The following articles have been tagged with "Malmö":
Lifestyle: 17 May 13
The winner takes it all and it takes all to predict a winner. Or does it? The Brits have placed their bets on the nostalgia vote, while the Dutch have sent a Lana del Rey'ish tune into battle, but it's Sweden's southern neighbour Denmark who is tipped to win.
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Society: 17 May 13
With Denmark tipped to win this year's Eurovision final, The Local's Patrick Reilly caught up with a few Danes who'd crossed the divide to be in Malmö for Saturday night's final.
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National: 17 May 13
A woman-on-woman kiss during the semi-finals failed to raise eyebrows among Eurovision Song Contest fans, but AFP's Sören Billing finds out why the "Gays World Cup" may not please socially conservative eastern European authorities.
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Society: 16 May 13
Eurofever has swept southern Sweden, with the most vocal voices coming from the Eurovision superfans. The Local's Patrick Reilly finds out some have travelled from the other side of the world.
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Lifestyle: 16 May 13
Beyond the sequinned hemlines, Sweden's Eurovision host Petra Mede is a woman who pulled no punches as a comedian, and is now trying to balance her spunk with Saturday's demands for a happy-go-lucky pop fest, making her an easy pick for Swede of the Week.
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Lifestyle: 16 May 13
From Bonnie Tyler and a Ukrainian giant, to a song by Avicii and Abba legends and a rumoured appearance by Malmö-native Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Sweden's Eurovision Song Contest packs a glitzy punch without the hefty price tag.
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Lifestyle: 15 May 13
Tasked with tracking down Sweden's Eurovision entrant Robin Stjernberg for an interview, The Local's Patrick Reilly describes the thrill of the chase, the Euronuts in the way, and talking Swedish baked goods with the pop star himself.
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Business & Money: 15 May 13
More than half of Swedes in their twenties are stuck living at home with their parents in major metropolitan areas, with observers blaming politicians for abdicating any responsibility for dealing with lack of housing.
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Lifestyle: 14 May 13
With Ireland's Eurovision entry something of a dark horse for pop glory, The Local's Patrick Reilly talks to the one Irishman in town who is guaranteed to light up the stage in Malmö Arena.
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Lifestyle: 13 May 13
With the Eurovision final just days away, The Local's Patrick Reilly heads behind the scenes where Bonnie Tyler, Sweden's Robin Stjernberg, and a swarm of international reporters are jostling for space in the Malmö Arena.
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National: 13 May 13
A man in southern Sweden died after doctors failed to notice a toothpick stuck in his throat.
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National: 13 May 13
What police are calling a bomb was thrown into an apartment in southern Sweden early on Monday morning, leaving parts of the flat "totally destroyed".
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Society: 10 May 13
Find out how an American comic, an Irishman, and an acclaimed Swedish belly dancer plan to add a dash of Las Vegas spice to the smörgåsbord of Eurovision festivities taking place in Malmö.
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National: 7 May 13
A Swedish court has reduced a prison sentence for a 17-year-old boy found guilty of fatally stabbing his sister more than 100 times after she fled a forced marriage, in what the court referred to as an "honour killing".
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Lifestyle: 3 May 13
With Romania's Eurovision entry considered something of an underdog this year, The Local's Patrick Reilly discovers why many of the thousands of Romanians in Sweden can relate to that uphill slog.
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Business & Money: 2 May 13
Waste managers in Sweden's third city may introduce a fine for Malmö residents who don't properly sort their garbage after finding parts of a table in a food waste container.
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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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National: 25 Apr 13
Convicted murderer Peter Mangs had his attempt to overturn his life sentence quashed on Thursday by a local appeals court, which also found him guilty of an additional three attempted murders.
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National: 24 Apr 13
Police were called in when an explosion blew the door off a National Tax Agency office in southern Sweden on early Wednesday morning.
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Science & Technology: 24 Apr 13
Kebab vendors in Malmö were shocked to learn there was as much as 18 percent pork in the meat they were selling.
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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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Society: 22 Apr 13
John Taylor is perhaps best known as the man with the green thumbs and a slight English accent on a weekly gardening show on television. He tells The Local how he made a career out of "digging holes" in Sweden.
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National: 22 Apr 13
The immigration-critical Sweden Democrats would nab 16 percent of the vote in regional elections in the south if residents were to cast their the ballots today.
