February 14, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Norway":
Sport: 12 Feb 12
Finnish driver Jari-Matti Latvala claimed the Rally of Sweden title near Hagfors in western Sweden on Sunday, the sixth win of his career.
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Lifestyle: 9 Feb 12
From classic Scandinavian functionality to naked men and lambs, Stockholm Design Week has something for everyone. Here's The Local's pick of the weirdest and best designs on display this year.
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Science & Technology: 9 Feb 12
Two high-ranking Swedish executives with an e-commerce start-up have been charged with sexually assaulting a teenager in a New York hotel room at the weekend.
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Politics: 8 Feb 12
David Cameron joined Fredrik Reinfeldt and other heads of government from northern Europe who have gathered in Stockholm to discuss common future challenges at the Northern Future Forum.
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Lifestyle: 6 Feb 12
As Sweden's indigenous Sami celebrate their National Day on February 6th, The Local offers up a few video clips highlighting their unique vocal traditions.
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National: 5 Feb 12
The plunging mercury has put a stop to rail services to the far north of Sweden on Sunday with rail operator SJ explaining that it was just too cold to guarantee safety.
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Business & Money: 31 Jan 12
Swedish-Swiss engineering giant ABB has admitted it considered contacting newspaper editors to ask them to stop using the firm’s name as shorthand for confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik.
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National: 16 Jan 12
A 38-year-old Norwegian woman and her 9-month-old baby were found dead on Monday in an apartment in Arboga in central Sweden. It remains unclear if they died due to an accident or foul play.
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National: 16 Jan 12
An increasing number of Swedes are worried about future terror attacks in the wake of the Stockholm suicide bombing and the Norway massacre on Utøya, a new survey has shown.
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Science & Technology: 14 Jan 12
Swedish researchers have found that pregnant women on antidepressants are more than twice as likely to give birth to children with dangerously high blood pressure in the lungs.
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Society: 8 Jan 12
A Swedish man received a 8,800 kronor ($1,270) fine while driving in Norway but was surprised to find the compassionate Norwegian police had cut the fine in half as Swedes earn less money than their Norwegian neighbours.
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Society: 6 Jan 12
Cheaper Swedish alcohol, as well as an increase in beer brought illegally across the border, is giving Norwegian vendors a headache, as manufacturers continue to see a drop in sales.
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National: 28 Dec 11
A Swedish mother of two has been linked to Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik after a mobile broadband SIM card registered in her name was discovered in a computer found on Breivik's farm.
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Science & Technology: 25 Dec 11
A Class 2 warning has been issued by forecasters as a storm, dubbed Dagmar, approaches from the west. Although it is the northern regions of Sweden that will be affected the most, forecasters warn of strong winds countrywide.
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Lifestyle: 21 Dec 11
Some face time with Sweden's mighty elk led best selling children’s book author Jan Brett to choose the 'King of the Forest' rather than sleigh-pulling reindeer to star alongside a family of trolls in her latest Christmas-themed book, The Local's Joel Linde discovers.
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National: 19 Dec 11
When two human rights organizations asked 28 countries for information in order to map out CIAs secret air transports of terror suspects, Sweden was one of three countries refusing to give out any details.
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National: 19 Dec 11
Police in Norway apprehended two Swedish men over the weekend with more than 250 kilogrammes of butter after they reportedly had been trying to sell contraband spread at 250 kroner ($42) a packet.
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Business & Money: 15 Dec 11
Enterprising Swedes hoping to capitalize on Norway's ongoing butter shortage are offering the sought-after spread online, with one seller hoping to score a Gibson guitar in exchange for a pack of margarine.
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Business & Money: 14 Dec 11
Pancakes, popstar Justin Bieber, and questions about the time of day kept Swedes busy on Google in 2011, Google Sweden said on Wednesday, showing that Swedes searched for Facebook more often than sex during the past year.
