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Sport: 20 May 13
Sweden's ice hockey team won the gold-medal match in the ice hockey World Championships against Switzerland on Sunday night, trouncing the visitors 5-1.
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Business & Money: 19 May 13
Gas pipeline firm Nord Stream will hold an information meeting on the Baltic island of Gotland on Monday to introduce a proposal to extend its controversial gas pipeline project.
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Lifestyle: 18 May 13
The 2013 Eurovision Song Contest Final is live in Malmö, southern Sweden. The Local brings you all the latest news, reactions, and details surrounding Europe's biggest pop music spectacle.
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Sport: 18 May 13
Sweden will be playing for gold in the ice hockey World Championships after dispatching longstanding rivals and co-hosts Finland with a 3-0 win on Saturday.
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Sport: 18 May 13
Ice hockey World Championships co-hosts Sweden and Finland continue their long-standing rivalry on Saturday with a place in the gold medal match at stake.
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Business & Money: 17 May 13
Sweden tops a list of countries that risk suffering a housing market crash, Germany's Commerzbank has warned, citing the slackening off of Swedish property prices as a harbinger of a potential downswing.
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Sport: 17 May 13
Sweden edged Olympic champions Canada 3-2 in a penalty shootout on Thursday night to set up semi-final clash against arch rivals Finland at the ice hockey World Championships.
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National: 17 May 13
A woman-on-woman kiss during the semi-finals failed to raise eyebrows among Eurovision Song Contest fans, but AFP's Sören Billing finds out why the "Gays World Cup" may not please socially conservative eastern European authorities.
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Lifestyle: 16 May 13
From Bonnie Tyler and a Ukrainian giant, to a song by Avicii and Abba legends and a rumoured appearance by Malmö-native Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Sweden's Eurovision Song Contest packs a glitzy punch without the hefty price tag.
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Politics: 15 May 13
Carl Bildt hailed a decision taken by the Arctic Council in Kiruna on Wednesday to grant India, China and five other nations permanent observer status at a summit boycotted by Greenland over what it felt was a snub by Sweden.
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Education: 9 May 13
Sweden's university education system was rated as the second best in the world and the best overall in Europe, according to a report published on Wednesday.
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Science & Technology: 7 May 13
Sweden is the second best country in the world in which to be a mother, according to a new ranking which looked at pregnancy risks and infant health.
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Science & Technology: 30 Apr 13
Health authorities say as many as 12 additional cases of hepatitis discovered in Sweden can likely be traced back to the same virus strain that epidemiologists have linked to frozen berries first discovered in Denmark.
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Politics: 26 Apr 13
The Swedish MEP tasked with tackling human trafficking has expressed her frustration over the fact that so few EU member states have implemented anti-slave trade laws put forward two years ago.
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Business & Money: 25 Apr 13
Electrolux's net profits suffered a 28-percent drop in the first quarter, the Swedish home appliance giant reported on Thursday, citing sluggish demand in Europe and a strong krona.
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Politics: 25 Apr 13
A Russian spy plane reportedly flew through the international strip of airspace in between Sweden's main Baltic islands of Öland and Gotland on Saturday.
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Business & Money: 24 Apr 13
Nordea, the Nordic banking giant partially owned by the Swedish state, posted a two-percent increase on quarterly profit on Wednesday, with net profits of over 9 billion kronor ($1.36 billion) exceeding analysts' expectations.
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Lifestyle: 19 Apr 13
Hosting the Eurovision Song Contest finals is bringing a cash windfall for Malmö, not least for some locals who are renting out their apartments to devoted music fans, The Local's Patrick Reilly discovers.
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Science & Technology: 15 Apr 13
Internet voting could become a reality in Sweden by as early as 2018, if a new proposal by a parliamentary committee is given the green light.
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Business & Money: 15 Apr 13
Swedes are in for a rough economic ride in years ahead, as Finance Minister Anders Borg has warned of rising unemployment, weaker economic growth and rising public debt in the spring fiscal policy bill released on Monday.
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Education: 10 Apr 13
The education levels of Sweden's teenagers have dropped sharply over the past decade, according to a Unicef study into children's well-being across the industrialized world.
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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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Science & Technology: 6 Apr 13
Swedish Environmental Minister Lena Ek has said that the Baltic Sea nations' failure to protect the region's environment is "worrying".
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Lifestyle: 28 Mar 13
Two Swedish Easter witches are giving up the spring festivities in Sweden to run 3,000 kilometres from Istanbul back home to Stockholm with all their gear packed tight into a pram. Kristina Paltén and Carina Borén are The Local's pick for Swede(s) of the Week.
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Business & Money: 27 Mar 13
Thrice the charm for Swedish brains as the country yet again tops the EU Commission's list of industrial innovators in the European Union.
