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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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Analysis & Opinion: 21 May 13
Internet policy experts gather in Stockholm this week to grapple with online data protection and surveillance issues that everyone who surfs the web should care about, reports technologist Stefan Geens.
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Society: 21 May 13
After a caricature of a topless woman on a tourist map in western Sweden left some residents seething, a local official has promised to have the offending image removed.
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National: 21 May 13
Cars were engulfed in flames on Monday night and youths clashed with police in the north-western Stockholm district of Husby for a second night in a row.
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Lifestyle: 20 May 13
With two weeks of Euromania done and dusted and with southern Sweden nursing a Eurovision-sized hangover, The Local's Patrick Reilly takes one last look at the highlights, the lowlights, and Malmö's time in the limelight.
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Lifestyle: 18 May 13
The 2013 Eurovision Song Contest Final is live in Malmö, southern Sweden. The Local brings you all the latest news, reactions, and details surrounding Europe's biggest pop music spectacle.
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Business & Money: 15 May 13
The living conditions of most Swedes have improved in recent decades, but income inequality is growing rapidly, according to a new OECD report, which saw Sweden drop 14 spots from its first place ranking in 1995.
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Analysis & Opinion: 13 May 13
Want more money? Want to learn how to convince your Swedish boss that you are indispensable? Sure, but make sure you do your homework first, explains union ombudsman Anna-Karin Mattsson.
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Sport: 10 May 13
Sweden's entry in the America's Cup yachting races capsized during a training race in San Francisco Bay on Thursday, killing a British Olympian member of the crew.
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National: 8 May 13
A limousine-service app has accused the Swedish authorities of bureaucratic bullying, engaging thousands of users to protest on its behalf, while some fans have dismissed the company's complaints as a PR ploy.
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Society: 8 May 13
Die-hard Abba fans from around the world flocked to Stockholm on Tuesday for the official opening of the Abba museum, an attraction likely to pull in the Money, Money, Money for the Swedish tourism industry.
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Travel: 5 May 13
The world's first museum dedicated to Sweden's iconic disco group Abba is set to open in Stockholm on Tuesday, offering visitors a chance to get up close and personal with the 1970s foursome with a little help from modern technology, AFP's Camille Bas-Wohlert reports.
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Society: 2 May 13
A dispute at a store in western Sweden left one woman with her hair on fire and another facing possible assault charges.
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Lifestyle: 2 May 13
In his latest column on Swedish music, Paul Connolly finds out how Abba paved the way for other Swedish music and offers up his choices for Swedish album and gig of the month.
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Business & Money: 28 Apr 13
A planned strike by Swedish public sector workers was called off on Sunday following a pay deal between employers and the unions.
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Society: 28 Apr 13
An elderly Stockholm couple grew so tired of the noises emanating from their neighbour that they took revenge by booming Iron Maiden at top volume, leading to a charge of harassment.
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Science & Technology: 24 Apr 13
The Swedish authorities have demanded that two bodies frozen for over a decade while awaiting a controversial environmentally-friendly burial method should be put to rest without further delay.
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Travel: 23 Apr 13
A Stockholm museum in honour of Swedish super group Abba is only weeks away from being open to the public. Camille Bas-Wohlert finds out what fans of the legendary group can expect.
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Science & Technology: 21 Apr 13
Around 700 people from across Sweden gathered in Stockholm on Saturday to demonstrate against the government's minerals strategy and planned mining projects around the country.
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Lifestyle: 18 Apr 13
With the sun finally showing its face in the far north of Sweden, ex-Londoner Paul Connolly debunks some of the common stereotypes about his corner of the country, and explains how some recent good news may help break the social barrier.
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Business & Money: 17 Apr 13
Swedish rock band The Hives was told on Tuesday to cough up 18.5 million kronor ($2.9 million) to Sweden's pop darlings The Cardigans, after losing a court case involving the bands' joint recording studio.
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Lifestyle: 12 Apr 13
A lost wallet, a shaved-bare 24-year-old, and multiple page visits by a steroid addict leaves Emilia Millicent thinking she's had the worse run of luck at internet dating ever... until she asked her friends about theirs.
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National: 11 Apr 13
A Swedish appeals court has freed a nurse who dismissed the emergency call from a 23-year-old who later died of a ruptured spleen.
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National: 10 Apr 13
A Swedish nurse is fighting a parking ticket he got while stuck in the emergency ward because heavy snow saw the number of accidents go up, a fact that left the parking ticket company unimpressed.
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National: 10 Apr 13
The top Swedish labour tribunal on Wednesday found a Swedish lingerie shop guilty of gender discrimination after making female staff wear a pin stating their bra size.
