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National: 21 May 13
Cars were engulfed in flames on Monday night and youths clashed with police in the north-western Stockholm district of Husby for a second night in a row.
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National: 20 May 13
Police officers on hand during the Husby riot in northern Stockholm stand accused of using racist language towards people on the ground, with one youth worker in the area claiming it is "not the last time" such scenes will occur.
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Analysis & Opinion: 20 May 13
In the wake of Sunday's night's unrest in the north Stockholm district of Husby, The Local catches up with the editor of a local newspaper to find out more about what caused residents to take to the streets and how police responded.
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National: 20 May 13
Youths rioted in northern Stockholm on Sunday night, setting fire to cars and throwing rocks at police, in what is believed to be a protest against the fatal police shooting of a machete-wielding man in the suburb last week.
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Lifestyle: 20 May 13
With two weeks of Euromania done and dusted and with southern Sweden nursing a Eurovision-sized hangover, The Local's Patrick Reilly takes one last look at the highlights, the lowlights, and Malmö's time in the limelight.
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Sport: 20 May 13
Sweden's ice hockey team won the gold-medal match in the ice hockey World Championships against Switzerland on Sunday night, trouncing the visitors 5-1.
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National: 19 May 13
A man was detained Sunday morning on suspicion of involvement in a violent jewellery store heist which left three people with gunshot wounds.
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Sport: 18 May 13
Sweden will be playing for gold in the ice hockey World Championships after dispatching longstanding rivals and co-hosts Finland with a 3-0 win on Saturday.
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National: 18 May 13
Three people were wounded during an armed robbery on a jewellery store in Ängelholm, southern Sweden on Saturday, with the robbers escaping on a yellow moped.
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Society: 18 May 13
Panic broke out at a Gothenburg school on Friday evening as one man was wounded in a shooting which could be linked to a violent robbery that took place in the area on the same day.
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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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Sport: 17 May 13
Sweden edged Olympic champions Canada 3-2 in a penalty shootout on Thursday night to set up semi-final clash against arch rivals Finland at the ice hockey World Championships.
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Society: 16 May 13
The man who founded a Swedish online fashion retailer has posed half-naked to help market the firm's clothes after Swedes criticized US retailer American Apparel for using "sexist" images of nearly-naked women to sell its wares.
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Politics: 16 May 13
Sweden's top EU politician Cecilia Malmström wants to register lobbyists, stating that Sweden's small size means political networks and friendships often overlapped.
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National: 16 May 13
A British man wanted in South Africa in connection with the murder of his Swedish wife, who was killed while the couple were on their honeymoon, has suffered a relapse in mental health problems, a court heard on Wednesday.
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Society: 15 May 13
Swedish photographer Paul Hansen, under fire for potentially doctoring his award-winning image from the Gaza funeral of two children, has been cleared by the World Press Photo organization that handed him its prestigious annual prize.
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Society: 15 May 13
The use of half-naked women by American Apparel to sell "unisex" shirts has sparked sexism complaints in Sweden, resulting in the US fashion retailer being reported to the country's advertising watchdog.
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National: 14 May 13
Police fatally shot a 69-year-old man in an apartment in north Stockholm on Monday evening after responding to calls that a man armed with a machete was menacing the neighbourhood.
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National: 10 May 13
Swedish police are investigating attempted murder after a shooting at a central Stockholm strip club on Thursday night.
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National: 3 May 13
A Swedish woman has died after playing what appeared to be a game of Russian roulette in western Sweden. The 23-year-old man who provided the weapon was charged for manslaughter on Thursday.
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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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Lifestyle: 2 May 13
A Gangnam Style-inspired announcement about traffic safety that went viral on Facebook has thrust a humble group of Swedish police officers into the spotlight, making them our pick for Swede(s) of the Week.
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Society: 30 Apr 13
A Swedish police officer risks disciplinary action after letting a soon-to-be groom fire 30 shots with his service weapon at a bachelor party held at the indoor shooting range of a police station in western Sweden.
