February 14, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Ephone":
National: 12 Feb 12
A man has been arrested in Gävle in northern Sweden on suspicion of having stolen a 20-year-old's wallet while doling out an impromptu hug in an apparent copycat attack of a gang operating in Stockholm.
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Science & Technology: 1 Feb 12
A woman whose boyfriend died after she was unable to get through to Swedish emergency response service SOS Alarm has reported the matter to health authorities.
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National: 24 Jan 12
The Swedish National Rail Service, SJ, was not wrong to kick a Muslim man off the train for not showing his pass while deep in prayer, ruled a Swedish watchdog after finding it impossible to prove he had been discriminated against.
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National: 18 Jan 12
The trial against the 31-year-old mother charged with murdering her two sons by pushing them in the water and watching them drown opened in Sweden on Wednesday.
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National: 16 Jan 12
A man carrying a Swedish passport who was arrested on terror suspicions in Thailand last week was indicted on Monday after leading police to a massive stash of bomb-making materials. The Swedish foreign ministry is still working to ascertain the identity of the man.
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Business & Money: 10 Jan 12
Sony on Tuesday launched its first mobile handsets without the “Sony Ericsson” brand name at an electronics show in Las Vegas, marking a symbolic end to the company's ten year collaboration with the Swedish telecoms giant.
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National: 9 Jan 12
The case with the 10-year-old boy left out in the cold by his father after ”failing to perform” in a sports event has been referred to the prosecutor's office for further investigation, Uppsala police announced on Monday.
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National: 4 Jan 12
The 25-year-old man who went missing from his Uppsala flat on December 28th has been found alive in Umeå, in the north of Sweden, according to police.
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National: 3 Jan 12
Police on Tuesday arrested a couple in their twenties on suspicion of kidnapping a 25-year-old man who went missing from his home in Uppsala in December.
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Science & Technology: 30 Dec 11
Many routine surgical procedures can result in patients suffering from memory loss and a lack of concentration, a Swedish-American study has shown.
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National: 30 Dec 11
A 30-year-old mother who admitted to killing her young sons in September in Sigtuna, north of Stockholm, has been found mentally ill after undergoing a forensic psychiatric evaluation.
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National: 28 Dec 11
The three men accused of planning to murder controversial Swedish artist Lars Vilks in a foiled attack in Gothenburg on September were released on Wednesday shortly after the conclusion of their trial.
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Business & Money: 22 Dec 11
Saab's North American division is trying to stay solvent in a bid to maintain warranties, while a Swedish insurance company has said it will cover warranty costs for Saab owners in Sweden following the Swedish automaker's bankruptcy.
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Business & Money: 20 Dec 11
A 35-year-old Swedish executive who worked for Ikea in Russia is under investigation for fraud and bribery in connection with the Swedish retail giant's operations in Moscow.
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National: 19 Dec 11
It’s a movement without leaders and it kicked off with a bang in mid-October when Stockholmers joined hundreds of cities worldwide in protesting. Contributor Judi Lembke finds out more about the Swedish Occupy movement.
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Science & Technology: 8 Dec 11
Sweden's first major winter storm of the season is expected bring strong winds and heavy snow on Thursday night into Friday, prompting warnings of power outages and dangerous road conditions in many parts of the country.
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Politics: 8 Dec 11
Swedish law enforcement agencies should have access to signals intelligence gathered by the National Defence Radio Establishment to help combat terrorism, the ministry of justice proposed on Thursday.
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National: 7 Dec 11
An unexploded bomb was left in the car of Stockholm suicide bomber Taimour Abdulwahab, investigators said on Wednesday, adding that there was nothing to indicate he was a member of the al-Qaeda terror network.
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National: 4 Dec 11
An 18 year-old man, suspected of fleeing from a road traffic control on Friday, fell down a precipice and spent twelve hours in the woods with both legs broken.
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National: 3 Dec 11
Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf was aware of friend Anders Lettström's attempts to silence the scandals described in a tell-all book published last year, Lettström claimed in tape recordings released on Saturday.
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National: 28 Nov 11
Some 80,000 households remained without electricity in southern Sweden on Monday morning in the wake of the weekend's storm, while rail and air traffic continued to suffer disruption.
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Politics: 19 Nov 11
Sweden welcomed the new EU budget agreement reached on Saturday, which will lower Sweden's EU fee by 300 million kronor ($45 million) compared to the government's original estimates.
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Business & Money: 17 Nov 11
Comments from a European court official on a Swedish court case regarding the release of customer details by internet service providers should be welcome news for file-sharers, according to some Swedish researchers.
