February 14, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Fingerprints":
National: 3 Jan 12
Christine Schürrer, the German woman sentenced to life in prison for murdering a 3-year-old boy and his 1-year-old sister in 2008, is now applying for leave to appeal her verdict to the Supreme Court.
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National: 19 Oct 11
Twelwe people were arrested in Sweden early on Wednesday morning suspected of spreading child pornography, according to the Swedish National Bureau of Investigation.
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National: 22 Jun 11
A 45-year-old Norwegian man on trial for kidnapping, robbing and extorting several million kronor from wealthy Swedes was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Tuesday.
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Education: 22 Jun 11
New rules requiring biometric information from non-Europeans wishing to study in Sweden is causing problems for would-be foreign students, according to Swedish universities.
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National: 14 Jun 11
The re-trial of the so-called Högsby 'honour killing' continued on Tuesday with testimony from the 23-year-old son who claims his parents made him take the blame for murdering his sister's boyfriend.
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National: 24 Mar 11
The Swedish government has proposed new legislation that would enable the country’s law enforcement agencies to sift through the DNA registers, fingerprint archives and vehicle databases of several other European countries.
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Business & Money: 17 Nov 10
Swedish employers have been authorised to use fingerprints to track worker’s job attendance following a review of the practice by the Data Inspection Board.
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Society: 21 Jul 09
The disappearance of five Tanzanian youth footballers has prompted the Swedish Migration Board to tighten entry requirements for non-Europeans playing in the Gothia Cup.
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National: 14 Mar 09
Police in Stockholm are on Saturday continuing to search for those responsible for a double murder on Södermalm on Friday evening.
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National: 13 Mar 09
Christine Schürrer, the German woman found guilty of murdering two young children in Arboga last year, has appealed her life sentence.
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Education: 20 Oct 08
Hungry students at a school in Västerbotten in northern Sweden must give a fingerprint in order to eat in the school’s cafeteria, a practice which bothers data privacy officials seeking to ban the measure.
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National: 14 Oct 08
Christine Schürrer, the German woman found guilty of murdering two children in Arboga, has been sentenced to life in prison.
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Travel: 29 Jan 08
Passengers on SAS flights from Stockholm and Gothenburg will in future have to give their fingerprints when checking in bags, the airline says.
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National: 25 Aug 07
Forcing schoolchildren to give fingerprints in order to get their lunches should be forbidden, the Swedish Data Inspection Board has said.
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National: 15 Aug 07
A physical education teacher in Norrköping has been prosecuted after police found a large quantity of cocaine in his home.
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National: 28 May 07
Tests on a revolver which had been linked to the 1986 murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme have not been able to confirm whether it was the murder weapon, police have said.
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Society: 3 Mar 07
Swedish passports are widely available on the black market with trading so systematic that at least twice a week the Swedish police discover several passports linked to the same personal identity number.
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National: 27 Feb 07
A 26-year-old man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the 'ruthless and cruel' murder of a student north of Stockholm late last year.
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National: 12 Feb 07
A young man who died in his Malmö apartment was eaten by his own Staffordshire Bull Terriers. Friends who found him were unable to recognize his body.
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National: 21 Aug 06
A Swedish restaurant world famous for its French wine collection has had its entire stock stolen. Thieves made away with more than 600 bottles worth over 3.5 million kronor.
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Society: 7 Aug 06
Sweden is supporting a European proposal that would see border guards take the fingerprints of asylum seekers as young as six.
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National: 27 Jun 06
The Scandinavian airline says all passengers will have to give their fingerprints when they check in on domestic routes, as part of heightened security measures.
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National: 18 May 06
The mystery nears its solution: a previously unidentified man rescued while drifting on a makeshift raft in the North Sea was identified when his mother in the Czech Republic recognised him from photographs.
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National: 16 May 06
The man who was found floating on a raft in the middle of the Skagerrak Strait in April is a Czech citizen, born in 1957. So the plot thins, but he still won't say how ended up so far out at sea.
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National: 2 May 06
The mysterious raft man - found floating on a raft in the middle of the Skagerrak Strait between Sweden and Denmark ten days ago - has been living in London for the last two years, it has emerged.
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National: 9 Mar 06
A bag left by the armed men who stole currency from a plane at Gothenburg airport did not contain a bomb, prosecutors have said. Police are still questioning a 37-year old man about the raid.
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Society: 29 Apr 05
The number of people seeking asylum in Sweden is expected to fall by almost 20% this year, according to the latest forecast from the Swedish Board of Migration.
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National: 26 Apr 05
The identification of people killed in the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster last December has been slowed by the poor condition of DNA samples sent to labs around the world for analysis, says a Swedish scientist.
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National: 1 Apr 05
Problems with DNA analysis mean that the bodies 197 Swedes presumed dead in Thailand -many of them children - might not be returned to Sweden. Meanwhile, the official Swedish death toll rises to 347.
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National: 31 Mar 05
Parts of the body of a middle aged woman have been found on frozen water near Stockholm's old town. Police say that the woman, whose torso is missing, had been subjected to extreme violence before she died.
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National: 13 Dec 04
Investigators finally work their way into an apartment destroyed by a massive explosion last Wednesday - and inside they find the body of a man suspected of stealing rare books from the Royal library.
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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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