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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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National: 7 Jun 13
A 14-year-old Swedish girl felt forced to swab her body for DNA, for fear that social services and police would not believe her when she decided to report her father for repeatedly raping her at her home in southern Sweden.
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National: 31 May 13
The police have found the remains of a human foot in a boot, which they think may belong to a woman who has been missing in Vilshult, southern Sweden, since early 2011.
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National: 27 May 13
Two-year-old Haddile, who faced deportation after being abandoned in Sweden and assaulted by her stepfather, has been granted a two-year residency permit, migration authorities said on Monday, in a case that has generated a great deal of media interest.
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National: 24 May 13
A man has been arrested on the suspicion of murdering a 20-year-old woman who vanished three weeks ago in northern Sweden, and whose body parts were uncovered on Monday.
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National: 13 May 13
A Stockholm shopkeeper has been jailed for two years for locking up three teenage boys in his store's cellar for ten hours, where he mimicked aspects of water boarding on one of them.
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National: 10 May 13
Six teenage boys aged 15 to 17 are facing trial for raping a 15-year-old girl in a north-western suburb of Stockholm in March.
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Business & Money: 28 Apr 13
Four Eritrean men have been released from a torture camp in Egypt after money raised in Sweden was used to buy their freedom.
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National: 25 Apr 13
Convicted murderer Peter Mangs had his attempt to overturn his life sentence quashed on Thursday by a local appeals court, which also found him guilty of an additional three attempted murders.
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Science & Technology: 20 Apr 13
Slovenia's National Veterinary Institute has cleared a local food producer of accusations that its halal-labelled salami contained pork, as Swedish authorities had claimed, and the food producers behind the sausage claim innocence, too.
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Business & Money: 16 Apr 13
Furniture retailer Ikea hopes it can sell or give away horsemeat-tainted meatballs in Sweden, but may ultimately be forced to use them as biogas, a spokeswoman explained on Tuesday.
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National: 10 Apr 13
Sweden has found halal-marked salami for sale that contains more than 10 percent pork, which observant Muslims do not eat.
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Politics: 7 Apr 13
Pressure is mounting on Sweden's foreign minister Carl Bildt to take action against the torture of Eritreans in Egypt and the blackmailing of their relatives in Sweden and other European countries.
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Science & Technology: 7 Apr 13
The Stockholm-based organization Civil Rights Defenders has developed a high-tech plastic bracelet which uses GPS technology and social media to protect human rights activists around the world.
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National: 3 Apr 13
Eritreans in Sweden are being forced to cough up tens of thousands of dollars to blackmailers who threaten to torture and kill their family members abroad.
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Society: 1 Apr 13
An Abba reunion concert scheduled at an Uppsala airfield, Malmö neighbourhoods to be renamed after Eurovision stars and lasagnes found in horse feed were among Sweden's April Fools' Day hoax stories on Monday.
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National: 21 Mar 13
Swedish meatballs are once again being sold at Ikea, with the Swedish furniture giant promising customers its version of the classic Swedish dish is now free of horsemeat.
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Business & Money: 19 Mar 13
Two women from southern Sweden have been charged for drugging and robbing men they met online, making off with chocolate and washing powder and cleaning up spotlessly after themselves.
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Science & Technology: 10 Mar 13
From the summer of 2013, Swedish police will be able to access other European Union nations' DNA databases - a move which is expected to speed up international crime investigations.
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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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Science & Technology: 26 Feb 13
The 1962 Nobel prize of Francis Crick, who helped discover the structure of DNA, has been put up for auction by his family along with other memorabilia.
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National: 26 Feb 13
Arson investigations have been launched into three fires that broke out near Stockholm in the early hours of Monday morning in three separate locations, all of which house organizations that sympathize with the regime in Eritrea.
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National: 25 Feb 13
The man who abducted a nine-year-old girl in Gothenburg last year and threatened to sell her as a sex slave was sentenced to two years in prison on Monday after being found guilty of kidnapping.
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Business & Money: 25 Feb 13
Ikea has stopped sales of its Swedish meatballs in at least 15 countries after reports that Czech inspectors found horsemeat in the iconic in-store restaurant fare, which would mark the first time the scandal has reached food produced in Sweden.
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Politics: 23 Feb 13
Two men and one woman have been arrested in Stockholm on suspicion of blackmail and conspiring to commit murder in a case believed to be connected to the Eritrean regime's systematic oppression of Eritreans living in exile.
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Business & Money: 12 Feb 13
Sweden is planning to DNA test everything from meatballs to hamburgers in a bid to crack down on suspected mislabelling of horsemeat as beef, after frozen food company Findus found horsemeat in its ready-meals.
