The following articles have been tagged with "Rape":
Politics: 23 May 13
One of the women who has accused Julian Assange of sex crimes has called on the Swedish government to increase pressure on Ecuador to hand over the WikiLeaks-founder to authorities in Sweden.
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Lifestyle: 22 May 13
Swedish designers who fight for brand-name recognition in the notoriously hard-to-crack fashion business tell The Local's Victoria Hussey about the importance of the Swedish Rookies Award.
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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: 16 May 13
One of the two Swedish women who accused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of sex crimes has turned to her personal blog to talk about the ordeal for what is believed to be the first time.
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National: 15 May 13
A Swedish court has cleared three teenagers accused of rape for inserting a wine bottle in a girl's vagina until she started bleeding.
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National: 10 May 13
Six teenage boys aged 15 to 17 are facing trial for raping a 15-year-old girl in a north-western suburb of Stockholm in March.
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Society: 1 May 13
Walpurgis Night (Valborg) celebrations led to drunkenness and violence around Sweden, with a rape of a minor reported in Uppsala and 98 cases of assault and nine fires reported in Stockholm.
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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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Politics: 23 Apr 13
Twitter users in Sweden have leapt to an entertaining defence of their country after @WikiLeaks accused the @Sweden curator of being a military mouthpiece - after he labelled them "mad tinfoil hatters" .
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National: 13 Apr 13
A man has been jailed for two years by a court in Karlstad in central Sweden for raping a male acquaintance in his sleep.
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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: 9 Apr 13
India's ambassador to Sweden, Banashri Bose Harrison, sees a green future ahead for the two countries' business relationships, spurred on by Swedish companies' need for emerging markets and India's thirst for environmentally friendly solutions.
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National: 9 Apr 13
A man previously convicted for several rapes in Sweden in the 1970s and 1980s has been jailed anew, receiving a four-year sentence for child rape and buying sexual services from a child.
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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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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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Lifestyle: 28 Mar 13
Two Swedish Easter witches are giving up the spring festivities in Sweden to run 3,000 kilometres from Istanbul back home to Stockholm with all their gear packed tight into a pram. Kristina Paltén and Carina Borén are The Local's pick for Swede(s) of the Week.
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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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National: 16 Mar 13
Sweden's Welsh-born Princess Lilian, who waited three decades to marry her prince, was buried Saturday after thousands of Swedes paid their respects to one of the most popular members of the royal family.
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Science & Technology: 16 Mar 13
A healthy Nordic diet helps to reduce cardiovascular disease and the risk of type 2 diabetes, according to a study initiated by the Nordic Council of Ministers.
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National: 15 Mar 13
The lying in state of Princess Lilian of Sweden was held on Friday at the Royal Palace in Stockholm, with hundreds of well-wishers turning up to pay their final respects.
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Travel: 7 Mar 13
Sweden still scrapes into the top ten of countries with a competitive tourism industry, but has slipped down four spots in the ranking, according to a report by the World Economic Forum released on Thursday.
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National: 6 Mar 13
Several teenage boys have been held for involvement in the suspected gang rape of a teenage girl northwest of Stockholm.
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Politics: 26 Feb 13
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's claims that Sweden's case against him is a conspiracy to have him extradited to the United States have been dismissed as "sheer fantasy" by Australia's foreign minister.
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Politics: 23 Feb 13
Two men and one woman have been arrested in Stockholm on suspicion of blackmail and conspiring to commit murder in a case believed to be connected to the Eritrean regime's systematic oppression of Eritreans living in exile.
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National: 22 Feb 13
A man who violated his girlfriend's private parts in an "infidelity check" was convicted of sex crimes by a court in southern Sweden, only four days after another man in Stockholm was cleared of rape charges in a similar case.
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Society: 21 Feb 13
A Swedish court has ruled that a 28-year-old man who ripped off his girlfriend's trousers and underwear to perform an "infidelity check" is not guilty of rape or any other sex crimes.
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National: 16 Feb 13
The costs of maintaining a police presence at the Ecuadorian embassy in London have totalled almost 30 million kronor ($4.7 million) following Julian Assange's decision to jump bail and seek asylum there last June.
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Analysis & Opinion: 13 Feb 13
As Sweden continues to discuss internet hatred, Paulina Neuding, editor of centre-right Swedish magazine Neo, argues that the left openly subjects opinion-makers who disagree with them to similarly hateful comments.
