March 21, 2010
The following articles have been tagged with "Solna":
Science & Technology: 24 Feb 10
Swedish researchers have found that as many as two out of three people diagnosed as allergic can eat peanuts without any problems at all.
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National: 18 Feb 10
A Swedish court on Thursday ruled that the two doctors previously suspected of committing the gruesome murder of Catrine da Costa, found dismembered in 1984, are not entitled to damages.
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National: 12 Feb 10
The allegations directed at a former Swedish police chief suspected of rape continued to grow on Friday with at least seven women and girls now thought to be involved in the case.
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National: 1 Feb 10
A mother of four has been charged with trafficking and other offences after keeping her Polish nannies and cleaner under "slave-like" conditions in her Solna home.
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National: 30 Jan 10
Six men have been arrested on suspicion of growing cannabis in three apartments in the Stockholm area. Police believe the green-fingered gang are part of an extensive network of plant growers and dealers.
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National: 28 Jan 10
A former police chief suspected of rape in an expanding sex ring investigation was remanded in custody on Thursday, despite his claims of innocence. A number of other well-known men are also said to be under investigation.
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National: 27 Jan 10
A former high-ranking police official has been arrested in central Sweden on suspicion of raping a woman and attempting to rape several children.
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National: 22 Jan 10
Parents of an 18-month-old girl who died after being admitted to the Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital with pneumonia say a shortfall in the quality of care led to their child's death.
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National: 12 Jan 10
A 30-year-old woman from western Stockholm charged with subjecting her three children to ‘torture-like abuse’ has been sentenced to 16 months in prison.
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Sport: 11 Jan 10
Dutch defender Jos Hooiveld, who helped lead Stockholm club AIK to the 2009 Swedish football championship, has been signed by Scottish club Celtic.
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National: 28 Dec 09
A 42-year-old man who stabbed his girlfriend to death and then poured whiskey on her dead body has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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National: 19 Dec 09
A dead man was found on Friday morning partially frozen into the ice on Sickla canal the the neighbourhood of Hammarby sjöstad in southern Stockholm. The body has not yet been identified.
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Science & Technology: 23 Nov 09
Sweden's disease control authorities report that three women and eleven men have died from the swine flu since August. The fifteenth victim, a 3-year-old boy who died at the weekend, was not included in the report.
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Lifestyle: 18 Nov 09
What's on in Sweden: International film festival & Simple Minds (UK) in Stockholm; Christmas market & Takida in Gothenburg; The Sonics (US) in Malmö/Lund.
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National: 9 Nov 09
County health authorities in Sweden are set to receive half a million more doses of the swine flu vaccine on Tuesday, with up to a million doses expected to be delivered weekly in two weeks time.
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Sport: 8 Nov 09
AIK added the Swedish cup on Saturday to their Allsvenskan league championship win to claim a historic double - the first for the Solna-based side.
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Lifestyle: 3 Nov 09
As the Swedish championship gold medal makes its way to Solna, Nic Townsend looks back at another eventful season in Sweden’s premier football competition.
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Sport: 1 Nov 09
Stockholm’s AIK football club reversed a one-goal deficit to defeat IFK Gothenburg 2-1 in a dramatic title-deciding match, claiming the Allsvenskan championship for the first time in eleven years.
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Sport: 30 Oct 09
IFK Gothenburg welcome Stockholm team AIK to Gamla Ullevi stadium on Sunday in a title decider as the Swedish Allsvenskan championship goes down to the wire.
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Business & Money: 29 Oct 09
Sweden’s Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that broadband provider ePhone is obligated to hand over customer data to five audio book publishers.
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Science & Technology: 13 Oct 09
Swedish broadband provider ePhone is not obligated to hand over customer information to five book publishers, according to a decision by the Svea Court of Appeal which overturns a lower court ruling.
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Sport: 11 Oct 09
Sweden were unable to live up to the pre-match bravado and were left wanting in Copenhagen losing 1-0 to Denmark who booked their spot in the World Cup finals in South Africa next summer.
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Sport: 9 Oct 09
The Swedish football team heads to Parken stadium in Copenhagen on Saturday hoping to claim the points and a real chance of winning a World Cup group that long seemed out of their grasp.
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National: 6 Oct 09
There was nothing wrong with the care given to a newborn baby who died in September of last year at Astrid Lindgren’s Children’s Hospital, according to a report on the incident.
