May 28, 2012
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Business & Money: 27 Dec 11
Dozens of Swedes, including staff at government agencies and telecoms giant Ericsson, had their personal data exposed after a breach at US-based security company, reportedly carried out by activist hacking group Anonymous.
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Society: 17 Nov 11
Masses of people were lined up outside H&M stores across Sweden on Thursday at the release of the Versace collection, with guards having to intervene when frenzied fashionistas tried to jump the queue.
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Politics: 9 Oct 11
Swedes' confidence in Social Democrat leader Håkan Juholt has plummeted following reports of his faulty rental payments, showed a recent poll, with 52 percent reporting "very little or little confidence" in him.
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Politics: 8 Oct 11
Social democratic leader Håkan Juholt has spent years pocketing accommodation reimbursements he wasn't entitled to, amounting to a total of roughly 160,000 kronor ($23,500).
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National: 10 Aug 11
30-year-old Jenny Persson from Malmö in southern Sweden, has been missing since she left her flat on August 1st without her credit cards, mobile phone or passport. Police now fear she has been abducted.
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Science & Technology: 29 Jul 11
Fake, English-speaking tech support specialists claiming to be from US software giant Microsoft are targeting Swedes in a creative scam designed to hack into people's computers.
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Society: 16 Jun 11
Three people in Sweden were charged with credit card fraud on Wednesday after using skimmed cards to buy everything from snacks to jewellery and clothes for a value up to 500,000 kronor ($77,000).
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National: 11 May 11
Two Swedish men have been sentenced to life in prison in the Philippines for running a cybersex brothel in which naked girls performed acts for clients watching over the internet.
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Lifestyle: 30 Mar 11
A mall billed as one of Europe’s most spectacular shopping centres is under construction in Malmö, but questions remain as to whether the city can handle the massive expansion in retail space, The Local's Karen Holst discovers.
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Society: 28 Mar 11
A 53-year-old man has been arrested for stealing a selection of electronic items, after forgetting his credit card at the returns counter of a store in Uppsala in eastern Sweden on Saturday.
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Lifestyle: 9 Feb 11
A bar in Uppsala in eastern Sweden recently launched a new service that lets mobile phone-toting bar patrons leave their wallets at home. But not everyone is toasting this new taproom technology, contributor Oliver Gee discovers.
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Society: 29 Dec 10
Three men were convicted on Wednesday of involvement in the theft of several works of art, including Edvard Munch's "Two Friends", from the Malmö Art Museum in September.
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National: 16 Dec 10
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was granted conditional bail on Thursday after a London court rejected an appeal to keep him in jail as he fights extradition to Sweden to answer allegations of sex crimes.
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National: 15 Dec 10
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange remains in a London prison even after a British court decided to grant him bail on charges of rape and molestation after Swedish prosecutors challenged the ruling.
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National: 14 Dec 10
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is to remain in prison despite being granted conditional bail earlier on Tuesday after lawyers acting for Sweden said they would challenge the ruling.
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National: 11 Dec 10
A number of demonstrations are set to take place around the world on Saturday to call for the release of beleaguered WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from a London prison, where he awaits possible extradition to Sweden to face rape charges.
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Business & Money: 9 Dec 10
Swedish micropay site Flattr, which was launched by The Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde, remains one of the sole online financial lifelines for embattled whistleblower site WikiLeaks.
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Science & Technology: 9 Dec 10
The name of Sweden's justice minister Beatrice Ask has been hijacked on the internet, with a website featuring her name in the address now linking to WikiLeaks as the Swedish government's website was also crippled by an apparent cyber attack.
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Business & Money: 24 Nov 10
Cooperation between Swedish banks and police to stop the purchase of child pornography images over the internet has proved effective, the national banking association announced on Wednesday.
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Politics: 5 Nov 10
William Hahne, the press secretary of the Sweden Democrats youth league, caused embarrassment for the Swedish delegation to the Nordic Council meeting in Reykjavik this week after getting drunk and racially abusing a bartender.
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Politics: 2 Nov 10
Sweden's National Anti-Corruption Unit is to investigate whether to open a case against Social Democrat leader Mona Sahlin, who accepted complimentary tickets to the Stockholm Open tennis tournament.
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Science & Technology: 15 Oct 10
A professor at Umeå University in northern Sweden was stunned after a thief who stole his laptop went through great pains to return the machine's contents.
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Society: 13 Oct 10
Another man is being held for his suspected involvement in the theft of three paintings from the Malmö Art Museum last week. Police believe the heist was an inside job.
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Society: 7 Oct 10
A man has been arrested in connection with the theft of art worth millions of kronor from the Malmö Art Museum which was only discovered when police unearthed a work by Edvard Munch during a raid on a flat in Landskrona.
