May 28, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Samuels":
Analysis & Opinion: 20 Mar 12
Frustration with being shut out of the Swedish job market has prompted several Swedes with immigrant backgrounds to seek – and find – success in the melting pot that is New York City, contributor Rafaela Stålbalk discovers.
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Business & Money: 1 Feb 12
The Swedish Supreme Court will not grant the right to appeal in the Pirate Bay case, the court announced on Wednesday, marking the end of the four defendants' legal battle in Sweden.
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Science & Technology: 4 Jan 12
The Swedish Medical Products Agency can't estimate how many of the French PIP breast implants, used by some 4,000 Swedish women, have burst. Despite what the law says, beauty clinics often fail in reporting potential side effects.
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Society: 2 Dec 11
A Swedish woman who was viciously attacked by her pet cat in southern Stockholm has been reported by an anonymous animal sympathizer, claiming that stabbing the cat to death was unnecessary.
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National: 18 Nov 11
Julian Assange has dumped his Swedish lawyer in favour of a new defence team including an attorney involved in the Pirate Bay trial, as the WikiLeaks founder continues to fight his extradition to Sweden.
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Society: 5 Sep 11
The Swedish government has promised new funds to help boost security around the country's synagogues following accusations that Sweden hasn't done enough to protect it's Jewish population.
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Science & Technology: 25 Jun 11
A five-year-old girl has been refused by a Swedish insurance giant on the grounds of her weight putting her into a “high risk” category, according to media reports.
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Society: 25 May 11
Despite the potentially lethal consequences of a misplaced injection, Botox and other acid fillers can be injected by anyone in Sweden today, according to revelations in a new report.
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Business & Money: 21 Apr 11
Karin Wanngård, set to be the top Social Democrat in Stockholm City Hall, has come in for criticism after saying that people with sales jobs work in a ‘crap profession’.
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Politics: 18 Mar 11
The conflict between the US-based Wiesenthal Center and Malmö mayor Ilmar Reepalu has taken another acrimonious turn after he was accused of anti-Semitism and echoing "conspiracy theories against Jews in the 1930s".
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National: 14 Mar 11
A US-based Jewish group was in Malmö in southern Sweden on Monday to meet with the mayor Ilmar Reepalu to discuss initiatives for improving the safety and security of the city's Jewish population.
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Business & Money: 11 Mar 11
Swedish defence firm Saab has received an order for ammunition for its portable Carl-Gustaf weapons system worth more than a billion kronor, according to a company statement on Friday.
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Business & Money: 17 Jan 11
Swedish businessman Håkan Samuelsson, the former CEO of German truckmaker MAN, has been ordered to pay the company €237 million ($315 million) in damages for his alleged part in a major corruption scandal.
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Business & Money: 22 Dec 10
Swedish property concern Vasakronan has purchased the entire Blåmannen block in central Stockholm for 4.35 billion kronor ($639.51 million), setting a new price record for a commercial property in the country.
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Science & Technology: 20 Dec 10
Carl Lundström, one of the four defendants in The Pirate Bay trial has confirmed that he is appealing the sentence imposed by the Swedish appeals court.
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Society: 16 Dec 10
A US-based Jewish group has issued a travel warning urging Jews to exercise "extreme caution" when traveling in southern Sweden.
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Science & Technology: 15 Oct 10
Defence lawyers for the three founders and a financier of Swedish file sharing site The Pirate Bay warned on Friday of the consequences for popular websites like Facebook and Twitter if their clients’ guilty verdict isn’t overturned.
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Politics: 14 Oct 10
US Jewish organisation the Simon Wiesenthal Center has called for the disqualification of Malmö mayor Ilmar Reepalu from the World Mayor 2010 prize, citing his comments in the spring regarding the city's Jewish population.
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Society: 2 Sep 10
Princess Madeleine is one of three celebrity women who came out on top when Swedish men were asked to plump for their dream woman in a survey of fantasies, health and the fairer sex.
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Society: 28 Jun 10
A Swedish theologian has claimed that Jesus may not have have been crucified as there is no evidence to indicate that the Romans crucified prisoners 2,000 years ago.
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National: 7 Jun 10
A man deported in 1995 from Sweden to Ghana, despite the fact that he came from Uganda, is demanding compensation from the Swedish state after being imprisoned and tortured in the west African country.
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National: 15 Apr 10
Cancelled departures have left Stockholm-Arlanda airport thronged with disappointed passengers after a cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland caused aviation authorities to shut down Swedish airspace.
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Science & Technology: 1 Apr 10
Sweden's Medical Products Agency has banned three brands of silicone breast implants due to the risk of bursting, while it is unknown how many Swedish women may be bearing the combustible products.
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National: 8 Jan 10
A group led by a Swedish truck industry veteran and a former government minister has expressed an interest in buying Saab Automobile from US owner General Motors.
