February 14, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Fire":
National: 12 Feb 12
A 24-year-old teacher has been remanded into custody on suspicion of child rape after admitting that he had sexual relations with a number of teenage pupils.
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National: 10 Feb 12
Four men have been arrested for the “execution style” killing of a 19-year-old man in Malmö in August 2011 in what police believe was a settling of scores among criminal gangs.
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National: 9 Feb 12
Swedish emergency response service SOS Alarm has reported the death of a teenage boy to the National Board of Health and Welfare after the ambulance never turned up and his parents had to drive him to hospital.
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National: 9 Feb 12
Several passengers on a commuter train were taken to hospital and the train driver had to be cut loose by emergency services after a train and a truck collided in Stockholm on Thursday morning.
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Business & Money: 9 Feb 12
H&M has been criticized for choosing not to attend a hearing to highlight poor conditions for textile workers in Cambodia, where hundreds of employees at a plant run by the Swedish fashion giant mysteriously passed out in August.
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Business & Money: 6 Feb 12
Emergency services in Gothenburg have come under fire recently after it came to light that a fire station had been renting out rooms to visiting colleagues.
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National: 6 Feb 12
A suspected case of arson in a Gothenburg student housing complex has claimed the life of one and made some 70 people homeless as the re-igniting fire has left the entire building unstable, according to emergency services.
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National: 3 Feb 12
Train chaos swept railways south of central Stockholm on Friday morning, after an overhead line fell onto the tracks between the capital and the country’s south.
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National: 3 Feb 12
A nurse in south west Sweden has been reprimanded for putting up an X-ray photo of someone's skull on his Facebook page.
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Society: 2 Feb 12
A post on Facebook as well as a 42 cannon salute are among the ways the next heir to the Swedish throne will be welcomed into the world, as the Royal Court readies for Crown Princess Victoria to give birth in early March.
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National: 2 Feb 12
Guns are three times more common in Malmö compared to Stockholm when it comes to reported killings and attempted killings, new figures show.
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Science & Technology: 2 Feb 12
Snow and temperatures well below freezing are expected to hit Sweden over the next few days with forecasters warning of a “snow cannon” ready to fire over the country.
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National: 31 Jan 12
Malmö was rocked by another fatal shooting on Tuesday night after a man was gunned down in a car and later died in hospital, marking the city's third gun fatality since the start of the year.
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National: 31 Jan 12
A violent fire erupted at a refugee housing facility in central Sweden early Tuesday morning, forcing the evacuation of 80 residents and sending at least three people to hospital.
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National: 31 Jan 12
Sweden's Migration Board said Monday it was temporarily suspending all deportations to Syria due to the worsening violence in the country as president Bashar al-Assad's deadly crackdown continues.
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Society: 30 Jan 12
The so called “upper class safari” recently running in Stockholm has come under extreme criticism from residents of the elite suburb, and has even evoked several protest attacks.
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Politics: 29 Jan 12
Christian Democrat leader Göran Hägglund succeeded in riding out the storm of doubts about his position over the past few months, gaining re-election at the party's national conference on Saturday, beating out challenger Mats Odell.
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Education: 26 Jan 12
A former pre-school employee in Borås in western Sweden is facing charges of molestation for a series of offences, including punishing young children by locking them in a drying cupboard and pulling their hair.
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National: 25 Jan 12
Two armed assailants prompted an intense police chase during which at least one shot was fired following a brazen carjacking on a highway roadside in central Sweden on Tuesday night.
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Society: 24 Jan 12
A youth hostel caught fire on Tuesday in central Stockholm after staff attempted to delouse mattresses by stowing them in a sauna and turning up the heat.
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Business & Money: 23 Jan 12
A Swedish staffing firm has come under fire for offering workers temporary job assignments that didn't actually exist in order to avoid paying them.
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Sport: 23 Jan 12
Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored a pair of goals to give AC Milan a convincing 3-0 victory on Sunday and move him to the top of the Serie A goalscoring table.
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National: 22 Jan 12
A 28-year-old man who stood for the Green Party at the 2010 election, has been charged, along with his 26-year-old girlfriend, for trying to murder his parents-in-law by setting alight to their apartment.
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National: 21 Jan 12
A Serbian man was jailed for life by a Swedish court on Friday in connection with his role in a massacre in the village of Cuska in Kosovo in 1999, in which 40 people were killed.
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Business & Money: 19 Jan 12
After Sweden's Wednesday night lotto draw, one lucky winner took home the grand slam of 134 million kronor ($19.6 million). Despite the ticket being bought in a small town, the owner is still unidentified.