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Lifestyle: 19 Apr 13
Hosting the Eurovision Song Contest finals is bringing a cash windfall for Malmö, not least for some locals who are renting out their apartments to devoted music fans, The Local's Patrick Reilly discovers.
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Politics: 18 Apr 13
Omar Mustafa's noisy departure from the Social Democrats shows a persistent but flawed view that one person can represent all of Sweden's Muslims, says contributor Nima Gholam Ali Pour.
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National: 17 Apr 13
Swedish police announced on Wednesday an increase in security at Malmö's Eurovision Song Contest in May, including metal detectors for spectators and extra bomb-sniffing dogs from around the country.
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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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Society: 16 Apr 13
Abba star Björn Ulvaeus made headlines in the UK on Tuesday over an offhand comment about the Boston marathon blasts on a breakfast news programme, a blunder for which he later apologized.
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Science & Technology: 16 Apr 13
Swedish micropay site Flattr, which was launched by Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde, has backed down in the face of objections by US social networking service Twitter about a service allowing users to reward tweets.
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Business & Money: 16 Apr 13
Apartment prices in central Stockholm and Gothenburg have reached record high levels, according to the latest housing market figures, while the late spring has impacted negatively on the holiday home market.
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National: 16 Apr 13
A bombshell believed to be from the 1800s brought an abrupt and frightening end to plans to carry out some spring cleaning on Monday in the cellar of the 16th-century city wall in Kalmar in southern Sweden.
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Society: 15 Apr 13
The two front men of Swedish mega band Abba have teamed up once again to write the opening melody for May's Eurovision final in Malmö, also enlisting the talents of Swedish star DJ Avicii.
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Science & Technology: 14 Apr 13
A Polish doctor and two nurses have been charged in connection with a breast augmentation operation in 2010 which left a Swedish woman in a coma and suffering from serious brain damage.
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Business & Money: 12 Apr 13
Swedish star footballer Zlatan Ibrahimovic is selling his five-bedroom mansion in Malmö, southern Sweden, six years after he snapped it up in extravagant circumstances.
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Lifestyle: 11 Apr 13
In the latest in a series profiling different communities in Malmö as the city prepares to host the Eurovision Song Contest, The Local's Patrick Reilly talks to Greeks in Malmö to find out where their loyalties lie.
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National: 8 Apr 13
For the longest time, architect Jon-Ander Azpiazu Juaristi held Spain's economic fizzle at arm's length, until rising unemployment caught up with him too. He tells The Local how moving to Sweden saved his career.
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Education: 8 Apr 13
Stockholm's Karolinska Institute has come up trumps in an annual ranking of Sweden's top universities and colleges.
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Politics: 5 Apr 13
Social Democrat congress delegates on Friday forced the top brass to make sure private companies in the state-funded welfare sector will have to spend a certain proportion of their budget on staffing.
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Lifestyle: 4 Apr 13
Check out The Local's guide to the main attractions and events in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö - in association with DoToday.
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Society: 2 Apr 13
As Malmö prepares to host the Eurovision Song Contest, The Local's Patrick Reilly discovers how the city's Polish community feels about not being able to cheer on their compatriots.
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National: 1 Apr 13
A teenager convicted for killing his older sister has demanded to be freed and a new trial starts Tuesday.
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Society: 1 Apr 13
An Abba reunion concert scheduled at an Uppsala airfield, Malmö neighbourhoods to be renamed after Eurovision stars and lasagnes found in horse feed were among Sweden's April Fools' Day hoax stories on Monday.
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Sport: 28 Mar 13
With play in Sweden's top football league set to kick off at the weekend, contributor Nic Townsend offers the lowdown on each team and their chances of taking home the 2013 Allsvenskan title.
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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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Analysis & Opinion: 27 Mar 13
In the wake of a medical ethics council recommendation to allow surrogacy in Sweden, new father through surrogacy Christoffer Lindén argues that rubber-stamping a practice already in use but fraught with legal hazards is not enough.
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Analysis & Opinion: 26 Mar 13
Finding a place to live is key for integrating immigrant families in Sweden, but Swedish housing policy throws a spanner in the works for even the most enterprising immigrant families, argues local Liberal Party politician Robert Hannah.
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Travel: 25 Mar 13
A Gothenburg hotel concept that is part social commentary, part installation, has received worldwide attention by inviting guests to pay to be homeless for a night in the city.
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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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Politics: 23 Mar 13
Counter demonstrators clashed with Swedish police ahead of a public rally by the anti-Muslim group Swedish Defence League in Malmö on Saturday.
