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National: 19 Jun 13
Politicians in the small Swedish town of Falköping want to give alcoholics and drug users a glass-encased zone in the middle of a central square, saying it would lessen public disturbances and allow "the down and out" to socialize.
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National: 19 Jun 13
The European Commission opened an in-depth probe on Wednesday to see if state aid given to Scandinavian Airlines by Sweden and Denmark conformed to EU rules.
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Business & Money: 19 Jun 13
Swedish clothes manufacturer H&M posted a larger than expected drop in quarterly profit on Wednesday, citing the unusually harsh winter in Europe and North America.
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National: 19 Jun 13
In The Local's new Fashion Fix column on Swedish trends, Englishwoman Victoria Hussey gets up close and personal with shoes - namely "brothel creepers" from WWII that have been making a steady return to Stockholm pavements.
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National: 19 Jun 13
Imported frozen raspberries should be boiled before eaten according to new advice from Sweden's National Food Agency, which warns that the berries may carry the novo virus that is more known for causing winter vomiting disease.
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Business & Money: 19 Jun 13
The Swedish government announced on Wednesday that it had sold 6.4 percent of its stake in Nordic banking giant Nordea, reducing its holding to 7.0 percent.
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National: 19 Jun 13
A deceased patient who had no relatives was left in a room for five days at the Örebro University Hospital before staff realized the body was still there.
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National: 19 Jun 13
Stockholm bus traffic was at a standstill Wednesday as drivers launched a major strike at midnight, but a group of Conservative youths disrupted the action by replacing a bus route between two of the city's major hospitals.
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National: 19 Jun 13
Sweden Democrat MP Kent Ekeroth has to pay tax for money sent to his bank account as donations to two far-right websites that he claims to have nothing to do with editorially.
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National: 19 Jun 13
Sweden's parliament has voted to send up to 160 troops to Mali in July in an effort to support peace and security in the west African nation.
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Society: 19 Jun 13
For some foreigners living in Sweden, a natural "inner Swede" can develop that often doesn't show its face until you're back home again. The Local's Patrick Reilly lists the top ten ways this inner Swede can change your life.
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National: 19 Jun 13
Far-right websites in Sweden are receiving so much traffic they are seven times more popular than the established political parties' online portals.
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National: 18 Jun 13
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is prepared to spend another five years inside the Ecuadorean embassy in London, but one Swedish lawyer said on Tuesday that the decision would not affect the Swedish case.
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Society: 18 Jun 13
A male Swedish nurse has donned a dress to protest the lack of shorts at a hospital in southern Sweden, saying he had to fight the small battles for gender equality in the workplace.
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National: 18 Jun 13
A public transport strike appears likely to kick off on Wednesday night after unions and state-transport heads failed to agree on workers' pay and conditions after three days of discussions.
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Business & Money: 18 Jun 13
Criticism of the government's foreign aid policy is mounting as Swedish ambassadors, aid organizations and politicians slam Development Aid Minister Gunilla Carlsson's announcements that development assistance to several countries may be slashed.
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Business & Money: 18 Jun 13
Forestry giant Stora Enso plans to let another 2,500 employees go, of whom 750 work in Sweden, citing weak markets and deflating profits.
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National: 18 Jun 13
Almost 2,000 puppies are smuggled illegally to Sweden every year, new statistics reveal, putting Sweden at risk of rabies while endangering the life and health of the trendy dogs.
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National: 18 Jun 13
A Swedish train driver has been criticized for using the loudspeaker to warn passengers about a beggar on board a Stockholm commuter train, and encouraging them to save their money and rip up the beggar's papers.
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National: 18 Jun 13
A travelling community has moved on after Stockholm University exchange students were forced out of their accommodation over safety concerns, with police claiming the situation is nothing new.
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National: 18 Jun 13
Stockholm City Police have decided not to issue Princess Madeleine a fine for driving in the bus lane a few days before her high-profile wedding, after confusion about her rights to use the lane.
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Analysis & Opinion: 18 Jun 13
A zombie, a cocaine-snorting rock star and a middle-aged cop walk into a bar.... Which one captures love columnist Emilia Millicent's attention? In her last column for The Local, she explains how she has devised the ultimate test of romantic compatibility.
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National: 18 Jun 13
The Swedish Justice Ombudsman will not look at a case in western Sweden where a man was paid damages for not being given an internship after he refused to shake a female boss's hand for religious reasons.
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Business & Money: 17 Jun 13
Sweden is second in line to benefit the most from an EU free-trade deal with the US, for which negotiations were finally given the all-clear in a move welcomed by pro-business groups in Sweden.
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Analysis & Opinion: 17 Jun 13
Thinking of starting a business? Doubting you can make it work? The Local caught up with equity crowdfunders FundedByMe to find out what makes "just another great idea" become a successful big-earner.