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National: 20 Mar 13
There will likely be a school shooting in Sweden sometime in the foreseeable future, according to the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, which warned that local authorities are woefully unprepared to deal with such an event.
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National: 19 Mar 13
Three men face up to a year in prison after police found over 2,000 rare bird eggs under a trapdoor in a home in northern Sweden.
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Science & Technology: 16 Mar 13
A healthy Nordic diet helps to reduce cardiovascular disease and the risk of type 2 diabetes, according to a study initiated by the Nordic Council of Ministers.
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National: 16 Mar 13
Pupils in Malmö are to be given training to enable them to deal with a school shooting, following the discovery of weapons and ammunition on the roof of a school building in the city on Friday.
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Science & Technology: 15 Mar 13
Abortion figures in Sweden have increased since the introduction of the morning-after pill, with experts blaming the unwanted pregnancies on Swedes' "careless" contraception habits.
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Education: 14 Mar 13
With more students worldwide choosing to learn Swedish, The Local catches up with Marina Astashevskaya - a Swedish teacher in Russia - whose classes help bridge the gap between love-refugees and their families in Russia.
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Science & Technology: 13 Mar 13
Sweden should follow New Zealand's example and phase out smoking completely by 2025, representatives from several lung cancer groups in Sweden have argued.
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Politics: 13 Mar 13
The government never explained that Swedish troops in Afghanistan had shifted to counter-insurgency warfare in 2010, a Swedish intelligence expert has claimed, arguing the Riksdag was misled when voting to extend the mission.
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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: 8 Mar 13
Birgitta Ohlsson made waves when she was appointed European Affairs Minister while pregnant, but she still wonders why Sweden lags behind its neighbours in having a woman head the government, the AFP's Camille Bas-Wohlert discovers.
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Business & Money: 5 Mar 13
Swedish furniture giant Ikea has roped in US hotel chain Marriott for its long-discussed launch of a new branch of budget traveller hotels across Europe.
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Sport: 24 Feb 13
Charlotte Kalla and Ida Ingemarsdotter claimed the World Championship cross country silver medal for Sweden in the women's team sprint in Val di Fiemme, Italy on Sunday, while Marcus Hellner and Emil Jönsson finished second in the men's event.
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Science & Technology: 22 Feb 13
The EU is dragging Sweden to court for repeatedly ignoring a 2007 order to license industrial sites, as the union also prepares to take Greece and the UK to task for environment-related policy lags.
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Education: 14 Feb 13
Sweden's finance minister has proposed the introduction of grades in third grade, arguing that it could help children with less-educated parents and help Sweden meet its aims for a modern knowledge-based economy.
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National: 13 Feb 13
Sweden’s foreign minister chose to begin his annual foreign policy speech with a focus on Nordic and Baltic cooperation, calling for a new “Hanseatic age of prosperity” and underlining joint military tasks.
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Science & Technology: 13 Feb 13
Sweden's licensed wolf hunt is effectively over for the season after a court decision on Tuesday left in place a lower court's ruling stopping the hunt.
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Society: 12 Feb 13
It's that time of year again, the day Swedes sink their teeth into cream-filled semla buns. But what goes into a semla? Who makes the best ones? And why is the bun looked upon with suspicion by royal historians?
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Business & Money: 8 Feb 13
Sweden has the biggest black market in the Nordic region, according to a new study, which also found workers in France are more honest than their Swedish counterparts in reporting their income to tax authorities.
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Lifestyle: 8 Feb 13
Nordic Noir has grabbed the attention of readers across the world, but in an effort to take readers beyond the page-turning thrillers, The Local has compiled a selection of Swedish literature classics available in English.
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Science & Technology: 8 Feb 13
Swedish police want to introduce an instrument to test drivers suspected of drug use, technology that's already used in some parts of Europe.
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Business & Money: 8 Feb 13
Sweden is set to be awarded a multi-billion euro discount on its EU membership fee in the overnight budget talks still going on in Brussels, according to diplomatic sources.
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Sport: 4 Feb 13
The Sweden national bandy team went down 3-4 to Russia in the 2013 Bandy World Championships in western Sweden on Sunday.
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Science & Technology: 2 Feb 13
The first of sixteen wolves permitted in the ongoing hunt was killed on Saturday morning close to Örebrö in central Sweden.
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National: 1 Feb 13
A court in northern Sweden has granted Thomas Quick, who had previously been found guilty of eight murders, a retrial for the last three killings for which he had been convicted.
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Science & Technology: 1 Feb 13
Sweden is to resume its wolf hunt in what authorities have described as a bid to limit inbreeding, while environmentalists argued on Thursday that it violates EU law.
