May 28, 2012
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National: 20 May 12
The house of a suspected paedophile was set ablaze on the night to Sunday, in what the police believe to be an arson attack.
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Society: 14 May 12
A 101-year-old woman fought back when a thief intruded into her home in northern Sweden, beating him over the head with a stick and frightening him from the house.
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Science & Technology: 14 May 12
One of the founders of Swedish file share site The Pirate Bay is turning to the European Court of Human Rights in the hopes of having his guilty verdict overturned, claiming his conviction violates his freedom of speech.
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National: 14 May 12
A double-decker bus carrying 72 passengers crashed north of Stockholm on Sunday evening after the driver passed out while behind the wheel.
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National: 11 May 12
Three teenage boys and a 76-year-old man are suspected for involvement in the rape of a 14-year-old boy in an elderly man's home in northern Sweden.
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Science & Technology: 7 May 12
Six of ten local politicians in Sweden doubt whether human activity is to blame for global warming, and 10 percent deny climate change completely, a new study has found.
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Education: 3 May 12
A professor at Lund University has been reported to the Disciplinary Board after she graded her son’s exam paper and gave him a pass, one month after she was caught doing it the first time.
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Education: 2 May 12
The doctoral programme in the Swedish Armed Forces has come under fire after the 220 million kronor ($32.7 million) project has only resulted in two working graduates since the programme’s inception in 1992.
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Business & Money: 30 Apr 12
Sweden’s armed forces would not be able to defend Sweden should the need arise, according to experts, who point to the lack of protection against radiation, chemical and biological warfare, and the needs for field hospitals and helicopter training.
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National: 25 Apr 12
Dozens of people in northern Sweden have been charged after police busted a drug ring in which a 5-year-old girl had allegedly handed out hashish and taken payment.
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Politics: 18 Apr 12
Prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt presented Moderate Party MP Karin Enström as Sweden's new minister for defence on Thursday following the resignation last month of Sten Tolgfors amid an ongoing Saudi arms deal scandal.
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Science & Technology: 17 Apr 12
A family in eastern Sweden was devastated to learn that their decesed loved-one would have to be autopsied after the funeral due to a hospital snafu.
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National: 15 Apr 12
Volunteers searching for the remains of 31-year-old Marina Johansson, who went missing in July 2010, on Saturday located bones which police believe to have come from a human body.
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National: 12 Apr 12
A local politician in northern Sweden, working as a disabled transporation driver, has been arrested after he was caught by police while molesting a disabled woman in his vehicle.
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Politics: 4 Apr 12
Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt has said that, although he was not consulted on Sweden's weapons deals with Saudi Arabia, he sees no problems with exporting arms to the country.
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Politics: 3 Apr 12
A recent investigation into psychiatric legislation, presented to minister for social affairs Göran Hägglund on Tuesday, suggests scrapping the possibility for courts to sentence criminals to compulsory institutional care.
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Analysis & Opinion: 30 Mar 12
While it's too early to say exactly why Swedish defence minister Sten Tolgfors resigned on Thursday, experts say there is little doubt his departure amid mounting revelations about Sweden's secret arms' deal with Saudi Arabia has delivered a serious blow to the government.
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National: 29 Mar 12
Sweden's minister of defence, Sten Tolgfors, announced on Thursday he was resigning his post, citing the ongoing revelations about Sweden's secret deal to build a weapons plant in Saudia Arabia as "the final straw".
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Lifestyle: 28 Mar 12
This Saturday the Allsvenskan, Sweden’s premier football league, starts a new season. Contributor Nic Townsend takes a look at each team and their prospects for 2012.
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Society: 28 Mar 12
Jamaican reggae singer Sizzla will perform in Stockholm on Wednesday night despite strong protests against his "anti-gay" lyrics, even though the show had initially been cancelled by promoters.
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Society: 28 Mar 12
A Swedish court judge has been slammed for a recent ruling in which he wrote it was "quite understandable" that a man hit his wife after she refused to tell him where she had been.
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National: 28 Mar 12
An official with a Sweden military agency requested that documents relating to a secret Swedish-Saudi weapons deal not be recorded in order to “protect” defence minister Sten Tolgfors, according to a new report.
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Society: 27 Mar 12
A woman from northern Sweden who had her mobile phone stolen at the weekend was later horrified to find naked pictures of herself posted on her own Facebook page.
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Business & Money: 27 Mar 12
The shell company set up to carry out Sweden's secret plans to build a weapons factory in Saudi Arabia was financed with cash borrowed from the country's military intelligence agency, according to a new report.
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Business & Money: 26 Mar 12
A man and a woman from Sundsvall in northern Sweden are under suspicion for skimming bank cards of hundreds of thousands of kronor and buying postage stamps for the money.
