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Government goes ahead with drug tests for kids

National: 15 Mar 10
The Swedish government has ignored the advice of Sweden's Council on Legislation and proposed the introduction of drug tests on children below the age of 15. READ »

Sweden blitzed by ten-goal Canada

National: 15 Mar 10
Sweden's sledge hockey team received a thumping in Vancouver on Sunday as Canada posted a 10-1 win in the second group game at the Paralympic Games. READ »

Champs held as football season gets underway

Sport: 15 Mar 10
Swedish champions AIK got off to a slow start with a home draw against top-flight newcomers Mjällby. The 2009 runners-up IFK Gothenburg meanwhile opened the season with a flurry of goals, dispatching Kalmar 0-3. READ »

Reinfeldt denounces genocide vote

Politics: 15 Mar 10
Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt called his Turkish counterpart on Saturday in a bid to distance the Swedish government from a parliamentary vote which recognized the killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide. READ »

Shots fired at Malmö police station

National: 15 Mar 10
At least one shot was fired at the main police station in Malmö on Sunday evening. The shot shattered, but did not penetrate, a window and police suspect that it was fired from distance. READ »

Man held over university massacre threat

National: 15 Mar 10
A man has been arrested for threatening a student massacre at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. READ »

Anti Swedish protests continue in Turkey

National: 14 Mar 10
Diplomatic efforts are underway to mend a rift between Sweden and Turkey, caused by the Swedish parliament's decision to recognize the mass killing of Armenians and other ethnic groups in 1915 as genocide. READ »

Stockholm police issue melting ice alert

National: 14 Mar 10
Two walkers fell through melting ice on Lake Mälaren in central Stockholm yesterday as warmer temperatures and underwater currents prompted police to issue a melting ice alert. READ »

Fourth murder plot suspect released

National: 14 Mar 10
A fourth suspect in the plot to assassinate Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks for his caricature of the Prophet Muhammad has been released without charge by Irish police. READ »

Malaysia slams Sweden over cartoons

Politics: 14 Mar 10
The Malaysian foreign minister has asked Sweden to take action against newspapers which reprinted a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog last week. READ »

Petty thief returns purse to police after 40 years

National: 13 Mar 10
Police in Vansbro, central Sweden, received a surprise package on Friday morning. A guilt-ridden thief who stole a wallet at a party 40 years ago sent it back to the station with an anonymous letter of apology. READ »

Three cartoon murder plot suspects freed

National: 13 Mar 10
Police in Ireland have released three of the seven people arrested earlier this week on suspicion of plotting to kill Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks. US media reports a second American Muslim woman has been arrested in the case. READ »

Ombudsman backs police on pepper spray at refugee wedding

National: 12 Mar 10
The Swedish Parliamentary Ombudsman has ruled that there is no case to answer for the police officers who interrupted a wedding to arrest a 24-year-old groom at Malmö city hall, using pepper spray on him in the process. READ »

Top flight footballer sentenced for rape

National: 12 Mar 10
Yannick Bapupa, a Congolese professional football player with Swedish top flight club Kalmar, has been sentenced to two years for the rape of an 18-year-old woman. READ »

Swedish Eurovision fever cools

Society: 12 Mar 10
Is Sweden falling out of love with Eurovision? On the verge of this year's national final, new figures show that while the event still tops the ratings, media interest, viewing figures and public voting are all in decline. READ »

Genocide vote sparks diplomatic fallout

National: 12 Mar 10
Sweden's ambassador to Turkey was summoned to the Turkish foreign ministry on Friday morning after the Swedish parliament voted to recognize the 1915 mass killing of Armenians and other ethnic groups as genocide. READ »

Swede killed in Afghanistan

National: 12 Mar 10
A Swedish woman from Örebro in eastern Sweden was shot and killed in Kabul in January. The woman was visiting relatives in the Afghan capital. READ »