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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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National: 7 Feb 13
WikiLeaks fan Jemima Khan, who helped post bail for its founder Julian Assange after he handed himself in to UK police over sex crime allegations by two Swedish women, has criticized his prolonged extradition fight.
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National: 7 Feb 13
Threats of extreme violence, murder, and rape plague the lives of many women who work in the spotlight in Sweden, but police often fail to act on the threats in part because they are delivered via emails or posts in online discussion threads.
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National: 29 Jan 13
The 17-year-old boy from southern Sweden who stabbed his sister to death in April was sentenced to eight years in prison on Tuesday for what the court referred to as an "honour killing".
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National: 19 Jan 13
A 32-year-old man, who has worked at several pre-schools in Malmö in recent years, was on Friday imprisoned for four years and three months for aggravated rape and the sexual assault of a child.
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National: 15 Jan 13
No arrests have yet been made and police continue their investigation following the suspected gang rape on Sunday of a 22-year-old woman near the Sundbyberg train station in Stockholm.
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National: 13 Jan 13
Police are searching for five men who attacked and raped a 22-year-old woman near the Sundbyberg train station in Stockholm in the early hours of Sunday morning.
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Science & Technology: 10 Jan 13
A 52-year-old Swedish man was convicted on Thursday for ordering the rape of 18 Filipino minors via webcam, with a court sentencing him to eight years in prison.
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Society: 10 Jan 13
Reports of male rape are on the rise in Sweden, new figures show, yet sexual violence experts believe the figures represent only the tip of the iceberg as many men are too ashamed to report the assaults.
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Society: 8 Jan 13
A documentary film maker on a mission to identify the workers in the iconic Lunch Atop a Skyscraper image says a Swedish family's claim to recognizing two of the men perched on a beam could be plausible.
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National: 7 Jan 13
Members of a family in western Sweden have claimed their migrant worker father is one of the men seated on a steel beam and having lunch high above the skyscrapers in the iconic picture from 1930s New York City.
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Science & Technology: 4 Jan 13
A Swedish engineer credited with developing modern mobile telephony standards is among the recipients of the prestigious Draper Prize, awarded annually for engineering achievements that have had a positive impact on society.
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Travel: 3 Jan 13
Restaurant reviewers Zagat included two Swedish eateries in its top-ten list of the world's best eateries.
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Analysis & Opinion: 3 Jan 13
After six months in Sweden, US native Joe Beaumier reflects on the difficulties foreigners who speak English face landing a job in Sweden when they're unable to speak advanced Swedish.
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Politics: 3 Jan 13
An outspoken local Sweden Democrat politician who previously argued “negro” is not a racist term, has generated headlines again by calling for a law to cap the fertility rate of Muslims around the world.
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Society: 24 Dec 12
Ribbons, dark chocolate, bun dough and tree lights are just some of the seasonal items that Swedes' pets have swallowed so far this Christmas.
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Science & Technology: 22 Dec 12
Residents in a southern Swedish elderly home will soon get to cuddle up with a fuzzy seal from Japan.
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Analysis & Opinion: 20 Dec 12
Swedish journalist and lecturer Sofia Mirjamsdotter thinks the Instagram riot says little about the modern age, and everything about ancient structures of bullying and sexual hypocrisy. But it could also herald change.
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Business & Money: 19 Dec 12
The European Commission plans to ban flavoured snus, according to the final version of its proposed tobacco directive presented on Wednesday, which also calls for the current ban on snus exports to remain in place.
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Lifestyle: 17 Dec 12
After British comedian Ricky Gervais performed in Stockholm on Sunday night, The Local’s Oliver Gee reflects on why a liberal Swedish crowd took such delight in the mostly dark and, many would argue, offensive humour.
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Business & Money: 5 Dec 12
Swedish moist snuff is once again under threat from a new EU directive, with a new generation of flavoured snus in particular at risk, according to Swedish media reports.
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Society: 28 Nov 12
A man charged with raping a woman in central Sweden has been acquitted after the court ruled she didn't protest vigorously enough.
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National: 27 Nov 12
A 61-year-old man was sentenced to eight years in prison by the Attunda District Court on Tuesday for raping two young children who were in his care, one of whom was just four years old.
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Politics: 26 Nov 12
Sweden's ambassador to Australia took an Australian columnist to task for defending WikiLeaks-founder Julian Assange against rape allegations, documents recently published by the whistleblower website reveal.