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National: 25 Mar 12
The man who attacked and injured a woman with a machete last week, flew into a rage once more on Saturday and went after the staff of the psychiatric clinic where he's currently being treated, according to local media.
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National: 23 Mar 12
A Swedish soldier on duty in Afghanistan was seriously injured by a roadside bomb on Friday west of the Swedish military base in Mazar-i-Sharif.
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Business & Money: 22 Mar 12
Swedish prosecutors have launched a preliminary criminal investigation into suspicions that a Swedish military agency may have broken the law in connection with plans to help build a weapons plant in Saudi Arabia.
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National: 21 Mar 12
The Swedish government approved a tour by a delegation from Saudi Arabia to a top secret military facility outside of Stockholm after the Armed Forces initially rejected the visit.
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National: 19 Mar 12
A teacher at a Swedish school in Yemen was gunned down by an unknown perpetrator on Sunday in an attack claimed to be a response by al-Qaeda to what is perceived as Christian proselytising.
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Society: 19 Mar 12
A cash-strapped 18-year-old man was found leaving a sex shop in northern Sweden with a nipple chain destined for his girlfriend hidden in his pants.
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National: 16 Mar 12
A machete-wielding man went on a wild rampage in northern Sweden on Thursday, slashing a woman in the face before hijacking a minivan filled with students. He also reportedly sliced a dog, left in the stolen van.
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National: 15 Mar 12
Two men have been apprehended by police after a long search for the fraudsters who had been duping elderly Swedes into believing they were giving money to their grandchildren.
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National: 15 Mar 12
A high-ranking official at Sweden's defence ministry has been found to have sent notes on highly confidential negotiations with the Saudis through a private email address.
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Science & Technology: 14 Mar 12
After Swedish file-sharing haven the Pirate Bay in February received the blow that the Supreme Court wouldn’t grant them the right to appeal, their newly registered Swedish domain has prompted a new police investigation.
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Business & Money: 12 Mar 12
Much of the Swedish weaponry sold to Saudi Arabia in recent years actually came from the Swedish Armed Forces, according to a new report.
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Politics: 11 Mar 12
When education minister and Liberal Party leader Jan Björklund spoke at the party's congress in Västerås, he brought up youth unemployment as well as the hotly debated Saudi arms factory deal.
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National: 9 Mar 12
A Swedish police officer has received a warning for repeatedly using the term "neger" (Negro) to a female witness while on duty.
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National: 9 Mar 12
Defense Minister Sten Tolgfors admitted on Friday that he was informed two years ago about plans to build an arms factory in Saudi Arabia, despite denying these claims throughout the week.
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Politics: 8 Mar 12
The Swedish export control council was informed of the secret plans to help the Saudis build an arms factory as early as May 2010, according to new secret documents.
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National: 7 Mar 12
Tuesday’s revelation that the Swedish government has been involved in a project to aid the building of an arms factory in a dictatorship like Saudi Arabia has caused strong reactions both in Sweden and abroad.
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Politics: 6 Mar 12
The Swedish Defence Research Agency has been involved in a project to help build an advanced arms factory in Saudi Arabia, according to secret documents that have recently been made public.
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Society: 4 Mar 12
The Swedish town of Ånge in northern Sweden held a welcome home celebration on Saturday for the Danielian/Arustamjan family who have returned to Sweden almost three months after being deported to Armenia.
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Society: 3 Mar 12
A man from Stockholm has been denied the right to adopt the word “Svartjobb” (literally: black work) as his name after tax authorities deemed it to have negative connotations and to be indicative of a poor work ethic.
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National: 2 Mar 12
An 84-year-old man was stabbed to death in northern Sweden by a 19-year-old man who is claiming the older man was blackmailing him for sex.
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Sport: 2 Mar 12
The Swedish floorball coach who was suspended after having used sexually suggestive materials known as "hot babes on defence" to train a team of 14-year-old boys has been allowed to return to duty after two months away.
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National: 27 Feb 12
Many of Sweden's most dangerous convicts have access to illicit drugs, guns, and child pornography from inside the walls of psychiatric clinics where they are serving their sentences, newly released documents show.
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Lifestyle: 24 Feb 12
Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria gave birth to a daughter in the early hours of Thursday morning. The Local brings you all the latest news, reactions, and details surrounding Sweden's first royal birth in more than three decades.
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National: 22 Feb 12
The body of a 90-year-old woman who died four years ago has remained frozen since her death, as her distraught daughter refuses to have her buried before an autopsy can determine the cause of death.
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Science & Technology: 3 Feb 12
The extreme weather of the last few days is continuing to cause trouble all across Sweden with traffic accidents, heavy snowfall and the coldest temperatures of the year measured countrywide.