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Politics: 23 Mar 13
Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh, 38, will replace Malmö mayor Ilmar Reepalu, who is set to resign after two decades on the job.
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Society: 22 Mar 13
Two young women in Malmö upset at being told they couldn't dance as a pair in a Swedish traditional dancing class have reported the folk dance group for discrimination.
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Analysis & Opinion: 21 Mar 13
After her picture of a Swedish mannequin left the internet buzzing, Malmö resident Rebecka Silvekroon has seized the moment to keep the world talking about body image, making her our pick for Swede of the Week.
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Business & Money: 21 Mar 13
Several affluent but less traditionally upper-crust neighbourhoods in inner-city Stockholm have managed to rob Östermalm of its status as the most expensive for property owners in Sweden.
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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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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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Education: 18 Mar 13
Students in Sweden, especially foreign students, can be left struggling when looking for extra work to support their studies. For this week's JobTalk, we find out why it's a problem and how it can be tackled.
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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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Society: 16 Mar 13
Friends Arena in Stockholm is set to be bathed in the colour green during Sunday's bandy finals as part of the city's ambitious celebrations in honour of the Irish patron saint St.Patrick.
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National: 16 Mar 13
Pupils in Malmö are to be given training to enable them to deal with a school shooting, following the discovery of weapons and ammunition on the roof of a school building in the city on Friday.
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National: 15 Mar 13
Four schools were shut down in Malmö on Friday after a rifle, a shotgun, and ammunition were discovered by construction workers on the roof of one of the schools.
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Business & Money: 14 Mar 13
Apartments are more expensive than ever and while demand continues to rise, there are fewer options on the market for home buyers.
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Analysis & Opinion: 13 Mar 13
As homelessness figures increase across Sweden, contributor Patrick Reilly heads to a soup kitchen in Malmö to find out more about the city's estimated 1,000 homeless people and what's being done to help them.
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Society: 12 Mar 13
Former Abba vocalist Agnetha Fältskog has hinted ever so slightly that there is a "very small" chance the Swedish super group might perform together again.
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National: 10 Mar 13
Over 3,000 people gathered in Swedish cities on Saturday to demonstrate against the clampdown on illegal migrants which has sparked accusations of "racial profiling" practices among the police.
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Society: 9 Mar 13
Idol veteran Robin Stjernberg and his ballad You won Saturday night's Melodifestivalen final at the Friends Arena in Stockholm, and will represent Sweden at May's Eurovision in Malmö.
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Society: 8 Mar 13
Swedes around the country are readying for Saturday night's Melodifestivalen finale in Stockholm, where the nation will decide which act will represent Sweden at the Eurovision finals in Malmö in May.
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National: 8 Mar 13
Prosecutors are set to introduce a new witness to a Malmö shooting in the retrial of Peter Mangs, hoping to secure an additional attempted murder conviction in the high-profile case.
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National: 5 Mar 13
The former state Church of Sweden lost more than 50,000 members in 2012, continuing a trend in declining membership, seen most acutely in the towns, since Sweden became secular in the year 2000.
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Society: 5 Mar 13
As Malmö continues to struggle with anti-Semitism that has plagued the southern Swedish city for years, contributor Patrick Reilly learns how the city's Jewish community is fighting back.
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Society: 4 Mar 13
A media consortium in southern Sweden has baited a new shole of advertisers by starting an Arabic-language newspaper in Malmö.
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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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Society: 26 Feb 13
Religious heads in southern Sweden have advised their followers to ignore an upcoming exhibition of work by controversial Swedish artist Lars Vilks, warning that people should not be provoked by his artwork.
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Society: 24 Feb 13
Heartthrob Ulrik Munther and hard rocker Ralf Gyllenhammar are going straight to the Melodifestivalen final after claiming the last two places in the competition in Malmö.
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Analysis & Opinion: 22 Feb 13
Hunting down undocumented immigrants like animals is immoral and a waste of police resources, argues socialist weekly Arbetaren’s editor-in-chief Daniel Wiklander.
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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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National: 19 Feb 13
A 45-year-old man wanted in connection with the 2011 killing of a gang leader in Malmö tried to turn himself in on Monday, only to be told that the local police station was closed.
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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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Sport: 19 Feb 13
Swedish footballing star Zlatan Ibrahimovic has hinted he's open to moving to Bayern Munich of Germany's Bundesliga, less than a year after signing with Paris Saint Germain.
