The following articles have been tagged with "Halland":
Lifestyle: 11 Mar 13
Princess Lilian of Sweden, who has died aged 97, had to wait thirty years to get her prince, but her discretion might well have saved the Swedish monarchy.
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Science & Technology: 11 Jan 13
A Lego collector in southern Sweden has been compensated by Swedish Customs after his Star Wars spaceship package was opened by customs officials, drastically devaluing the collectors item.
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Society: 8 Jan 13
A documentary film maker on a mission to identify the workers in the iconic Lunch Atop a Skyscraper image says a Swedish family's claim to recognizing two of the men perched on a beam could be plausible.
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National: 7 Jan 13
Members of a family in western Sweden have claimed their migrant worker father is one of the men seated on a steel beam and having lunch high above the skyscrapers in the iconic picture from 1930s New York City.
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National: 26 Dec 12
The night between Christmas Day and Boxing Day kept Swedish police officers busy with plenty of drunkenness and several brawls.
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Society: 12 Dec 12
Women who sunbathe nude in southern Sweden have filed a complaint with local officials against a planned new sauna that threatens to block their precious evening sunlight.
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Science & Technology: 9 Dec 12
Swedish meteorology agency SMHI has issued a class 2 warning for the Skåne region in the south of Sweden, advising residents to stay indoors as harsh winds combined with heavy snowfall make for perilous conditions.
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Science & Technology: 20 Nov 12
An ultra-light airplane which lost a wing mid-flight and crashed last week in western Sweden, killing two people, was built in part by high school students, crash investigators have discovered.
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National: 9 Oct 12
Several activists from environmental rights group Greenpeace have been arrested after breaking into restricted areas of two Swedish nuclear power plants on Tuesday.
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Society: 27 Aug 12
A woman in western Sweden is facing criminal charges after she urinated on a sleeping man and his sofa.
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National: 16 Aug 12
Officers in a police patrol car in southern Sweden were surprised to encounter a golf cart with a drunk man at the wheel, his grumpy old father beside him and a passenger standing at the back, waving.
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National: 5 Aug 12
Small and fuzzy seal pups currently lining southern Swedish beaches have caused quite a stir, with callers to the police fearing that the pups have been helplessly abandoned.
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Society: 23 Jul 12
A man in western Sweden was surprised to find a postcard addressed to his deceased father amongst his morning mail, before realizing that the card had been sent by his sister some 50 years ago.
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Society: 20 Jul 12
A police dog is being hailed as a hero after tracking down a missing 78-year-old man, finding him stuck fast in a crevice in western Sweden.
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National: 16 Jul 12
A woman used Facebook to identify the man she believes raped her in a park in western Sweden on Saturday morning, one of three rapes reported in less than 24 hours in the area at the weekend.
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National: 15 Jul 12
Early on Sunday morning police were alerted to the third outdoor rape reported in less than 24 hours in the small Swedish town of Varberg.
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National: 18 Jun 12
A 53-year-old Danish man reported to be a member of the Outlaws motorcycle gang was found dead in a truck in southern Sweden on Sunday.
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Society: 10 Jun 12
The mystery of a sex chamber found in an old military bunker in the woods of northern Sweden on Friday, has been solved by a woman who has explained that it was "one of her most sacred places".
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Business & Money: 5 Jun 12
A 34-year-old man has been sentenced to prison in Sweden after he was found to be behind an illegal file-sharing website.
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Science & Technology: 5 Jun 12
Residents in Halmstad in western Sweden were warned not to drink the water or take showers on Monday night after an oversupply of caustic lye left municipal water supplies contaminated with pH values as high as 11.
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Science & Technology: 2 Jun 12
Three tornadoes swept by the coast of Halland, in south-western Sweden, on Saturday morning. The sight was “powerful but scary”, according to one surprised eye-witness.
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Society: 6 May 12
The last surviving great-grandchild of Britain's Queen Victoria, Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg, has died at the age of 95.
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Society: 4 May 12
A woman who placed her ex-boyfriend's penis in a piping-hot hair straightener and squeezed is not guilty of assault, a Swedish court has ruled.
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Society: 24 Apr 12
A train station in southern Sweden was shut down for most of Monday night when security staff found a suspicious package containing copious coils of cords.
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Society: 30 Mar 12
Cannabis growers claiming they're innocent as their product is "organic", men biting through prison beds, and nazi t-shirts - here are some amusing tidbits from the past week in Sweden.
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Society: 10 Mar 12
A Swedish paper manufacturer made an unpleasant discovery recently, when they found that someone had been drawing swastikas on the company's paper rolls - later exported to a major client in Germany.