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Business & Money: 29 Apr 13
Swedes are turning away from file-sharing sites like The Pirate Bay in favour of "safer" illegal streaming sites for new movies and TV shows, with experts claiming that Swedes would pay for content if a better solution was available.
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National: 29 Apr 13
After a man was shot dead through his kitchen window in Gothenburg this weekend, local police said easier access to weapons has lead to one shooting a week in the western Sweden city.
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National: 27 Apr 13
A drunk man was shot in the foot by police in Umeå in northern Sweden on Friday night after he pointed a pistol at them in an attempt to evade arrest.
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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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Society: 14 Apr 13
A group of children playing in a snow drift in Umeå in northern Sweden on Saturday came across what they thought was a toy gun only to find out that it was a real weapon when one of them pulled the trigger.
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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: 10 Apr 13
Prosecutors in Gothenburg have decided to file criminal charges against two teen girls believed to be behind a "slut-shaming" account on Instagram that caused local teenagers to riot last year.
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Analysis & Opinion: 5 Apr 13
Researchers have found that job applicants with Swedish sounding names are 50 percent more likely to be called back for an interview than people with Arabic names, based on a randomly generated experiment with CV and cover letters.
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Society: 5 Apr 13
A family in southern Sweden is in mourning after their beloved pet cat, Sam, was shot dead by a vigilante hunter who was killing stray cats in the area.
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Sport: 3 Apr 13
Zlatan Ibrahimovic played a pivotal, if not controversial, role in helping Paris Saint Germain manage a 2-2 draw against Barcelona on Tuesday in the first leg of their Champions League quarter final series.
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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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Politics: 27 Mar 13
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has criticized David Cameron over the British prime minister's plans to restrict migrants' access to social benefits.
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National: 26 Mar 13
Language heavyweight the Swedish Academy, known globally for awarding the Nobel Prize for Literature, has warned Google that it has the clout to fight back if the US search engine objects to the word "ungoogleable".
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Sport: 23 Mar 13
Sweden's prospects of making it to Brazil in 2014 are looking bleak after Friday's goalless World Cup qualifier against Ireland at Stockholm's Friends Arena.
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Travel: 22 Mar 13
For this week’s My Sweden, The Local heads south and talks to former US Marine Ron Tibbs, who lives on a secluded farm near Kristianstad where he's converting a 100-year-old pig house into a traditional Swedish café.
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National: 19 Mar 13
In an apparent protest against Gothenburg's new congestion charges, local residents have sabotaged eleven of the city's toll-booth cameras in what is suspected to be a paintball attack.
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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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Politics: 14 Mar 13
The makers the film Call Girl have agreed to cut a scene portraying a character similar to slain Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme having sex with an underage prostitute after his son reported the film for slander.
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National: 11 Mar 13
Abba vocalist Agnetha Fältskog released a new single on Monday ahead of the scheduled May release of her first studio album in nearly a decade.
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Politics: 9 Mar 13
A local politician and university lecturer who sent a racist email to a student has been readmitted to the Centre Party in Rättvik, central Sweden.
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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: 7 Mar 13
A 24-year-old man who attended a party dressed as Nazi leader Adolf Hitler has been acquitted of hate crime charges by a Swedish court.
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National: 6 Mar 13
The Swedish police are close to wrapping up their investigation into the "slut-shaming" account on Instagram that caused Gothenburg teenagers to riot last year.
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National: 3 Mar 13
Controversial Swedish artist Lars Vilks is reported to be one of eleven people on a list of targets for extremists published by an Al-Qaeda linked group.
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National: 2 Mar 13
Two men have been arrested in connection with the shooting of a man outside a pre-school in Norrköping in central Sweden on Friday.
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National: 1 Mar 13
A 45-year-old woman in Gothenburg has died in hospital after she was shot in the face on Friday morning when she was out for a walk.
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Society: 28 Feb 13
A Swedish woman mourning the untimely death of her pet chihuahua has been comforted with cash after local officials determined her canine companion was devoured by a golden eagle.
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National: 22 Feb 13
A local politician who also lectures at a university in central Sweden has been forced to leave his post after sending a new student a racist email lampooning him as being "Muhammad from Mecca".
