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Business & Money: 21 May 13
Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson is suspected of having bribed ministers in Romania in connection with being awarded a contract for the country's emergency number and is now under investigation in the United States.
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Sport: 20 May 13
Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic scooped up France's Ligue 1 player of the year award on Monday, with Sweden's Lotta Schelin taking home the same honour for the top French women's league.
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National: 13 May 13
Sweden's retail giant H&M has decided to sign up to a building safety agreement in the wake of the factory collapse that killed more than 1,000 garment workers in Bangladesh.
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Analysis & Opinion: 13 May 13
With the world's attention on Bangladesh, Swedish sustainability expert Alexandra Frenander says fashion giants such as Sweden's H&M must find a way to guarantee safety, while they still demand low costs.
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Analysis & Opinion: 13 May 13
Want more money? Want to learn how to convince your Swedish boss that you are indispensable? Sure, but make sure you do your homework first, explains union ombudsman Anna-Karin Mattsson.
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National: 11 May 13
A Stockholm bus driver has been sentenced to community service after having been caught robbing a sleeping passenger on a night bus.
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National: 10 May 13
Swedish actors who dub children's programmes from industry giants such as Disney are in their second week of strike action over wages that have remained stagnant for a decade.
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National: 6 May 13
The black market for first-hand rental contracts in Stockholm is alive and well as Swedes desperate for a place to live won't report illegal sales to the police, an investigation has revealed.
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Society: 5 May 13
A company within Sweden's home care services could have mistreated migrant workers by making false promises about work conditions, according to a Swedish media report.
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Education: 2 May 13
The Swedish Schools Inspectorate has ruled that a "disciplinary contract" used by the International English School in Uppsala is in breach of the law, despite the school's attempt to defend its "tough love" culture.
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Sport: 2 May 13
The 32-year-old goalkeeper of Stockholm's AIK football club, Ivan Turina, was found dead in his flat on Thursday morning.
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Politics: 25 Apr 13
Auditing houses dependent on top Swedish companies for consultancy fees are also employed to make sure their books are in order, setting the groundwork for potential conflicts of interest, a Swedish accountancy group has warned.
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Business & Money: 24 Apr 13
Swedish telecom company Ericsson announced its first quarter profit had been weighed down by restructuring costs in the past year.
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National: 24 Apr 13
The Transport Union has ended the nationwide haulage strike set to paralyze Swedish trade, after truck drivers reached an agreement with employers following fractious wrangling about how they use temping agency staff.
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National: 19 Apr 13
The International English School in Uppsala is awaiting a reply from the Swedish School Inspectorate after being forced to defend its "tough love" teaching against an anonymous accusation that it was breaking the law.
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Business & Money: 10 Apr 13
The planned purchase by Switzerland of 22 Swedish-made Saab Gripen jet fighters hit a new roadblock on Tuesday when the Swiss parliament halted funding talks amid rumours of a cheaper bid involving used Eurofighter planes.
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National: 8 Apr 13
For the longest time, architect Jon-Ander Azpiazu Juaristi held Spain's economic fizzle at arm's length, until rising unemployment caught up with him too. He tells The Local how moving to Sweden saved his career.
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National: 4 Apr 13
The cleaner who was on a runaway commuter train that rammed into a block of flats in the Stockholm suburb of Saltsjöbaden in January has spoken out about the incident in what she claims will be her only media interview about the crash.
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Business & Money: 3 Apr 13
Private sector job coaching firms are earning double-digit profit margins from taxpayer-funded contracts with Sweden's Employment Agency to help unemployed Swedes back into the workforce.
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Business & Money: 2 Apr 13
A looming construction workers' strike that threatened to shut down work on dozens of major infrastructure projects across Sweden was narrowly averted on Monday night after unions agreed to a last-minute deal.
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Science & Technology: 26 Mar 13
The swine flu vaccine Pandemrix has a direct link to causing narcolepsy, especially among the younger people who were vaccinated, a new Swedish study revealed on Tuesday.