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Sport: 29 Dec 09
A day after forward Mikael Samuelsson slammed the Swedish ice hockey team leadership for leaving him off the provisional Olympic roster, coach Bengt-Åke Gustafsson said he had no plans to reach out to the disgruntled right winger.
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Sport: 9 Nov 09
Djurgården football club is facing hefty fines after fans attacked players from the opposing team following the Stockholm team’s thrilling Sunday night victory to avoid relegation.
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Society: 2 Nov 09
Swedish journalist Donald Boström told an angry audience in Israel on Monday that he stood by his call for an investigation into claims that Israel harvested the organs of dead Palestinians, despite confessing he had no proof.
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National: 10 Oct 09
ABBA star Björn Ulvaeus has been forced to down tools again in his plans to build on a island nature reserve, after a further appeal is lodged by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency.
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Science & Technology: 6 Oct 09
File sharing site The Pirate Bay was out of commission on Tuesday as it struggled to find hosting providers willing to serve the site.
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Science & Technology: 24 Sep 09
Two of the three judges in the Pirate Bay case are biased, according to the defence counsel, Per E. Samuelsson, in a new submission to the appeals court.
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National: 5 Sep 09
A six-year-old boy survived a fall from a seventh floor apartment in Gothenburg on Friday evening, due in part to the actions of a quick-thinking passerby.
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Politics: 4 Aug 09
Gotland county governor Marianne Samuelsson has been forced to step down from her post after she was taped arguing in favour of preferential treatment for a local businessman.
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National: 30 Jul 09
The county governor of the Baltic island of Gotland, Marianne Samuelsson, has been summoned by the government to explain comments claiming that prominent business people should be given favourable treatment.
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National: 27 Jul 09
Sweden called on Venezuela on Monday to explain how Swedish-made weapons sold to the country ended up in the hands of Colombian FARC guerillas.
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Science & Technology: 12 May 09
Bank accounts belonging to the four men found guilty in the Pirate Bay trial will be frozen as early as Wednesday, according to Sweden’s official debt collection agency.
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National: 25 Apr 09
Carl Lundström, who received a one-year prison sentence following the trial of the four men behind the free file-sharing website The Pirate Bay, has demanded a retrial in the district court.
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Society: 23 Apr 09
A lawyer representing one of the men convicted in the Pirate Bay trial has called for a retrial after reports that the judge was a member of the same copyright protection organisations as several of the main entertainment industry representatives.
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Science & Technology: 17 Apr 09
The four men connected with The Pirate Bay were found guilty of being accessories to copyright infringement by a Swedish court on Friday, delivering a symbolic victory in the entertainment industry’s efforts to put a stop to the sharing of copyrighted material on the internet.
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Society: 28 Mar 09
Swedish strongman Magnus Samuelsson showed that he is as equally adept on the dance floor as he is flipping cars when he won TV4's Let's Dance competition on Friday evening.
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National: 27 Mar 09
Swedish poultry company Kronfågel announced on Friday it was recalling all of its frozen chicken products following four new reports of glass in Kronfågel frozen chicken packages.
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Society: 21 Mar 09
Former Abba member Björn Ulvaeus has gained permission to build a home and studio on Furillen, an island off Gotland. Ulvaeus has therefore been given an exemption from strict coastal planning regulations.
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National: 2 Mar 09
One person has been taken to hospital and an entire block evacuated in the wake of a devastating fire in Mölndal in western Sweden.
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Science & Technology: 25 Feb 09
Tempers flared during The Pirate Bay trial on Wednesday afternoon as a record company executive argued the popular file sharing site was to blame for falling music sales.
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National: 24 Feb 09
Attorneys representing the four men charged in The Pirate Bay trial spent Monday afternoon challenging antipiracy lawyers about their knowledge of how the popular file sharing site works.
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National: 20 Feb 09
The Pirate Bay trial was interrupted on Friday morning as lawyers quarreled over admissible evidence, prompting a defence attorney to liken the proceedings to an episode of the classic US legal drama Perry Mason.
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National: 18 Feb 09
As the Pirate Bay trial entered its third day on Wednesday, lawyers for the entertainment industry defended their compensation claims against the four defendants, whose lawyers in turn did their best to poke holes in the prosecution’s case.
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National: 17 Feb 09
The prosecutor in the trial of the men behind the popular file sharing site The Pirate Bay surprised a Stockholm court on Tuesday by amending the charges. "A sensation," according to defence lawyer Per E. Samuelsson.
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National: 16 Feb 09
Four people who run one of the world's leading file-sharing websites denied any wrongdoing as they went on trial in Stockholm on Monday for facilitating illegal downloads of copyrighted material.
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Society: 17 Jan 09
British choreographer and Let's Dance judge Tony Irving was so taken aback by the gyrations of the world's strongest man, Magnus Samuelsson, in Friday evening's heat that he declared that he was "In looove!..."