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National: 14 Dec 11
A Swedish academic has come under fire in Norway after writing an article suggesting that Israel played a part in the July 22nd massacre carried out by Anders Behring Breivik that claimed 77 lives.
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Society: 13 Dec 11
The mystery surrounding several decades-old pictures found in a vintage camera purchased last August by a UK couple at an auction in south central Sweden has been solved.
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National: 13 Dec 11
A Swedish man has gone into hiding in Norway after claiming that his wife tried to kill him by serving him antifreeze in a glass of Coke.
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Society: 11 Dec 11
While Norway is reeling from a severe butter shortage, causing some to try to smuggle butter in across the border and others make a killing on the black market, Swedes can relax in the knowledge that their Christmas baking is safe.
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Politics: 10 Dec 11
Sweden's Left Party's nomination committee suggested Jonas Sjöstedt take over as the party's new leader from Lars Ohly, who won't run for re-election in January.
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National: 9 Dec 11
The day before a massive right wing demonstration is set to take place in Sweden and shortly before the anniversary of the Stockholm suicide bombing, the government on Friday presented their new plan to combat extremism.
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Politics: 4 Dec 11
The Social Democrats promise to tighten their stance on profit making in the welfare system, with leader Håkan Juholt wanting to tear up the party's decision on the issue from 2009.
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National: 30 Nov 11
The Swedish foreign ministry sent for the Iranian ambassador on Wednesday to discuss what officials described as the "unacceptable" attack on the British embassy in Tehran.
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Science & Technology: 25 Nov 11
Meteorologists in Sweden are warning people to stay inside this weekend as winter storm Berit gets set to pummel much of the country with gusty winds and possible snow showers.
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Science & Technology: 24 Nov 11
The number of obese people in Sweden has all but doubled in the last two decades, but is still comparatively low compared to other OECD countries, according to a recent study.
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National: 20 Nov 11
As Sweden's first real snowfall for the season is set to hit the northern-most regions over the weekend, the winter tourism industry isn't overly concerned at the late start.
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Lifestyle: 8 Nov 11
While Ikea, H&M, and Ericsson are all well known Swedish brands, here's a list of ten more products and brands from the land of the midnight sun that any self-proclaimed Swedophile should also know.
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National: 8 Nov 11
Sweden has topped the list ranking foreign aid policies among the world's wealthy countries for the third year running, according to an annual study by the US-based Center for Global Development (CDG).
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Society: 3 Nov 11
A family in western Sweden was surprised to find the narrow gravel driveway leading up to their house blocked by a massive truck carrying 20 tonnes of fish.
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Business & Money: 2 Nov 11
Swedish oil and gas firm Lundin Petroleum has reported a profit before tax of $166.6 million for the third quarter, up from $105.4 million in the corresponding period of 2010 and over analyst expectations.
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Society: 26 Oct 11
Some 45,000 school children in the Washington DC area will get the chance to savour some wholesome Swedish food on Wednesday in an initiative by the Nordic embassies in the US capital.
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Politics: 25 Oct 11
As the eurozone crisis continues to dominate European political business, Gunnar Wetterberg, an analyst at white collar union Saco, has stated the case for a Nordic Union and currency, to counter the threat of a euro collapse.
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Society: 25 Oct 11
Swedish pensioners living abroad will soon be receiving a letter from the Swedish Pensions Agency asking them to fill in a form and report in to the nearest embassy. The reason – to prove they're alive.
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Business & Money: 18 Oct 11
Swedes are the worst shoplifting offenders in the Nordic region, costing every resident 779 kronor ($117) per year in higher retail prices, according to a new study, which also found that meat is among the most popular items stolen.
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Politics: 16 Oct 11
The two Swedish reporters Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson, charged with terrorism in Ethiopia, will face trial on Tuesday, with human rights organisations already criticizing the process.
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Sport: 15 Oct 11
Former Sweden coach Lars Lagerbäck has been named the new head coach of Iceland's national football team.
