cleared a key hurdle on Thursday when the Indian cabinet said yes to its planned $2-billion push into the vast emerging market.
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Politics: 30 Apr 13
A new opinion poll showed that 83 percent of survey respondents doubted whether Sweden could defend itself. Ten percent said they did not know, leaving a slim sliver of six percent who trusted Sweden's defence.
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Business & Money: 29 Apr 13
Swedes are turning away from file-sharing sites like The Pirate Bay in favour of "safer" illegal streaming sites for new movies and TV shows, with experts claiming that Swedes would pay for content if a better solution was available.
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Politics: 26 Apr 13
Sweden's Defence Minister has lashed out at sources leaking classified military documents about the country's readiness capacity, after two close Russian fly-bys were revealed in recent days.
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Business & Money: 25 Apr 13
Electrolux's net profits suffered a 28-percent drop in the first quarter, the Swedish home appliance giant reported on Thursday, citing sluggish demand in Europe and a strong krona.
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Politics: 25 Apr 13
A Russian spy plane reportedly flew through the international strip of airspace in between Sweden's main Baltic islands of Öland and Gotland on Saturday.
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Politics: 23 Apr 13
Twitter users in Sweden have leapt to an entertaining defence of their country after @WikiLeaks accused the @Sweden curator of being a military mouthpiece - after he labelled them "mad tinfoil hatters" .
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Politics: 22 Apr 13
The revelation that Nato stepped in instead of the Swedish military during a recent Russian fly-by has Swedish political commentators seething, while the defence minister has admitted a shift in Russia's military behaviour.
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Politics: 22 Apr 13
Russian fighter planes carried out training missions just outside the Swedish border over Easter; Sweden's military, however, was too slow to react and had to rely on help from Nato, according to a media report on Monday.
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Business & Money: 19 Apr 13
Swedish-Finnish telecom operator TeliaSonera on Friday reported a first quarter decline in sales and profit amid strong competition and a drop in revenue from texting and traditional voice traffic in relation to data services.
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Sport: 17 Apr 13
Swedish clothing giant H&M announced on Wednesday that it would be dressing Sweden's athletes for the upcoming Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and Sochi.
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Society: 16 Apr 13
Three Siberian tigers have been born at a wildlife park in western Sweden, the zoo announced on Tuesday, with the striped bundles of fur estimated to be up and running within a few weeks.
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Business & Money: 15 Apr 13
Spending on weapons and military services dropped in 2012 compared to the year before, the first annual drop since 1998, according to the findings of a Swedish think tank.
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Science & Technology: 6 Apr 13
Swedish Environmental Minister Lena Ek has said that the Baltic Sea nations' failure to protect the region's environment is "worrying".
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Business & Money: 2 Apr 13
Swedish bank Swedbank has announced plans to shutter operations in Russia and Ukraine as part of a strategy to focus on markets closer to home.
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Business & Money: 29 Mar 13
The sale by Swedish telecoms operator Tele2 of its Russian subsidiary to state bank VTB, annnounced on Thursday, has piqued the attention of competitors who have said they could make a better offer.
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Politics: 27 Mar 13
The UN has appointed a Swedish disarmament expert who led arms investigations in Iraq to look into the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria.
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Science & Technology: 22 Mar 13
The shrinking number of foreign university students in Sweden has left tech companies like telecom giant Ericsson worried about a shortage of potential employees.
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Business & Money: 21 Mar 13
Sweden's budget fashion giant H&M has cited disappointing sales and exchange-rate woes as factors behind a drop in net profit, and said the lingering winter will take a swipe at its spring collections.
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Business & Money: 20 Mar 13
Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg has said that Cyprus has around a week to find a negotiated settlement to its financial travails or face the prospect of meltdown.
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Business & Money: 18 Mar 13
A Swedish think tank ranked China on Monday as the world's fifth largest arms exporter, overtaking Britain and jumping to its highest position since the Cold War.
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Education: 14 Mar 13
With more students worldwide choosing to learn Swedish, The Local catches up with Marina Astashevskaya - a Swedish teacher in Russia - whose classes help bridge the gap between love-refugees and their families in Russia.
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Science & Technology: 10 Mar 13
A snowslide broke out in Åre just a day after a powerful avalanche claimed a young man's life, leading police to appeal to skiers to avoid off-piste areas.