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National: 17 Nov 11
Taimour Abdulwahab called a mobile telephone in Iraq the same day that he blew himself up in Stockholm, and received 60,000 kronor ($8,800) from backers in Scotland, according to British prosecutors.
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National: 12 Nov 11
A government agency slams emergency services operator SOS Alarm for severe flaws in their judgements of ambulance call-outs, claiming that mistakes may have led to deaths, injuries and increased risk.
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Science & Technology: 9 Nov 11
A doctor who failed to inquire if a woman was pregnant has been rapped by Swedish health authorities for prescribing painkillers by phone leading to the death of the woman and her nearly full-term foetus.
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National: 3 Nov 11
A devout Muslim was kicked off a train bound for Flen, south of Stockholm, in May, after failing to show his ticket to the conductor as he was deep in prayer.
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Politics: 25 Oct 11
Sweden Democrat leaders have been accused of hacking into the email accounts of Swedish journalists and political opponents by someone claiming to be former party member William Petzäll.
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Society: 20 Oct 11
It was not hate speech when Swedish public service broadcaster Sveriges Radio featured a show in which a Somali imam called for all converts from Islam to be killed, the Swedish Chancellor of Justice has ruled.
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Science & Technology: 19 Oct 11
It's been 30 years since since Swedish technology and initiative helped launch a bold, but modest initiative which marked the start of he modern era of mobile telephony, The Local's Joel Linde explains.
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Politics: 14 Oct 11
The Social Democrats' powerful executive committee will meet at 9am on Friday, for what has been described as "judgement day" for embattled leader Håkan Juholt.
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Science & Technology: 12 Oct 11
Sweden's main signals intelligence agency is set to receive additional funding to improve its ability to monitor traffic generated by smartphone and tablet computer apps.
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National: 10 Oct 11
The 2011 Nobel prize in economics has been awarded to US-based economists Thomas J. Sargent and Christopher A. Sims for “their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy”.
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Politics: 30 Sep 11
Sweden’s ruling Moderate Party has received the lowest poll results since the general election, according to fresh figures from research company Synovate.
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National: 22 Sep 11
Officials in Sigtuna are looking into why it took 13 days without contact from the mother before schools contacted social services about the absence of two boys, aged 4 and 8, who were found dead in a lake on Monday.
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Business & Money: 21 Sep 11
Officials at Swedish retail giant Ikea have confirmed that the company is the target of an extortion attempt following a string of blasts and other incidents at Ikea outlets throughout Europe.
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Education: 21 Sep 11
Toddlers adorned with GPS transmitters are becoming an increasingly common sight at Swedish daycares and preschools in an effort to make it easier for staff to find tots who are hiding or have gone astray.
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Society: 20 Sep 11
A woman in central Sweden was shocked to discover a living toad at the bottom of a bag of pre-packaged salad that had been in her fridge for almost a week.
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Society: 15 Sep 11
Swedish public service broadcaster Sveriges Radio has been reported for hate speech after featuring a programme in which a Somali imam called for all converts from Islam to be killed.
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Society: 15 Sep 11
A Norwegian man who became a celebrity for documenting “a year” of living in the Norwegian wilds has confessed he spent much of the time living in a hotel in northern Sweden.
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Politics: 12 Sep 11
A Stockholm Social Democrat has been cleared of assisting in the attempted kidnap of the daughter of a top Syrian diplomat.
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National: 7 Sep 11
The two Swedish journalists held in an Ethiopian prison are to be charged with terrorist crimes, according to information from the Ethiopian government and the Swedish foreign ministry.
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National: 25 Aug 11
A 47-year-old man has been sentenced to probation and fined the equivalent of 100 days pay for animal cruelty after kicking a Golden Retriever puppy to death.
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National: 14 Aug 11
Two men in their twenties were seriously injured in a climbing accident on Sweden's highest peak, Kebnekaise, early Sunday morning.
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Business & Money: 21 Jul 11
Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson on Thursday reported a 65 percent rise in net profit in the second quarter on the back of strong sales, but its shares dropped by
nearly 7 percent as figures fell short of analyst expectations.
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Politics: 10 Jul 11
The Sweden Democrats have lost one in three voters over the past month according to the latest opinion survey.
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National: 5 Jul 11
On Monday evening the Swedish ambassador was permitted to visit the two Swedish journalists currently being held in custody in Ethiopia.
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National: 26 Jun 11
A 16 year-old was killed in a single vehicle accident just outside Lund, in the south of Sweden, at 5am on Sunday morning. Three others were injured.
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Business & Money: 8 Jun 11
More than 20 billion kronor ($3.25 billion) in tax refunds are set to rain down on close to 3 million Swedes ahead of the Midsummer holiday, marking a new record due in large part to the popularity of filing tax forms electronically.