Bildt: Icesave deal key to Iceland IMF money

Business & Money: 12 Mar 10
Sweden's Carl Bildt joined a chorus of Nordic foreign ministers on Thursday calling on Iceland to reach a banking payback deal with Britain and The Netherlands, warning that IMF aid money depended on it. READ »

Police identify Uruguayan star's tormentors

Sport: 11 Mar 10
Police have identified nine of the sixteen Hammarby supporters who crashed an AIK training session on Wednesday and threatened Uruguayan international midflieder Sebastián Eguren. READ »

Murder plot suspects kept for questioning

National: 11 Mar 10
The seven people arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of a suspected plot to assassinate Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks have had their periods of detention extended by an Irish court for another three days of questioning. READ »

Ambassador 'concerned' over sudden Roma influx

National: 11 Mar 10
Sweden's ambassador in Belgrade has expressed concern over the number of Serbian citizens seeking asylum in Sweden in the wake of a recent relaxation of visa restrictions. READ »

Auschwitz theft suspect awaits extradition

National: 11 Mar 10
Former Swedish neo-Nazi Anders Högström is to be extradited to Poland in connection with the theft of the "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign from the Auschwitz death camp, Stockholm district court ruled on Thursday. READ »

Sweden to recognize Armenian genocide

Politics: 11 Mar 10
The Swedish parliament voted on Thursday in favour of a motion to recognize the 1915 Armenian genocide, prompting Turkey to recall its ambassador from Stockholm. READ »

Källström jubilant as Lyon eject Real Madrid

Sport: 11 Mar 10
Swedish midfielder Kim Källström is set to play a part in the quarter-finals of the Champions League after Lyon held off the challenge of Spanish giants Real Madrid on Wednesday. READ »

Computer use doesn't make kids fat: report

Society: 10 Mar 10
Children who spend long periods in front of the television run a far higher risk of being overweight than those spending a long time in front of computer, a new survey of Lund school children has shown. READ »

'Jihad Jane' visited Sweden to plan attack

National: 10 Mar 10
The American woman known as "Jihad Jane", charged by US authorities on Tuesday with conspiring to kill Swedish Muhammad cartoonist Lars Vilks, is reported to have paid a visit to Sweden in August. READ »

Top flight club bans foreign language use

Sport: 10 Mar 10
Swedish top flight football club Brommapojkarna (BP) has introduced a language policy requiring all players to speak Swedish to each other in order to be eligible for selection. READ »

US 'Jihad Jane' linked to plot to kill cartoonist

National: 10 Mar 10
An American woman known as "Jihad Jane" was charged by US authorities on Tuesday with conspiring to kill Swedish Muhammad cartoonist Lars Vilks. READ »

Vilks 'not shaking with fear' over murder plot

National: 10 Mar 10
Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks said he was undaunted by revelations of a plot on his life after seven people were arrested in Ireland on Tuesday. READ »

Police chief aims to save boys from life of crime

Society: 10 Mar 10
Stockholm county police chief Carin Götblad has recommended the creation of special municipal task forces to coordinate efforts from police, schools and social services to steer Sweden's youth away from criminality. READ »

Euro court warns Sweden over Iran deportation

National: 10 Mar 10
The European Court of Human Rights has told Sweden that it will breach its humanitarian obligations if it deports an Iranian asylum seeker, saying his claims of past torture appeared to be true. READ »

Police probe cop blogger over furtive glans

National: 9 Mar 10
Police in southern Sweden are investigating claims by an anonymous officer that he and a colleague secretly dabbed the tips of their sex organs against parts of a car driven by female co-workers. READ »

Irish police foil plot to kill Swedish cartoonist

National: 9 Mar 10
Seven Muslims were arrested by Irish police on Tuesday on suspicions of conspiracy to murder a Swedish cartoonist who drew the prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog. READ »

Sweden helping Chechen 'bandits': Russia

Politics: 9 Mar 10
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev hit out at Sweden for providing a home for Chechen "bandits" as leading politicians from the two countries met at the Kremlin on Tuesday. READ »