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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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National: 19 Feb 13
A border guard on duty when a Swedish plane flew over Belarus last summer to drop hundreds of pro-democracy teddy bears has been jailed for failing to stop the stuffed-animal assault.
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Sport: 14 Feb 13
A Swedish golfer who was bitten by one of Australia's deadliest spiders used a golf tee to help her extract the venom and finish the course during a qualifying tournament in Canberra.
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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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Sport: 13 Feb 13
Zlatan Ibrahimovic picked up a controversial red card in Paris Saint-Germain's 2-1 Champions League win over Valencia on Tuesday night, but the Swedish striker remains optimistic about his side's chances of advancing.
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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: 5 Feb 13
As The Local throws open the doors to its new office in Paris, founder Paul Rapacioli argues - purely coincidentally - that a daily diet of local news could change Europe’s destiny.
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National: 4 Feb 13
Police have launched a murder investigation after one man was found dead and a woman found in a critical condition in southern Sweden on Sunday night.
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Science & Technology: 2 Feb 13
The first of sixteen wolves permitted in the ongoing hunt was killed on Saturday morning close to Örebrö in central Sweden.
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Sport: 2 Feb 13
Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic was on the score sheet again as Ligue 1 leaders PSG thrashed Toulouse 4-0 on Friday.
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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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Politics: 31 Jan 13
Sweden is the one of the most influential countries in the European Union when it comes to European foreign policy, according to a new ranking, exerting clout nearly on par with heavyweights Germany, France, and the UK.
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National: 30 Jan 13
A policeman who fired ten rounds at escaping jewel thieves in Stockholm was fined 26,000 kronor ($4,087) on Wednesday for recklessly endangering the lives of others.
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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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National: 26 Jan 13
A 31-year-old man remains in critical condition after he was shot in broad daylight near Möllevångstorget in central Malmö on Friday afternoon.
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National: 14 Jan 13
A man is dead after he was shot in the head on Monday afternoon in eastern Sweden, with police launching a murder investigation.
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Business & Money: 14 Jan 13
Would-be Stockholm residents now have longer to wait for an available apartment than ever before, with new statistics showing an average waiting time on the region's housing queue of eight years.
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National: 11 Jan 13
A man was sentenced to 15 years prison on Friday for the murder of a 48-year-old man in Malmö last January who was apparently killed by mistake.
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National: 11 Jan 13
Prosecutors have dropped a manslaughter probe into the police officer who shot a suspected jewel thief in the head last week in Södertälje, south of Stockholm, ultimately causing his death.
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Business & Money: 10 Jan 13
Two men have been arrested after opening fire on police with automatic weapons in a north Stockholm bank robbery on Wednesday, while police in southern Stockholm were kept busy with another raid on an armoured car.
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National: 9 Jan 13
The 26-year-old man shot in the head by Swedish police in connection with a jewellery store robbery in Södertäjle last week died in hospital on Wednesday morning.
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National: 8 Jan 13
A 26-year-old man who was shot in the head by police during a jewellery store robbery on Friday was ordered held on remand on Tuesday, as were four of his accomplices.
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National: 7 Jan 13
Doctors have said there is "no hope" for the suspected jewel thief who was shot in the head during a robbery in Södertälje on Friday, according to relatives, as investigators continue to probe the dramatic heist.
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National: 6 Jan 13
The six people held over a violent jewellery store robbery in Södertälje were childhood friends who dreamed of a life of luxury, media report.
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National: 5 Jan 13
Police shot one man and arrested four on Friday after an armed robbery on a jewellery store in a Södertälje shopping mall one hour south of Stockholm.
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National: 4 Jan 13
A robber was shot in the head by police on Friday after he and three others exchanged fire with officers in Södertälje, one hour south of Stockholm, after trying to rob a jewellery store in a shopping mall.
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National: 1 Jan 13
A young man was hit and killed by a car when he took a walk along the E6 motorway near Stenungsund on New Year's Eve, which also saw drunken spats and firework accidents across the country.