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Politics: 10 Feb 13
Uganda has reimbursed Sweden some 24 million kronor ($3.75 million) in aid that had been misappropriated by senior officials.
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National: 1 Feb 13
A 25-year-old man has been charged with kidnapping and child porn crimes after he kidnapped a 9-year-old girl in Gothenburg late last year and threatened to sell her as a sex slave.
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National: 24 Jan 13
The 23-year-old French exchange student who had been missing for two weeks in southern Sweden was found dead on Wednesday night, with police stating that they no longer suspected any foul play.
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National: 23 Jan 13
Police in southern Sweden suspect a missing 23-year-old French exchange student who disappeared nearly two weeks ago may have been kidnapped.
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National: 13 Dec 12
The 71-year-old Swedish charity worker who was shot in the chest in Pakistan last week died in a Stockholm hospital on Wednesday night.
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National: 10 Dec 12
A Swedish charity worker who remains unconscious after being shot by unknown gunmen in Pakistan last week was flown home to Sweden on Monday for better medical treatment.
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Politics: 3 Dec 12
The migration minister wants immigrants to get jobs before their families follow them to Sweden, but may face an uphill struggle to convince his government partners to tighten up current family reunification rules.
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National: 3 Dec 12
A female Christian charity worker from Sweden was in hospital on Monday after being shot by unknown assailants in Lahore in eastern Pakistan, according to police.
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National: 27 Nov 12
A DNA test has shown that an Algerian couple are indeed the birth parents of Haddile, a two-year-old who faced deportation after being abandoned in Sweden and assaulted by her step-father, a lawyer for the couple has said.
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National: 26 Nov 12
The murder trial of a 17-year-old boy suspected of fatally stabbing his 19-year-old sister more than 100 times with two knives and a pair of scissors started in southern Sweden on Monday.
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National: 19 Nov 12
A South African court on Monday found Xolile Mngeni guilty of the 2010 murder of Swedish honeymooner Anni Dewani in Cape Town.
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Science & Technology: 17 Nov 12
A DNA test has shown that a wolf attacked the 60 sheep recently found dead on an artillery range in Skåne in the south of Sweden.
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Society: 16 Nov 12
A Swedish man who once served as a bodyguard for a prime minister has been detained in Tunisia on suspicion of kidnapping after he travelled to the country to try to free a child reportedly taken from its mother in Sweden.
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National: 12 Nov 12
The 24-year-old man who admitted to abducting a 9-year-old girl in Gothenburg last week was remanded into custody on Monday. According to his defence lawyer, his mental condition must now be examined.
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National: 11 Nov 12
The 24-year-old man arrested on Friday on suspicion of having kidnapped a nine-year-old schoolgirl in Gothenburg is set to be remanded into custody on Monday.
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National: 10 Nov 12
The 24-year-old man arrested on Friday on suspicion of having kidnapped a nine-year-old schoolgirl in Gothenburg has confessed.
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National: 9 Nov 12
Some 600 volunteers helped police in the search of a 9-year-old girl who went missing in western Sweden on Thursday. She was found in the early hours of Friday morning and was brought to hospital.
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National: 5 Nov 12
Swedish prosecutors on Monday filed charges against a Swede of Rwandan origin accused of participating in a 1994 massacre of Tutsis in Rwanda, in what will be Sweden's first genocide trial.
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National: 3 Nov 12
A 29-year-old who went missing for two days in September is suspected of having arranged her own kidnapping.
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Society: 22 Oct 12
The neighbours of a deceased Swedish man, who lay dead for six weeks before being found, were surprised to learn the 74-year-old recluse and hoarder was a millionaire.
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Society: 19 Oct 12
Commercials featuring US comedian Will Ferrell in Stockholm have surfaced on YouTube, in what some have labelled a guerrilla marketing campaign for a classic American beer brand previously promoted by the Swedish Bikini Team.
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Politics: 17 Oct 12
A complaint by Swedish Match about a suspected bribe meant to influence European tobacco policy has resulted in the resignation of EU health commissioner John Dalli, the European Union's top health official.
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National: 16 Oct 12
Norwegian police arrived in southern Sweden on Tuesday to take part in the questioning of a Swede who killed his ex-girlfriend and left her in an abandoned cottage in Norway on Sunday, after having kidnapped her and their son.
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National: 15 Oct 12
A 26-year-old woman who had been reported missing together with her one-year-old son has been found dead in a wood near the home of her former Swedish partner, who was arrested earlier on Monday in southern Sweden.
