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February 14, 2012
Heroin
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Addicts die after smoking pain-relief patches
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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Passenger saves bus from full-on collision
National: 18 Dec 11
When a bus driver took suddenly ill on Saturday, causing the vehicle to cross over into the wrong lane, a level-headed passenger grabbed hold of the wheel and drove the bus into a ditch, thereby avoiding a full-on collision.
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'Tattoo' star Rooney Mara laughs off 'bush' wig
Society: 16 Dec 11
Rooney Mara, who portrays hacker heroine Lisbeth Salander in the Hollywood remake of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” has made light of the measures taken to ensure the star's hirsute nether regions were also in character for the film.
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Can Hollywood's 'Tattoo' capture Sweden's dark side?
Lifestyle: 16 Dec 11
As the world awaits the impending release of the Hollywood version of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”, The Local's Geoff Mortimore looks at whether the capital of the US film industry can accurately portray Sweden's dark underbelly.
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H&M launches 'Dragon Tattoo' fashion line
Society: 26 Oct 11
Swedish fashion retailer H&M is planning a line of clothing inspired by the hacker heroine made famous in the first of the best-selling Millennium crime thrillers, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo".
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Ex-Sweden Democrat MP involuntarily committed
Politics: 24 Oct 11
Independent Swedish MP William Petzäll, who left the Sweden Democrats amidst a battle with substance abuse, has been involuntarily committed to treatment after a recent hospitalization.
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Stieg Larsson sequel '70 percent finished': Baksi
National: 23 Aug 11
Kurdo Baksi, confidant and author of an expose book on deceased Swedish crime writer Stieg Larsson, has claimed that the manuscript believed to be the fourth book in the Millennium series is almost complete.
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Harvard to host Stieg Larsson lectures
Society: 19 Jul 11
Students at the prestigious Harvard University will soon have the chance to study the Swedish crime writer Stieg Larsson when an expert on Swedish crime fiction joins the faculty for a guest lectureship.
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Swedish airport reports record heroin bust
National: 13 Jul 11
Swedish customs officers at Skavsta airport, south of Stockholm, made the airport’s largest bust of heroin to date when they confiscated over a kilo of the drug on Friday.
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Woman of 77 suspected of heroin dealing
Society: 24 Jun 11
After a raid on a flat owned by a 77-year-old woman in southern Sweden, police found enough evidence to suspect her for dealing heroin, according to Swedish media reports.
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Larsson friend reveals Millennium sequel plot
Society: 28 Mar 11
The sister of hacker-heroine Lisbeth Salander is said to feature prominently in a disputed manuscript believed to be the fourth book in the Millennium crime series, a longtime friend of late Swedish author Stieg Larsson has revealed.
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No crime suspected over Swedish actor death
Society: 1 Feb 11
Swedish police have closed an investigation into the fire that claimed the lives of Millennium trilogy actor Per Oscarsson and the actress Kia Östling, concluding that no crime had been committed.
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Gabrielsson blames Millennium feud on men who hate women
Lifestyle: 31 Jan 11
As the dispute over the estate of late Swedish author Stieg Larsson heats up, his longtime partner, Eva Gabrielsson, is starting to feel like Millennium-trilogy heroine Lisbeth Salander, the AFP's Robert MacPherson discovers.
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Stieg Larsson's brother hits back at book claims
Society: 26 Jan 11
The younger brother of Stieg Larsson has hit back at allegations made by the Millennium author's long-time partner by launching a website addressing a number of claims she makes in her new book.
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Swedish films evenly split Guldbaggen awards
Society: 25 Jan 11
The winners of Sweden's 2010 national film awards on Monday night were evenly spread out among the nominees, with three films walking away with at least two awards.
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Swedish actor confirmed dead in house fire
Society: 5 Jan 11
The remains found in Swedish Millennium trilogy actor Per Oscarsson's burned home have now been identified. It is now clear that it was the actor and his wife who died in a fire on New Year's Eve.