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Politics: 18 Sep 10
With polls set to open in 24 hours rivals Fredrik Reinfeldt and Mona Sahlin are both looking for an electoral victory to cement their leadership status after long political comebacks.
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Science & Technology: 8 Sep 10
More than half of all Swedes have been exposed to crime on the internet, a new survey published on Wednesday indicates.
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Society: 2 Sep 10
Airlines Ryanair and Norwegian can continue to charge fees to customers who purchase airline tickets with bank cards, despite new Swedish regulations forbidding the practice.
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Analysis & Opinion: 19 Aug 10
Elections in Sweden tend to be decided over issues rather than candidates, but with the upcoming September 19th vote for the first time pitting two blocs against each other, personal politics are playing an unprecedented role, writes AFP's Rita Devlin Marier.
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Politics: 16 Aug 10
Security for Social Democratic leader Mona Sahlin has been tightened due to serious threats against her just over a month before elections, Swedish media reported on Monday.
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Politics: 6 Aug 10
Absentee voting began in the September 19th Swedish general election on Thursday in what is expected to be a tight race centred on the economy, unemployment and welfare.
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Business & Money: 2 Aug 10
Budget airline Ryanair has said it has no plans to stop charging fees for bank card payments, despite a new Swedish law intended to ban the practice.
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Society: 5 Jul 10
The Icelandic volcanic ash cloud caused disruptions to the travel plans of 42 percent of Swedish holidaymakers, affecting one in 10 overall, a new report shows.
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Science & Technology: 28 May 10
A 31-year-old Swede is among three people indicted in the United States in connection with an internet fraud scheme that netted $100 million for its architects.
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Business & Money: 26 May 10
Nearly one in four households, or 22 percent, would have difficulty dealing with an unforeseen cost of 5,000 kronor, according to a study by Länsförsäkringar.
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National: 29 Apr 10
A 41-year-old woman in Norrköping has been indicted on charges of forgery and fraud after borrowing about 450,000 kronor ($62,000) in her best friend's name, of which she spent 50,000 kronor on breast surgery in Thailand.
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Politics: 27 Apr 10
Top Social Democrat Thomas Östros has demanded an apology from Mats Odell after the local government minster dredged a 15-year-old scandal back up to the surface of Swedish politics.
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National: 27 Dec 09
The post-Christmas shopping frenzy is in full swing, giving the Swedish economy a much needed boost. Consumer spending is also up compared to the same period last year.
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Society: 20 Jul 09
Cases of identity theft in Sweden have shot up by 79 percent over the past three years, a new survey published on Monday shows.
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Business & Money: 16 Jul 09
Swedish police are increasingly certain that two men arrested last week in Hungary are the masterminds behind the widespread credit card scam which recently hit residents in Malmö in southern Sweden.
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Business & Money: 13 Jul 09
The number of credit cards hijacked at petrol stations in Malmö continues to grow, but investigators believe they are on the verge of a breakthrough in the case.
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National: 2 Jul 09
Dozens of drivers who refueled at petrol stations in southern Sweden have been caught up in a credit card scam, with more than 40 reports pouring in on Thursday alone.
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Society: 8 May 09
The Swedish Data Inspection Board has launched a probe into revelations that alcohol retail monopoly Systembolaget retains customer credit card details for up to ten years.
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Society: 21 Apr 09
Police have launched a credit card fraud investigation after employees at an Ikea in central Sweden discovered a suspicious device attached to one of the store’s card payment machines.
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Business & Money: 25 Feb 09
A woman from Gothenburg couldn’t believe her eyes when she discovered a 10 billion kronor ($1.13 billion) deposit in her bank account.
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National: 12 Jan 09
A 29-year-old former American Express employee has received a three year jail sentence after she was found guilty of paying for 121 luxury holidays with customers' credit cards.
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Society: 16 Dec 08
Police in Sweden have issued a second warning to shoppers to cancel their credit cards after suspected skimming equipment was uncovered at a Stockholm-area Toys R Us store
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Lifestyle: 5 Dec 08
Join Charlotte West on a tour of the best Christmas markets for design products in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö and Cophenhagen.
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Business & Money: 24 Nov 08
Officials from Citigroup’s subsidiary in Sweden are staying tight lipped about how a US government stabilization plan announced on Monday might affect the US bank’s Swedish operations.
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Society: 7 Nov 08
American comedy legend Chevy Chase will arrive in Sweden this weekend to appear as a guest star on a Swedish television sitcom.
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National: 30 Oct 08
Five people have been arrested in Malmö in connection with an ongoing gang feud in the southern city.
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Travel: 29 Oct 08
Danish budget carrier Sterling Airlines is to file for bankruptcy on Wednesday and has cancelled all flights as a result.
