The following articles have been tagged with "Investigation":
National: 19 Jun 13
The European Commission opened an in-depth probe on Wednesday to see if state aid given to Scandinavian Airlines by Sweden and Denmark conformed to EU rules.
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National: 18 Jun 13
The Swedish Justice Ombudsman will not look at a case in western Sweden where a man was paid damages for not being given an internship after he refused to shake a female boss's hand for religious reasons.
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National: 12 Jun 13
Nearly 100 convicted sex criminals work in schools across Sweden, according to a new report, which found many sex offenders have kept their jobs despite having committed their crimes while employed at a school.
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Society: 10 Jun 13
Sweden needs to hire more foreigners, but Swedish employers remain reluctant to hire them due to barriers of language and distance, a new report from Sweden's job agency found.
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National: 10 Jun 13
A Swedish train operator has bowed to pressure and decided to let male drivers in Stockholm show a little leg after a group of skirt-wearing male train drivers caused a worldwide media storm to protest their employer's ban on shorts.
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National: 10 Jun 13
A teacher in eastern Sweden has been reported to police after locking two 10-year-old girls in a storeroom during a lesson on Friday.
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Business & Money: 7 Jun 13
Prosecutors are seeking to force Sveriges Television to hand over documents believed to bear the handwriting of the Uzbek dictator's daughter Gulnara Karimova in connection with an ongoing bribery probe.
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Politics: 3 Jun 13
Sweden's opposition parties on the left are keen to see a formal inquiry into the causes of recent unrest in Stockholm, while the centre-right governing Alliance parties remain sceptical to the idea.
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National: 2 Jun 13
An air show in eastern Sweden ended in tragedy on Saturday as a 67-year-old pilot died when his plane crashed moments after take-off.
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National: 1 Jun 13
A 59-year-old man who was found dead in a sand container on a train station platform on Easter Sunday was a lonely millionaire with no close relatives.
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National: 1 Jun 13
The police officer suspected of manslaughter after fatally shooting a 69-year-old man in Husby has denied the charges, claiming he had the right to use his weapon in self-defence.
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National: 30 May 13
Swedish police have confiscated servers in Sweden at the request of US authorities as part of a massive money laundering investigation of Costa Rica-based digital currency service Liberty Reserve.
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National: 28 May 13
The Stockholm police officer who fatally shot a 69-year-old man in Husby, an incident cited as the spark that ignited last week's widespread unrest in Stockholm, is suspected of manslaughter and has been assigned a public defence lawyer.
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National: 27 May 13
A 22-year-old has been remanded in custody in northern Sweden on suspicion of killing a 20-year-old woman who vanished three weeks ago and whose remains were discovered last week.
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Business & Money: 27 May 13
A Migration Board employee in Malmö is suspected of making sure his mother was allowed to stay in Sweden, in contradiction to migration laws and adding to a scandal that has rocked the agency with several employees under investigation.
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National: 26 May 13
Several union leaders are suspected of having raped a female colleague at a conference in Sandviken in central Sweden in April, according to media reports.
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National: 25 May 13
Police are hunting a 40-year-old man after a woman was found dead in a suburb of Stockholm on Saturday.
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Politics: 23 May 13
With one 18-year-old remanded in custody after four nights of rioting in Stockholm, Sweden's Integration Minister Erik Ullenhag said the rioters are a small minority, and did not represent a clash between young people in the suburbs and society.
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Education: 23 May 13
The government and its main opposition have agreed to new rules governing performance requirements and profits at publicly funded, privately managed free schools.
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Society: 22 May 13
An auction of memorabilia belonging to Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Berman has been scrapped by authorities after claims the items were stolen from the family.
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Business & Money: 21 May 13
Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson is suspected of having bribed ministers in Romania in connection with being awarded a contract for the country's emergency number and is now under investigation in the United States.
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National: 20 May 13
Police officers on hand during the Husby riot in northern Stockholm stand accused of using racist language towards people on the ground, with one youth worker in the area claiming it is "not the last time" such scenes will occur.
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National: 20 May 13
A town in western Sweden has agreed to pay damages to a man who was told he wouldn't be hired if he refused to shake a woman's hand for religious reasons.