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Remains found at site of Swedish actor's home
Society: 3 Jan 11
Fears mounted that actor Per Oscarsson, who appeared in the Swedish film adaptations of the "Millennium" trilogy, had died along with his wife after human remains were discovered among the ashes of their burned home.
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Extreme politics and Gus Van Sant in focus at Stockholm Film Festival
Lifestyle: 17 Nov 10
As the 21st edition of the Stockholm International Film Festival opens this week, The Local's Peter Vinthagen Simpson looks at some of the juiciest cinematic morsels on offer.
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Christopher Plummer nabs 'Dragon Tattoo' role
Society: 3 Oct 10
Veteran Canadian actor Christopher Plummer is the latest star to be cast in the Hollywood remake of Stieg Larsson's "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", the first of his Millennium thriller trilogy.
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'Tattoo' filming on hold as star injured: report
Society: 23 Sep 10
Rooney Mara, the actress cast to play the role of Lisbeth Salander in the US remake of Stieg Larsson's Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, has been injured in Stockholm, forcing a delay in filming.
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Suffering along the path to suffrage in Sweden
Lifestyle: 17 Sep 10
There’s nothing like an election to highlight an immigrant’s outsider status. But as Paul O’Mahony explains, the path to citizenship in Sweden isn’t without a bump or two, especially when the journey begins in June.
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Hollywood unknown cast as Lisbeth Salander
Society: 17 Aug 10
Rooney Mara, a relatively unknown American actress, has been cast to star as Lisbeth Salander in the US remake of the first of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Sony Pictures has confirmed.
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Skarsgård offered Millennium film role
Society: 5 Aug 10
Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård has been offered a role in the US remake of the first of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which is due for release in 2011.
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Millennium novel named among 2010's best books
Society: 9 Jul 10
Online retail giant Amazon has named the final installment of the Millennium trilogy, "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest," in its list of "Best Books of the Year... So Far" as the film of the second instalment opens in US cinemas.
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Hysteria as 'Hornet's Nest' hits US shelves
Society: 24 May 10
The US is in the grip of Stieg Larsson fever as the third instalment of the Swedish author's Millennium trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, prepares to go on wide release in book stores across the nation on Tuesday.
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Brad Pitt to star in Millennium film: reports
Society: 28 Apr 10
US actor Brad Pitt is set to star in the Hollywood remake of the first of the Stieg Larsson Millennium trilogy films, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, according to media reports.
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'Millennium' film opens to rousing US reviews
Society: 19 Mar 10
The first of the Stieg Larsson Millenium trilogy films, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, has opened to resounding reviews from US critics and audiences not known for cherishing obscure subtitled films from Scandinavia.
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Best Picture honours for first 'Millennium' thriller
Society: 26 Jan 10
A movie based on the first book of Stieg Larsson’s best-selling “Millennium” trilogy took home top honours at the Swedish film awards on Monday night, scooping up three awards, including best picture and best actress.
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Addict's death leads to fines for civil servant
National: 17 Nov 09
A manager within Gothenburg social services has been convicted for refusing to allow a 24-year-old drug addict into institutional care. The addict later died from an overdose.
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Gender trouble - time to bury the feminist hatchet?
Analysis & Opinion: 14 Oct 09
Since when is the ubiquitous Anna Anka a feminist? And why are feminists apportioned blame for so many of the worlds ills? The Local's Peter Vinthagen Simpson enters the Hollywood housewife debate.
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Little Sweden on the Prairie
Travel: 12 Oct 09
Välkommen till Lindsborg - Between barbecued ribs and meatballs, Robert La Bua finds Swedish culture alive and well in Little Sweden, USA.
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Growth hormones 'could repair brain damage': Swedish study
Science & Technology: 30 Sep 09
Brain damage due to alcohol abuse, previously considered irreversible, may by repairable with the help of growth hormones, Swedish researchers have learned.
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Gothenburg court convicts trio for heroin smuggling
National: 17 Jun 09
Three men have been convicted and given lengthy prison sentences for their roles in a heroin smuggling operation.