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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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Analysis & Opinion: 5 Apr 13
Researchers have found that job applicants with Swedish sounding names are 50 percent more likely to be called back for an interview than people with Arabic names, based on a randomly generated experiment with CV and cover letters.
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Business & Money: 5 Apr 13
A Swedish café owner who told parents to keep their kids away from his shop stands by his decision, despite losing a fair chunk of his "latte parent" customers and complaints about discrimination.
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Business & Money: 5 Apr 13
A now repaired electrical fault near Gothenburg affected rail traffic locally on Friday morning, with backlog delays expected after engineers restored the current on the first stretch of the important west to east coast track.
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Lifestyle: 3 Apr 13
In his latest column on Swedish music, Paul Connolly catches up with Miriam Bryant, a Gothenburg-based singer often compared to Adele and who, despite her rising fame, still takes time to do her own laundry.
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Lifestyle: 3 Apr 13
We all know that Thor had a hammer, but did you know he was a redhead? Or that old one-eyed Odin was an alcoholic? Or that Loki was the mother (yes, mother) of an eight-legged horse? And that's just the beginning…
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Science & Technology: 30 Mar 13
The Easter weekend stands to be an hour shorter this year as it coincides with the change to daylight savings time, signalling the imminent arrival of summer.
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Science & Technology: 28 Mar 13
Two shipwrecks believed to be 17th-century Danish warships have emerged along the Stockholm waterfront due to unusually low water levels.
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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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Business & Money: 28 Mar 13
Almost 50,000 Gothenburg residents have signed a protest list demanding a referendum on the city's much-contested new congestion charge, despite a 20-percent cut in traffic.
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Business & Money: 26 Mar 13
India's Mirimax announced on Tuesday that it was working on a patent deal with Ericsson after the Swedish telecom giant sued Mirimax for an alleged patent infringement.
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Business & Money: 26 Mar 13
US search engine giant Google has successfully put pressure on the Swedish Language Council to remove an entry from its recently released list of new Swedish words.
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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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Lifestyle: 25 Mar 13
A 25-year-old dog lover from Texas unleashed an unusual business idea when she moved to Gothenburg three years ago, charting an unexpected path in building up her Swedish career.
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Science & Technology: 24 Mar 13
Police were called to a recycling depot in Lidingö in Stockholm on Saturday after an elderly lady handed in a grenade.
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National: 22 Mar 13
The Swedish head of the European Federation of Journalists has welcomed an EU public consultation on the media, after a special committee failed to consult the union before saying politicians should be able to fire reporters.
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Sport: 20 Mar 13
Football's governing body FIFA has put a lid on Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni's wish that the roof of Stockholm's Friends Arena be open for Friday's World Cup qualifier against Sweden.
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Lifestyle: 20 Mar 13
In honour of a spring equinox marked by snow and bone-chilling temperatures, The Local uncovers a few ways to help remind readers that, despite the snow and cold, spring in Sweden can't be too far away.
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Business & Money: 18 Mar 13
A Swedish think tank ranked China on Monday as the world's fifth largest arms exporter, overtaking Britain and jumping to its highest position since the Cold War.
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Lifestyle: 15 Mar 13
With the playoffs underway for Sweden's top ice hockey league, ex-Londoner Paul Connolly explains how his time in Sweden's far north has changed his views about some of the country's stranger sports.
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Analysis & Opinion: 11 Mar 13
In our series profiling careers of foreigners who've moved to Sweden, The Local catches up with Australian Benedict Hugosson who came to Sweden for love and ended up launching a career in politics.
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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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Travel: 8 Mar 13
In our weekly profile of people's lives in different parts of Sweden, The Local catches up with a Spanish couple who traded the sunny climes of Galicia for the snow, reindeer, and northern lights of Skellefteå.
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Society: 2 Mar 13
Pop starlets Anton Ewald and Robin Stjernberg claimed the two remaining spots in the final of Sweden's Melodifestivalen, coming out ahead of the field in the "Second Chance" play off in Karlstad on Saturday.
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Analysis & Opinion: 1 Mar 13
In the first of a new column on music, life, and many other things Swedish, Paul Connolly takes us along for his first up-close experience with Melodifestivalen, and offers up his choices for Swedish album and gig of the month.
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Business & Money: 28 Feb 13
The United Nations has criticized Sweden for limiting trade unions' right to join forces with guest workers, in a statement from the International Labour Organization (ILO).
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Business & Money: 26 Feb 13
Sweden's real estate market is headed for two decades of stagnation, Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg warned on Monday, reiterating his concerns about the size of Swedes' household debts.