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National: 27 Jan 12
Malmö street artist Dan Park was handed a fine and a suspended sentence after being convicted on Thursday of defamation and racial agitation in connection with posters he made after students staged a "slave auction" at Lund University.
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National: 18 Jan 12
After several deaths in southern Sweden have been linked to the use the drug fentanyl, a pain-relief patch meant for cancer patients, local police are now calling it the “most serious drug problem” in the area.
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Society: 13 Jan 12
A woman from Stockholm who recently picked up some soiled pages in a country field in western Sweden could hardly believe her eyes when she realized she was holding a love letter written in July 1862.
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Lifestyle: 7 Jan 12
Some people will always hesitate to reveal the name of their hometown, whether it's due to tragic history, bad reputation, or that the name itself is enough to make anyone blush. The Local’s Joel Linde has gathered a few of the latter from all over Sweden.
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Business & Money: 24 Dec 11
The Stockholm stock exchange closed up slightly on the Friday before Christmas amid reports of an increase in the number of new companies registered in Sweden in 2011.
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Science & Technology: 23 Dec 11
Sweden's first case of congenital rubella in more 30 years has been discovered after a woman who was infected with the viral disease whilst on holiday gave birth to a child in Sweden with severe birth defects.
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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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Science & Technology: 27 Nov 11
With parts of southern Sweden still reeling from the damage caused by the storm dubbed Berit, residents have been warned that even worse weather is on its way and urged not to go out unless absolutely necessary.
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Society: 22 Nov 11
A high-ranking local politician from western Sweden, currently facing charges for buying sex, was found to have made thousands of visits to numerous pornographic websites from his office computer.
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National: 22 Nov 11
Police in Örnsköldsvik, in the north of Sweden, recently sent a loaded rifle through the post to the forensic laboratory for analysis.
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National: 20 Nov 11
Police in Halland in southern Sweden directed their efforts on Saturday night to catching robbers responsible for a recent wave of burglaries.
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Analysis & Opinion: 1 Nov 11
The dropping of a hate speech case against students who staged a "slave auction" at Lund University clears the way for racists and contravenes Swedish human rights commitments, representatives from anti-racism groups argue.
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National: 31 Oct 11
A Brussels human rights group has "strongly condemned" a ruling by the Swedish prosecution authorities who deemed a "slave auction" held by a Lund student group in April to be a "costume party" meaning no charges will be filed.
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National: 28 Oct 11
A ”slave auction” held by a Lund student group in April was a ”costume party” meaning no charges will be filed against the organizers. However, charges have been filed against an artist who drew up demeaning posters of the person who reported the incident.
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Society: 23 Sep 11
Dead rats in the restaurant, frogs in the pool, cockroaches in the buffet – a Swedish family has reported their travel agent for false marketing after a dream holiday to post-revolution Egypt turned into a nightmare.
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National: 17 Sep 11
A man in southern Sweden has been convicted of vandalism among other charges after attempting to surprise his friend and build a skateboard ramp using materials ripped from the friend’s house.
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Business & Money: 16 Sep 11
An explosive workplace prank that injured four coworkers in western Sweden has resulted in a criminal conviction for the man behind the failed gag.
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Society: 16 Sep 11
The risk of developing the sleeping disorder narcolepsy after receiveing the swine flu vaccine is 20 times as high for kids in western Sweden, according to an ongoing study.
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Society: 8 Sep 11
One person is suspected of hate speech in connection with a party at Lund University in April featuring the sale of "slaves" complete with blackened faces and ropes around their necks.
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Society: 6 Sep 11
A dentist in Halmstad in western Sweden called off an operation to remove a patient's wisdom tooth citing personal problems, despite having already made an incision in the woman's gum.
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Society: 16 Aug 11
New figures show that police in the county of Halland have been the most fastidious in fining those that feel the need to take a leak in public.
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Science & Technology: 15 Aug 11
Heavy rains that caused flooding in parts of western Sweden on Sunday are expected to continue on Monday, prompting a warning from Swedish meteorological agency SMHI.
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National: 10 Aug 11
A man in his seventies has been reported missing after having fallen overboard on a fishing trip near Varberg in western Sweden. The man's 11-year-old grandson tried to save him but was unable to hold on.
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Science & Technology: 27 Jul 11
An outbreak of anthrax at a farm in central Sweden has prompted veterinary officials to launch an investigation into where cows that died from the disease have been buried in Sweden going back to 1916.