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National: 26 Nov 12
The murder trial of a 17-year-old boy suspected of fatally stabbing his 19-year-old sister more than 100 times with two knives and a pair of scissors started in southern Sweden on Monday.
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Science & Technology: 23 Nov 12
Charges have been filed against a man who ordered the sexual exploitation of Philippine children so he could watch the acts via webcam back in Sweden.
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National: 11 Nov 12
A 17-year-old boy has reported that he was raped by several men near a churchyard in central Växjö in southern Sweden on Friday night.
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Business & Money: 29 Oct 12
The Swedish Social Insurance Agency will be launching a probe into small-time benefits cheats in Sweden, offences that the agency claims have not been given the priority they deserve by police and prosecutors.
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Politics: 27 Oct 12
Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa has proposed that Sweden send a prosecutor to the country's embassy in London to interview Julian Assange, whose health he claims is suffering.
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Business & Money: 22 Oct 12
Sweden’s winegrowers have reported a bad year for Swedish wine, with a late flowering and heavy rains leading to massive harvest losses.
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Politics: 22 Oct 12
The Ecuadorian ambassador to London slammed Britain on Sunday for "acting like an empire" when it threatened to raid the Ecuadorian embassy, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is holed up avoiding extradition to Sweden.
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National: 16 Oct 12
The acquittal of a man who was charged with raping a transgender woman has been overturned after an appeals court overruled a lower court''s finding that the rape was "impossible" because the victim was still biologically a man.
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Society: 15 Oct 12
Archaeologists in southern Sweden have unearthed what is presumed to be a 5,000-year-old dolmen, or a portal tomb, near the megalithic monument Ale’s Stones, sometimes referred to as "Sweden's Stonehenge".
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National: 10 Oct 12
Swedish honeymooner Anni Dewani was not sexually assaulted before she was shot dead, a pathologist testified in the ongoing trial in South Africa.
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Society: 5 Oct 12
A Swedish teenager has caused a stir after posting a video where she retold details about how she was raped by an older friend, the day after he was sentenced to prison for two years.
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Politics: 28 Sep 12
Human rights group Amnesty International urged Sweden on Thursday to guarantee WikiLeaks founder Julian Asange that he will not be extradited to the US if he goes to Sweden for questioning.
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Lifestyle: 21 Sep 12
The first ever Swedish-owned champagne house recently opened up its gates in northern France, promising a comprehensive environment policy and “honesty in the bottle”, The Local's Rebecca Martin discovers.
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Society: 13 Sep 12
A Swedish man has been ordered held on remand after authorities discovered that he was paying women in the Philippines to sexually assault children in front of a webcam while he watched on his computer in Sweden.
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National: 13 Sep 12
The man accused of murdering a Swedish student in Paris in 2008 should be sentenced to life in prison, a French prosecutor said on Friday in closing arguments.
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Politics: 10 Sep 12
Rick Falkvinge, the founder Sweden's Pirate Party, has found himself in hot water after publishing a lengthy polemic calling for the legalization of child pornography.
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National: 7 Sep 12
A French taxi driver and convicted rapist accused of murdering a Swedish student in Paris in 2008 stripped naked before he was scheduled to appear in court on Friday morning, further delaying his trial.
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National: 6 Sep 12
The 15-year-old boy from Afghanistan who sewed his mouth shut after his residency application was rejected will not be deported from Sweden after a previous decision was reversed on Thursday.
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National: 6 Sep 12
The trial of an unlicenced taxi driver and convicted rapist accused of murdering a Swedish student in Paris in 2008 resumed on Wednesday with a plea from the man's mother that her son was a "good boy".
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National: 5 Sep 12
A 15-year-old boy from Afghanistan who sewed his mouth shut after his application for Swedish residency was rejected will be deported to Italy, in what a Swedish MEP called a "humanitarian catastrophe in my own country".
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National: 3 Sep 12
An unlicensed taxi driver and serial rapist accused of kidnapping and murdering a Swedish student in Paris in 2008 is set to go on trial in France on Tuesday.
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Politics: 26 Aug 12
"Ban Islam in Sweden and deport those who persist in believing in the religion", said Pär Norling, group leader of the Sweden Democrats in Bollnäs, in an interview with Swedish television.
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National: 23 Aug 12
Julian Assange's lawyer said Thursday that a prosecutor from Sweden had been requested to take a statement in London from the WikiLeaks founder, adding that "surprising" information about the rape claims would be revealed.
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National: 22 Aug 12
Sweden announced Tuesday that it is in the hands of Washington, not Stockholm, to give WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange the guarantees he requested.