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National: 18 May 13
A 15-year-old girl has admitted to setting up the Instagram account that caused hundreds of teenagers to riot in Gothenburg last year, but her 16-year-old friend has denied involvement.
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Science & Technology: 16 May 13
Suicide rates have risen dramatically since 1995 among young people in Sweden with disabilities that leave them with reduced working capacities, according to a new study.
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Society: 15 May 13
Swedish photographer Paul Hansen, under fire for potentially doctoring his award-winning image from the Gaza funeral of two children, has been cleared by the World Press Photo organization that handed him its prestigious annual prize.
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National: 14 May 13
Two ambulance personnel in Gävle were fired on Tuesday for unprofessional behaviour after they refused to take a young asylum seeker to hospital when he jumped from a window.
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National: 14 May 13
Police fatally shot a 69-year-old man in an apartment in north Stockholm on Monday evening after responding to calls that a man armed with a machete was menacing the neighbourhood.
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National: 12 May 13
Volunteers are on Sunday set to continue the search for a 20-year-old woman who went missing near Boden in northern Sweden last week while police investigate a suspected abduction.
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National: 11 May 13
A Stockholm bus driver has been sentenced to community service after having been caught robbing a sleeping passenger on a night bus.
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National: 10 May 13
Swedish police are investigating attempted murder after a shooting at a central Stockholm strip club on Thursday night.
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National: 9 May 13
Police in Sweden have stopped deporting people to Eritrea as the Migration Board reevaluates its policy regarding asylum applicants from the east African country.
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Society: 8 May 13
Swedes suspected of crashing their cars while drunk can continue to claim they became inebriated after the accident occurs, a government inquiry has found, concluding there is no need to outlaw drinking after a causing a traffic accident.
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National: 6 May 13
Sweden's Justice Ombudsman announced on Monday it will not investigate the alleged racial profiling carried out by Stockholm police in the city's public transit system during a push to deport illegal immigrants.
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National: 6 May 13
The black market for first-hand rental contracts in Stockholm is alive and well as Swedes desperate for a place to live won't report illegal sales to the police, an investigation has revealed.
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Society: 5 May 13
A Swedish man who was last heard of in April 1911 has been officially declared dead by Swedish authorities, over a century after sending his last letter home from across the Atlantic.
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National: 4 May 13
Three people have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a man who was found dead in an apartment in Boxholm, southeast Sweden in the early hours of Saturday.
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National: 4 May 13
The 16-year-old who admitted to torturing and killing cats in Gothenburg is being hounded on the internet, with threats directed at the teenager and his family on forums like Flashback, which was also instrumental in the police investigation.
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Society: 4 May 13
A sceptre and crown used in the sixteenth-century funeral of King Johan III were stolen during an overnight robbery at the Västerås Cathedral in central Sweden.
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National: 3 May 13
Firefighters found three bodies in a flat in Sundbyberg, just north-west of the Swedish capital Stockholm, after an explosion early on Friday that is now being investigated as a suspected case of murder.
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National: 2 May 13
A man suspected of killing at least nine pet cats in western Sweden was arrested by Gothenburg police on Thursday afternoon.
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Politics: 1 May 13
Another cat has been found dead in Gothenburg, leading police to intensify their hunt for a suspected serial cat killer.
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Education: 30 Apr 13
The Stockholm School of Economics, one of Sweden's most prestigious universities, has been hit by scandal after a high-ranking official was sacked when it emerged he'd been convicted of insider trading in Greece.
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Society: 30 Apr 13
A Swedish police officer risks disciplinary action after letting a soon-to-be groom fire 30 shots with his service weapon at a bachelor party held at the indoor shooting range of a police station in western Sweden.
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Politics: 29 Apr 13
More than a third of former Swedish politicians and political appointees have transitioned into lobbying activities in the last six years, a new investigation has shown, prompting calls for more regulation.
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National: 28 Apr 13
Police in Oskarshamn in southern Sweden unearthed a large-scale marijuana farm on Saturday night.
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National: 27 Apr 13
A drunk man was shot in the foot by police in Umeå in northern Sweden on Friday night after he pointed a pistol at them in an attempt to evade arrest.
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Education: 24 Apr 13
An English-language school in Lund described as "the only choice for international kids" has been threatened with a fine of 400,000 kronor ($60,568) for ignoring the Swedish curriculum despite warnings in 2008.