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National: 11 Mar 13
Housing queues across Sweden are getting longer, according to an extensive survey of private and public housing companies, with experts claiming the situation is getting even worse.
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Business & Money: 6 Mar 13
The decision by the upper chamber of the Swiss parliament not to release funds for the purchase of new JAS Gripen fighter jets from Sweden has renewed doubt about the deal.
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Analysis & Opinion: 5 Mar 13
Lifting Sweden's ban on surrogate motherhood would facilitate the trade in women and children, argue Mia Fahlén of the Swedish Medical Women's Association and Gertrud Åström of the Swedish Women's Lobby.
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Society: 5 Mar 13
In our series profiling foreigners who've moved to Sweden, The Local speaks with Ronia Virginia about the transition from being a full-time homemaker to helping Swedish firms trying to enter the Indian market.
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National: 4 Mar 13
Ikea's main Swedish meatball supplier announced on Monday that it had traced horse-tainted meat to another Sweden-based supplier with links to slaughterhouses in Poland.
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Business & Money: 1 Mar 13
Sweden's economy grew by 1.4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012 compared to the same period a year earlier, surprising analysts who had flagged for a possible recession.
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Business & Money: 28 Feb 13
The United Nations has criticized Sweden for limiting trade unions' right to join forces with guest workers, in a statement from the International Labour Organization (ILO).
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Business & Money: 26 Feb 13
Sweden's real estate market is headed for two decades of stagnation, Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg warned on Monday, reiterating his concerns about the size of Swedes' household debts.
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Analysis & Opinion: 22 Feb 13
Hunting down undocumented immigrants like animals is immoral and a waste of police resources, argues socialist weekly Arbetaren’s editor-in-chief Daniel Wiklander.
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Business & Money: 20 Feb 13
Volvo Cars said on Wednesday it was preparing to axe 1,000 mostly white-collar jobs as car sales in Europe have fallen to a two-decade low.
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Sport: 19 Feb 13
Swedish footballing star Zlatan Ibrahimovic has hinted he's open to moving to Bayern Munich of Germany's Bundesliga, less than a year after signing with Paris Saint Germain.
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Society: 18 Feb 13
Hundreds of free lunches were served on a Stockholm square on Sunday as part of a local group's efforts to raise awareness about homelessness in the Swedish capital.
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Business & Money: 17 Feb 13
Some 19,000 temporary jobs disappeared from the Swedish labour market in 2012 as unemployment continued to hit young workers the hardest, new figures show.
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Business & Money: 15 Feb 13
Swedish defence company Saab has struck a 47 billion kronor deal with the country's air force to develop the Jas Gripen E fighter jet, the same model marketed to Switzerland.
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National: 13 Feb 13
Swedish supermarket chains Ica, Coop, and Axfood all confirmed on Wednesday that their lasagne products contain horsemeat, with the retailers' produce all coming from the same French chain that Findus had employed.
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Science & Technology: 11 Feb 13
Swedish telecom giant Ericsson has landed a $1-billion, eight-year contract with one of India's largest mobile phone firms.
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Science & Technology: 10 Feb 13
Sweden's National Food Agency is considering reporting the food giant to the police over the horse meat lasagne scandal.
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National: 9 Feb 13
After Swedish company Findus' withdrawal of its frozen single-portion lasagne, food retailers Axfood, Coop and Ica have pulled ready meals from supermarkets too, for fear they may contain horsemeat.
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Business & Money: 4 Feb 13
As Swedes are about to receive their yearly public pension prediction in the post, the authorities note there are ways to calculate pensions even if you have spent part of your career working abroad.
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Analysis & Opinion: 31 Jan 13
Wondering what changes to Sweden's subletting law might mean for you and what you pay in rent? The Local gets the lowdown from one of Sweden's largest housing organizations.