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National: 21 Aug 12
The United States responded to Julian Assange's "witch hunt" accusations, stating Monday that the WikiLeaks founder is trying to deflect attention from the question of whether he will face justice in Sweden.
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National: 19 Aug 12
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is to face the world's media on Sunday to comment on the latest developments in his fight to evade extradition to Sweden to answer rape and sexual assault allegations.
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National: 18 Aug 12
A Swedish Pentacostalist pastor has been sentenced to two years imprisonment for raping a member of a prayer group which he led at a church in Stockholm.
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National: 17 Aug 12
The US on Thursday denied charges that it had put pressure on the UK to extradite Julian Assange, claiming to not be involved in what has become an international row over the WikiLeaks founder's situation.
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National: 16 Aug 12
Sweden rejected Ecuador's claim that Julian Assange would not get a fair trial as a basis for granting asylum, and summoned the Ecuadorian ambassador to explain Quito's decision.
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Lifestyle: 4 Aug 12
With the centenary of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg's birth on Saturday, The Local catches up with Brian Palmer, a researcher at Uppsala University who has created a calendar to commemorate individuals of exceptional civic courage.
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National: 31 Jul 12
Sweden has been asked by Ecuador to interview WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange regarding accusations of rape and sexual harassament in London.
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National: 27 Jul 12
A Norwegian boy participating in a football tournament in central Sweden is suspected of rape, while two teammates are suspected of sexually harassing three girls.
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National: 26 Jul 12
Ecuador said Wednesday it would reach a decision on whether to grant asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange that would not alienate Britain nor affect the London 2012 Olympic Games.
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National: 25 Jul 12
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has hired Spanish celebrity jurist Baltasar Garzón to assist his bid to seek asylum in Ecuador and avoid extradition to Sweden to face rape charges.
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National: 21 Jul 12
A teenage girl has reported an attempted rape by a fellow participant at the Gothia Cup youth football tournament in Gothenburg.
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National: 21 Jul 12
A 17-year-old Swedish high school student accused of raping a woman in southern Spain last July was acquitted by a Malaga court on Friday.
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Society: 18 Jul 12
A man in northern Sweden needed stitches after sitting on bus seat that contained a hidden scalpel, something the man believes was purposely fitted to the seat to cause passengers harm.
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National: 16 Jul 12
A woman used Facebook to identify the man she believes raped her in a park in western Sweden on Saturday morning, one of three rapes reported in less than 24 hours in the area at the weekend.
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Society: 16 Jul 12
An elderly man armed with an ice-scraper in western Sweden has taken extreme measures after Spanish "killer" slugs took over his café.
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National: 15 Jul 12
Early on Sunday morning police were alerted to the third outdoor rape reported in less than 24 hours in the small Swedish town of Varberg.
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National: 11 Jul 12
Ecuador's government will not bow to British, Swedish and US pressure in the decision of whether to grant asylum to Julian Assange, but will make a 'sovereign' decision, said President Rafael Correa Tuesday.
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National: 10 Jul 12
Granting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange political asylum in Ecuador to avoid extradition to Sweden may lead the United States to discredit the South American country, Quito's ambassador in Washington said Monday.
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National: 6 Jul 12
A transgender woman who was the victim of an attempted rape has appealed a Swedish court’s decision to clear the offender of the charges after the court argued the rape was "impossible" because the victim was still biologically a man.
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Politics: 5 Jul 12
The sex crime accusations lodged in Sweden against Julian Assange are laughable, Ecuador's foreign minister said on Wednesday, adding that his country is still reviewing the asylum application filed by the WikiLeaks founder.
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National: 4 Jul 12
A man who attempted to rape a woman has been cleared of the charges by a Swedish court after it turned out that the woman he tried to rape was biologically a man.
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National: 3 Jul 12
A 19-year-old man has been detained for the suspected rape of at least five children between the ages of five and seven in central Sweden, crimes the man has partially confessed to, prosectors revealed on Tuesday.
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Business & Money: 2 Jul 12
Sweden, together with France, Germany and Britain, called for an arms trade treaty from the United Nations on Monday, aiming to fight the worldwide suffering caused by the "poorly regulated arms trade".
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National: 29 Jun 12
Julian Assange will remain in the Ecuadorian embassy, choosing not to comply with UK police orders to turn himself in for extradition to Sweden, a spokesperson for the WikiLeaks founder said Friday.
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