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Society: 23 Apr 13
Two Swedish Customs workers in southern Sweden have been reported to the police after growing cannabis plants at work, an act the pair claims was purely for research purposes.
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National: 21 Apr 13
Police suspect that a woman who was found dead in a four-star hotel in central Stockholm on Saturday afternoon was murdered.
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National: 18 Apr 13
A doctor in southern Sweden has been prosecuted for data violation after reading medical details of patients whose parents he knew socially, with fears cited he could have been spying on their children's sex lives.
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National: 17 Apr 13
Swedish police have detained four people in connection with a fire that killed 70 cows in the barn of an agricultural high school about 50 kilometres south of Stockholm.
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Science & Technology: 16 Apr 13
Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg was one of four people charged in Sweden on Tuesday on suspicions they hacked into several Swedish agencies and companies and attempted to transfer money out of the Nordea bank.
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National: 15 Apr 13
Police were left scratching their heads after teenage girls playing in the woods in southern Sweden discovered what appeared to be a human foot, but which experts later revealed to be something much more unexpected.
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Society: 13 Apr 13
Some 300 people are expected to gather in Högsbo in Gothenburg to register their disgust after a slew of gory cat deaths in the area.
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National: 11 Apr 13
Prosecutors in Poland have abandoned their investigation into a Swedish artist's claims that he used ashes of Holocaust victims in a work exhibited in December in southern Sweden.
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National: 10 Apr 13
Prosecutors in Gothenburg have decided to file criminal charges against two teen girls believed to be behind a "slut-shaming" account on Instagram that caused local teenagers to riot last year.
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National: 10 Apr 13
A 64-year-old taxi driver was killed just north of Stockholm late on Tuesday night after what witnesses reported was a fight with a passenger.
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Business & Money: 9 Apr 13
More than 70 Swedes are among offshore account holders unearthed by a global reporting collaboration looking into how the world's wealthy manage their assets.
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National: 8 Apr 13
A 44-year-old man was sentenced to prison on Monday for killing his mother and hiding her body under the deck of a house in southern Sweden.
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National: 8 Apr 13
Police had the last laugh when two men robbed a Stockholm-area electronics store in broad daylight, with witnesses recording every wrong move the thieves made.
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National: 6 Apr 13
A Swedish man who went missing in January has been found dead amid growing suspicions he was the scapegoat for a botched drug deal in Norway.
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Business & Money: 6 Apr 13
Swedish furniture giant Ikea halted sales of elkmeat lasagnes across all its European stores after a batch tested positive for pork in a Belgian lab.
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Society: 5 Apr 13
A Swedish mother who fed cat food to her infant has lost the right to care for her child after she posted video clips of the incident to Facebook.
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National: 4 Apr 13
The cleaner who was on a runaway commuter train that rammed into a block of flats in the Stockholm suburb of Saltsjöbaden in January has spoken out about the incident in what she claims will be her only media interview about the crash.
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National: 4 Apr 13
A Swedish supreme court judge discussing his country's legal system and the case of WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange with Australian students has said that Swedish law prohibits extradition for military or political crimes.
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Politics: 3 Apr 13
Two rogue MPs have asked their fellow parliamentarians to continue sterilizing transgender patients in Sweden, arguing that men who carry babies would result in a "third gender".
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National: 3 Apr 13
A Swedish multiculturalism expert received death threats for comments made to The Local about racism in Sweden, but Mikael Hjerm says his quotes were taken out of context by anti-immigration websites.
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National: 3 Apr 13
Two young boys from Afghanistan have been found abandoned on the streets of Uppsala in recent days, prompting suspicions they were brought to Sweden via an organized people smuggling operation.
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National: 31 Mar 13
A man died and another was seriously injured in separate road accidents in western Sweden on Saturday.
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Politics: 31 Mar 13
A former local politician suspected of defrauding taxpayers in central Sweden of millions of kronor has been remanded into custody on aggravated fraud charges following her arrest in Thailand last week.
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National: 30 Mar 13
An armed man was arrested on Friday afternoon after he leapt from a balcony following a stand off with police at an apartment block in Ludvika in central Sweden.