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Lifestyle: 24 Sep 09
What's on in Sweden: Alela Diane (US) and football derby in Stockholm; International Book Fair & French acrobats in Gothenburg; Ane Brun (NO) in Malmö.
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National: 14 Sep 09
The attitudes and values of Swedish police cadets are to be assessed before and after they complete their training, following a number of noteworthy racist comments by police officers in recent months.
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Science & Technology: 28 Aug 09
A pregnant young Swedish woman is critically ill with a life-threatening lung infection that is suspected to be swine flu.
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Science & Technology: 26 Aug 09
Four Swedes are described by medical authorities as having a life-threatening condition following infection with the A/H1N1 swine flu.
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National: 24 Aug 09
Two boys and a girl are reported to have fallen out of the window at a school in Järfalla in northern Stockholm. Police fear that the children have sustained serious injuries.
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National: 23 Aug 09
One person died in an apartment fire on Klippgatan in Solna, just north of Stockholm, early Sunday morning.
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National: 22 Aug 09
A Swedish court on Friday sentenced six men to prison for their involvement in a major counterfeiting ring specializing in fake euro and dollar notes.
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Science & Technology: 13 Aug 09
Eating chocolate two or more times per week strongly reduces the risk of heart disease for people who have previously survived a heart attack, new Swedish research has shown.
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National: 8 Aug 09
The condition of the 26-year-old pregnant Scottish woman being treated for swine flu in a special ward at Karolinska Hospital is no longer life-threatening, doctors say.
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Science & Technology: 3 Aug 09
Four film companies have filed a motion in a Swedish court to force TeliaSonera to release details about the operators of the Swetorrents file sharing website.
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Science & Technology: 29 Jul 09
Sweden’s prestigious Karolinska University hospital has been criticized by health authorities after three newborns died from infections caused by drug-resistant bacteria.
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Science & Technology: 24 Jul 09
A gravely ill pregnant woman from Britain who is suffering from the swine flu is in Sweden for treatment due to a lack of specialist beds in Britain.
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National: 21 Jul 09
There are enough respirators in Sweden's 21 counties to handle the care of the patients who have been infected by swine flu. But questions remain as to whether there are enough trained staff to operate the machines.
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Science & Technology: 20 Jul 09
Doctors at at Vrinnevi hospital in Norrköping in eastern Sweden fear for the life of the 22-year-old Swede being treated for a swine flu infection after he failed to respond to treatment.
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Science & Technology: 15 Jul 09
Swedish broadband provider ePhone has said it will appeal a controversial court ruling obliging it to hand over information about its customers to five publishers looking into copyright violations.
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National: 11 Jul 09
Prosecutors have officially suspended the investigation into the murder of Catrine da Costa, who was found dismembered in 1984. The case is one of the modern famous cases in modern Swedish legal history.
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Science & Technology: 25 Jun 09
A group of audio book publishers has prevailed in the first case tried since the passage of Sweden’s anti-file sharing law, forcing an ISP to hand over information about its customers.
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Society: 23 Jun 09
An employee of the Swedish Migration Board has been ordered to pay 40,000 kronor ($5,000) in damages after he was found guilty of bribing an immigrant from Afghanistan in exchange for a residence permit.
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National: 14 Jun 09
A man was seriously injured when he was attacked by an axe-wielding man near Stockholm on Saturday. The axeman fled, crashed his car and was later found bleeding at a nearby metro station.
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Society: 11 Jun 09
Thirteen Swedish municipalities have been chosen to participate in the first phase of a plan to reward newly arrived immigrants who perform well in state-funded language classes.
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Politics: 11 Jun 09
Minister for Higher Education and Research Lars Leijonborg has resigned from the cabinet. "I feel like doing something different," the minister said in a statement.
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Sport: 5 Jun 09
Sweden face a tough task on Saturday as they face up to local rivals Denmark in a tie that is crucial to their chances of qualification for the 2010 World Cup.
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National: 31 May 09
A woman in her twenties shot herself by accident during an argument on a Stockholm street on Saturday afternoon. Police now suspect attempted murder.
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National: 27 May 09
Daniel Westling, the fiancé of Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria, has received a new kidney from his father, royal officials have announced.
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Science & Technology: 26 May 09
Patients at Karolinska University Hospital in Solna were housed last summer in the same department as those with the resistant MRSA bacteria, due to overcrowding.