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Travel: 8 Mar 13
Sweden came first in a rating of the gay-friendliest countries in the world, published on Thursday by the Spartacus International Gay Guide.
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Travel: 8 Mar 13
In our weekly profile of people's lives in different parts of Sweden, The Local catches up with a Spanish couple who traded the sunny climes of Galicia for the snow, reindeer, and northern lights of Skellefteå.
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National: 7 Mar 13
Swedish furniture giant Ikea has halted the sale of sausages in Russia and chocolate cakes in France and more than 20 other countries after finding the products contained horsemeat and faecal bacteria respectively.
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Sport: 4 Mar 13
Sweden took home an unexpected tally of six medals at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Gothenburg at the weekend, including a spectacular gold by runner Abeba Aregawi.
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Politics: 1 Mar 13
Russians have seized on statements by the top Swedish military commander about Sweden's limited capacity to defend itself, responding with an Abba-inspired satirical jab broadcast on national television.
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National: 27 Feb 13
Horsemeat contamination fears have prompted Swedish furniture giant Ikea to halt the sale of additional meat products after new tests by a Sweden-based meatball supplier confirmed horsemeat content.
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Sport: 24 Feb 13
Charlotte Kalla and Ida Ingemarsdotter claimed the World Championship cross country silver medal for Sweden in the women's team sprint in Val di Fiemme, Italy on Sunday, while Marcus Hellner and Emil Jönsson finished second in the men's event.
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National: 19 Feb 13
A border guard on duty when a Swedish plane flew over Belarus last summer to drop hundreds of pro-democracy teddy bears has been jailed for failing to stop the stuffed-animal assault.
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Business & Money: 14 Feb 13
Half of French automaker Renault's $2.4 billion net profit from last year came from selling a stake in Swedish group AB Volvo.
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National: 13 Feb 13
Sweden’s foreign minister chose to begin his annual foreign policy speech with a focus on Nordic and Baltic cooperation, calling for a new “Hanseatic age of prosperity” and underlining joint military tasks.
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Science & Technology: 13 Feb 13
Sweden's licensed wolf hunt is effectively over for the season after a court decision on Tuesday left in place a lower court's ruling stopping the hunt.
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Politics: 11 Feb 13
Sweden should consider placing US-made Patriot missiles on the island of Gotland to help deter a resurgent Russia, Sweden's deputy prime minister has argued in a call for greater military spending.
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Analysis & Opinion: 7 Feb 13
As the Swedish media examines the climate of hatred towards women in the public eye, editor and author Åsa Linderborg recounts what happened when her newspaper Aftonbladet decided to blow the lid on Sweden’s far-right websites. (WARNING: STRONG LANGUAGE).
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Sport: 4 Feb 13
The Sweden national bandy team went down 3-4 to Russia in the 2013 Bandy World Championships in western Sweden on Sunday.
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Science & Technology: 2 Feb 13
The first of sixteen wolves permitted in the ongoing hunt was killed on Saturday morning close to Örebrö in central Sweden.
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Science & Technology: 1 Feb 13
Sweden is to resume its wolf hunt in what authorities have described as a bid to limit inbreeding, while environmentalists argued on Thursday that it violates EU law.
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Business & Money: 31 Jan 13
Swedish-Finnish telecom operator TeliaSonera reported an 8 percent rise in 2012 net profits on Thursday, but still plans to reduce the size of its workforce in Sweden.
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Business & Money: 30 Jan 13
Swedish truck manufacturers Scania on Wednesday reported a 30-percent drop in net profits, claiming that low demand in Europe and the Middle East has hit the company hard in 2012.
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Science & Technology: 23 Jan 13
Meteorologists are warning that next month in Sweden will be even colder than January, with temperatures set to plummet across the entire Nordic region.
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Business & Money: 23 Jan 13
Ikea posted an 8-percent increase in full-year profits on Wednesday, with the Swedish furniture retailer set to open two dozen stores and add thousands of jobs in 2013.
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Business & Money: 22 Jan 13
Ikea has won approval from a foreign investment panel in India for a $2 billion plan to open several branches of the Swedish flat-pack furniture giant across the country.
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Politics: 16 Jan 13
Sweden was the lone EU member state to opt out of a petition the UN Security Council to take Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to the International Criminal Court (ICC), disappointing human rights observers who claim the move is "un-Swedish".