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Business & Money: 31 Jan 13
Swedish telecom giant Ericsson saw net profits sink by half in 2012, dragged down by losses at joint venture ST-Ericsson, but saw fourth quarter sales rise higher than expected.
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Society: 29 Jan 13
A 2008 change to Sweden's labour migration laws designed to make it easier for companies to recruit non-Europeans to hard-to-fill high-skilled jobs has instead been used primarily to bring low-skilled workers to Sweden, a new report shows.
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National: 28 Jan 13
Two cranes and a crowd of curious onlookers were on hand on Monday as crews successfully removed a train car that had been lodged in a house in the Stockholm suburb of Saltsjöbaden after crashing into the building nearly two weeks ago.
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Politics: 25 Jan 13
One year into the job, Social Democrat leader Stefan Löfven appears to have kept the party's poll numbers from dropping, but is now facing demands to make the party a dominant force in Swedish politics.
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Business & Money: 25 Jan 13
Sweden's Ministry of Justice has received a draft EU document on how to tackle "marriages of convenience" as part of a union-wide effort to clamp down on liaisons entered into solely for residency rights.
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National: 24 Jan 13
The cleaner who was onboard a commuter train that crashed into a house in suburban Stockholm last week claims not to remember anything about the incident.
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National: 23 Jan 13
Swedish forestry companies have come under fire over accusations they use migrant workers from Africa to plant trees for low pay, with many ending up broke and stranded in Sweden.
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National: 18 Jan 13
The cleaner onboard a train that crashed into a house in the upscale Stockholm suburb of Saltsjöbaden is no longer suspected of committing a crime, prosecutors announced on Friday.
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Business & Money: 17 Jan 13
The government on Thursday said it had authorized the Swedish Armed Forces to buy 60 JAS 39 Gripen fighter jets, the maximum number allowed under an agreement struck last year.
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Society: 16 Jan 13
Swedish police have not been able to question the cleaning lady suspected of stealing a train and ramming it into an apartment block on Tuesday, as she is still being treated for her injuries.
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Analysis & Opinion: 16 Jan 13
The UK has taken a page out of Sweden's textbook and is surging ahead with the free school movement. The Local’s Christine Demsteader looks at the lessons that can be learned from Sweden's system of publicly-financed, privately-managed schools.
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National: 15 Jan 13
Officials remain baffled as to why a cleaning lady commandeered a train in the upscale Stockholm suburb of Saltsjöbaden early Tuesday morning and crashed it into a house, where it remains while crews work out how to safely remove the wreckage.
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Business & Money: 11 Jan 13
In the first of a new series profiling careers of foreigners who've moved to Sweden, The Local catches up with Charles Schuettinger who arrived from the US to play handball before a detour in construction eventually led to a career in sales.
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Business & Money: 29 Dec 12
Scandinavian airlines SAS was on the brink of collapse in November, the company's board vice chair Jacob Wallenberg admitted in an interview on Saturday.
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Business & Money: 28 Dec 12
Statistics show that 2012 was one of the wettest year since records began, which spoiled many a Swede's summer but also contributed to keeping down electricity prices.
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Business & Money: 23 Dec 12
After a long campaign to evict a strip club from Barnarp in the south of Sweden the local municipality has stepped in, buying the property for 3 million Swedish kronor ($470,000).
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Science & Technology: 23 Dec 12
Heavy snowfall and harsh winds caused trouble in Sweden's Christmas getaway traffic, with meteorology agency SMHI issuing a severe weather warning on Sunday.
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Business & Money: 17 Dec 12
Sweden needs to do more for people excluded from the labour market, the OECD said on Monday, citing high minimum wages and integration policies have left some groups trapped in poverty.
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Business & Money: 16 Dec 12
British campaigners have launched a campaign to get Swedish retail giant H&M to stop using cotton harvested in Uzbekistan.