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Lifestyle: 13 Oct 11
Sweden is home to hundreds of castles featuring tales of bloodthirsty royals, quirky millionaires, adult-rated films, and other untold secrets. Check out The Local's selection of some of the country's more memorable manors.
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National: 13 Oct 11
Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia plan to join other Nordic royals in New York next week for a glittering ball and exhibition of Scandinavian art.
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Society: 12 Oct 11
The Local is taking another step out into the world, with the launch of thelocal.no, Norway’s news in English. There’s no better place to find out what’s going on in Sweden’s back yard, says editor Paul O’Mahony.
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Science & Technology: 10 Oct 11
With the balmy days of the recent "Indian summer" consigned to memory, the first freeze of the season has rendered roads icy and treacherous in northern areas of Sweden.
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Society: 4 Oct 11
The Irish low cost airline Ryanair is planning to establish more airport hubs in Sweden, in order to expand operations to include domestic travel within the region.
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Society: 4 Oct 11
Sweden's smallest maternity ward, at Sollefteå hospital in the north of the country, is hoping to reverse the trend of contracting numbers by launching a 'birth tourism' initiative to attract expectant couples from far and wide.
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Sport: 2 Oct 11
Sven Tumba, one of Sweden's most famous ever sports stars, died in hospital in Stockholm on Saturday at the age of 80, following a long illness.
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Business & Money: 30 Sep 11
Swedish oil firm Lundin Petrolium has confirmed the discovery of a massive oil reserve in the Norwegian North Atlantic, that the firm says could contain up to 1.8 billion barrels of recoverable oil.
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Politics: 30 Sep 11
Sweden’s ruling Moderate Party has received the lowest poll results since the general election, according to fresh figures from research company Synovate.
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Analysis & Opinion: 29 Sep 11
A year has passed since the Sweden Democrats became Sweden’s newest parliamentary party and The Local’s Peter Vinthagen Simpson has a look at what has been achieved, what has not and what has changed.
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Politics: 28 Sep 11
A network of former Sweden Democrats has offered support to 23-year-old William Petzäll after his decision to leave the party and remain in the Riksdag as an independent, encouraging him to stand strong against the party hierarchy.
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National: 27 Sep 11
Two men arrested in Västerås on suspicion of attempted murder expressed support for Anders Behring Breivik's massacre in Norway prior to stabbing two men of non-Swedish origin, according to a police report.
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National: 25 Sep 11
Clean-up work following the oil spill off Sweden's west coast was helped by good weather conditions, and on Saturday evening roughly 35 tonnes of oil had been taken out of the water.
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Business & Money: 21 Sep 11
Officials at Swedish retail giant Ikea have confirmed that the company is the target of an extortion attempt following a string of blasts and other incidents at Ikea outlets throughout Europe.
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Analysis & Opinion: 20 Sep 11
As Swedish news outlets reassess their policies regarding online comments amid an ongoing debate about "internet hate", The Local's Peter Vinthagen Simpson argues that free speech is too important to be left to fend for itself in an online Wild West.
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Business & Money: 20 Sep 11
Sweden's government has outlined a raft of labour market initiatives in the budget presented on Tuesday, while its forecast for GDP growth has been slashed to 1.3 percent in 2012, warning that the reality could be worse.
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Business & Money: 19 Sep 11
Sweden's state-run alcohol retail monopoly Systembolaget is considering plans to expand its current e-commerce to include a home delivery service.
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National: 17 Sep 11
A computer system crash may have lost 50,000 patient records from 14 clinics and two major hospitals in southern Sweden. Three weeks later, a Norwegian company is still attempting to recover the documents.
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Analysis & Opinion: 16 Sep 11
As Sweden's politicians return to business at the Riksdag after a period of party-leadership reshuffling, The Local's Rebecca Martin examines concerns that youth has begun to trump experience in Swedish politics.
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Society: 15 Sep 11
A Norwegian man who became a celebrity for documenting “a year” of living in the Norwegian wilds has confessed he spent much of the time living in a hotel in northern Sweden.