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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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Business & Money: 27 Jan 12
A Swedish language preservation network has blasted plans by the "Twin Cities of Sweden" to market their common metropolitan area using the name of a small town in central Texas in the United States.
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Sport: 25 Jan 12
A coach who used sexually suggestive materials known as "hot babes on defence" to train of a team of 14-year-old boys has been relieved of his duties and reported to the police.
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Science & Technology: 23 Jan 12
Police in northern Sweden recently received a tip-off from Interpol in the UK about a Swedish resident suspected of snatching rare bird’s eggs and nests to sell to collectors worldwide.
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National: 18 Jan 12
More than 80 people were charged on Tuesday for participating in a comprehensive smuggling operation that brought huge quantities of alcohol purchased in Germany into Sweden.
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Politics: 17 Jan 12
Social Democrat leader Håkan Juholt once again landed himself in hot water after saying that the government had “pushed through” defence policies with the help of the Sweden Democrats.
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Sport: 13 Jan 12
An athletic club in southern Sweden has come under fire for a coach's use of sexually suggestive materials known as "Hot babes of the defence" to aid the training of a team of 14-year-old boys.
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Science & Technology: 10 Jan 12
Bomb experts from the Swedish military have been called in to disarm a live, World War II-era German mine that washed ashore near Sundsvall in northern Sweden.
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National: 31 Dec 11
Mijailo Mijailovic, the man who brutally stabbed Sweden's foreign minister Anna Lindh to death in 2003, was involved in yet another violent incident on Thursday when he stabbed a fellow inmate in the stomach with a screwdriver.
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National: 29 Dec 11
A Swedish police commissioner has been suspended after it was revealed that he had secretly filmed female officers in the nude with a video camera hidden inside a locker in the station's changing room.
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Science & Technology: 28 Dec 11
Sweden is bracing for yet another blustery storm, at the same time as the country has yet to fully recover from the chaos caused by storm Dagmar over the Christmas holiday weekend.
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Business & Money: 27 Dec 11
Dozens of Swedes, including staff at government agencies and telecoms giant Ericsson, had their personal data exposed after a breach at US-based security company, reportedly carried out by activist hacking group Anonymous.
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Science & Technology: 27 Dec 11
Close to 40,000 homes across Sweden remained without power on Tuesday midday and many rail passengers were still stranded in the wake of storm “Dagmar”, which tore through the country over the Christmas holiday weekend.
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Society: 22 Dec 11
Kevin Hansson, an 11-year-old Swedish boy who once suffered from a rare stomach condition, spent all autumn saving up his pocket money to buy toys for sick children at a hospital in northern Sweden.
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Business & Money: 12 Dec 11
After days of rumours, truck maker Volvo has officially proposed BP chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg to be appointed head of its board at the annual general meeting in April, the Swedish company announced on Monday.
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Politics: 11 Dec 11
Swedish minister for the environment, Lena Ek, welcomed the deal to decrease emissions of greenhouse gases, reached on Sunday following intense negotiations during the UN Climate Change Conference in South Africa.
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National: 10 Dec 11
A man in southern Sweden who scammed the Swedish social insurance agency for almost 14 million kronor ($2 million) has been sentenced to four years in prison.
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National: 9 Dec 11
December 11th marks the one year anniversary of the attack by a suicide bomber on a Stockholm street that left Sweden reeling. The Local's Rebecca Martin examines what, if anything, has changed.
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National: 9 Dec 11
The day before a massive right wing demonstration is set to take place in Sweden and shortly before the anniversary of the Stockholm suicide bombing, the government on Friday presented their new plan to combat extremism.
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National: 9 Dec 11
A woman from Sweden claims to have lost her rental property after the contract was already signed and keys had been exchanged, following pressure from the other tenants to not let a member of the Roma people live in the building.
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Politics: 8 Dec 11
Swedish law enforcement agencies should have access to signals intelligence gathered by the National Defence Radio Establishment to help combat terrorism, the ministry of justice proposed on Thursday.
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Business & Money: 6 Dec 11
A criminal gang is helping customers shoplift items from an Ikea store in northern Sweden by offering to carry items out the store's main entrance, allowing shoppers to bypass cashiers.
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Business & Money: 2 Dec 11
Carl-Henric Svanberg, the heavily criticised BP chairman, will soon be appointed head of the Volvo board, according to a new report.
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Education: 29 Nov 11
Studying at Stockholm University gives you the chance to rub shoulders with Nobel laureates on the night they receive their prize - and you might even get the chance to attend the banquet itself.
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Science & Technology: 29 Nov 11
Some 46 percent of Swedes are uncertain whether they have drunk too much when they get behind the wheel, according to a new survey.
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National: 25 Nov 11
Sweden's top 100 most powerful people for 2011 are mainly politicians, men -- and Swedish -- according to Fokus Magazine's annual rankings.