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National: 14 Dec 12
A Swede has died of dehydration after contracting the winter vomiting virus at a pizzeria in Sundsvall, northern Sweden, where at least 27 other lunch guests also fell ill from the contaminated coleslaw.
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Science & Technology: 12 Dec 12
The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority has asked contractors at the Oskarshamn nuclear plant to review their security requirements after cracks were found in on-site nuclear waste storage pools.
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Society: 11 Dec 12
Sweden's School Inspectorate has launched an investigation to determine whether a school failed to offer enough support for a boy suffering from chronic narcolepsy after being vaccinated against the swine flu.
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Analysis & Opinion: 10 Dec 12
Forcing public healthcare providers to pay fines for long waiting times, rather than leaving citizens to suffer, would help improve Sweden's public system, argues liberal commentator Nima Sanandaji.
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National: 10 Dec 12
Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf has handed over this year's prizes to the Nobel laureates at Stockholm's Concert Hall, watched over by more than 1,500 honoured guests.
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Analysis & Opinion: 4 Dec 12
As Sweden marks 30 years since the first case of AIDS was diagnosed in the country, The Local's Christine Demsteader learns how Swedes have been forced to face an uncomfortable reality about the stigma surrounding those who first tested positive for HIV.
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Education: 29 Nov 12
Keeping kids encouraged and keeping up enthusiasm is vital when it comes to teaching languages. That’s why Berlitz throws out the old-school textbook approach and ensures learning through fun and games in the classroom.
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Business & Money: 23 Nov 12
The Swedish government is set to simplify the pension system for the country's 8,000-strong Indian workforce, as the social security minister jets off to New Delhi in the latest bid to strengthen ties with the key Asian market.
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Business & Money: 23 Nov 12
Financial investigators are looking into a contract between Swedish Export Credit Corporation (Svensk exportkredit, SEK) and the wife of one of its top bosses.
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Science & Technology: 17 Nov 12
A virtual post mortem has revealed that the Gebelein Man, a 5,500-year-old Egyptian mummy, was probably stabbed in the back with a sharp weapon.
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Society: 13 Nov 12
Celebrity blogger Katrin Zytomierska has been sacked from Swedish lifestyle website Finest.se after a vitriolic post about an advert by gym chain SATS made the public see red and advertisers abandon the site.
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Politics: 5 Nov 12
Nordic telecom firm TeliaSonera has been hit with new revelations about another business deal with Uzbekistan, which came after a request from the daughter of the country’s president who “needed more money”.
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Business & Money: 3 Nov 12
The Swedish Security Service Säpo has narrowly avoided inspection by the Competition Authority after splashing out 5.3 million kronor ($802,500) on a James Bond-themed party.
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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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Sport: 18 Oct 12
20-year-old Swedish footballer John Guidetti has signed a new three-year contract to play with Premier League champions Manchester City.
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Business & Money: 10 Oct 12
Only about a third of refugees in Sweden are living in apartments provided by the Public Employment Service, despite a government move two years ago which put the service in charge of providing all refugees with housing.
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Business & Money: 10 Oct 12
TeliaSonera CEO Lars Nyberg will be leaving his post early in the wake of bribery scandals and the Nordic telecom firm's dealings with dictators. A search for his replacement is already underway.
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Business & Money: 9 Oct 12
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has praised Sweden's handling of the financial crisis in a new report, while at the same time lowering its growth forecast for the global economy.
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Business & Money: 5 Oct 12
A North Korean trade delegation has been in Sweden this week in an attempt to learn more about the Swedish economy through a discreet tour of banks, companies and state agencies.
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Business & Money: 3 Oct 12
Volvo Buses is closing down its facility in Säffle in central Sweden and concentrate on production in Poland, the company announced on Wednesday, putting 400 jobs at risk.
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Business & Money: 30 Sep 12
US carmaker General Motors has denied any criminal wrongdoing in the bankruptcy of Swedish carmaker Saab, calling on US authorities to throw out a lawsuit filed by Dutch carmaker Spyker which is seeking $3 billion in damages.