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Politics: 3 Jun 11
Urban Ahlin, the foreign policy spokesman for the Social Democrats, said on Friday that he is "hopeful" to reach an agreement with the government on how the Swedish mission in Libya should continue.
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National: 24 May 11
Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf has issued a statement welcoming the explanation from his close friend, Anders Lettström, assuming responsibility for contacts with criminals with the purpose of burying sensitive material.
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Society: 22 May 11
Ambulance and emergency response provider SOS Alarm is being pushed to reach higher profits despite several cancelled contracts and increasing dissatisfaction with the company.
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Politics: 19 May 11
Fewer Swedes support Swedish membership in NATO and roughly half are outright opposed to the idea, a new poll shows.
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Analysis & Opinion: 19 May 11
This month marks the 40-year anniversary of a public demonstration that had longstanding ramifications for Stockholm city planners and residents, not to mention environmental activism, The Local's Geoff Mortimore explains.
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Business & Money: 11 May 11
After Swedish bank Skandiabanken suffered a massive outage of its internet banking services on Tuesday, Sweden's top financial watchdog has announced plans to investigate the matter.
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Science & Technology: 10 May 11
Skype, the IP telephony company founded and part-owned by Swedish entrepreneur Niklas Zennström, has been bought bought by US software giant Microsoft, the firms confirmed on Tuesday afternoon.
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National: 5 May 11
The threat facing Swedish troops stationed in Afghanistan has been ratcheted up following a call by the Taliban for a spring offensive against foreign troops.
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Society: 3 May 11
Two disabled women were made to feel like "a menace to society" after being told by a Swedish Q&A hotline that Stockholm clubs were an "inappropriate" environment for wheelchairs.
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Society: 28 Apr 11
A seven-year-old boy called police on Tuesday to report a suspected assault following a scuffle in a sandbox in central Sweden.
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National: 26 Apr 11
A 54-year-old Swedish man has been deported from Venezuela to Colombia on suspicion of being the head of the FARC in Europe.
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Business & Money: 21 Apr 11
Karin Wanngård, set to be the top Social Democrat in Stockholm City Hall, has come in for criticism after saying that people with sales jobs work in a ‘crap profession’.
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Business & Money: 20 Apr 11
When Volvo Trucks opened their display for press at the Auto Shanghai 2011 fair on Tuesday, a number of women in evening dresses and high heels were there to greet the gathered journalists.
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Society: 7 Apr 11
A doctor's sub-par Swedish languages skills likely played a role in the death of a 66-year-old man in western Sweden, the country's health board has ruled.
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Politics: 4 Apr 11
Sweden's Riksdag backs the banning of texting while driving and the introduction of a hands-free requirement while making calls at the wheel.
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National: 25 Mar 11
Two policemen have been cleared of assault in a case that attracted widespread attention after a blogger used techniques worthy of a Stieg Larsson plot to restore photographs that he claimed the officers had forced him to delete.
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Society: 25 Mar 11
A gang of six who are alleged to have drugged and robbed a 25-year-old Malmö man after one of their number, an 18-year-old girl, had used her charms to trick her way into his apartment, were charged on Friday.
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National: 21 Mar 11
A 28-year-old Swedish woman has been reported missing during a trip to Sri Lanka, leaving only a Facebook message to say that she had been robbed and beaten.
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Analysis & Opinion: 28 Feb 11
Twenty-five years after Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was gunned down in central Stockholm, many Swedes still consider the murder an open wound, the AFP's Nina Larsson discovers.
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Society: 21 Feb 11
Three employees of the Libyan embassy in Stockholm have resigned in protest over what they called the "genocide" currently taking place in the country.
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National: 17 Feb 11
Two Swedes were among the dead after a tour boat broke in half and sank in Vietnam's Halong Bay on Thursday, the Swedish government has confirmed.
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Politics: 15 Feb 11
Sweden's foreign ministry lifted its advisory against travel to tourist resorts on Egypt's Red Sea coast late on Monday, but retained its recommendation against non-essential travel to other parts of the country.
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National: 8 Feb 11
Lawyers representing WkiLeaks founder Julian Assange told a British court on Tuesday that there was no need to extradite the Australian to Sweden as he could just as well be interviewed over rape allegations by videolink.
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Politics: 31 Jan 11
Support for the far-right Sweden Democrats has increased since the party entered the Riksdag, while support for the four parties of the centre-right Alliance government have dropped, according to a new poll.
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National: 27 Jan 11
The three men from Sweden who are suspected of planning a terrorist attack against Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in Copenhagen will remain in custody for at least another four weeks.