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Society: 9 Jan 09
One of Sweden's most popular television shows has its season premiere on Friday evening, with viewers expected to tune in en masse to watch celebrities shake their stuff on Let's Dance.
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National: 21 Dec 08
Horace Engdahl has announced he is stepping down as the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, the body which awards the Nobel Prize for literature.
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Society: 26 Nov 08
Swedish chef Marcus Samuelsson, founder of New York’s acclaimed Aquavit restaurant, is among those being tipped as possible candidates to prepare meals for Barack Obama at the White House.
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Sport: 15 Oct 08
For the second year in a row, a famous Swede has presented US President George W. Bush with a rather unusual gift.
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National: 7 Oct 08
Public prosecutor Solveig Sörlien will file formal charges against an ICA grocery store in the Stockholm suburb of Nacka for relabeling outdated packages of mince meat and putting them back on store shelves.
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Sport: 31 Jul 08
The Stanley Cup, ice hockey's holy grail, was put to unorthodox use as it made its way across Sweden this July - as a baptismal font.
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Lifestyle: 2 Jun 08
Sometimes there’s no substitute for browsing the shelves and taking a book home with you, writes James Savage, who trawls the land in the search for some top notch English-language bookstores.
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National: 22 Mar 08
A 30-year-old man is wanted for the murder and attempted murder of two men in Gothenburg on Good Friday.
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National: 25 Dec 07
A brawl involving several young people resulted with three men in the hospital and several questions as to what caused the violence.
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Business & Money: 23 Nov 07
German truck maker MAN has said it wants to grow fast through acquisitions.
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National: 15 Oct 07
The 2007 Nobel prize season comes to a close on Monday with the announcement of the Economics Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Labrokes is tipping a Swedish professor to win.
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Business & Money: 15 Sep 07
Plans to merge Swedish truck-maker Scania with Germany's MAN and parts of Volkswagen have been called off, according to the German weekly magazine Focus, quoting an unidentified manager involved.
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Society: 26 Aug 07
Ten youths were assaulted with sticks and glass bottles at an anti-racism concert in Farsta, in the south of Stockholm, on Saturday night.
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National: 27 Jul 07
Some of the largest sailing ships in the world are gathering in Stockholm's harbour as the world-renowned Tall Ships Race comes to Sweden. The spectacular scene in the centre of Stockholm will be the backdrop for a weekend of entertainment.
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National: 11 Jul 07
Police say they have reason to doubt the story of an Iraqi asylum seeker who claimed she was raped by three masked men in a Stockholm apartment last week.
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National: 9 Jul 07
A 29-year-old Iraqi woman was rescued by police on Sunday following a five day ordeal during which she was tied up and raped by three masked men.
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Society: 29 May 07
Many Swedish houses built during the last ten years are susceptible to mould after a flawed technique was used in their construction.
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Lifestyle: 22 May 07
The city of Karlskrona on Sweden's south-eastern tip is home to a mystery that has remained unsolved for a decade: why has the art establishment ignored two Bosnian aristocrats' seemingly mouthwatering private collection? Paul O'Mahony investigates.
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Politics: 11 Apr 07
Per Jodenius and Niki Westerberg should be given suspended sentences, according to the public prosecutor. Speaking at the end of a two day-trial for the Liberal Party spying scandal, the prosecutor called for four further defendants to be fined.
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Society: 21 Mar 07
An official inquiry has proposed that Sweden allow same-sex couples to marry on the same terms as heterosexuals. As well as protests from religious groups, gay campaigners are angry that priests would still be allowed to refuse to officiate at gay weddings.
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Business & Money: 7 Mar 07
Volkswagen shifted up a gear on Wednesday in its drive to engineer a three-way trucks merger between itself, MAN and Scania, raising its stake in both the German and Swedish companies.
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National: 1 Mar 07
When becoming a woman at the end of last year, Carina Bladh did not reckon with being charged extra for her car insurance.
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Society: 5 Feb 07
A Swedish diplomat in Jakarta has opened his home to victims of the recent flooding in the Indonesian capital. Ulf Samuelsson said it felt 'quite natural' to invite his flood-stricken neighbours to stay with him.
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Business & Money: 27 Dec 06
MAN AG wants to offer Scania AB shareholder Investor AB a supervisory board seat, in the event of MAN taking over the Swedish truck maker, according to MAN CEO Håkan Samuelsson.
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Business & Money: 7 Dec 06
The Scania takeover battle stepped up on Wednesday, as the firm's chief executive Leif Östling likened a hostile bid by Germany's MAN to Hitler's 'blitzkrieg'.
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Business & Money: 1 Dec 06
The chief executive of MAN, Håkan Samuelsson, has played down the prospect of a raised bid for Swedish truckmaker Scania. He also said a Scania bid for MAN was unlikely.