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Science & Technology: 26 Feb 13
Sweden's Pirate Party has decided to cut off internet access to filesharing site The Pirate Bay after lawyers representing Swedish copyright holders threatened legal action last week.
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Science & Technology: 26 Feb 13
The 1962 Nobel prize of Francis Crick, who helped discover the structure of DNA, has been put up for auction by his family along with other memorabilia.
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Business & Money: 25 Feb 13
While the discovery of horsemeat in Ikea's Swedish meatballs may put consumers off the iconic staple of everyman Swedish cuisine, it's unlikely to do any long term damage to Ikea's or Sweden's brand.
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Business & Money: 22 Feb 13
India and Saudi Arabia were the Swedish weapons industry's top clients in 2012, a year which nevertheless saw Sweden's arms exports drop 30 percent from the year before.
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Science & Technology: 22 Feb 13
The EU is dragging Sweden to court for repeatedly ignoring a 2007 order to license industrial sites, as the union also prepares to take Greece and the UK to task for environment-related policy lags.
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National: 20 Feb 13
The mayor of Malmö has slammed an upcoming exhibition of work by controversial Swedish artist Lars Vilks, saying he hoped no one would visit the gallery to see artwork he said was "associated with xenophobes".
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Analysis & Opinion: 20 Feb 13
Sweden’s ability to pack a foreign policy punch equal to the jab of the big EU three - Germany, France, and the UK - is neither remarkable nor a passing fad, writes international relations Ph.D. candidate Annelie Gregor.
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Politics: 20 Feb 13
The Social Democrats accused the right-of-centre government of pessimism, infighting and wage dumping on Wednesday, as leader Stefan Löfven introduced new proposals to shore up the welfare state and boost jobs.
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Science & Technology: 20 Feb 13
Lawyers representing Swedish copyright holders have threatened legal action against the Pirate Party in a fresh attempt to shutter filesharing site The Pirate Bay.
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Science & Technology: 19 Feb 13
A Swedish website is helping start-ups tap their social media networks to find man-on-the-street equity investors, and in some cases dispel the scepticism of traditional bankrollers, The Local's Ann Törnkvist discovers.
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Business & Money: 19 Feb 13
Swedes should brace for a downturn in housing prices in the face of overvalued homes and ballooning household debt, the head of Sweden's financial regulator has warned.
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Politics: 18 Feb 13
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said the Social Democrats were largely at fault for Sweden's growing wealth gap following the publication on Monday of a report examining changes in Swedes' standard of living.
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Business & Money: 18 Feb 13
A Swedish luxury hotelier has bought a 180,000-kronor ($28,350) bottle of rum but says he won't open it until his manor house in central Sweden welcomes a true VIP, such as US President Barack Obama.
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Business & Money: 17 Feb 13
Some 19,000 temporary jobs disappeared from the Swedish labour market in 2012 as unemployment continued to hit young workers the hardest, new figures show.
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Lifestyle: 15 Feb 13
With the snow in northern Sweden "deep enough to drown in", ex-Londoner Paul Connolly explains the trials and tribulations that come with a new snowmobile.
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Sport: 14 Feb 13
A Swedish golfer who was bitten by one of Australia's deadliest spiders used a golf tee to help her extract the venom and finish the course during a qualifying tournament in Canberra.
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Lifestyle: 11 Feb 13
A park in Uppsala has been transformed into a winter wonderland for a week-long ice festival, with sculptors flocking from around the world to put their frozen art on display for chilly spectators.
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Science & Technology: 10 Feb 13
Sweden's National Food Agency is considering reporting the food giant to the police over the horse meat lasagne scandal.
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Lifestyle: 5 Feb 13
A 73-year-old Swede who feels at home on the sea is planning to sail around the world in a three-metre boat that is only slightly bigger than a bathtub.
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National: 4 Feb 13
Men under the age of 29 account for half of all reported cases of violent assault in Sweden, a new review shows.
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Lifestyle: 29 Jan 13
After our latest list of "untranslatable" Swedish words got people talking, The Local's Oliver Gee took to the streets of Stockholm to ask Swedes if they could find any helpful translations.
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Science & Technology: 28 Jan 13
Swedish reality television shows featuring hospitals and emergency services fail to protect patients' rights, according to a complaint filed on Monday that accuses public health authorities of breaking privacy law by allowing filming.
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National: 27 Jan 13
A group of teenagers engaged in a session of the PC combat game Call of Duty found themselves face to face with a unit of armed police on Saturday after passers-by had responded to the noise of gunfire and cries of help.
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Science & Technology: 25 Jan 13
A Swedish ISP outraged by the prospect of computer and iPad owners being forced to pay TV licence fees is offering clients a "TV Stopper" to block online content from state broadcaster SVT.