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National: 18 Jan 12
The 22-year-old animal rights activist suspected of arson and of writing threatening letters, sometimes in his own blood, has been sentenced to three years in prison.
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Business & Money: 16 Jan 12
Plans for a sightseeing trip to Saltsjöbaden to “see how the other half lives,” have been reported to police after coming under fire from residents of the well-to-do Stockholm suburb.
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Sport: 13 Jan 12
An athletic club in southern Sweden has come under fire for a coach's use of sexually suggestive materials known as "Hot babes of the defence" to aid the training of a team of 14-year-old boys.
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National: 12 Jan 12
Europol said Thursday it has busted a major synthetic drugs-making network following the confiscation in Sweden of large amounts of amphetamine, resulting in the arrest of nine suspects in four countries.
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Analysis & Opinion: 12 Jan 12
The grieving father of a murdered 15-year-old, attempting to climb down into his dead son's grave, was a sombre reminder of the consequences of the escalating violence in southern Sweden, reports contributor Patrick Reilly.
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Society: 11 Jan 12
The news about the Austrian sex school AISOS, which spread like wild-fire through the international media, was staged by a Swedish advertising agency.
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Society: 10 Jan 12
A high-ranking civil servant in Sweden's defence ministry has been sacked after it was revealed he was involved in running several Thai massage parlours on the side.
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Society: 10 Jan 12
A couple in northern Sweden who were watching a violent movie at home on Monday were surprised when police turned up in response to reports of gunfire and screams emanating from the apartment.
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National: 4 Jan 12
Sweden's minister for justice, Beatrice Ask, says Swedish weapons laws will be looked over, after recent events in Malmö where five people have been shot within the space of a month.
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National: 3 Jan 12
Yet another man has been gunned down on the streets of Malmö, making him the fifth in just over a month to be shot dead in Sweden's third largest city.
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National: 2 Jan 12
After the latest incident where a 15-year-old died from shot wounds to the head and chest on Sunday evening, police say that the situation in Malmö is “strained” due to a steady rise in violence in the area.
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National: 1 Jan 12
During the first day of 2012 there were still some 1,000 households in Sweden left with no power as a result of the storm Dagmar, which pummeled Sweden over Christmas.
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National: 1 Jan 12
Police were kept busy during the last evening of 2011 with celebrations all over Sweden getting out of hand and resulting in brawling and firework accidents.
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Science & Technology: 30 Dec 11
Floods, infectious disease, forest fires, and cyberattacks are among several threats to Sweden identified by the country's Civil Contingencies Authority.
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Society: 28 Dec 11
Four youths from southwestern Sweden were lucky to escape without injury after their just-purchased supply of New Year's fireworks inexplicably went off in their car.
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Society: 27 Dec 11
Thomas Mattsson, editor-in-chief of Swedish tabloid Expressen, has been charged with violating Sweden's weapons laws in connection with a story about purchasing illegal firearms in Sweden.
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National: 27 Dec 11
Sweden has turned to the United States and the EU for assistance in gaining the release of journalists Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson, who were sentenced on Tuesday to 11 years in prison by an Ethiopian court.
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National: 27 Dec 11
The shooter who killed one man and injured two others at a cafe in Malmö in southern Sweden on Monday wore a mask like those seen in the 2010 Hollywood film "The Town" and remains at large, police said Tuesday.
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National: 26 Dec 11
One man was shot dead and two were injured when a man wearing a Halloween mask opened fire on an industrial estate in southern Sweden on Monday evening.
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National: 26 Dec 11
A 26-year-old man was found dead in an apartment in Central Uppsala, north of Stockholm, on Monday morning. According to police, the man was murdered and the body shows signs extensive injuries.
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Society: 26 Dec 11
Many people went overboard in their Christmas merriment this year, with arrests for public drunkenness up across Sweden over the weekend.
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National: 24 Dec 11
A young Swedish man is being hunted by police in connection with a fire at a hotel room that claimed the life of a fellow Swede.
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National: 23 Dec 11
A 16-year-old-boy was shot by police in Gothenburg early Friday morning after the vehicle the teen was driving hit an officer in what police believe was a deliberate attempt to run the officer over.
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Society: 23 Dec 11
Anita Ekberg, a former Miss Sweden who stared in "La Dolce Vita", is almost broke, prompting her to make a plea for cash from the foundation of the cult film's director Federico Fellini, according to Italian media reports.