China rejects spy case findings

National: 9 Mar 10
China has strongly denied allegations that it illegally gathered information on members of the Uighur community after a Swedish court jailed a man for spying. READ »

Stockholm gallery opens 'Wag the Dog' exhibition

Lifestyle: 9 Mar 10
A multimedia exhibition by Armenian artist Azat Sargsyan on the perception of reality presented by the mass media, marks the start of the spring season at Stockholm art gallery wip:sthlm. READ »

Swede appointed to head UN police force

National: 9 Mar 10
Swedish police officer Ann-Marie Orler has been appointed as the United Nation's top cop, the world body's secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon confirmed on Monday. READ »

Police bust record studio cannabis ring

National: 9 Mar 10
Stockholm police have busted a network of cannabis growers. One of the suspects is a record producer who cultivated the plants in his studio. READ »

Trove of shipwrecks found in Baltic Sea

National: 9 Mar 10
A dozen previously unknown shipwrecks have been found on the bed of the Baltic Sea; some of them are thought to up to 1,000 years old, the Swedish National Heritage Board said on Monday. READ »

Contractors at fault as roofs collapse

National: 8 Mar 10
Environment Minster Andreas Carlgren is calling for tighter checks on building contractors in the wake of a Swedish winter pockmarked with more than 110 collapsed roofs. READ »

Pensioner jailed for spying on Uighurs

National: 8 Mar 10
A 62-year-old Uighur living in Sweden as a political refugee since 1997 has been found guilty of spying for China on Uighur expatriates and sentenced to a year and four months in jail. READ »

Government calls for action on khat use

Society: 8 Mar 10
The Swedish government has announced a tougher approach to the threat posed by the use of the mildly intoxicating drug khat on the state of public health. READ »

Stockholm pram march marks Women's Day

Society: 8 Mar 10
Stockholm will on Monday host the largest ever march of the prams as part of the city's celebration of the 100th International Women's Day. The pram march hopes to bring focus on the problem of maternal mortality. READ »

Sweden slammed over sexual violence inaction

Society: 8 Mar 10
Sweden and its Nordic neighbours have been slammed by human rights group Amnesty International for failing to combat sexual violence, a new report shows. READ »

Government opposes plan to scale down domestic defence

National: 7 Mar 10
A squabble evidently is in the making between the government and Swedish Armed Forces, that is calling for reduced spending on home defence. READ »

Roma duped into seeking Swedish asylum

Society: 5 Mar 10
An estimated 1,000 Roma people, primarily from Serbia, have been lured this year alone into travelling to Sweden in the vain hope of securing residence permits, the Swedish Migration Board has said. READ »

'Inflexible welfare model keeping young Swedes out of work'

Analysis & Opinion: 5 Mar 10
An excessively rigid labour market is at the root of Sweden's high youth unemployment and helps explain the recent proliferation of young people in early retirement schemes, argues Nima Sanandaji, CEO of the Captus think tank. READ »

Gabriel, 13, died after Stockholm tunnel tour

National: 5 Mar 10
The teenage boy found dead at the bottom of a ventilation shaft by Slussen in central Stockholm on Thursday paid 200 kronor ($28) for a clandestine "tunnel tour" and it is now suspected that he was abandoned by his guide. READ »

Swedish rapper gets life for Hollywood killing

National: 5 Mar 10
A Los Angeles court on Thursday sentenced 35-year-old Swedish hip-hop artist David Moses Jassy, aka Monopoly, to life imprisonment for the road rage murder of a jazz pianist in Hollywood in November 2008. READ »

US immigrant sent on Swedish bank run-around

National: 4 Mar 10
When US citizen Sylvie Acra arrived in Sweden and began her search for a job she decided it would be wise to open a standard bank account, but after three visits to three major Swedish banks she remains dissatisfied. READ »

Bildt and Miliband chide EU foreign chief

Politics: 4 Mar 10
The foreign ministers of Sweden and Britain joined forces on Thursday in directing a sharp rebuke at Baroness Catherine Ashton over a lack of transparency in the recruitment process for EU diplomats. READ »