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Science & Technology: 21 Jan 11
The number of complaints directed at Swedish mobile and mobile broadband services increased once again in 2010, a consumer advocacy group announced on Friday.
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Society: 13 Jan 11
Sweden's television and radio licence fee system may appear confusing to new arrivals to the country, especially to those who come from countries that collect revenue for public broadcasting through taxation.
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Society: 5 Jan 11
A Kurdish poet who lives in western Sweden has filed a police report after receiving a death threat from Islamists in northern Iraq.
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Science & Technology: 1 Jan 11
Champagne glass in one hand and a cell phone in the other. This year New Year's Eve broke all previous records in number of text and photo messages sent.
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National: 26 Dec 10
Christmas Eve is no holiday for telephone operators, but this year the number of text messages sent on Christmas Eve has decreased for the first time.
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National: 24 Dec 10
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has lashed out at a British daily for publishing parts of a Swedish police report detailing the rape allegations against him.
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Society: 21 Dec 10
A 57-year-old man has been fined by a Swedish court for grooming a 13-year-old girl for sex after he approached the girl's father for a cash refund when she declined to show up as agreed.
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Business & Money: 14 Dec 10
A survey reveals that Swedish support for the euro remains weak in November, Statistics Sweden announced on Tuesday.
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Politics: 14 Dec 10
A leading Social Democrat has proposed restoring the ability of Swedish security service Säpo to request signals intelligence in order to make it easier to follow terrorist groups.
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National: 13 Dec 10
Swedish intelligence officials on Monday said they are "98 percent" certain about the identity of the man who blew himself in central Stockholm on Saturday, adding he was "completely unknown" to intelligence agencies.
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National: 13 Dec 10
British police are continuing the search of a home northwest of London on Monday in connection with Saturday's bombings in Stockholm in light of reports that the perpetrator used to live in the area.
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National: 11 Dec 10
Two nearly simultaneous explosions rocked central Stockholm on Saturday evening, killing one person and injuring two others in what is believed to be a suicide attack.
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Lifestyle: 10 Dec 10
With a trifecta of newly released albums and a Swede Of The Year Award under her belt, Swedish singer Robyn may find 2010 hard to top. But as the AFP’s James Pheby discovers, one should never underestimate Sweden’s reigning pop sensation.
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National: 8 Dec 10
Two Swedish citizens of Somali origin, members of the Islamist movement al-Shabaab, were sentenced by a Swedish court on Wednesday to four years in jail for "planning terrorist crimes" in Somalia.
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Science & Technology: 8 Dec 10
Hackers brought down the website of the Swedish prosecutor's office on Tuesday night in an apparent show of support for embattled WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who was remanded by a British court earlier in the day.
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Society: 4 Dec 10
Two airlines and one travel agency should pay full compensation to travelers whose flights were cancelled because of the Icelandic ash cloud last spring, a Swedish agency has ruled.
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Politics: 2 Dec 10
Swedish police on Thursday confirmed that a new international arrest warrant will be issued for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, conceding that the first could not be applied in Britain due to a procedural error.
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Science & Technology: 29 Nov 10
After weeks of speculation, Apple has confirmed that its iPad tablet PC will be released in Sweden on Tuesday.
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National: 29 Nov 10
The murder case of three men accused of killing a Swedish honeymooning tourist was postponed in Cape Town on Monday for a week to allow further investigation and finalise a plea bargain with one of the accused.
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National: 26 Nov 10
A 36-year-old man was sentenced to four months in prison for threatening a prosecutor who had charged his son for involvement in selling a mentally handicapped 14-year-old girl for sex.
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Business & Money: 25 Nov 10
Swedes are expected to spend some 64.7 billion kronor ($9.3 billion) on Christmas shopping this year with the gift of the moment being a tablet PC, according to the Swedish Research Institute of Trade.
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National: 24 Nov 10
A Swedish member of a Somali militia group with ties to al-Qaeda has called upon Muslims to kill Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who once depicted the Prophet Mohammed as a dog.
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National: 22 Nov 10
The driver of a taxi carrying a Swedish woman who was kidnapped and killed in South Africa while on her honeymoon has been charged as in connection with her murder.
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Society: 22 Nov 10
A small-time collector from Småland in southern Sweden was left "shocked and happy" after he was told that a painting that he had thought was worth a few thousand kronor went for over 1.6 million ($235,000).
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Science & Technology: 18 Nov 10
A Swedish court on Thursday issued a warrant for the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on suspicions of rape and sexual molestation.
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National: 18 Nov 10
The Gothenburg trial of two Swedish citizens charged with "planning terrorist crimes" in Somalia ended on Wednesday.
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As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »
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