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Business & Money: 13 Sep 11
The two Swedish reporters jailed in Ethiopia were in the country investigating Lundin Petroleum, a Swedish oil and mining company, at the time of their arrest, according to reports in the Swedish media.
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Politics: 12 Sep 11
The Swedish minister who at the weekend said that no money would be coming to victims who suffered abuse while in foster care has opened to further talks on the issue following pressure from the opposition.
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Society: 11 Sep 11
Dramatic weather is to be expected along Sweden's coast, as the remains of tropical hurricane Katia reaches Swedish shores in the beginning of next week.
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Analysis & Opinion: 9 Sep 11
On the tenth anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terror attacks, The Local reaches out to a few Swedes and Americans for their thoughts about the attacks and their impact.
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National: 8 Sep 11
Convicted serial killer Thomas Quick, who recently retracted confessions for eight murders, has formally petitioned the Court of Appeal for a retrial over the murder of an 11-year-old boy in 2001.
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Science & Technology: 5 Sep 11
Photographer Terje Hellesö, recipient of a Swedish Nature Photographer of the Year award, has been reported to police after admitting that he manipulated a number of his pictures of predatory animals.
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National: 4 Sep 11
Around 50 expatriat Syrian Kurds gathered in Stockholm Saturday for a two-day conference on how to strengthen Kurds inside Syria and get them more involved in efforts to overthrow Bashar al-Assad's regime.
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Lifestyle: 31 Aug 11
Beer blogger Darren Packman offers his thoughts on a slew of new beers set to hit the shelves in Systembolaget stores in September, as Sweden's state-run liquor monopoly stays true to the old saying - all good things come in threes.
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Business & Money: 29 Aug 11
Nordea, the biggest bank in the Nordic region with around 34,000 employees, said Monday it planned to cut some 2,000 jobs across the region by the end of 2012 to counter the effects of rising costs.
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Analysis & Opinion: 29 Aug 11
UK native Suhail Din sparked a heated debate among The Local's readers with his reflections on why Swedes refused to talk to him and his family during a visit to Stockholm. Contributor Ruben Brunsveld examines why.
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Business & Money: 29 Aug 11
The Local, a leading source of English-language news in Sweden, Germany, and Switzerland, announced on Monday it has now established a news website in France.
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Politics: 26 Aug 11
Four parties in the Swedish parliament - the Sweden Democrats, the Christian Democrats, the Centre Party and Left Party - would fall below the threshold for Riksdag seats if an election were held today, a new poll on Friday showed.
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National: 22 Aug 11
Crown princess Victoria and prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt represented Sweden at a ceremony in Oslo on Sunday to honour the victims of the tragedy in Norway in July.
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Politics: 21 Aug 11
After a battery of high-profile blog posts and tweets regarding the gruesome massacre in Norway, party brass from Swedens Democrats urge members to take a stance of silence, according to a media report.
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Business & Money: 18 Aug 11
While the cash strapped carmaker Saab’s production lines stood still the board of directors from mother company Swedish Automobile had a pay increase, according to Swedish media reports.
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Business & Money: 17 Aug 11
Scandinavian airline SAS announced its best quarterly results since 2008 on Wednesday, with the airline's return to profit sending its share price soaring.
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Analysis & Opinion: 15 Aug 11
UK native Suhail Din reflects on why Swedes refused to talk to him and his family during their recent visit to Stockholm on holiday.
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Politics: 14 Aug 11
Resigning Left Party head Lars Ohly criticised prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt in his traditional summer speech on Saturday, accusing Reinfeldt of holding a weak standpoint in the battle against racism, islamophobia, and xenophobia.
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Politics: 10 Aug 11
Swedish bestselling author and human rights activist Henning Mankell said in an interview on UK television on Monday that mainstream politicians shoulder the responsibility for the rise of the far right.