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Lifestyle: 25 Jan 13
Stockholm's Museum of Modern Art is preparing to show the Matisse painting "Le Jardin" that was returned this week after it was stolen 25 years ago.
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National: 22 Jan 13
A hotly debated, semi-industrial neighbourhood just south of central Stockholm is set for a major overhaul, with city hall enlisting the help of Swedish furniture giant Ikea.
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Politics: 20 Jan 13
Sweden's equality minister Nyamko Sabuni has proposed a new law requiring companies to strive for a balance between women and men in the boardroom, while rejecting the idea of direct quotas.
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Society: 16 Jan 13
Swedish men thinking about having an affair say they hate ill-tempered women, while women detest their partners being lazy, according to a dating site's review of what Swedes hate the most in their romantic relationships.
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Analysis & Opinion: 16 Jan 13
The UK has taken a page out of Sweden's textbook and is surging ahead with the free school movement. The Local’s Christine Demsteader looks at the lessons that can be learned from Sweden's system of publicly-financed, privately-managed schools.
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Lifestyle: 15 Jan 13
While the English dictionary may be overflowing, it's still missing some extremely common words. Here, we've compiled ten of the best Swedish words that simply don't have an English equivalent.
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Politics: 11 Jan 13
A local chapter of the beleaguered Centre Party has penned an op-ed warning that Sweden will be "overrun by illiterate clans” if the party adopts a proposal on opening the borders, angering MP Frederick Federley and other top officials.
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National: 5 Jan 13
Police shot one man and arrested four on Friday after an armed robbery on a jewellery store in a Södertälje shopping mall one hour south of Stockholm.
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Lifestyle: 4 Jan 13
With 2012 soon a distant memory, ex-Londoner Paul Connolly puts the spotlight on some acts to look out for on the Swedish music scene in 2013.
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National: 4 Jan 13
A robber was shot in the head by police on Friday after he and three others exchanged fire with officers in Södertälje, one hour south of Stockholm, after trying to rob a jewellery store in a shopping mall.
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National: 3 Jan 13
The attempted robbery of a cash transit vehicle prompted Stockholm police to disrupt traffic at three central metro stations on Thursday as they attempted to chase down the robbers who reportedly used smoke bombs to aid their getaway.
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Science & Technology: 2 Jan 13
A Swedish study published on Tuesday suggests that women using antidepressants while pregnant are at no higher risk of stillbirth and death in newborns.
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Business & Money: 26 Dec 12
Swedish mobile giant Ericsson's escalating patent battle with Samsung Electronics led to the South Korean corporation filing a complaint seeking a US import ban on certain Ericsson products.
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Science & Technology: 25 Dec 12
In Sweden, more women choose to get sterilized than men, according to new figures from the National Board of Health and Welfare.
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Science & Technology: 24 Dec 12
Sweden and Latvia launched a rescue operation today after a British ship got in trouble in the waters between Gotland and Latvia.
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National: 23 Dec 12
Two Swedish citizens appeared in a federal court in Brooklyn, New York on Friday on charges that they had trained and fought with al-Shabaab, a Somali group designated as terrorists by the United States.
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Science & Technology: 22 Dec 12
Swedish energy group Vattenfall is demanding 30 billion kronor ($4.6 billion) in damages from Germany following Berlin's decision to shut some nuclear reactors, media report.
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Science & Technology: 21 Dec 12
In a landmark anti-piracy ruling, Sweden’s Supreme Court said on Friday that broadband provider ePhone must share information about a customer who put audio books online and made them available for illegal downloading.
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Lifestyle: 19 Dec 12
Having spent the last six months struggling to get settled in northern Sweden, ex-Londoner Paul Connolly shares his frustration over locals' hatred of confrontation.
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Politics: 18 Dec 12
Free vaccines, higher parental leave benefits, and more job security for temporary workers, are among the many changes set to take effect in Sweden after the New Year as part of a potpourri of new laws, also covering a few controversial topics.
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Business & Money: 17 Dec 12
Officials in India are investigating how the Swedish anti-tank rifles bought by the Indian army ended up in the possession of Burmese rebels.
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Politics: 13 Dec 12
The Swedish anti-tank rifles that ended up in the hands of Burmese soldiers in breach of European Union sanctions were originally exported to India, Sweden's trade minister said on Thursday.
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Politics: 12 Dec 12
The Swedish export control agency announced on Wednesday that it would be launching an investigation to determine how Swedish-designed weapons ended up in the hands of Burmese rebels.
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Business & Money: 11 Dec 12
Burmese rebels have gained access to Swedish-designed weapons after government forces reportedly left them behind following conflict in the mountains of the country's far north.
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