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Science & Technology: 14 Jan 13
Industrial espionage directed against Swedish companies and research institutions is on the rise, according to intelligence officials, prompting new inter-agency intelligence coordination to protect national security.
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Society: 7 Jan 13
A pornographic film was shown live during a Swedish television news broadcast on Monday adding an unexpected erotic twist to an otherwise sober report about embattled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.
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Sport: 6 Jan 13
Sweden failed to defend their World Junior Ice Hockey Championships gold on Saturday as the United States clinched a 3-1 win in the final in Ufa, Russia.
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Business & Money: 27 Dec 12
India's commerce minister has taken "a favourable view" of plans to open Sweden's retail giant Ikea in India, despite the string of proposed retail changes put forward last month.
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Society: 20 Dec 12
The Local's Eric Johansson spent what may be his last day on earth looking into why so few Swedes see any reason to worry about Friday, December 21st, which according to some interpretations of the Mayan calendar will be the end of the world.
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Business & Money: 19 Dec 12
The head of Volvo Cars warned in an interview on Tuesday that it would be "very difficult" for the company to avoid losing money this year and next.
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Science & Technology: 17 Dec 12
The Swedish military announced on Monday it had discovered the remains of a Russian submarine on the Baltic Sea bed near the island of Öland.
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Sport: 16 Dec 12
Sweden took home gold at this weekend's European Curling Championships in Karlstad, beating Norway 8-5.
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Business & Money: 13 Dec 12
French carmaker Renault said Wednesday it had begun to sell off its remaining shares in Swedish truck manufacturer AB Volvo to reduce the company's debt and raise funds for investment.
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Politics: 8 Dec 12
Spies from more than 15 foreign powers are operating in Sweden today, with Russia, China and Iran being the most active in espionage within Sweden's borders.
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Society: 4 Dec 12
With tickets to the 2013 Eurovision finals in Malmö selling out in a flash last week, music fans across Europe have flooded resale sites at levels on par with the Euro 2012 football tournament.
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Education: 27 Nov 12
Sweden failed to make an appearance in a list of the top 20 countries worldwide ranked by education quality, a review which coincided with the Finance Minister claiming that Swedish kids need to study more.
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Business & Money: 26 Nov 12
They might not be many, but Russian tourists are the ones to empty their pockets when visiting Sweden, a new report shows.
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Business & Money: 23 Nov 12
Ikea's India expansion plans hit a potential snag this week after the Swedish furniture giant learned it may not be able to sell its famed meatballs in new stores after authorities rejected a number of planned product lines.
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Lifestyle: 18 Nov 12
Santas from around the world have gathered in Gällivare to compete in reindeer-riding, porridge-eating and Christmas carol karaoke, AFP's Camille Bas-Wohlert reports.
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National: 15 Nov 12
Police raided a refugee housing facility in western Sweden on Thursday, hauling in seven people suspected of having ties to a Russian criminal network.
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Sport: 13 Nov 12
Swedish ice hockey star Mats Sundin was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame on Monday, making him only the second Swede to ever receive the honour.
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Sport: 8 Nov 12
Sweden’s ice hockey team began the four-nation Karjala Cup on Wednesday with a loss to the Czech Republic, the same team that knocked the Swedes out of the world championships in May.
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Lifestyle: 6 Nov 12
As the 23rd Stockholm International Film Festival draws back the curtain this week, Peter Vinthagen Simpson explores this year’s theme of “power” to find out what Robert Redford and Pussy Riot have in common.
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Science & Technology: 2 Nov 12
The Swedish Armed Forces on Friday published previously classified pictures of foreign aircraft taken close to Swedish airspace for the first time since the end of the Cold War.
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Politics: 31 Oct 12
Non-aligned Sweden has agreed to help monitor Nato airspace over Iceland in 2014 in what is seen as being a sensitive step for the non-Nato member.
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Society: 30 Oct 12
Vendace roe from the Bothnian Bay in the north of Sweden, the only Swedish product currently with an EU-protected designation of origin, is being launched as a delicacy in top notch restaurants in Japan.
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Business & Money: 26 Oct 12
Profits at Ericsson dropped 42 percent in the third quarter, the Swedish telecom equipment maker reported on Friday, citing challenges in the European and Asian markets.