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Politics: 29 Mar 13
A politician suspected of defrauding taxpayers in central Sweden of millions of kronor ended six months on the run after landing in Stockholm on Friday following her arrest in Thailand last week.
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Society: 28 Mar 13
One of the two women in the Swedish Assange case has dropped her high-profile lawyer, reportedly for speaking too much to the press.
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Politics: 28 Mar 13
A Swedish parliamentarian has reported herself to the police for possessing child pornography, in a bid to get Swedes to question the current laws.
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Politics: 27 Mar 13
The UN has appointed a Swedish disarmament expert who led arms investigations in Iraq to look into the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria.
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National: 26 Mar 13
A 23-year-old woman who slapped a man in the face after he grabbed her rear end has been convicted of assault by a court in southern Sweden.
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National: 26 Mar 13
The bus driver who allegedly divided passengers according to their ethnicity has been suspended as the bus company continues to investigate the incident.
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National: 25 Mar 13
Two ambulance personnel in Gävle have been suspended after police records showed they refused to take a young asylum seeker to hospital after he jumped from a window.
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National: 25 Mar 13
A top prosecutor believes more Migration Board employees will likely be implicated in an ongoing bribery probe launched after two employees were arrested on suspicions of selling residence permits.
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Business & Money: 22 Mar 13
Police in Sweden are warning residents that forged euro banknotes as well as 20-kronor bills are in circulation across the country.
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Business & Money: 22 Mar 13
A politician suspected of defrauding taxpayers in central Sweden of millions of kronor has been arrested in Thailand after being on the run since last autumn.
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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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Society: 19 Mar 13
Children suspected of serious crimes and held in Sweden's remand centres are rarely afforded any human contact and subject to isolation akin to torture, according to a new report.
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National: 19 Mar 13
Prosecutors in Sweden announced on Tuesday that they had taken over the official investigation from Lithuania into a Swedish PR firm's stunt of dropping "pro free speech" teddy bears near the Belarusian capital.
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Business & Money: 19 Mar 13
Two women from southern Sweden have been charged for drugging and robbing men they met online, making off with chocolate and washing powder and cleaning up spotlessly after themselves.
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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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National: 19 Mar 13
Police suspect eight drivers of reckless driving and one of manslaughter, as the investigation into January's fatal truck pile-up in southern Sweden comes to a close.
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National: 17 Mar 13
A plane heading from Malmö Airport to Bromma was forced to return and make an emergency landing on Sunday after "a smell of electrical fire and heavy smoke" was detected in the cabin.
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Politics: 16 Mar 13
Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has called for a tougher stance on certain crimes, including burglary, calling for an end to a situation where many criminals consider themselves immune from prosecution.
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Business & Money: 15 Mar 13
A Swedish company with a dubious past has sent out invoices to thousands of Swedes demanding payment for allegedly visiting pornographic websites.
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National: 14 Mar 13
Police have arrested a 45-year-old man on suspicions of sex crimes in connection with their investigation into a case of cyberbullying that police suspect drove a 13-year-old girl to commit suicide.
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Politics: 14 Mar 13
The makers the film Call Girl have agreed to cut a scene portraying a character similar to slain Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme having sex with an underage prostitute after his son reported the film for slander.
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National: 13 Mar 13
Teachers of the 13-year-old girl who is believed to have killed herself in central Sweden last week knew she was being bullied, according to her friends and family.
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National: 13 Mar 13
Prosecutors have launched a preliminary criminal investigation into the actions of police during a high-speed chase that resulted in the drowning of two suspected petrol thieves after they drove off a bridge.
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National: 12 Mar 13
A policeman who was part of the motorcade for visiting President Abdullah Gül of Turkey died in Stockholm on Monday after the four-wheeler he was driving veered off the road and through the ice into the waters below.
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Society: 11 Mar 13
A swingers' club in eastern Sweden has been forced to abandon its attempt to set a new Swedish record after a fire destroyed the building that housed the "erotic oasis".
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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
A 40-year-old man was sentenced on Friday to 18 years in prison after he was caught smuggling 1.4 tonnes of cocaine into Sweden as part of what has been labelled Sweden's "biggest ever" cocaine ring.
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National: 6 Mar 13
The Swedish police are close to wrapping up their investigation into the "slut-shaming" account on Instagram that caused Gothenburg teenagers to riot last year.
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