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Politics: 30 Dec 12
The shamed Sweden Democrat who resigned from his post as the party's economic policy spokesman in November is giving up his seat in parliament and his party membership.
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Society: 30 Dec 12
Sweden, Eurovision winner Loreen and notorious US bank robber John Dillinger were the three most popular topics on Wikipedia's Swedish edition in 2012.
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Lifestyle: 28 Dec 12
With the call for a last minute Santa unanswered, The Local's Oliver Gee filled some big boots and learned the thrills and perils of being a Swedish Santa - while experiencing a very different Christmas to those back in Australia.
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National: 27 Dec 12
A woman from Stockholm on vacation in Dalarna, central Sweden, lost her dog over the Christmas period when a man mistook it for a wolf and shot it dead.
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National: 23 Dec 12
Police are searching for the person who shot a 23-year-old man in the throat in central Stockholm on Sunday morning.
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National: 19 Dec 12
A Swedish appeals court on Wednesday formally overturned the conviction of a Serb previously jailed for life for war crimes, finding there was no proof he was involved in the 1999 massacre of 40 people in Kosovo.
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Education: 16 Dec 12
In the wake of the Connecticut school shooting, Swedes are discussing whether or not to introduce national security guidelines for Swedish schools.
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National: 13 Dec 12
The 71-year-old Swedish charity worker who was shot in the chest in Pakistan last week died in a Stockholm hospital on Wednesday night.
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Travel: 13 Dec 12
A construction crew bundled up in heavy parkas is bustling around an Arctic building site on the banks of the Torne river in northern Sweden as the 23rd Jukkasjärvi Ice Hotel is erected one oversized ice cube at a time.
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National: 12 Dec 12
One person is dead and a second victim remains hospitalized following a shooting near Helsingborg in southern Sweden on Wednesday as police continue to hunt for suspects.
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Science & Technology: 12 Dec 12
A man in western Sweden managed to dupe authorities into using his painted self-portrait for his driving licence picture, a stunt he believes blurs the line between reality and fantasy.
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Sport: 12 Dec 12
Swedish star striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored a hat-trick on Tuesday night, leading Paris Saint-Germain to a 4-0 win over Valenciennes and bringing his season goal tally to 17.
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National: 10 Dec 12
A Swedish charity worker who remains unconscious after being shot by unknown gunmen in Pakistan last week was flown home to Sweden on Monday for better medical treatment.
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National: 9 Dec 12
A circus act went horribly wrong when a woman was hit in the stomach by a crossbow arrow in the middle of a Christmas show performance at Circus Scott in Stockholm.
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National: 5 Dec 12
The man found guilty of killing Swedish honeymooner Anni Dewani in South Africa two years ago was sentenced to life in prison by a South African court on Wednesday.
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National: 4 Dec 12
The family of Anni Dewani, a Swedish woman killed while on honeymoon in South Africa, expressed frustration on Monday over continued delays in the extradition hearing of Shrien Dewani, who is suspected of having his wife killed.
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National: 3 Dec 12
A female Christian charity worker from Sweden was in hospital on Monday after being shot by unknown assailants in Lahore in eastern Pakistan, according to police.
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National: 2 Dec 12
A 26-year-old man was remanded into custody on Saturday on suspicion of attempted murder in connection with an incident in central Stockholm on Tuesday when a man was shot in the face.
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Society: 29 Nov 12
A 22-year-old woman who disappeared from a Sweden-bound ferry in the early hours of Sunday morning is still missing, with security camera footage suggesting she fell overboard into the Baltic Sea.
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Politics: 29 Nov 12
Soon after the Sweden Democrats rushed to the defence of MP Lars Isovaara, who reportedly snuffled and spat in contempt at a parliamentary security guard, the bag he said was lost in the robbery that upset him was found left behind in a restaurant.
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Sport: 28 Nov 12
The best efforts of Swedish star striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic came to nothing but scornful booing from the fans of St. Etienne on Tuesday night, as they booted his Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) squad out of the French League Cup quarter-finals.
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