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National: 10 Oct 12
Swedish honeymooner Anni Dewani was not sexually assaulted before she was shot dead, a pathologist testified in the ongoing trial in South Africa.
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Science & Technology: 8 Oct 12
The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka for research into stem cells.
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National: 5 Oct 12
A retrial has been ordered in a massive gang war trial in Södertälje south of Stockholm after one of the lay judges was found to be biased. The ruling puts 18 convictions, including that of a suspected gang leader, in doubt.
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Society: 4 Oct 12
A 45-year-old woman from southern Sweden and her two children have been missing for three months, presumed to be hiding from authorities after social services took the two kids into care.
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National: 16 Sep 12
A 29-year-old woman who went missing in Mariestad in western Sweden on Thursday has been found alive, telling police that she had been the victim of a kidnapping.
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National: 14 Sep 12
The cab driver on trial in a Paris court for the brutal 2008 murder of a Swedish student was sentenced Friday to life in prison.
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National: 13 Sep 12
The man accused of murdering a Swedish student in Paris in 2008 should be sentenced to life in prison, a French prosecutor said on Friday in closing arguments.
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National: 7 Sep 12
A French taxi driver and convicted rapist accused of murdering a Swedish student in Paris in 2008 stripped naked before he was scheduled to appear in court on Friday morning, further delaying his trial.
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National: 6 Sep 12
The trial of an unlicenced taxi driver and convicted rapist accused of murdering a Swedish student in Paris in 2008 resumed on Wednesday with a plea from the man's mother that her son was a "good boy".
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National: 3 Sep 12
An unlicensed taxi driver and serial rapist accused of kidnapping and murdering a Swedish student in Paris in 2008 is set to go on trial in France on Tuesday.
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National: 22 Aug 12
A Swedish man and two other western hostages have appealed to their respective governments for help in a recently published video, after being kidnapped in November in Mali.
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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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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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National: 1 Aug 12
A 31-year-old gang leader was on Wednesday convicted along with 17 other men in connection with a slew of offences committed in a gang war in Södertälje, south of Stockholm.
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National: 19 Jul 12
A 32-year-old man from southern Sweden suspected of kidnapping a teenage girl he met online was released on Wednesday after two weeks in custody when it emerged the girl had willingly participated in the stunt.
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National: 18 Jul 12
The defense lawyer of suspected serial killer Peter Mangs has stated Tuesday in closing arguments that his client should walk free, based on what he claims is a lack of evidence and “strange” conclusions drawn from Mangs’ psychiatrist.
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National: 17 Jul 12
The man accused of targeting immigrants in a series of shootings in Malmö that left three dead should be sentenced to life in prison, prosecutors argued on Monday as the trial of suspected serial sniper Peter Mangs approached its conclusion.
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National: 13 Jul 12
Sweden's International Aid Services (IAS) confirmed on Friday that three of its local staff members who were kidnapped in Somalia this week are in the hands of pirates.
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Society: 11 Jul 12
Three men were jailed Tuesday after they savagely attacked a man involved in a cannabis scam where ordinary grass was sold instead of marijuana.
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National: 4 Jul 12
A man from southern Sweden is suspected of handcuffing and kidnapping a teenage girl he met on an internet chat room and taking her to Malmö late Tuesday night.
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Society: 3 Jul 12
A truck carrying the sound system for pop-diva Madonna, who is set to perform in Gothenburg on Wednesday, flipped on its side on Tuesday morning, snarling traffic on a motorway outside the western Swedish city.
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Politics: 29 Jun 12
US military officials were in Sweden this week in an effort to persuade a former US airman who has been living a secret life in Sweden for 28 years to return home to face trial for deserting from the US Air Force.
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National: 27 Jun 12
Two Polish nationals have been sentenced to life in prison by a Swedish court for the brutal double murder of an elderly couple on a farm in southwestern Sweden last autumn.
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National: 14 Jun 12
A 20-year-old member of the Black Cobra criminal gang is under arrest in Malmö following a wild car chase through the city that left a 61-year-old cyclist dead and has raised questions about how police handled the incident.
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National: 5 Jun 12
The two men suspected of a gruesome double murder of an elderly couple on a farm in southwestern Sweden last autumn reportedly showed no emotion during an inspection of the crime scene on Tuesday.
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Science & Technology: 3 Jun 12
A new method for reducing thefts of copper from Swedish railways is being tested, as twenty kilometres of rails in southern Sweden have been marked with smart DNA, making it possible to trace both the stolen copper and the thief.