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Adam Tensta: Sweden's great hip-hop hope
Lifestyle: 13 May 09
Sweden's rising hip-hop star Adam Tensta talks to The Local's Majsan Boström about bright musical prospects, growing up in a tough Stockholm neighbourhood, and recording in the same studio as boyhood idol Michael Jackson.
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Swedish police smash Balkan drugs ring
National: 26 Mar 09
Thirty-seven people have so far been held in custody as part of a crackdown on an international drugs ring with ties to the Balkan region, police in western Sweden revealed on Thursday.
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'Hemorrhoid patient' gets ten years for heroin smuggling
National: 12 Dec 08
A 52-year-old woman was sentenced to ten years in prison on Friday for trying to smuggle nearly five kilogrammes of heroin into Sweden.
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Five charged for heroin smuggling
National: 28 Nov 08
Five men were charged in Malmö on Friday for transporting 19 kilogrammes of heroin, half of which was confiscated in Serbia.
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Charges filed after psychiatric patient's heroin death
National: 14 Oct 08
Manslaughter charges have been filed against a 34-year-old man from Borås who helped a woman commit suicide by giving her an overdose of heroin.
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Court awards compensation for stolen drug money
National: 3 Sep 08
Sweden’s highest court has ruled that a drug dealer robbed of the proceeds from his illicit activities has the right to compensation from the state.
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Nobel a likely no-no for Sweden's king of crime fiction
Analysis & Opinion: 20 Aug 08
The most popular work of crime fiction ever published in Sweden is never likely to win a Nobel Prize. But it should, argues Jeanne Rudbeck, who is left spellbound by Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy.
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Tetra-Pak billionaire Rausing sees drugs charges dropped
Society: 12 Aug 08
Drugs charges against Tetra-Pak heir Hans Kristian Rausing and his wife Eva were formally dropped at a London court hearing on Tuesday.
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Drug charges dropped in Britain against Tetra-Pak heir
Society: 29 Jul 08
Prosecutors in Britain plan to drop drug charges against Tetra-Pak heir Hans Kristian Rausing and his wife.
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Drug charges filed against Tetra Pak heir
National: 15 Jul 08
The heir to the massive Tetra Pak fortune and his wife have been charged with possessing drugs, police in London said Monday.
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Politician acquitted of hate speech charges
Politics: 12 May 08
A local politician from the Malmö suburb of Burlöv has been acquitted of charges of agitation against an ethnic group.
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Men get eight years for 'sadistic' kidnapping
National: 25 Mar 08
Two men have each been sentenced to eight years after forcing a man at needlepoint to sign over ownership of a car, a motorbike and a ride-on lawnmower.
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What’s on in Sweden: March 7th – 13th
Lifestyle: 6 Mar 08
Värtinnä in Stockholm, Mando Diao in Gothenburg, A Mountain of one in Malmö, and much more besides in our weekly guide.
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Something for the Weekend: NaxXxos, Fröken, Montys Loco
Lifestyle: 28 Feb 08
Something for the weekend: Five Stockholm club tips, Strindberg-inspired dance in Gothenburg, pop duo Montys Loco in Malmö.
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Swede arrested in Croatian heroin haul
National: 4 Jan 08
A Swedish citizen has been arrested in Croatia on his way back to Sweden carrying 12 kilos of heroin.
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Suicide boy faces charges
National: 19 Nov 07
A teenager who tried to kill himself by taking a heroin overdose says charges against him "do more harm than good."
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Heroin addicts 'let down by healthcare'
Society: 10 Sep 07
Heroin users in Sweden are not getting the treatment they need, with nine out of ten local authorities not providing adequate specialist care, according to a critical new report.
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Former DN Editor: 'This ruling damages freedom of expression'
Analysis & Opinion: 13 Jun 07
Svante Nycander, former editor of Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter, gives his view after local politician Dahn Pettersson is fined for hate speech. 'The ban has developed in such a way that it inhibits not only prejudiced statements, but also nearly all discussion of sensitive issues', he argues.