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Society: 21 Dec 11
The safest municipality in Sweden is Habo, north of Jönköping in central Sweden, where the risk of having an accident or being subjected to a crime is the smallest in the country, according to a new report.
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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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Society: 15 Dec 11
Prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt's official residence, Sagerska Huset in Stockholm, which he was forced to leave due to extensive renovations in April, is now ready for the family to move back.
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Politics: 14 Dec 11
A 47-year-old Swedish military officer has been dismissed after sending a threatening email to prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt suggesting it was time to hunt down politicians.
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National: 14 Dec 11
A Swedish academic has come under fire in Norway after writing an article suggesting that Israel played a part in the July 22nd massacre carried out by Anders Behring Breivik that claimed 77 lives.
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National: 13 Dec 11
The four teenagers under suspicion of an arson attack that left a mall in southern Sweden in ruins have said it was a test to join a local gang. If found guilty they may be forced to pay damages of 33 million kronor ($4.8 million).
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Lifestyle: 12 Dec 11
Contributor Lola Akinmade-Åkerström offers up five tell-tale signs that Swedes have truly been gripped by the holiday spirit.
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National: 12 Dec 11
A fire erupted in a boat yard in Gothenburg on Monday morning, sending thick, black smoke out across the city and forcing many nearby buildings to be evacuated.
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National: 11 Dec 11
With advent, Lucia and Christmas, Swedish firefighters are kept busy during the month of December, with 12 percent of all recorded fires caused by candles left unattended.
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National: 10 Dec 11
Right-wing extremist groups clashed with counter protesters at in Gamla Stan, as an annual demonstration relocated from Salem to Stockholm.
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Lifestyle: 9 Dec 11
For many Swedes, Christmas celebrations just aren't complete without a tasty glass of Christmas beer. Beer blogger Darren Packman offers some tips on some of the best Christmas beers available in Sweden this season.
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Business & Money: 8 Dec 11
Sweden's prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt on Thursday argued against changing the European Union treaty to help solve the euro debt crisis as suggested by the leaders of France and Germany earlier this week.
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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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Society: 3 Dec 11
A firefighter from Gothenburg in western Sweden was rushed to hospital after drinking from a water bottle that turned out to be filled with ammonia following a routine smoke diving exercise.
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National: 2 Dec 11
The giant 13 metre tall Christmas goat, erected in Gävle on Sweden's east coast, went up in flames early Friday morning after an attack by unknown assailants.
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National: 1 Dec 11
A 53-year-old police officer in Stockholm has been sentenced to a year in prison after having been convicted of raping and buying sex from a minor.
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National: 29 Nov 11
A 44-year-old woman in central Sweden has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for murder, after the district court judged her guilty of shooting her husband from behind with a hunting rifle.
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Society: 28 Nov 11
The trial against the hunter who fired a single shot that passed through an elk before hitting and killing a cross-country skier, opens on Monday in Sweden.
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Lifestyle: 25 Nov 11
As the darkness and chill of Sweden's winter gathers pace, food blogger Maia Brindley Nilsson offers up a list of ten Swedish comfort foods to keep your belly full and nourish your sun-starved soul.
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National: 24 Nov 11
A 31-year-old man believed to be the head of a notorious criminal gang was killed in a shooting at an industrial site in Malmö, in southern Sweden, on Thursday morning. Police have yet to make an arrest in the case.
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Business & Money: 24 Nov 11
The manager of an Ikea store in Germany, who had Facebook friends belonging to a neo-Nazi political party, has been dismissed for posting offensive opinions on the social networking site.
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Lifestyle: 24 Nov 11
Christmas markets are a feature of Yuletide in Sweden and The Local has put together a pick of the best, all featuring warm spiced "glögg" for the adults, and plenty of fun activites for the children.
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Society: 22 Nov 11
Swedish crime drama Millennium, based on the novels by Stieg Larsson, has won the prize for best TV movie at the International Emmy Awards in New York.
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National: 21 Nov 11
An unidentified man sustained serious injuries after suddenly catching fire in Gothenburg on Sunday evening, leaving police flummoxed as to who he is and what really happened.
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National: 21 Nov 11
A Church of Sweden pastor has been sacked after having returned from a military base on Sicily following a drunken binge.
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National: 21 Nov 11
A Russian man was freed from the Migration Board's detention centre in Gävle in eastern Sweden on Sunday by a group of armed men.