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Society: 28 Oct 08
A 43-year-old Swedish man has landed himself in hot water with German police after he tried to smooth over the cracks of a marital tiff with a dramatic but entirely fabricated crime.
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National: 27 Oct 08
A Stockholm-area gang numbering around 30 people is suspected of having made off with over one million kronor ($125,000) by stealing people’s identities, with foreign students being the preferred target.
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National: 24 Oct 08
Assistance from the US Secret Service led to the indictment on Thursday of a Swedish man suspected of involvement in the ShadowCrew cybercrime network.
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Travel: 20 Oct 08
Iceland’s national airline, Icelandair, has made an appeal to Swedish tourists not to abandon their Nordic neighbours due to misunderstandings about the effects of the country's financial crisis.
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Business & Money: 7 Oct 08
The state collections agency, Kronofogden, is warning that average Swedes are highly exposed to the negative effects of the current financial crisis.
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Business & Money: 1 Oct 08
Financial authorities in Sweden said on Wednesday they were withdrawing the licence of the NGM Stock Exchange for actions which have violated the “trust and confidence” of the agency.
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Society: 20 Aug 08
Swedish clients over the age of 75 are not eligible for credit cards at the US-owned Citibank in Sweden.
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Society: 18 Aug 08
Several unmanned Swedish petrol stations opened the floodgates for vehicle owners to tank up totally free of charge over the weekend.
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Travel: 9 Jun 08
Located just a short train journey from Malmö, Alannah Eames strongly recommends a visit to Copenhagen.
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Business & Money: 28 May 08
A Riksbank official has called on banks in Sweden to implement a surcharge on cash machine withdrawals to steer consumers toward more efficient card payments.
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Business & Money: 15 May 08
Customers banking with Nordea have been the victims of a new fraud attempt.
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National: 28 Apr 08
A 51 year-old Frenchman was charged in Paris on Sunday with the murder of a 19-year-old Swedish woman found shot in the head near Paris.
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National: 27 Apr 08
French police suspect that a gun found at the home of the man held for the murder of a Swedish woman in Paris last weekend, could be the murder weapon.
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Science & Technology: 12 Feb 08
Business profile: Like the idea of touch screen, but put off by fiddly interfaces? Jonathan Ward looks at Neonode, a Swedish company that may have the answer to your problems.
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Travel: 18 Jan 08
Taking a ferry out of Stockholm need not mean a booze cruise to Helsinki. Alannah Eames went to Latvia to check out one of Sweden's most charming neighbours.
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Business & Money: 27 Dec 07
Proposed changes to the Enforcement Authority database would block access to faulty information by third parties.
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Society: 21 Dec 07
Two 16-year-old boys went on a 40,000 kronor shopping spree after setting up a fake porn site to steal people's credit card details.
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Politics: 9 Nov 07
TV4 has reported chief prosecutor Christer van der Kvast to the Chancellor of Justice following a raid on the station's offices this week.
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Lifestyle: 2 Nov 07
Kathleen Harman was hoping that Fair Erotica would be a bit more, well, erotic. She decides in the end that the kind of sausages she wants can be better supplied at a new shop on Stockholm's Kungsholmen
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Lifestyle: 21 Sep 07
Tipping Point:Kathleen needs a break from blond wood tables, and is relieved to find that Stockholmers occasionally have the capacity for slightly kitsch taste. One place particularly replete with colour is a restaurant at the city's Hare Krishna temple.
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National: 19 Jul 07
People from European Union countries must be allowed to identify themselves in Sweden using ID documents from their home countries, the European Commission has said. But plans to start issuing Swedish ID to people from other EU states could be illegal, it adds.
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Business & Money: 27 Jun 07
One in five Swedish households does not have enough savings to cope with unexpected costs of more than 20,000 kronor, according to a new survey.
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National: 17 Jun 07
It was the calmest Hultsfred festival in the event's 22 year history - at least in terms of crime figures. But despite the police's assessment, they had plenty to keep them occupied, including two rapes.
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National: 10 May 07
Suspicions that a Norrköping-based company may have been involved in an ongoing credit card scandal have been strengthened by the disappearance of its CEO.
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Business & Money: 9 May 07
Credit and debit card numbers belonging to at least 10,000 SEB customers could have been hijacked by fraudsters, the bank has admitted.
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Business & Money: 8 May 07
Over 1,000 Eurocard credit card customers in Sweden are being issued with new cards following suspicions that fraudsters have got hold of some people's card details.
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Politics: 26 Mar 07
Sweden's government is to set up an inquiry into the problem of immigrants being denied Swedish ID cards. But Liberal Migration Spokesman Fredrik Malm says that action is needed now.
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Business & Money: 19 Mar 07
Only the USA has more underground economy servers than Sweden, according to a new report. Stolen information is sold from these servers for use in identity theft.