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National: 17 Jun 13
A woman in southern Sweden has been cleared of animal cruelty charges after she tied her pet dog to the towbar of her car, which was driven away by a man causing the death of the animal.
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National: 17 Jun 13
Despite increasing numbers of start-ups, Swedes are still less talented at taking their business to the next level, according to a new global study published on Monday.
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Sport: 17 Jun 13
A debate about banning professional boxing in Sweden has been reignited following Frida Wallberg's nearly fatal defeat in a title fight against Australia's Diana Prazak.
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Business & Money: 17 Jun 13
TeliaSonera's new head Johan Dennelind believes he is the right man to restore the Swedish telecom giant's reputation after the company's Uzbek bribery scandal.
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National: 17 Jun 13
A Säpo official has suggested Sweden is powerless to stop citizens from joining Islamist rebels in Syria even though there is a risk they will return to commit acts of terror in Sweden.
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National: 17 Jun 13
Swedish automaker Volvo is set to launch a fleet of silent, electric buses in Gothenburg, as part of the west coast city's aim to become climate-neutral as well as tackle noise pollution.
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Business & Money: 17 Jun 13
Swiss-Swedish engineering giant ABB has appointed a new CEO, who has a background in oil and gas, utilities, telecoms and automotive industries and who was a key player in the acquisition of Baldor.
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National: 17 Jun 13
A woman in southern Sweden has been sentenced to a further two months in prison after she tried to get out of her initial sentence by forging a medical certificate that claimed she had cancer and only a few months to live.
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National: 17 Jun 13
Three young men who felt "provoked" by a woman on a road in eastern Sweden are suspected of assault and reckless driving after they taunted the woman and both vehicles ended up in a ditch.
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National: 17 Jun 13
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange made a rare public appearance on Sunday as he met with Ecuador's foreign minister, over a year after Assange took asylum in London's Ecuadorean embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden.
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National: 16 Jun 13
A 25-year-old man who received burns in a pizzeria fire has been arrested on suspicion of committing severe arson.
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National: 16 Jun 13
As unions threaten to pull bus, train and underground staff, commuters may experience severe disruptions ahead of the Midsummer weekend.
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Society: 16 Jun 13
The difference between unemployment rates among Swedish men and women grew in 2012, with more men currently out of work, according to new figures from Eurostat.
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National: 16 Jun 13
One year after taking refuge in Ecuador's London embassy, the WikiLeaks founder tells AFP's Katy Lee that he still works every day and that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden should be celebrated as a "hero".
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Sport: 16 Jun 13
Swedish female super featherweight boxing star Frida Wallberg underwent surgery after sustaining a serious head injury in a 10-round world championship title fight against Australia’s Diana Prazak on Friday.
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Society: 15 Jun 13
According to a new report published by the police over 30 officers were injured during the recent unrest in Stockholm suburbs and many did not have protective equipment.
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Sport: 15 Jun 13
A female cyclist was seriously injured in Vätternrundan, the world's largest recreational cycling event in which thousands of participants race around Sweden's second biggest lake.
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Society: 15 Jun 13
Police are searching for the owners of a goat who was found wandering the streets of Skara in western Sweden on Friday night.
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National: 15 Jun 13
The US promise of military aid to rebel forces in Syria could have serious humanitarian consequences, Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt said Friday.
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National: 14 Jun 13
Stockholm University exchange students have been told to leave their accommodation immediately after a community of travellers set up an illegal camp nearby, raising concerns for the students' safety.
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Society: 14 Jun 13
Sweden's Princess Madeleine took to her Facebook account on Friday to accuse the Swedish media of "destroying" her and her husband's privacy, after a tabloid published images of the newlyweds in their swimwear from their Seychelles honeymoon.
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National: 14 Jun 13
Six teenage boys aged 15 to 17 were convicted on Friday after raping a 15-year-old girl at an apartment in a north-western suburb of Stockholm in March.
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Sport: 14 Jun 13
Robin Söderling, the former world number four sidelined by illness for nearly two years, has said that he still hopes to return to the tennis circuit.
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Business & Money: 14 Jun 13
Sweden's state-run liquor store monopoly has sent back 6,000 bottles of a Spanish wine because it tasted better than expected, according to a Swedish alcohol supplier.
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Travel: 14 Jun 13
In The Local's new series highlighting tourist destinations across Sweden, we head to Gothenburg, the country's second biggest city, where you can eat seafood aplenty, enjoy the beautiful islands, and (hopefully) avoid the Cheese-Slicer Bridge.
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National: 14 Jun 13
Sweden has ranked first in a new European gender equality league table, with Denmark and Finland taking the second and third spots.
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Business & Money: 14 Jun 13
Development aid minister Gunilla Carlsson has said that the Swedish government may reduce development assistance for the Palestinians since they have failed to reach a peace agreement with Israel.