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Sport: 30 Jan 13
The Swedish national bandy team scorched Belarus on the ice on Tuesday night, tallying a record 28 goals against the opposition's one in qualifying rounds of the bandy world championships.
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Analysis & Opinion: 25 Jan 13
With her own young son soon to change schools in Sweden, US-native and parent Rebecca Ahlfeldt investigates the struggles in finding the most suitable option.
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Science & Technology: 24 Jan 13
The International Energy Agency has proposed that the Nordic countries add more than 13,000 new wind turbines in order to achieve ambitious emissions-reduction schemes in the next three decades.
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Business & Money: 23 Jan 13
Sweden dropped to seventh place in a globalization survey conducted by consultants Ernst & Young, down two places since 2011.
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Science & Technology: 15 Jan 13
Swedes use their mobile devices for internet use more than any other Europeans, new statistics reveal.
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Business & Money: 9 Jan 13
Swedish fashion giant H&M is launching a chain of stores featuring a new clothing brand targeting women in cities across Europe, including Stockholm, the company said on Wednesday.
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Science & Technology: 5 Jan 13
Nearly 70 out of the 100 tonnes of pork fillets that were dyed and labelled as beef tenderloin have ended up in Swedes' stomachs.
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Analysis & Opinion: 3 Jan 13
After six months in Sweden, US native Joe Beaumier reflects on the difficulties foreigners who speak English face landing a job in Sweden when they're unable to speak advanced Swedish.
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Science & Technology: 2 Jan 13
A Swedish study published on Tuesday suggests that women using antidepressants while pregnant are at no higher risk of stillbirth and death in newborns.
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Society: 28 Dec 12
Finnish will be an optional language in preschools and old people's homes in eight more Swedish cities, as the government extends the rights of minority language speakers across the country.
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Lifestyle: 21 Dec 12
The Local catches up with Jean-Pierre Lacroix, France's ambassador to Sweden, to talk Gerard Depardieu, Vikings, the EU, and where to get the best baguettes.
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Science & Technology: 17 Dec 12
The Swedish military announced on Monday it had discovered the remains of a Russian submarine on the Baltic Sea bed near the island of Öland.
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Education: 16 Dec 12
In the wake of the Connecticut school shooting, Swedes are discussing whether or not to introduce national security guidelines for Swedish schools.
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Science & Technology: 12 Dec 12
Frightened residents in western Sweden reported seeing a bright, blue light racing across the night sky on Tuesday before an orange-coloured orb smashed into the ground in a mysterious phenomenon that has yet to be explained.
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Society: 10 Dec 12
Swedish Twilights fans will be forever 15 as the Swedish distributors of the last film failed in their bid to lower the age limit on screenings across the country, despite claiming the limit was sexist.
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Business & Money: 6 Dec 12
Sweden ranks fourth in a global corruption index released on Wednesday, matching its 2011 placement as one of the world's least corrupt countries, despite lingering concerns about political party financing.
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Society: 4 Dec 12
With tickets to the 2013 Eurovision finals in Malmö selling out in a flash last week, music fans across Europe have flooded resale sites at levels on par with the Euro 2012 football tournament.
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Society: 3 Dec 12
Police were called when a confused motorist was found driving on Stockholm’s tram line on Sunday night, after reportedly getting stuck on the tracks and deciding to keep driving until the next station.
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Science & Technology: 30 Nov 12
Winter storms along Sweden's eastern seaboard have sent dozens of vehicles skidding, with huge waves also striking fear in passengers on Baltic Sea ferries, which also suffered delays.
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Education: 27 Nov 12
Sweden failed to make an appearance in a list of the top 20 countries worldwide ranked by education quality, a review which coincided with the Finance Minister claiming that Swedish kids need to study more.
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Analysis & Opinion: 27 Nov 12
With the Sweden Democrats reeling from a racist video scandal, two political scientists look at whether other far-right parties in Europe can tell us if the party's much-touted makeover is more cosmetic than ideological.
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Analysis & Opinion: 16 Nov 12
Sweden had long pimped the notion of criminalizing buyers of sexual services prior to 1999 legislation which was first laughed off, but has since become a hot political export, The Local's Christine Demsteader discovers.
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Sport: 11 Nov 12
Sweden's André Myhrer won the opening slalom of the men's World Cup season in Levi, Finland on Sunday.
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Sport: 8 Nov 12
Sweden’s ice hockey team began the four-nation Karjala Cup on Wednesday with a loss to the Czech Republic, the same team that knocked the Swedes out of the world championships in May.
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National: 7 Nov 12
Fraudsters are finding new ways to trick house-hunters in Sweden, stealing the identities of real people in other countries to convince desperate would-be tenants to part with their money.