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Politics: 17 Mar 07
Mona Sahlin has been confirmed as Social Democratic leader at a conference in Stockholm. Accepting the job, Sahlin vowed to fight for Social Democratic years and vowed to reform parts of the party organization.
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Politics: 17 Mar 07
Mona Sahlin has had a long political career in which she has swung between party darling and outcast. But much remains unknown about how she plans to lead the Social Democrats.
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Politics: 17 Mar 07
Six months after a crushing election defeat, the Social Democrats are due to elect a new leader on Saturday. The event is expected to be a coronation for sole candidate Mona Sahlin.
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National: 5 Mar 07
An organised gang has been ordering bank cards in home owners' names and stealing them from their letterboxes. One company says it has noted around 100 false applications over the last few weeks.
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Lifestyle: 22 Jan 07
They're best known for their slicked back hair, pressed pink shirts and consumption of copious volumes of champagne. This week, Introducing... looks at the fascinating phenomenon of the Stureplan Brats.
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Politics: 19 Jan 07
Mona Sahlin left her trade union after the 1995 scandal that prevented her from becoming party leader. But despite returning to politics in 1998 she did not rejoin the union until last month.
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Politics: 18 Jan 07
Mona Sahlin has been variously described as careless, tough, lazy and street-smart. Now she is set to become the first ever female leader of Sweden's powerful Social Democrats.
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Politics: 17 Jan 07
It's official. Ex-minister Mona Sahlin has been put forward as the leader of Sweden's Social Democrats, making her almost certain to succeed former prime minister Göran Persson.
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Analysis & Opinion: 4 Jan 07
Sweden's Social Democrats are looking for a new leader and Mona Sahlin seems to be the front runner. The Local asked political expert Stig-Björn Ljunggren to help us size up the contenders.
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National: 22 Dec 06
Swedish shoppers and store owners have been warned that a major credit card cloning, or 'skimming', attack is being planned by criminal gangs over the Christmas period.
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Business & Money: 12 Oct 06
Internet provider Glocalnet is to launch outdoor wireless Internet networks in 20 Swedish towns. The service will be free to all Glocalnet customers.
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Lifestyle: 4 Aug 06
With Swedish unemployment higher than in many other countries , getting a job in Sweden isn't easy – but it is possible. Janelle Larsson asks employers how foreigners can maximize their chances.
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Business & Money: 19 Jul 06
Swedish-Finnish bank Nordea sees profits increase, and reports profitable growth in all business areas.
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Analysis & Opinion: 21 Mar 06
After a year of unrelenting criticism over her handling of the tsunami disaster and latterly of the Muhammad cartoons, Persson had little choice but to accept Laila Freivalds' resignation.
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Business & Money: 9 Mar 06
The cost to shops of receiving payment in plastic is to be cut by fifty percent following a new deal between retail organisation Svensk Handel and leading bank Nordea.
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Analysis & Opinion: 28 Oct 05
Ah, Sweden, where it's all for one and one for all, share and share alike - but as our Stockholm Syndrome correspondent discovers, don't expect to be bought a drink.
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National: 28 Jul 05
An error by card company Visa left some Swedish customers feeling poorer yesterday, after they were charged twice for the same purchases. You won’t lose out, customers are assured.
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National: 7 May 05
Around 100 suspects have been questioned as part of a crackdown on child pornography on the Internet by police in eight European countries that wound up on Friday, Swedish police said.
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National: 4 May 05
A Swedish champion from "a major spectator sport" has been arrested on suspicion of distributing child pornography on the Internet. He was one of 14 suspected paedophiles caught in a nationwide raid early on Tuesday morning.
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Politics: 19 Apr 05
For years Ola Rask has enjoyed two full time salaries, two pensions, two credit cards, and a free house. Now, amidst allegations of financial irregularities, he's been fired from one job - and it's not the one in Sweden's parliament.
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Politics: 6 Aug 04
A new pair of scandals for the government this week. One black sheep returns to the ministerial fold after her business fails and Bosse Ringholm forgets to collect some taxes - from the football club where he is the chairman.
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Sanna is one of 2 million people in Sweden under the age of 18. Sweden is seen as a good place to grow up. The law makes sure children are well-protected and defends their rights and any organizations work with children's well-being. Read more »
August Strindberg's plays shocked society, dazzled audiences and revolutionized drama. A century after his death, Strindberg, with his powerful, timeless themes, is celebrated around the world. Read more »
Prime Minister Reinfeldt chats with The Local »
"If you missed it yesterday, here’s The Local’s editor David Landes snagging Prime Minister Reinfeldt for a chat before Princess Estelle’s baptism. Always nice to know the PM has time for TL!" READ »
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