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Lifestyle: 13 May 09
What's on in Sweden: Canadian improv theatre and Morrissey in Stockholm; Funk veterans and Basketball Festival in Gothenburg; Brandy in Malmö.
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Education: 27 Apr 09
The number of students enrolled at Swedish universities climbed in 2008 for the first time since the early 2000s, new statistics show. Foreign students account for a large part of the increase.
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National: 24 Apr 09
Police confirm that they have received a wealth of tips and information about the dead baby that went missing from a Stockholm church mortuary prior to burial this week.
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Society: 23 Apr 09
The Swedish government announced on Thursday that it is to hand over the use of Haga Palace near Stockholm to Crown Princess Victoria prior to her marriage next year.
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Society: 19 Apr 09
Astrid Lindgren's hospital in Solna near Stockholm has alerted police to suspicions of illegal circumcisions that have left two small boys with injuries.
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Science & Technology: 16 Apr 09
A Swedish prosecutor thinks that health professionals who prescribe birth control pills to girls younger than 15-years-old should be charged as accomplices to rape.
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Lifestyle: 15 Apr 09
What's on in Sweden: Tina Turner & football derby in Stockholm; Zulu 9.30 & Emilie Autumn (US) in Gothenburg; The Only Ones (UK) in Malmö.
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Lifestyle: 2 Apr 09
With the Swedish football season kicking of this weekend, Nic Townsend separates the title hopefuls from the relegation woefuls in a team by team analysis of the Allsvenskan.
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National: 1 Apr 09
With the new anti-file sharing IPRED law fresh on Sweden's law books, five book publishers have applied to the courts to trace a suspected illegal file sharer.
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National: 23 Mar 09
A 36-year-old Swedish man previously convicted for abusing his two week old daughter has had his one-year prison sentence lengthened to four years by the Svea Court of Appeal.
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National: 23 Mar 09
A Stockholm-area businessman has been charged for using the internet to pimp Swedish school girls for violent group sex.
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Sport: 9 Mar 09
With play in Sweden’s top football league, the Allsvenskan, less than a month away, The Local’s Keith Moore hears from AIK’s English midfielder Kenny Pavey about how he ended up playing for one of Sweden's most notorious football clubs.
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National: 7 Mar 09
A 62-year-old man was found dead in his apartment in Eskilstuna in central Sweden on Friday. A 54-year-old was on Saturday arrested on suspicion of his murder.
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National: 7 Mar 09
The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) is to open its own investigation into the death of a newborn baby at a Solna hospital as the arrest of the attending doctor sparks a storm of controversy.
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National: 6 Mar 09
The doctor suspected of having killed a newborn baby was remanded in custody on Friday on suspicion of manslaughter.
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National: 4 Mar 09
A Swedish teenager who made oinking noises as he walked past two police officers has been convicted for the insult and ordered pay a fine.
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Science & Technology: 10 Feb 09
First-time mothers over the age of 35 run a greater risk of suffering psychosis after delivery than younger women, a new Swedish study shows.
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Society: 3 Feb 09
A Stockholm-area middle school teacher who purchased beer for two 15-year-old girls has been sentenced to 7,500 kronor ($900) in fines.
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National: 18 Jan 09
A 65-year-old man died as a result of his snowmobile crashing through thin ice on a lake near Rättvik in central Sweden on Saturday evening. One of several accidents across the country over the weekend.
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Society: 29 Dec 08
The number of cases of child abuse reported to the police has increased dramatically over the past year, new statistics from the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå) show.
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National: 26 Dec 08
The police chase for the gunman who injured three people at the Casino Cosmopol in Stockholm on Christmas Eve has so far returned little result. On Boxing Day morning the man remained on the loose.
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Science & Technology: 23 Dec 08
A 44-year-old doctor who performed oral sex on a male patient at a Stockholm hospital in 2007 has been allowed to keep his licence.
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National: 12 Dec 08
Police in Stockholm confiscated 140 kilogrammes of cannabis and arrested four men last weekend in raids carried out at several suburban locations last weekend.
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National: 13 Nov 08
Discount German supermarket chain Lidl has issued an apology after workers at one of its Swedish stores deliberately poisoned discarded food in a bid to keep homeless people at bay.
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Society: 3 Nov 08
Police in Stockholm arrested Syrian-Lebanese singing star George Wassouf at his hotel on Saturday on charges of drug possession shortly before he was due to perform a concert.