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Sport: 4 Nov 12
The legendary Stockholm football stadium Råsunda hosted its last ever game in Sweden's top football league, the Allsvenskan, with AIK beating Malmö FF 2-0.
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Politics: 31 Oct 12
Non-aligned Sweden has agreed to help monitor Nato airspace over Iceland in 2014 in what is seen as being a sensitive step for the non-Nato member.
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Society: 30 Oct 12
Vendace roe from the Bothnian Bay in the north of Sweden, the only Swedish product currently with an EU-protected designation of origin, is being launched as a delicacy in top notch restaurants in Japan.
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Education: 26 Oct 12
Swedes have the highest proficiency in English as a second language in the world, according to a new study which tested nearly 2 million people in 54 countries.
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National: 24 Oct 12
A 63-year-old Finnish man calmly walked into a petrol station in northern Sweden on Tuesday night and confessed to a double murder, prompting the surprised station owner to ring the police before inviting the self-confessed killer to coffee.
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Analysis & Opinion: 18 Oct 12
The Australian ambassador to Sweden Paul Stephens speaks to The Local's Oliver Gee about the “outdated” image of Australia, the ongoing trial of Julian Assange, and life as the coach of an Australian rules football team in Stockholm.
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Business & Money: 11 Oct 12
Nordic telecom firm TeliaSonera has been hit with new revelations about suspicious business practices in Asia, this time stemming from a complex deal with a firm tied to the former ruling family in Nepal.
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National: 7 Oct 12
A Swedish ship with rights activists from several countries aboard sailed from Naples on Saturday in the latest bid to break Israel's blockade against Gaza.
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Education: 5 Oct 12
University hospital Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm scored best among Nordic centres of higher learning, in new rankings by British newspaper The Times
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Science & Technology: 2 Oct 12
Swedish divers famous for finding an object on the Baltic Sea floor resembling a well-known spaceship from the Star Wars films are celebrating the recovery of drinkable wine from a nearly century-old Swedish shipwreck.
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National: 24 Sep 12
Thomas Quick, who had at one time been convicted of eight murders, has been acquitted in the killings of two Norwegian women in Oslo in the 1980s.
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Science & Technology: 22 Sep 12
An EU watchdog concluded on Friday that a swine flu vaccine used in 2009-10 is linked to a higher risk of the sleeping disorder narcolepsy in children and teens in Sweden.
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Politics: 20 Sep 12
Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg defended the government's 2013 budget proposition on Thursday, in the face of tough criticism from unions and opposition politicians.
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National: 20 Sep 12
Supreme Court Justice Göran Lambertz has been slammed for taking a personal stance in the debate about alleged mismanagement of the case of convicted serial killer Thomas Quick, who has since been acquitted of several murders.
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Science & Technology: 6 Sep 12
Sweden is the most effective country at using the internet to better people's lives, according to a new ranking released on Wednesday by a foundation headed by Tim Berners-Lee, British inventor of the World Wide Web.
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Business & Money: 5 Sep 12
Sweden has slipped a spot to fourth place in the World Economic Forum's ranking of the world's most competitive countries, having been overtaken by Finland as the most competitive country in the European Union.
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Business & Money: 31 Aug 12
Just two weeks after US company Netflix announced plans to expand to the Nordic countries, TV-hit maker HBO on Thursday revealed plans to launch an internet-streaming service in the region later this year.
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Business & Money: 15 Aug 12
US based film streaming company Netflix announced Wednesday that it will be launching its services in Sweden, together with Denmark, Finland and Norway, before the end of this year.
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Business & Money: 10 Aug 12
Swedish high street fashion chain Lindex has been hit by an online storm after a woman’s complaint about their “hooker-like” clothing range for young girls went viral.
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National: 24 Jul 12
A Swedish man had to be saved from the bracing Baltic Sea waters after falling overboard while travelling on a Finland-bound ferry out of Stockholm.
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Sport: 22 Jul 12
Swedish long jumper Carolina Klüft has been left with a race to be fit for the London Olympics after pulling out of a meet in Finland on Sunday with a leg injury.
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Analysis & Opinion: 20 Jul 12
Despite EU legislation about citizens' healthcare rights, the situation in Sweden reveals a system riddled with problems that create uncertainty about treatments and leave many with huge bills to pay, The Local's Salomon Rogberg discovers.
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Science & Technology: 17 Jul 12
Swedish health officials have approved a request from Stockholm to launch a needle exchange programme for drug addicts in the Swedish capital.
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Business & Money: 13 Jul 12
The Swedish music industry has seen an increase in sales in the first half of 2012, with digital services like Spotify to thank for the boost, new figures show.
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National: 6 Jul 12
A 12-year-old girl died due to brain complications caused by the consumption of too much water in a game of "water poker" she played with classmates.
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