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Science & Technology: 26 Jul 11
The discovery of American foulbrood (AFB) among several bee broods in western Sweden have prompted a warning from agriculture officials concerned about containing the contagious illness.
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National: 26 Jul 11
Sweden Democrat Erik Hellsborn has claimed that the twin attacks in Norway are the fault of "mass immigration" and "Islamisation", prompting condemnation from colleagues and denials that the party itself shares any blame.
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Science & Technology: 22 Jul 11
Swedish skies were lit up by close to 40,000 lightning strikes and parts of the country suffered major power outages when a massive thunderstorm traveled across the country between Thursday and Friday.
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Society: 20 Jul 11
A Swedish man in his mid-forties died when he was run over by ride-on lawn mower on Wednesday morning in Kungsbacka in southern Sweden.
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Society: 8 Jul 11
More than 15 percent of kids in Sweden can’t swim and one in four Swedish parents have had to save a child from the water, according to a new study carried out by a Swedish insurance company.
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National: 13 Jun 11
The trial began on Monday of a 47-year-old man suspected of having held a woman prisoner in an underground sex-chamber in western Sweden.
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Sport: 12 Jun 11
At least five people were injured in the early hours of Sunday morning when fans of Stockholm’s Hammarby football club clashed with guests in a restaurant, a brawl that later took to the streets.
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National: 10 Jun 11
Disabled people are being lured to Sweden by false promises of generous benefits in a sophisticated fraud scheme that officials liken to human trafficking, according to Swedish media reports.
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Science & Technology: 31 May 11
A Swedish woman has died after being infected with the virulent enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) bacteria stemming from an E. coli outbreak which originated in northern Germany.
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Business & Money: 30 May 11
Women are experiencing increasing problems servicing SMS loans and for the first time are defaulting at the same levels as men, according to a new survey from the Swedish Enforcement Authority.
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Science & Technology: 30 May 11
A Swedish woman is reported to be in critical condition after being infected with the virulent enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) bacteria stemming from an E. coli outbreak which originated in northern Germany.
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Society: 25 May 11
A 23-year-old man who had relationships with several confirmation candidates and has been convicted of a sex offence has been assigned a new job within the Church of Sweden.
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Lifestyle: 10 May 11
If you’re looking to boost your Swedish sex appeal, The Local's Karen Holst explains why enrolling in a Swedish language course in Gothenburg may be the ticket to wooing that potential Swedish sweetheart.
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National: 7 May 11
In response to the recent ‘slave auction’ at a party at Lund University, top administration announced a new programme that will be initiated this fall to educate both students and staff about the university’s core values.
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Analysis & Opinion: 29 Apr 11
In the aftermath of the recent 'slave auction' stunt carried out by several students at Lund University, there has been too much protesting, and not enough listening, argues US graduate student Cate Bridenstine.
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National: 22 Apr 11
What began as a tasteless student joke in Lund has seized the attention of the European Network Against Racism, who is outraged over the incident and demands prosecution.
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National: 21 Apr 11
The man who reported two Lund University student groups over a party featuring guests dressed as "slaves" to be sold at auction has since been subjected to racial slurs at his workplace.
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National: 19 Apr 11
Two student associations at Lund University in southern Sweden have been reported for hate speech after a party featuring the sale of "slaves" complete with blackened faces and ropes around their necks.
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National: 11 Apr 11
A family deported to Uzbekistan after Sweden rejected their application for asylum is set to return to Sweden after Uzbek authorities concluded that they were not from the central Asian country.
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National: 1 Apr 11
The 47-year-old man suspected of holding a woman prisoner in an underground sex-chamber in western Sweden was remanded in custody on Friday.
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National: 28 Mar 11
An underground sex-chamber, complete with elaborate restraining devices and an assortment of sex toys, continues to baffle Swedish police weeks after it was discovered beneath an abandoned farmhouse in western Sweden.
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National: 17 Mar 11
Swedes are living longer than ever before, according to new statistics, with residents of one upscale Stockholm suburb claiming the highest average life-expectancy for both sexes.
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Society: 4 Mar 11
A Swedish court has acquitted a woman of minor drugs offences after she claimed she had ingested the amphetamines in Denmark, where doing so is not a crime.
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Science & Technology: 3 Mar 11
A dispute has broken out over whether or not the wreck of a suspected Soviet-era submarine found near the Baltic island of Gotland deserves further investigation.
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Society: 21 Feb 11
At least 10 people fell through thin ice on Vättern, Sweden's second-largest lake, on Sunday, but no serious injuries were reported.