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Society: 14 Jun 13
After their lavish Stockholm wedding, Chris O'Neill whisked Princess Madeleine off to the idyllic Seychelles in the Indian Ocean, where the newlyweds are taking beach walks and staying in a luxury villa.
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National: 14 Jun 13
The head of Sweden's Employment Agency has said Swedish employers need to be more open-minded in their recruitment, choosing to joke about the organizational skills of vandals during the recent Stockholm riots.
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Business & Money: 14 Jun 13
A hierarchical "Gothenburg Spirit" among politicians and civil servants contributed to a culture of corruption in the past decade, concluded a report on Sweden's second largest city.
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Politics: 13 Jun 13
Sweden on Thursday proposed legislation that would completely outlaw bestiality, tightening current rules that only prohibit sex with animals that causes mental or physical harm.
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National: 13 Jun 13
Foreigners in Sweden bring in more to the country's economy than they take out, according to a new report from the OECD that measured the fiscal impact of immigration.
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Science & Technology: 13 Jun 13
Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said on Tuesday that the revelations about the Prism programme run by US intelligence agencies would benefit from an open debate, but asserted comparisons to Swedish surveillance laws were unfounded.
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Society: 13 Jun 13
A Facebook post about a chance encounter on the Stockholm metro with a "super hot" guy in a green shirt landed the face of 36-year-old Lisa Tegelmark in newspapers across Sweden, making her our pick for Swede of the Week.
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Science & Technology: 13 Jun 13
A man in southern Sweden was shocked to uncover a human skeleton just 20 centimetres under the ground near a public beach, remains that archaeologists believe belong to a fallen soldier from the Danish occupation of Sweden in the early 1600s.
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Business & Money: 13 Jun 13
The Swedish government has given up its efforts to force the European Union to scrap its ban on the export of snus, choosing instead to focus on protecting the popular moist tobacco product's use in Sweden.
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National: 13 Jun 13
Sweden's highest court has ruled that performing an "infidelity check" on a woman is a form of rape, overturning a lower court ruling that cleared a man who tore off his wife's underwear to determine if she had had sex with another man.
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Politics: 13 Jun 13
The UN has asked Sweden to contribute peace-keeping troops to the Israeli-Syrian border region the Golan Heights, as tensions in the region mount.
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Business & Money: 13 Jun 13
Since 2008, migrants to Sweden can swap course from seeking asylum to seeking a work visa with the help of an employer. The Local speaks to one migrant who praises the system, while saying it could be improved.
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Politics: 13 Jun 13
Ecuador is set to replace its ambassador to the UK, denying claims the current envoy was being made to leave for allowing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to seek refuge from Sweden's extradition demands at their London address.
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National: 13 Jun 13
The Swedish Migration Board wants to improve knowledge of labour migration possibilities to Sweden for migrants, hoping in part to make sure future employees know their options and rights.
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Society: 12 Jun 13
Stockholm's recently opened Abba musuem has come under fire over its entrance fees for toddlers after a woman was forced to pay admission for an infant she was carrying in her arms.
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Politics: 12 Jun 13
Referring to the far-right, anti-immigration Sweden Democrats as a "xenophobic" political party does not run afoul of rules requiring impartiality by Swedish broadcasters, an oversight body has ruled.
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Science & Technology: 12 Jun 13
Facebook officially opened its new mammoth server hall in far northern Sweden on Wednesday, with representatives downplaying concerns stemming from the NSA spying scandal, proclaiming the facility would operate under Swedish law.
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National: 12 Jun 13
Two men charged with blackmailing an Eritrean woman in Sweden faced a Stockholm courtroom on Wednesday, accused of demanding money from the woman to prevent the torture and eventual murder a man in Egypt.
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Lifestyle: 12 Jun 13
The blockbuster TV show Game of Thrones is meant to be pure fantasy, but a closer inspection suggests this isn't the case. In fact, we've found ten sure-fire indicators that the fictional land of Västerås, err... Westeros, is actually based on Sweden.
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Business & Money: 12 Jun 13
A small fire broke out at the Ringhals nuclear power plant in western Sweden on Wednesday morning, less than a day after the reactor had been removed from special observation stemming from a series of safety lapses in 2009.
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Business & Money: 12 Jun 13
JB Education, one of Sweden's largest operators of publicly funded and privately managed free schools, announced on Tuesday it was declaring bankruptcy.
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National: 12 Jun 13
Nearly 100 convicted sex criminals work in schools across Sweden, according to a new report, which found many sex offenders have kept their jobs despite having committed their crimes while employed at a school.
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Science & Technology: 12 Jun 13
Participants in Sweden's famed Vasaloppet cross-country ski race, one of the toughest endurance events in the world, have an increased risk of developing an irregular heart rhythm, according to surprise findings unveiled on Wednesday.