Malmö mayor blasted for 'Israeli lobby' comment

Politics: 4 Mar 10
Representatives for the Jewish Community in Malmö have slammed the city's mayor, Ilmar Reepalu, for his use of the term "Israeli lobby" in a Danish television interview. READ »

Riksbank chief calls for new financial framework

Business & Money: 4 Mar 10
Stefan Ingves, the head of the Swedish Riksbank, has called on parliament to look over the existing financial regulatory framework - and do so expediently. He indicated also that base rate rises will come in the autumn. READ »

Saab's Russian backer seeks clean slate

Business & Money: 4 Mar 10
Vladimir Antonov, the Russian businessman and backer of Spyker Cars' takeover of Saab, has launched a campaign to clear his name from allegations of money laundering and organised crime. READ »

Sweden claims narrow win in Wales

Sport: 4 Mar 10
Erik Hamrén, Sweden's new national football team trainer, got his tenure off on the right foot with a 0-1 win over Wales at the Liberty Stadium in Swansea on Wednesday. READ »

Opera chief wins appeal over concert floor collapse

Society: 4 Mar 10
The chief executive of the Norrland Opera House, Magnus Aspegren, has been cleared by the appeals court of any responsibility in connection with the floor collapse at a rock concert at the Umeå opera house in 2007. READ »

What's On in Sweden: March 5th - 11th

Lifestyle: 3 Mar 10
What’s on in Sweden: The Middle East Peace Orchestra play Stockholm, Women's Arm Wrestling in Gothenburg and Tindersticks in Malmö. READ »

Job agency accepts 'Muslim handshake' fine

Society: 3 Mar 10
Sweden’s National Public Employment Agency (Arbetsförmedlingen) has decided not to appeal its fine for discriminating against a Muslim man who had his benefits withdrawn after refusing to shake the hand of a female CEO. READ »

Three Baltic ferries stuck in the ice

National: 3 Mar 10
Three ferries got themselves stuck in ice in the Baltic Sea on Tuesday forcing almost 500 passengers to return to the Finnish island of Åland. READ »

Swedes back housekeeping tax relief

Politics: 3 Mar 10
A new poll shows Swedes are in favour of the system of household services tax relief that the left-green opposition has declared it will abolish - despite its popularity among top Social Democrats - if it wins the autumn election, READ »

'51 years to shared parental leave': report

Business & Money: 3 Mar 10
At the current pace of change it will take 51 years before Swedish parents achieve parity with regards to the division of parental leave, a new report shows. READ »

'SAS looking for a buyer': CEO

Business & Money: 2 Mar 10
SAS Scandinavian Airlines would be better off sold or merged with another airline, the company's CEO, Mats Jansson, said on Tuesday. READ »

Win tickets to action-packed English-language theatre show

Lifestyle: 2 Mar 10
Stockholm theatre group Improvisation and Co. is currently wowing Stockholm audiences with its ad hoc brand of thrilling on-stage action. The Local has tickets to the show. READ »

'Sweden is a tax paradise': Ikea adviser

Business & Money: 1 Mar 10
A leading figure behind both Ikea and Tetra Pak's decisions to move their headquarter beyond Sweden's borders has said Sweden is making major strides on the road to becoming a more business-friendly nation. READ »

Obese drunk driver: 'I'm too fat for jail'

National: 1 Mar 10
A 60-year-old man man convicted of drunk driving in northern Sweden has applied to the government for a pardon on the grounds that he is too fat to go to jail. READ »

Swedes back pensioner king to carry on

Society: 1 Mar 10
A majority of Swedes are in favour of King Carl XVI Gustaf remaining on the throne despite reaching the pension age in 2011. READ »

Swedes missing after Chile earthquake

National: 1 Mar 10
More than 100 Swedes are reported to be missing after the massive earthquake that hit Chile on Saturday. The foreign ministry has received unconfirmed reports of one Swede among the more than 700 dead. READ »