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National: 19 Nov 11
A Swedish military unit has come in for criticism after a number of safety violations were revealed, including a soldier being hit in the head by a grenade shell and a grenade launcher being fired inside the soldiers' own barracks.
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National: 19 Nov 11
On Saturday morning, smoke forced passengers to evacuate from a subway train in a tunnel near Fridhemsplan in central Stockholm. Police are still unsure what caused the smoke.
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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: 16 Nov 11
Charges were filed against 17 men on Wednesday in relation to the July 2010 killing of young Assyriska FF footballer Eddie Moussa and his brother, in what prosecutors believe was a settling of scores between rival gangs.
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Science & Technology: 13 Nov 11
The fire in reactor 2 at nuclear power plant Ringhals, south of Gothenburg, will cost roughly 1.8 billion kronor ($267 million) in lost profits, reports and was caused by a forgotten vacuum cleaner.
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National: 12 Nov 11
In the middle of the night a man called the Jönköping police station and requested their help in rescuing him from a sealed baggage locker at Nässjö's Central Station.
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National: 10 Nov 11
A Swedish firefighter who filed a discrimination lawsuit after being denied a job because he had the "wrong" gender and ethnicity has been awarded 100,000 kronor ($16,000) in compensation.
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Sport: 8 Nov 11
AC Milan star Zlatan Ibrahimovic brought home a record sixth, and fifth consecutive, Golden Ball at Sweden's football gala on Monday evening, underlining his status as Sweden's leading player.
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Society: 7 Nov 11
A major power outage struck parts of south eastern Sweden on Sunday evening after a rogue magpie had flown into a relay plant and caught on fire.
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National: 7 Nov 11
New guidelines issued by the Swedish Migration Board reveal that Iran has both the ability and the inclination to keep tabs on political antagonists in Sweden.
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Business & Money: 6 Nov 11
Sweden has poor control over people coming from outside the EU to work, specifically related to the pay and conditions they've been promised, according to findings by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
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National: 5 Nov 11
A teenager was apprehended Friday evening in northern Sweden on suspicion of attempted murder after a shot was fired into a house. The alleged targets thought it was a Halloween spoof.
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National: 4 Nov 11
Swedish police have arrested the masked man, armed with a rifle, who went berserk in the early hours of Friday morning when he failed to gain entry into an elderly couple's home.
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Society: 1 Nov 11
The Swedish branch of a Scandinavian lingerie chain is under fire after making employees wear name tags displaying both their bust circumferences and cup sizes.
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Society: 26 Oct 11
Swedish writer Stieg Larsson, author of the world acclaimed Millennium trilogy, has cracked Forbes magazine's list of top ten stars who are still earning big in the afterlife.
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National: 24 Oct 11
Swedish security service Säpo has chosen to keep the terror threat level in Sweden elevated due to the increased mention of the country on terrorist-inspired web pages.
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Science & Technology: 23 Oct 11
A nuclear reactor at the Oskarshamn plant in southern Sweden was closed down late on Saturday night after a fire broke out at the plant.
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National: 22 Oct 11
A wheelchair-bound man was arrested after going on a shooting spree at a bowling alley in Malmö, southern Sweden, on Friday night.
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Lifestyle: 20 Oct 11
With a massive garden complete with play areas, woods and other parkland, Haga Palace isn’t a bad playground for the upcoming addition to the Swedish royal family, The Local's Geoff Mortimore explains.
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Society: 19 Oct 11
Three piles of human excrement left at a crime scene in central Sweden served as key evidence in the case against two men charged for tying up and robbing a strawberry farmer earlier this year.
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Society: 18 Oct 11
Initial reports that three Swedes had been killed in a plane crash in Botswana proved to be false after a travel agency confirmed that the victims were actually from Switzerland.
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Society: 17 Oct 11
The admission that the Royal children were allowed a glass of wine at festive occasions, despite being under age, has sparked criticism from Swedish temperance campaigners.
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Politics: 17 Oct 11
With the trial of two Swedish journalists on terror charges set to open in Ethiopia on Tuesday, foreign minister Carl Bildt hit back at the Dagens Nyheter newspaper over what he called faulty reporting on his alleged interests in the case.
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National: 15 Oct 11
Four teenagers, aged between 15 and 18, are suspected of being behind the violent fire that ravaged a major shopping centre in Kalmar in southern Sweden on Thursday night.
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Business & Money: 13 Oct 11
A Chinese chef who collapsed from exhaustion on the streets of Gothenburg after being forced to work under 'slave-like' conditions has received a large indemnity after a Swedish union intervened on his behalf.
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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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