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Sport: 12 Jun 13
Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored twice to lead Sweden to victory over the Faroe Islands 2-0 on Tuesday, giving the national side three much-needed points in their bid to qualify for the 2014 World Cup.
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National: 11 Jun 13
A tax hike for a high-profile firm of Swedish venture capitalists has financial observers worried that the recent focus on their income could cause bad blood among investors.
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National: 11 Jun 13
A British man who was stymied in his attempts to retrieve his passport from a Stockholm postal outlet finally has the document in hand thanks to the service-minded efforts of a "heroic" postal employee.
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Society: 11 Jun 13
Swedish clothing chain H&M announced its next high-fashion collaboration on Tuesday, teaming up with French designer Isabel Marant for a winter style she promises will be sexy, Parisian, and with a dash of carelessness.
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Politics: 11 Jun 13
Matthew Barzun, who served as Barack Obama's first US ambassador in Stockholm, has been tipped to be the next American ambassador in London, according to British media reports.
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Analysis & Opinion: 11 Jun 13
As Sweden wrestles with a growing gap between low and high earners, liberal commentator Nima Sanandaji looks at which societal problems may be behind Sweden's rising income inequality and why the situation is unlikely to change.
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Society: 11 Jun 13
As part of our ongoing series of Swedish career profiles, The Local catches up with American Billy McCormac to find out how he went from refurbishing antique furniture to heading one of Sweden's most influential real estate lobbying organizations.
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Science & Technology: 11 Jun 13
Sweden needs to ramp up its efforts to tackle the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, with several types posing "a serious future threat to society" according to a report published on Tuesday.
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Lifestyle: 11 Jun 13
In our second look at Swedes in England, The Local finds out how a Swedish workout trend from the 1970s has gained a foothold in London four decades later.
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Business & Money: 11 Jun 13
A US court has dismissed a $3 billion lawsuit by previous Saab owner Spyker alleging that US auto giant General Motors was responsible for causing the Swedish carmaker's bankruptcy.
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National: 11 Jun 13
A 59-year-old Swedish-born professor was found dead in his home in Houston, Texas on Sunday morning, having allegedly been stabbed to death with a stiletto heel by his girlfriend.
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National: 10 Jun 13
The man who has been in prison in Sweden longer than anyone else has been granted early release by a district court in central Sweden.
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Society: 10 Jun 13
Sweden needs to hire more foreigners, but Swedish employers remain reluctant to hire them due to barriers of language and distance, a new report from Sweden's job agency found.
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National: 10 Jun 13
A British man's attempt to gain Swedish citizenship has been marred by a bureaucratic black hole that has left him stranded in the country without a valid ID.
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Science & Technology: 10 Jun 13
Just days after Sweden was named the "sexually transmitted disease capital of Europe", new figures show that gonorrhea in Sweden is the rise, as the bacteria that causes the infection becomes ever-stronger.
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National: 10 Jun 13
A Swedish train operator has bowed to pressure and decided to let male drivers in Stockholm show a little leg after a group of skirt-wearing male train drivers caused a worldwide media storm to protest their employer's ban on shorts.
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Politics: 10 Jun 13
The government has ordered Sweden's Equality Ombudsman, the country's primary arbiter of discrimination claims, to relocate its offices to a north Stockholm suburb with a high concentration of immigrants.
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Business & Money: 10 Jun 13
Swedish drugmakers AstraZeneca is poised to buy a US producer of inhalers, used to treat patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
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National: 10 Jun 13
A teacher in eastern Sweden has been reported to police after locking two 10-year-old girls in a storeroom during a lesson on Friday.
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Sport: 10 Jun 13
Swedish football sensation Zlatan Ibrahimovic won the International Swede of the Year award on Sunday night, for his "exceptional successes at the highest international level".
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Business & Money: 10 Jun 13
A farmer in southern Sweden awoke on Sunday to find over 20 of his sheep slaughtered in what is believed to be a wolf attack. Experts have warned farmers in the area to be vigilant as the wolf will likely attack again.
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Sport: 9 Jun 13
The thousands of Swedish football fans who flooded into Kiev last year for the 2012 European Championships have been honoured with a monument in the city.
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Society: 9 Jun 13
The news that Swedish train drivers wear skirts to keep cool in the heat gained global interest on Saturday and Peter Vinthagen Simpson chats to gender expert David Tjeder about why the humble skirt retains the power to shock.
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Science & Technology: 9 Jun 13
Emails sent to the Swedish state and government authorities can be accessed by the US security services as several organizations use Microsoft and Google to filter spam.
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Sport: 9 Jun 13
Ten football supporters were held following a massive brawl in Eskilstuna in eastern Sweden on Saturday evening, the latest in a string of incidents of hooliganism which have blighted Swedish football.
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