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National: 19 Feb 13
The editor of Swedish tabloid Expressen and two journalists are guilty of gun crimes, a Swedish court ruled on Tuesday, upholding a lower court ruling that their investigative sting into buying black-market weapons in Malmö was illegal.
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Society: 19 Feb 13
Germany's entry for the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest finals in Malmö is under investigation following accusations that it's a rip off Swedish artist Loreen's 2012 winning song, Euphoria.
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National: 18 Feb 13
Many Swedish teenager girls are copying traditionally masculine aggression, Swedish youth centre workers at the organization Fryshuset have warned.
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Society: 17 Feb 13
Two boy bands generations apart claimed the places in the Melodifestivalen final at the penultimate heat in Skellefteå on Saturday, when State of Drama and Ravaillacz secured the votes.
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Science & Technology: 15 Feb 13
Horsemeat-hit Swedish supermarket chain Ica has recalled so many ready-made meals that its overstuffed warehouse in southern Sweden has started sending excess food to be recycled into biogas.
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Society: 15 Feb 13
Swedish prosecutors have charged a Swedish man for assault after he reportedly spat and punched a woman when she told him not to abuse his French Bulldog puppy, whom he had lifted into the air by tugging on its leash.
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Society: 12 Feb 13
It's that time of year again, the day Swedes sink their teeth into cream-filled semla buns. But what goes into a semla? Who makes the best ones? And why is the bun looked upon with suspicion by royal historians?
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Society: 10 Feb 13
Swedish performer Sean Banan dazzled the Gothenburg crowd in his win at Saturday's Melodifestivalen heat, in an eccentric number including 25 costume changes, a diaper, and giant angel wings.
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Analysis & Opinion: 7 Feb 13
With a much-anticipated documentary about Swedish filesharing site The Pirate Bay set to debut at the Berlin International Film festival on Friday, The Local catches up with director Simon Klose, our pick for Swede of the Week.
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Business & Money: 7 Feb 13
New housing figures reveal that would-be homeowners will be set back back 1 million kronor ($157,634) on average when buying a house anywhere in Sweden.
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Analysis & Opinion: 7 Feb 13
As the Swedish media examines the climate of hatred towards women in the public eye, editor and author Åsa Linderborg recounts what happened when her newspaper Aftonbladet decided to blow the lid on Sweden’s far-right websites. (WARNING: STRONG LANGUAGE).
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Analysis & Opinion: 5 Feb 13
A Romanian student in Uppsala has been left seething after a CV experiment in changing his name to sound "more Swedish" pulled in unprecedented success.
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Analysis & Opinion: 5 Feb 13
There has been a mixed reaction from Malmö's Jewish community following Mayor Ilmar Reepalu's decision to step down, as Patrick Reilly reports for The Local.
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Science & Technology: 5 Feb 13
Snow and slick roads made for treacherous driving in central Sweden, with a number of accidents leaving some major roadways blocked on Tuesday morning.
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National: 4 Feb 13
The Social Democrat mayor of Malmö, Ilmar Reepalu, has announced he is leaving the job on July 1st, saying he wants to spend more time with his grandchild.
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Society: 3 Feb 13
Japan-inspired glamrocker Yohio and ice hockey-playing pop starlet David Lindgren claimed the first two spots in Sweden's Melodifestivalen final after winning the heat in Karlskrona on Saturday.
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Society: 1 Feb 13
Swedes nationwide are preparing for the first heat in 2013's Melodifestival - the competition where viewers pick which singer will represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö.
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Society: 31 Jan 13
A man who performed a Nazi salute in a park in southern Sweden has been convicted of racial agitation by a Malmö court, the first time in three years a local resident has been convicted of a hate crime.
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National: 29 Jan 13
Two Migration Board employees in Malmö were arrested on Tuesday morning on suspicions they sold residence permits to asylum seekers.
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Business & Money: 29 Jan 13
The Swedish Public Employment Service is urging out of work young Swedes to look for employment in crisis-hit countries like Spain and Greece, where youth unemployment is twice as high as Sweden's.
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Society: 28 Jan 13
Multilingual Swedish comedienne Petra Mede will host the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, Sveriges Television (SVT) announced on Monday.
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National: 28 Jan 13
Malmö's "serial sniper" Peter Mangs appeared in the local Court of Appeals on Monday as he battled to overturn two murder convictions, while prosecutors are looking to have him convicted for additional crimes.
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