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National: 29 May 12
The pair who were charged with the abduction of a wealthy Uppsala student in December were on Tuesday convicted of eight years each in prison, yet lawyers point to contradictory evidence as a reason to appeal.
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National: 21 May 12
Prosecutors on Monday formally charged two men suspected in a gruesome double murder of an elderly couple on a farm in Alingsås in southwestern Sweden last autumn.
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Society: 18 May 12
A 29-year-old Swede, who staged his own kidnapping to blackmail his parents into giving him money, has been convicted and sentenced to ten months in prison.
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National: 14 May 12
The Swedish man accused in a deadly shooting spree against immigrants in Malmö had no motive for shooting the victims, according to his lawyer, who did his best to cast doubt on the case against his client on the opening day of the highly-anticipated murder trial.
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Society: 20 Apr 12
Police officers in southeastern Sweden raided a Norrköping flat, freeing a Chihuahua puppy, which had been kidnapped by potential buyers last week.
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National: 19 Apr 12
Six men in Hallsberg, central Sweden, have been convicted and sentenced to prison after the severe honour-related beating of a 19-year-old with metal rods at a gym.
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National: 17 Apr 12
On Tuesday it was the 25-year-old kidnapping victim’s turn to tell his version of events in the abduction drama which took place in Uppsala at the end of last year.
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Business & Money: 15 Apr 12
Peruvian rebels released 36 construction workers on Saturday, 28 of whom were employed by Swedish construction firm Skanska, bringing an end to a five day hostage drama.
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National: 14 Apr 12
The Peruvian government on Friday called for patience and trust from relatives of 36 kidnapped workers, 28 of whom are employed by Swedish construction company Skanska, in its bid to secure their release from leftist guerrillas.
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Business & Money: 13 Apr 12
On Thursday the Peruvian government said it would not negotiate with the leftist guerilla group, which is holding 36 workers hostage, 28 of whom are employed by Swedish construction company Skanska.
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National: 12 Apr 12
Two people accused of abducting the 25-year old son of a millionaire Swedish businessman denied all charges on the first day of their trial on Thursday, despite evidence in the form of a "mind map" detailing what could go wrong with the caper.
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Business & Money: 12 Apr 12
Peruvian troops have been deployed as part of efforts to combat Shining Path rebels who are holding 28 workers from Swedish construction giant Skanska hostage in the remote jungles of Peru.
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National: 11 Apr 12
Seven of the eight men charged with the gang rape of a woman at a housing facility for asylum seekers run by the Swedish Migration Board were convicted and sentenced to prison on Wednesday.
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Business & Money: 11 Apr 12
Twenty-eight employees of Swedish construction giant Skanska are among the 36 hostages being held by suspected Shining Path guerrillas, who have reportedly demanded a $10 million ransom to free the workers.
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National: 5 Apr 12
Three people were charged on Thursday with drugging and kidnapping a 25-year-old student from a wealthy Swedish family and holding him prisoner for more than a week in what one of the suspects said was a "prank".
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Politics: 4 Apr 12
A pro-Eritrean regime youth group is hosting a large international conference somewhere in Sweden over Easter weekend in what outraged Swedes have billed as "brainwashing" for a "terror regime".
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National: 30 Mar 12
The extradition of businessman Shrien Dewani, wanted in connection with the murder of his Swedish wife Anni on their honeymoon in South Africa in 2010, was temporarily halted by a British court on Friday.
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National: 10 Mar 12
Swedish police uncovered what appears to be a prostitution ring in a suburb south of Stockholm, arresting two men on suspicion of kidnapping.
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National: 1 Mar 12
A 58-year-old Swede who had been missing since Monday was found on Wednesday evening far from his home, claiming to have been abducted.
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Society: 23 Feb 12
A recent court ruling may mean a 45 percent rise in applications for permanent residency based on family relations, according to predictions from the Swedish Migration Board, with most applicants expected to come from Somalia.
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Society: 14 Feb 12
A 29-year-old man in northern Sweden has been remanded into custody together with an accomplice after trying to extort money from his parents by pretending he had been kidnapped.
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National: 10 Feb 12
A court in South Africa has postponed further the trial of two men accused of killing Swedish honeymooner Anni Dewani in Novermber 2010 as prosecutors await the extradition of her husband from the UK.
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National: 8 Feb 12
29-year-old twins Lin Backlund and Emilie Falk, adopted to separate Swedish families at birth, are lying low after reporters in Indonesia claimed to have found their birth mother and family.
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Society: 7 Feb 12
Madonna will perform in Sweden next summer, promoters confirmed on Tuesday, with the pop diva set to perform in Gothenburg on July 4th.
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