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Politician fined for Albanian comments
Politics: 13 Jun 07
A local politician in southern Sweden has been fined 18,000 kronor for writing a motion claiming that 95 percent of all heroin brought in to Sweden comes via Kosovo.
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Cocaine use spreads in Swedish cities
Society: 2 Apr 07
Cocaine use in Sweden's major cities is increasing, according to new research presented on Monday. The price of the drug has halved in the last five years.
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Record year for drugs seizures
National: 28 Dec 06
Fresh statistics show that more drugs were intercepted in Swedish ports and airports in 2006 than ever before, with heroin, opium and ecstasy were particularly bountiful. The Customs Service claims success.
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Guillou: I kinda like Condi
Lifestyle: 18 Aug 06
Ever the controversialist, Swedish novelist Jan Guillou's latest book deals with the touchiest subject of all: the Israel-Palestinian crisis. He talks to James Savage about America, Gay Pride and Säpo.
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British rock star held by Swedish police
National: 17 Jun 06
After a much-delayed concert at the Hultsfred rock festival on Friday night, Pete Doherty, the lead singer of the band Babyshambles and scandalmonger extraordinaire, was taken into Swedish police custody.
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Record heroin haul in Ljungby
Society: 13 Jun 06
Heroin with a street value of 18 million kronor was seized in southern Sweden at the weekend. Three men are being held by police in Vaxjö.
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Protagonist or puritan? The truth about Sweden and porn
Lifestyle: 13 May 06
Sweden’s reputation as the first country of filth is one of those lingering stereotypes. Like high taxes. But whilst there’s no denying the latter, what truth really is there in the triple X typecast? The Local’s Christine Demsteader investigates.
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Online drug hunt nets 40 sellers
Society: 28 Sep 05
Swedish teenagers are increasingly buying and selling drugs on the internet, but a new initiative from police and customs authorities is starting to show results, according to a report presented on Wednesday.
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Garbomania at the Swedish Film Institute
Lifestyle: 19 Sep 05
The Swedish Film Institute is joining in the Greta Garbo centenary celebrations over the next month, with a complete programme of her films.
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Heroin in record Finnish haul "destined for Sweden"
National: 11 Aug 05
Finnish authorities have made their biggest ever drugs seizure, finding fifty kilos of heroin hidden in a truck on its way to Sweden. The drugs had a street value of 93 million kronor.
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"Cop killer" Östberg fails in parole bid
National: 1 Jun 05
Swedish citizen, Annika Östberg, serving a life sentence for accessory to murder of a policeman, failed for the third time to get her sentence commuted. The parole board said she failed to accept the seriousness of what she did and that the Swedish press had given a one-sided picture of Östberg.
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Pippi Longstocking wreaks havoc at the ballet
Lifestyle: 13 May 05
Sweden's favourite troublemaker, the world-famous Astrid Lindgren character Pippi Longstocking, takes to the stage in a colourful choreography in which streetdance collides with ballet.
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Double murder trial delayed for new DNA test
National: 16 Dec 04
The trial for the murders of 10 year old Helén Nilsson and 26 year old Jannica Ekblad in 1989 was supposed to end on Thursday but the court has agreed to another DNA test. With the evidence stacking up against him, it's Ulf Olsson's last hope.
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Sweden hits drug supply and demand
Society: 14 Oct 04
Progress on two fronts in Sweden's battle against drugs: Swedish customs officials report record drugs seizures and a common-sense programme to help young drug addicts begins in Stockholm.
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Bad judgment
National: 22 Sep 04
Two judges on Sweden's west coast appear to have forgotten the old adage, 'People who live in glass houses shouldn't visit prostitutes or have child pornography on their computers'.
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Narconomics
National: 30 Apr 04
The number of people injecting drugs shoots up, thanks to falling prices and increasing access.
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20 things to know before moving to Sweden
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 »
How far can English take you in Sweden?
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 »
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