Thieves open fire in Södertälje supermarket

National: 1 Mar 10
Police are searching for four armed robbers who opened fire with a hand gun and a rifle during a supermarket robbery on Saturday in Södertälje, 30 kilometres south of Stockholm. READ »

Gang leader climbs out of police lock-up

National: 28 Feb 10
The leader of a criminal gang arrested in Nörrköping in eastern Sweden on drug charges walked free on Saturday when police left him unattended in an exercise yard. READ »

H&M Bangladesh deaths under scrutiny

National: 28 Feb 10
A fire at a H&M factory in Bangladesh last week was not the first at the site and the company is investigating allegations that 21 workers who died in the blaze were locked in at the time. READ »

Housekeeping tax relief divides opposition

National: 28 Feb 10
Sweden's Moderate Party is launching a campaign today to make housekeeping a major issue in the country's upcoming elections thereby exploiting divisions between opposition parties. READ »

Sweden grabs slalom bronze

Sport: 28 Feb 10
André Myhrer won Sweden's tenth Winter Olympics medal in Vancouver on Saturday finishing third place in the mens slalom following an impressive spurt in the final leg of the race. READ »

Lagerbäck appointed Nigeria coach

National: 27 Feb 10
Following his resignation from the Swedish football team in October 2009, Lars Lagerbäck has been appointed Nigeria's coach until the end of the World Cup in South Africa, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) announced on Saturday. READ »

Sweden defends curling gold

National: 27 Feb 10
The Swedish women's curling team, the reigning Olympic champions, triumphed over Canada 7-6 in the curling final on Friday after forcing an extra end when defeat seemed imminent. READ »

Fog leaves 3000 stranded at Stockholm airport

National: 27 Feb 10
More than 3000 passengers were stranded at Skavsta Airport south of Stockholm on Friday. Fog continues to engulf the airport on Saturday morning. READ »

Economists reject 'housing bubble' report

Business & Money: 26 Feb 10
Economists from state-owned mortgage lender SBAB have rejected as unfounded warnings from the National Housing Credit Guarantee Board that Sweden stands on the precipice of a house price crash. READ »

Firms under scrutiny over GPS spying

Science & Technology: 26 Feb 10
The Swedish Data Inspection Board has announced the launch of a project to review how companies and municipalities use GPS positioning technology to track their staff. READ »

Public bodies to accept thousands of interns

Business & Money: 26 Feb 10
To meet labour market policy goals the Swedish Alliance government is demanding that public authorities accept 65,000 interns in a move designed to get the unemployed back to work. READ »

Malmö mayor says unaware of level of attacks on Jews

Politics: 26 Feb 10
Malmö mayor Ilmar Reepalu conceded that he has not been sufficiently well informed about the vulnerable situation faced by Jews after meeting with community leaders on Thursday. READ »

Hemp farmer wins state pay out

Society: 26 Feb 10
A hemp farmer in Halland in western Sweden has won a court ruling stating that his crop was illegally seized by the Swedish state. The man has been awarded 10,000 kronor compensation after his ten year legal battle. READ »

Travellers given discount after transport turmoil

National: 26 Feb 10
Stockholm transport authority, SL, has introduced a temporary discount on its monthly travel passes as compensation for weeks of substandard service. READ »

'Don't force mothers to stay at home'

Analysis & Opinion: 25 Feb 10
The European Commission's proposed new directive on maternity leave is well-meaning but fatally flawed, argues Minister for EU Affairs Birgitta Ohlsson. READ »

Sahlin raps Malmö mayor over Jew comments

Politics: 25 Feb 10
Social Democrat party leader Mona Sahlin has described as "unfortunate" comments made by Malmö mayor Ilmar Reepalu regarding a recent spate of attacks on the city's Jewish population. READ »

Sweden slams forced maternity leave

Politics: 25 Feb 10
The Swedish government is critical of a new EU directive proposal making it obligatory for women to be at home for the first six weeks after birth. EU minister Birgitta Ohlsson plans to argue Sweden's case in the EU parliament. READ »