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Society: 22 Nov 11
A huge display featuring giant chipmunks, unveiled on Sunday at an iconic Stockholm landmark, was met with outrage by onlookers and city officials alike, who were expecting more traditional Christmas decorations.
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Society: 21 Nov 11
A velvet-voiced Dutchman who could also hold his own on a mechanical bull didn't let a lack of snow diminish his joy at being crowned winner of the 2011 Santa Games in Gällivare in northern Sweden on Sunday.
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Lifestyle: 21 Nov 11
Swedes are generally thought of as speaking English fairly well, but for some, the pressure to perform can be too much, as The Local's latest selection of video clips aptly demonstrates.
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National: 19 Nov 11
On Saturday morning, smoke forced passengers to evacuate from a subway train in a tunnel near Fridhemsplan in central Stockholm. Police are still unsure what caused the smoke.
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Society: 18 Nov 11
Shoplifters caught stealing from the DollarStore in Sundsvall in northern Sweden can avoid being reported to police if they agree to wear of full-body sign outing them as a thief.
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Society: 18 Nov 11
A town on the east coast of Sweden has been struck by a wave of unusually smelly crimes, where dirty nappies are pilfered from bins, unwrapped by the perpetrators and strewn around public places.
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Society: 11 Nov 11
A new reality television show offering Swedish-Americans the chance to meet their long-lost Swedish relatives has some critics crying foul, but has been described by participants as the chance of a lifetime, The Local's Joel Linde explains.
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Lifestyle: 11 Nov 11
St. Martin's Day, November 11th, might not be the most important event in the Christian calendar, but some Swedes – particularly in Skåne – celebrate the day with gusto. Usually by drinking blood.
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National: 10 Nov 11
A Swedish firefighter who filed a discrimination lawsuit after being denied a job because he had the "wrong" gender and ethnicity has been awarded 100,000 kronor ($16,000) in compensation.
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National: 4 Nov 11
Swedish police have arrested the masked man, armed with a rifle, who went berserk in the early hours of Friday morning when he failed to gain entry into an elderly couple's home.
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Lifestyle: 31 Oct 11
It's close to winter, and something evil's lurking in the dark, after a call to all monsters, ghosts, and resurrected rock stars to haunt the streets of Stockholm as Sweden hosts its inaugural Halloween parade, The Local's Joel Linde explains.
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Society: 14 Oct 11
A 37-year-old mother of two from northern Sweden had an unprecedented hunting outing on Thursday when she managed to fell five elk in four hours, propelling her to nationwide fame.
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Science & Technology: 14 Oct 11
The guilty verdict against Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg has come into force after his failure to request his appeal be heard. He missed an original appeal hearing last year because he was ill in Cambodia.
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Science & Technology: 12 Oct 11
Sweden's main signals intelligence agency is set to receive additional funding to improve its ability to monitor traffic generated by smartphone and tablet computer apps.
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Sport: 12 Oct 11
A German fishing enthusiast has snagged a massive 29-kilogramme salmon in a stream in northern Sweden, four years after first casting his line in Swedish waters.
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National: 6 Oct 11
An officer with the Swedish border police in Västra Götaland was convicted Wednesday for offering a female asylum seeker to ”forget about her case” in return for sex and drugs.
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Business & Money: 5 Oct 11
Hundreds of Swedish police officers marched into unemployment offices on Wednesday and started looking for other jobs in a demonstration against the profession's low wages.
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Society: 4 Oct 11
A 60-year-old man has been sentenced for assaulting the driver of a riding lawnmower the man claimed was making horses in a nearby field in northern Sweden “hysterical”.
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Education: 30 Sep 11
Studying at Stockholm's oldest international school gives children not only a rigorous academic education, but also a unique understanding of other cultures.
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Science & Technology: 30 Sep 11
Just when all but a few hardy souls had fished out their thicker coats from their wardrobes, the city of Hudiksvall measured a record high temperature of 25.6 degrees with the weekend promising more of the same.
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Science & Technology: 27 Sep 11
A CIA-backed Swedish-American company claims that it's new technology can predict disease, terrorist threats, economic swings and resource shortages. The Local’s Karen Holst explores.
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Business & Money: 25 Sep 11
Seven senior civl servants who left their positions prematurely now continue to pocket monthly salaries of between 65,000 and 123,000 kronor ($9,500-18,000), despite having unclear or non-existent tasks, according to reports in the Swedish media.
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Science & Technology: 24 Sep 11
Sweden's Supreme Administrative Court is opening for doctors to recommend homeopathic cures for patients, sparking criticism from the Swedish Medical Association.
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National: 23 Sep 11
Two Bulgarian men were charged with trafficking on Thursday after luring fellow countrymen to Sweden with false promises of berry picking work and comfortable lodgings.
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