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Travel: 18 Feb 11
The mountainous north isn't the only place in Sweden where ski bums can carve their way down the hill. Even the flatlands of Skåne have a few slopes that can provide for some wintertime fun, The Local's Karen Holst explains.
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Science & Technology: 8 Feb 11
Over 35,000 people were left without power on Monday night as storm winds swept across southern Sweden, leaving widespread traffic problems due to fallen trees and debris.
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Science & Technology: 7 Feb 11
Another onslaught of stormy weather has prompted warnings for southern Sweden and disrupted Baltic ferry service.
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Politics: 24 Jan 11
The Social Democrats' 26 party districts spent the weekend having their say on who should lead the party by formulating the requirements for outgoing leader Mona Sahlin's successor.
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Science & Technology: 20 Jan 11
While Sweden’s health system now delivers care to 90 percent of patients within prescribed time limits, social affairs minister Göran Hägglund believes too many Swedes are forced to wait too long for the care they need.
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National: 9 Jan 11
Drivers of more than 40 long-haul trucks dare not drive any further due to slippery conditions on Swedish roads, while falling ice and flooding have also caused problems in the wake of an early-January thaw.
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Society: 1 Jan 11
Drunkenness aplenty, but not much blood, was Gotland's police station's summary of the events of New Year's Eve, a summary that seems to apply for much of Sweden.
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Science & Technology: 31 Dec 10
2010, which has been one of the coldest years on record in Sweden, is to end as it started: with a heavy snowfall.
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National: 31 Dec 10
A 71-year-old man died last night in western Sweden after becoming lost while ice sailing.
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Business & Money: 10 Dec 10
The head of a Swedish pulp manufacturer forced to shut down production has slammed the country's high energy prices, citing Sweden's lack of energy policy as a threat to the industry.
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National: 4 Dec 10
Thirteen people were taken to hospital following a series of serious but seemingly unrelated car accidents on the E6 motorway in western Sweden on Saturday.
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Science & Technology: 22 Nov 10
Another blast of winter weather is set to sweep across much of Sweden in the coming days, bringing heavy snowfall and bone-chilling winds to many parts of the country.
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Society: 10 Nov 10
A Swedish court has dismissed sexual abuse charges against a teenage girl who had sex with two underage boys after a game of 'truth and dare'.
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Society: 28 Oct 10
A teenage girl from Kungsbacka in western Sweden was charged on Tuesday with sexual abuse after having sex with two boys who were under the age of consent at the time.
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National: 20 Oct 10
Swedish police on Wednesday raided a series of locations across the country, arresting 23 people on suspicion of serious child pornography offences. Twenty of the suspects were women, described by the police as 'very unusual'.
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National: 30 Sep 10
A man who robbed a jewelry shop in western Sweden died after the gang's luxury getaway car smashed into a lamp post. Two of the man’s accomplices were also injured in the violent crash.
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Politics: 24 Sep 10
The Liberal Party, which lost two seats in the Riksdag by a razor thin margin, is looking to appeal the results of Sweden’s 2010 elections.
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Society: 7 Sep 10
A 20-year-old Swedish conscript has been convicted for desertion, even though compulsory military service ended in Sweden three months ago.
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Society: 18 Aug 10
Police have called off a major operation around a summer cottage north of Smålandsstenar in Småland after failing to find those responsible for gunfire aimed at a police patrol in Hyltebruk early on Tuesday morning.
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National: 13 Aug 10
Bus passengers were involved in a dramatic boat rescue in western Sweden on Friday morning as heavy rains led to flooding on the E20 near Fjärås, with the meteorological office forecasting continued wet weather for the weekend.
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Society: 4 Aug 10
A social insurance fraud ring in southern Sweden involving dozens of families defrauded the state of 75 million kronor by claiming for fabricated illnesses.
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Society: 30 Jul 10
A 102-year-old woman in Halmstad in southwestern Sweden wants to get rid of the legal guardian that the municipality arranged for her against her will when it mistakenly assumed she had no living relatives.
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National: 12 Jul 10
The weekend saw record temperatures across much of Sweden with Saturday's high beaten on Sunday by the 35 degrees recorded in Målilla in southern Sweden, before thunder and rain gave welcome respite on Sunday evening.
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National: 26 Jun 10
Police in many parts of Sweden were fully occupied on Midsummer Eve dealing with everything from drunken fights to half naked men driving a lawnmower on the motorway.
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National: 3 Jun 10
The heads of Sweden's nuclear power plants have called for the installation of armed rapid reaction forces to be put in place in order to increase security.
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