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National: 10 Aug 11
Sweden is one of the ten countries worldwide where social hostilities related to religion are increasing the most, according to a newly published American study.
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Politics: 7 Aug 11
Despite the recent outrages in Norway, Sweden Democrat (SD) leader Jimmie
Åkesson refused to change his stance on the controversial party’s line on immigration during his summer speech on Saturday.
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National: 7 Aug 11
Fredrik Reinfeldt refused to respond to the criticism of his actions in the wake of the atrocities in Norway during his speech at the World Scout Jamboree on Saturday.
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Politics: 5 Aug 11
In the wake of the terror attacks in Norway last month, the Swedish government is planning to present its own action plan to combat violent extremism.
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Lifestyle: 4 Aug 11
If you want to see Scandinavia at its best, there’s no more exciting way to do it than to hop on a bike and explore the region’s excellent network of hostels.
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Politics: 3 Aug 11
The youth wing of the Swedish Social Democrats opened their congress on Tuesday with heartfelt tributes to the victims of the attack on their sister organisation in Norway last month.
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National: 30 Jul 11
Thousands of people gathered Friday evening in central Stockholm to take part in a public expression of sympathy and support for the terror victims and survivors in Norway. "A devilish act," said Sweden’s former Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson, who attended.
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National: 29 Jul 11
Portions of Anders Behring Breivik’s “manifesto” were previously posted on an anti-Muslim Swedish blog, according to report in the Swedish media.
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National: 29 Jul 11
Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt tried on Friday to respond to criticism that he has been missing-in-action following last week's terror attacks in Norway.
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Analysis & Opinion: 28 Jul 11
A far-right that vaunts anti-immigration, Islamophobia and the welfare state has taken hold in Nordic countries, playing on the fears of societies that are less and less blond and blue eyed, AFP's Marc Preel writes.
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Sport: 28 Jul 11
Usain Bolt returns to action in the Diamond League meeting in Stockholm on Friday hoping to erase bad memories of last year's defeat.
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Politics: 28 Jul 11
Sweden's young Social Democrats (SSU) plan to go ahead with the congress in August despite the deadly attacks against its Norwegian sister party's youth camp, SSU's head said Wednesday.
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Politics: 27 Jul 11
The head of the Sweden Democrats, who earlier condemned the attacks in Norway, on Wednesday rejected the comments of a local politician that they were a result of multiculturalism.
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Analysis & Opinion: 26 Jul 11
As Norway comes to terms with Friday's bloody attacks, the Swedish press has been quick to leap to the defence of pan-Scandinavian values of openness, tolerance and democracy, The Local's Peter Vinthagen Simpson discovers.
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Politics: 26 Jul 11
A core ingredient for the bomb which ripped through the government buildings in Oslo, Norway last Friday was bought in Sweden, while the government has proposed a review of the sale of fertilizer, another ingredient in the bomb.
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Society: 26 Jul 11
A Swedish sailor in his seventies began a long-planned solo journey to the United States on Monday by hitching his boat to a trailer and driving through Germany.
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National: 26 Jul 11
Sweden Democrat Erik Hellsborn has claimed that the twin attacks in Norway are the fault of "mass immigration" and "Islamisation", prompting condemnation from colleagues and denials that the party itself shares any blame.
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National: 26 Jul 11
Several political parties want to see a review of Sweden's gun laws in the wake of the twin terror attacks in Norway.
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National: 25 Jul 11
In Sweden, a person like Anders Behring Breivik wouldn't have been allowed to own a semi-automatic weapon built expressly for military purposes, according to Swedish police.
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National: 25 Jul 11
Some 40,000 scouts are pouring into southern Sweden as the World Scout Jamboree prepares to open, while Friday's twin attacks in Norway have meant that extra security measures have been taken.
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National: 25 Jul 11
Stockholm police have increased their monitoring of key spots in the capital following Friday's twin terror attacks in Norway, according to security police.
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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 »
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 »
"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »
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