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National: 20 Oct 12
Swedish investment company Kinnevik has spent 2 billion kronor ($300 million) on expanding its stake in the Berlin-based online shoe and clothing shop Zalando.
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Analysis & Opinion: 18 Oct 12
With the opening of a conference in Stockholm examining historical research on Raoul Wallenberg, historian Susanne Berger argues that more must be done to force Russia to open up records that could shed light on the still-disputed fate of the Swedish diplomat.
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National: 17 Oct 12
The 45-year-old man who abducted his son and murdered his Russian ex-girlfriend will be extradited to Norway, police reported on Wednesday.
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National: 15 Oct 12
A 26-year-old woman who had been reported missing together with her one-year-old son has been found dead in a wood near the home of her former Swedish partner, who was arrested earlier on Monday in southern Sweden.
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National: 13 Oct 12
Russian security services have arrested a 35-year-old man suspected of the attempted murder of an imam in northern Sweden in February.
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Business & Money: 8 Oct 12
Swedish furniture giant Ikea is one step closer to setting up retail operations in India, spokespeople for the company said on Monday, after the company has filed the final paperwork with Indian authorities.
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Business & Money: 4 Oct 12
Two Swedish military agencies at the centre of a scandal over plans to build a weapons factory in Saudi Arabia also secretly paid millions of kronor to a Russian arms expert for information relevant to the project, a new report has revealed.
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Science & Technology: 2 Oct 12
Swedish divers famous for finding an object on the Baltic Sea floor resembling a well-known spaceship from the Star Wars films are celebrating the recovery of drinkable wine from a nearly century-old Swedish shipwreck.
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Society: 26 Sep 12
While two thirds of those who've had foreign university degrees formally validated in Sweden still don't work in their fields of expertise, the process nevertheless helps jobseekers in other ways, a study has found.
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Business & Money: 25 Sep 12
A Stockholm-based manager from Swedish-Finnish telecom giant TeliaSonera is under investigation for corruption in a scandal that reportedly involves expensive mobile phones, ice hockey and sex club visits.
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Society: 24 Sep 12
Swedish furniture giant Ikea removed a picture from its Russian website of four youths wearing balaclavas, in an apparent reference to the punk band Pussy Riot, members of which were jailed in Russia in August in a much-criticized ruling.
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National: 17 Sep 12
Swedes have a more favourable opinion of the United States than they do of the European Union, according to a new study, which also found Sweden to have the lowest opinion of Israel of any EU country.
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Politics: 6 Sep 12
Russian President Vladimir Putin called Julian Assange's extradition battle "political" on Thursday, accusing the UK of double standards in ordering the WikiLeaks founder extradited to Sweden on sex crime accusations.
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Sport: 31 Aug 12
Stockholm football club AIK achieved a stunning two goal away victory over CSKA Moscow to advance to the next round of the Europa League tournament.
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Science & Technology: 30 Aug 12
A research team set off for northern Sweden on Thursday to get to the bottom a "Ghost Rocket" sighting from 1980 that has been labelled as “the biggest UFO mystery in the world” and which the Swedish military kept classified for years.
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Society: 24 Aug 12
A litter of 16 Cuban crocodiles has been hatched in a Swedish zoo to parents that were previously owned by Fidel Castro and smuggled via Moscow to Stockholm in a zoo keeper's hand luggage.
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Analysis & Opinion: 22 Aug 12
Contributor Susanne Berger explains how the confusion about other Swedish prisoners in the Gulag complicates the search into Wallenberg’ fate.
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National: 19 Aug 12
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange thanked Ecuador for its support in a statement from Quito's embassy in London on Sunday and slammed the US, although made no mention of the sex offences allegations he faces in Sweden.
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Business & Money: 17 Aug 12
Foreign diplomats to Sweden have amassed almost 600 unpaid parking tickets so far this year, with the total amount of unpaid fines for the year reaching over 400,000 kronor ($59,642).
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Politics: 11 Aug 12
The European Union has said that a "very clear message" would be sent to Minsk in the coming days following the expulsion of Swedish diplomats, but stopped short of pulling out EU ambassadors in solidarity.
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Sport: 11 Aug 12
Swedish champions Helsingborg must overcome the Scottish champions Celtic in order to claim a place in the Champions League group stage for the first time since 2000.
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