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Society: 25 Sep 12
Only one out of four Swedes who hear their neighbours having sex are bothered enough to do anything about it, according to a new study.
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Sport: 21 Sep 12
The Swedish Competition Authority has found that the Swedish Hockey League’s ban on offering short-term contracts to lock-out affected NHL players is in violation competition laws, possibly paving the way for an NHL invasion of Sweden.
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National: 20 Sep 12
The CEO of telecom giant TeliaSonera, of which the Swedish state is the largest owner, said he was prepared to resign should new money laundering and bribery accusations related to the firm's contracts in Uzbekistan prove true.
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Business & Money: 14 Sep 12
Volvo Cars cut 400 consultant jobs on Friday and warned suppliers they would have to cut prices by 20 percent by 2015 if they wanted to be a part of the Swedish automaker's plans to expand production.
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Sport: 13 Sep 12
As Sweden's top ice hockey league, the Elitserien, kicks off play for the 2012-2013 season on Thursday night, The Local unveils the top five little-known facts you and your puck-buddies might not have known about the league.
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Sport: 10 Sep 12
Swedish golfer Peter Hanson didn't buckle upon hearing his infant son was in hospital, deciding at his wife's urging to keep playing the European Tour's KLM Open, which he won with an improbable 18th-hole putt.
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Business & Money: 29 Aug 12
Swedish security service Säpo will be making major staff cutbacks due to “economic strain”, news that comes shortly after revelations of their 5.3 million kronor ($802,500) James Bond-themed party last year.
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Business & Money: 27 Aug 12
Swedish security service Säpo has come under fire after revelations that a James Bond themed party in 2011 cost 5.3 million kronor ($802,500), a contract that was never put out to tender.
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Sport: 25 Aug 12
Despite contract offers from the US, England, China and Australia, Swede Fredrik Ljungberg has decided to put his football shoes on the shelf for good at the age of 35.
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Politics: 21 Aug 12
The Swedish Competition Authority is demanding that the Ministry for Enterprise show all the paperwork surrounding their controversial 2011 Christmas celebrations.
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Business & Money: 16 Aug 12
An American model is suing Swedish carmaker Volvo for $23 million over claims that she was made to look like an escort in a recent ad campaign.
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National: 15 Aug 12
The South African suspect accused of shooting Swedish honeymooner Anni Dewani has pleaded not guilty when the murder trial opened in Cape Town on Wednesday.
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Business & Money: 14 Aug 12
The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research has spent several million kronor on parties, funds that were reserved for research, with one million kronor ($149,000) going towards the foundation’s 15th birthday celebration.
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Business & Money: 8 Aug 12
After reports of poor conditions and violence have plagued Sweden’s migrant berry pickers, contributor Jacob Sommer heads to one of their picking campsites in eastern Sweden to find out more.
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National: 8 Aug 12
One of the hitmen accused of carrying out the murder of Swedish honeymooner Anni Dewani pleaded guilty on Wednesday and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
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Analysis & Opinion: 31 Jul 12
A report suggesting a two-year limit to the Swedish for immigrants language programme has got journalist Kajsa Ekis Ekman pondering the consequences of this move and just who benefits from new arrivals not learning the language.
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Business & Money: 30 Jul 12
The Swedish economy grew by 1.4 percent in the second quarter, compared to the first three months of 2012, according to official figures released Monday.
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Science & Technology: 25 Jul 12
An unusually large number of Swedes have so far this year been reported infected with TBE, or tick borne encephalitis, according to the Institute for Communicable Disease Control (Smittskyddsinstitutet, SMI).
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Business & Money: 23 Jul 12
New guidelines issued last year to make it harder for companies to take advantage of foreign labour don't apply to EU citizens, making these more attractive for employers, according to an expert.
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