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National: 18 Oct 08
A man in his twenties was dumped at Karolinska University hospital in Solna on Saturday morning - police report that the man had been stabbed to death.
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Lifestyle: 8 Oct 08
Sleek design, spotless sidewalks and vast colonies of rats: It can only be Sweden, as Christopher Seymour finds out.
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Science & Technology: 7 Oct 08
A 44-year-old doctor in Stockholm is to have his licence revoked after performing oral sex on a male patient.
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Lifestyle: 1 Oct 08
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National: 30 Sep 08
The prime suspects in an opium bust in which Swedish officials last spring seized nearly 100 kilograms of the drug have been sentenced to ten years in prison.
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Society: 13 Sep 08
Fast-food chain McDonald's has announced the withdrawal of musical toys sold with Happy Meals in Sweden. The toys have been widely criticized as dangerous to children's hearing.
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Sport: 7 Sep 08
Sweden were held to a 0-0 draw by Albania in Tirana in their opening World Cup 2010 qualifier. Coach Lars Lagerbäck came under fire for risking a new 3-5-2 formation.
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Lifestyle: 4 Sep 08
What’s on: R.E.M and international comedy in Stockholm; Pink Floyd tribute and championship Golf in Gothenburg; Son of Dave and international dance in Malmö.
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Sport: 26 Aug 08
The Stockholm derby match between AIK and Hammarby on Monday evening was plagued by hooliganism and rioting for the second consecutive year.
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National: 25 Aug 08
A group of 50 animal rights activists forced a gate at the entrance to the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control in Stockholm on Monday morning.
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National: 23 Aug 08
A woman was seriously injured and a man sustained minor injuries as their home-made gyrocopter aircraft crashed in Upplands-Bro, north of Stockholm on Saturday.
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Society: 18 Aug 08
Rwandan authorities have requested the extradition of a man in his 50s wanted on genocide charges who is currently being held at a remand centre in Sweden.
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Society: 10 Aug 08
Young criminals often feel worse mentally compared to other young people. Young people that commit serious crimes have a ten-fold greater risk of psychosis than average, new research shows.
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National: 28 Jul 08
Two men were stabbed and robbed of their mobile telephones in the Tantolunden area of Södermalm in Stockholm on Sunday night in an attack police are classifying as a hate crime.
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National: 22 Jul 08
A 35-year-old man was convicted on Tuesday of murder, attempted murder, aggravated robbery and theft. He was given a life sentence.
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National: 18 Jul 08
A Swedish court on Friday ordered a Rwandan man suspected of taking part in the 1994 genocide remanded in custody pending a possible extradition request.
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National: 16 Jul 08
Police have launched an investigation into a building site collapse in the Stockholm suburb of Kista which claimed the life of one man and left two in hospital on Tuesday evening.
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Lifestyle: 10 Jul 08
What’s on: Mary J Blige at the Jazz Festival in Stockholm, Gothia Cup football festival in Gothenburg, El Perro del Mar, Norman Jay and Bollywood in Malmö.
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Analysis & Opinion: 6 Jun 08
Mark Majzner looks at how two landmark EU decisions have affected the alcohol retail trade in Sweden.
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National: 3 Jun 08
A 35-year-old man thought to be a serial murderer was indicted on Tuesday, suspected of murder, attempted murder, aggravated robbery, and theft.
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Analysis & Opinion: 29 May 08
Ronnie Gilchrist spends a trying afternoon at the offices of the Migration Board with an MBA student who urgently needs the agency to rectify a bureaucratic error.
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National: 28 May 08
A security guard who surreptitiously filmed a woman in a sporting goods store has been acquitted by a Stockholm court because the woman didn’t know she was being filmed.
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Lifestyle: 26 May 08
Most Swedes will be bemused to learn they have a national Australian Football team. Nic Townsend meets the Swedish Elks before they travel to Melbourne for the International Cup.
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National: 26 May 08
The woman in charge of several suburban Stockholm pre-schools was sentenced on Monday to five years in prison for defrauding the city of millions of kronor.
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Analysis & Opinion: 26 May 08
As a growing array of languages jostle for position in the towns and suburbs of Sweden, Faisal Enayat Khan examines some linguistic shortcomings in the country's legal system.
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National: 22 May 08
The Swedish Migration Board has called in the police to help investigate an alleged residence permit bribery scandal.
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