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Business & Money: 23 Nov 06
German truckmaker MAN has promised not to cut jobs in Sweden if it succeeds in taking over its rival Scania. "There will be no discrimination of Swedish employees in favour of German," says MAN's CEO.
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Business & Money: 2 Nov 06
German engineering conglomerate MAN was upbeat on Thursday about its chances of taking over Swedish struckmaker Scania.
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Business & Money: 26 Sep 06
The chief executive of Volkswagen, Bernd Pischetsreider, has said no to a hostile bid from industrial group MAN for Swedish truckmaker Scania.
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Politics: 26 Sep 06
The pre-election computer scandal rumbles on. Now the former secretary of the Liberal Party, Johan Jakobsson, is suspected of being an accessory to the unauthorised access of the Social Democrats' network.
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Business & Money: 18 Sep 06
The battle for domination of the European truck building industry got underway on Monday with a hostile bid from German MAN for Swedish truckmaker Scania.
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Society: 24 Aug 06
Sweden is increasingly popular among foreign students. With more universities offering classes in English, students from around the world are queuing up for temporary visas.
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National: 16 Aug 06
An anti-Semitism awareness group has said the Swedish conference on rebuilding Lebanon is discriminatory for not addressing the needs of Israeli victims of the conflict.
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Sport: 21 May 06
Turin Olympic champions Sweden battled into the ice hockey world championships final with a tight 5-4 win over the last year's runners-up Canada in their semi-final match in Riga on Saturday.
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Sport: 17 May 06
Sweden walloped the US 6-0 in the World Championsip ice hockey quarter-final in Riga on Wednesday afternoon. Mika Hannula, with three goals, was the match hero.
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Sport: 19 Feb 06
The Swedish men's ice hokey team beats the United States in the Olympics in Turin. This despite having to do without the services of injured Peter Forsberg, who sat on the bench for the match.
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Smörgåsbord: 14 Nov 05
Sweden's meteorologists have issued a storm warning for southern parts of the country, and temperatures are expected to drop drastically. The long term forecast's not good, either.
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Sport: 2 Nov 05
A senior official at Gothenburg football club IFK Göteborg is held by police over alleged serious tax crimes. Mats Persson says he has done nothing wrong.
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Business & Money: 31 Oct 05
In a 260 million kronor deal with the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration, Saab is to modernise 40,000 AK5 assault rifles.
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Business & Money: 4 Apr 05
250 Saab Bofors Dynamics employees been given notice today, casualties of the company's failure to bring in sufficient new orders. The decision will affect staff at Karlskoga and Linköping.
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National: 28 Feb 05
More than thirty young people are arrested after plain-clothes police join the fun on 24-hour ferry voyage to Åbo and back. And one man who was flown off the ship in an air ambulance after he "felt a bit ill" admits swallowing three condoms packed with ecstasy tablets.
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Lifestyle: 15 Feb 05
Qualifying, heats, finals, drugs. You might have thought the Olympics had come round again. But no, the gun has just gone for Sweden's annual songfest. It proved to be a straightforward passage to the Stockholm finale for one of the favourites, Shirley Clamp.
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Lifestyle: 3 Feb 05
Stockholm's culture mafia schmoozes with Swedish ministers as the country's big art-meets-commerce wheeze, the Year of Design, kicks off with an exhibition at Liljevalchs. Only the designers aren't happy.
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Smörgåsbord: 2 Dec 04
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National: 18 Nov 04
Sweden experiences a good covering of snow for the first time in years. Or so you'd think, judging from the reports of unprepared roads, unprepared drivers and ensuing traffic chaos.
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Lifestyle: 28 Sep 04
The Gothenburg Book Fair is in full swing and topics range from the British-Nordic link to the normative roles of children's literature. The Local flicks through the issues that have made it into the papers.
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National: 6 Aug 04
How to predict weather more accurately than the Swedish meteorological office: flip a coin, heads it's rain, tails it's sun.
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Business & Money: 14 May 04
Electrical failures on both sides of Sweden - shoppers were shocked, journalists remained positive, commuters missed connections, and so on.
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National: 16 Apr 04
Anna Lindh's murderer wants the verdict reduced to manslaughter while her family is seeking increased compensation.
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Sanna is one of 2 million people in Sweden under the age of 18. Sweden is seen as a good place to grow up. The law makes sure children are well-protected and defends their rights and any organizations work with children's well-being. Read more »
August Strindberg's plays shocked society, dazzled audiences and revolutionized drama. A century after his death, Strindberg, with his powerful, timeless themes, is celebrated around the world. Read more »
Prime Minister Reinfeldt chats with The Local »
"If you missed it yesterday, here’s The Local’s editor David Landes snagging Prime Minister Reinfeldt for a chat before Princess Estelle’s baptism. Always nice to know the PM has time for TL!" READ »
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