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May 28, 2012
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Swedes back Obama in US election: survey
Politics: 20 Mar 12
If Swedes could vote in US elections, President Barack Obama would handily beat either Mitt Romney or Rick Santorum, according to a new survey, which also reveals Swedes can't seem to get enough of US politics.
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Another side of Malmö's infamous Rosengård
Analysis & Opinion: 2 Mar 12
While Malmö's Rosengård neighbourhood is often the subject of negative headlines, the multi-ethnic district is slowly becoming a model for positive change in Sweden's third largest city, contributor Patrick Reilly discovers.
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Swedish krona the new 'safe haven': prediction
Business & Money: 18 Dec 11
A Danish investment bank's peek into the crystal ball revealed ten 'outrageous predictions', among them that the Norwegian and Swedish currencies will replace the Swiss franc as a safe haven in a debt-riddled Europe.
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Svanberg proposed to head Volvo board
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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Svanberg chosen to head Volvo board: report
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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Sweden warns Syria over dissident harrassment
Politics: 4 Oct 11
Sweden and France on Tuesday warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime against attacking or intimidating Syrian opposition in exile, amid reports of assaults and threats in several European capitals.
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Conspiracy theories surge as Hammarskjöld's death is honored
Politics: 17 Sep 11
Fifty years after the plane crash which killed UN chief and renowned Swedish statesman Dag Hammarskjöld, there is a chorus of demands for a new probe into his death that many claim was the work of mercenaries.
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Obama picks foreign policy expert to be US ambassador to Sweden
Politics: 9 Sep 11
US president Barack Obama has nominated Washington DC-based lawyer and foreign policy expert Mark Brzezinski to be the next US ambassador to Sweden.
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Swedish press reacts to royal denials
Analysis & Opinion: 31 May 11
The Swedish press has reacted critically to King Carl XVI Gustaf's denials of strip-club visits and had indirect contact with organised crime, arguing that he acted too late to quell the growing scandal.
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Outgoing US ambassador to Sweden looks back
Analysis & Opinion: 27 May 11
In the final days of his shortened term as US ambassador to Sweden, Matthew Barzun tells The Local's David Landes about what Sweden can teach the world about balance as he prepares to help US President Barack Obama get reelected.
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Swedish 'king' turns Obama into a bushel of Wiki-carrots
Science & Technology: 2 May 11
US president Barack Obama was transformed into a bunch of carrots for more than an hour on Monday morning thanks to a mischievous Wikipedia user claiming the name of the Swedish king.
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Svanberg defends BP over Gulf oil spill
Business & Money: 19 Apr 11
Carl-Henric Svanberg, the Swedish chairman of BP, defended the company's handling of last year's massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill on Tuesday, adding that his linguistic gaffe was "unfortunate".
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WikiLeaks' conspiracy theories laid bare
Analysis & Opinion: 7 Feb 11
As WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange enters the next round of his legal battle stemming from sex crime allegations in Sweden, The Local’s Karen Holst takes a look at some of the conspiracy theories surrounding Assange and his secret-divulging website.
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WikiLeaks shifts domains as PayPal cuts donations
Politics: 5 Dec 10
WikiLeaks battled to stay online on Saturday after Sweden issued a new arrest warrant for its elusive publisher Julian Assange, while PayPal axed donations to the whistleblowing website.
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English funnyman comes to make Swedes laugh
Lifestyle: 18 Oct 10
English funnyman Paul Foot arrives in Sweden on Wednesday for his first-ever tour of Sweden. He chats with The Local's Vivian Tse about his impressions of Sweden and the Swedes and recounts his long, strange trip towards a career of making people laugh.
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Obama congratulates Reinfeldt on re-election
Politics: 9 Oct 10
US President Barack Obama called Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt to congratulate him on his re-election on Friday and discuss the threat posed by Al-Qaeda and its allies to Europe.
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BP shareholders call for Svanberg’s head: report
National: 3 Jul 10
Several major BP shareholders are urging the embattled firm to eject Swedish chairman Carl Henric Svanberg as soon as the leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is capped, the Financial Times reports.
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Svanberg slammed for 'small people' comment
Business & Money: 17 Jun 10
BP chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg was forced to apologise on Wednesday after comments in a White House press conference were interpreted as patronizing towards the ordinary people hit by the Mexican Gulf catastrophe.
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Obama meeting will be Svanberg's toughest test
National: 14 Jun 10
BP’s problems are proving to be the toughest test yet in the career of Swedish business’s golden boy Carl-Henric Svanberg, writes James Savage.
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Profile: BP's 'invisible' Swedish chairman
National: 13 Jun 10
When Carl-Henric Svanberg jettisoned telecoms giant Ericsson for British Petroleum last year, he could not in his worst nightmares have forecast the severity of the spotlight in which he now finds himself.
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Obama summons Svanberg over oil spill
National: 11 Jun 10
US president Barrack Obama has called BP's Swedish chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg to a meeting at the White House to discuss the Mexican Gulf oil spill.
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Obama welcomes Reinfeldt for White House visit
Politics: 3 Nov 09
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt met with Barack Obama on Monday to discuss how to reach what the US President called an "important deal" at the upcoming Copenhagen conference on climate change.
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Clay Ketter exhibition at Moderna Museet
Lifestyle: 6 Jul 09
Paint, wood, photos and plastic might not seem like a list of artistic mediums to be used collectively, but creative mastermind Clay Ketter uses these and more in executing his artistic visions.
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White House names Obama's choice for ambassador to Sweden
National: 20 Jun 09
Matthew Barzun, a 38-year-old internet entrepreneur, will be nominated by President Barack Obama to be the United States’ next ambassador to Sweden, the White House announced on Friday.
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Web pioneer to be next US ambassador
National: 16 Jun 09
A 38-year-old internet entrepreneur who went on to become one of Barack Obama’s top fundraisers will soon be nominated to become the United States’ next ambassador to Sweden.
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Sweden's political pirates signal internet's election power
Analysis & Opinion: 9 Jun 09
If tech-savvy campaigning helped power Barack Obama to the White House, the election of Sweden's Pirate Party in Europe signals that internet and related privacy issues are political drivers for young voters, writes AFP's Marc Preel
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Introducing...Filip and Fredrik
Lifestyle: 16 Apr 09
This pair of zany, youngish guys have made one heckuva splash on Swedish television in the last year, and are now set break more TV barriers with a talk show to be broadcast live in Sweden from New York City.
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Annika Östberg lands in Sweden
National: 8 Apr 09
Annika Östberg, who was found guilty in 1981 of being an accessory to two murders in California, is back in her native country after 27 years in an American prison.
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Research reveals depth of Sweden-US Cold War relations
National: 17 Mar 09
New research has shown that Sweden's relations with the United States ran more deeply during the Cold War than was previously known.
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Ikea creates Oval Office replica
Business & Money: 15 Jan 09
Swedish flatpack furniture giant Ikea has erected a replica Oval Office at Union Station in Washington DC this week in a bid to cash in on the inauguration of president elect Barack Obama.
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Gala concert in Stockholm to mark Obama inaguration
Lifestyle: 15 Jan 09
Inspired by Barack Obama’s ascendency to the White House, Cyndee Peters, a legendary Stockholm-based gospel singer from North Carolina, has rented out the city’s famed Konserthuset for a musical gala to honour the United States’ 44th president.
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Swede named in White House chef speculation
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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US election fever hits Sweden
National: 4 Nov 08
As anticipation mounts in the final hours of the 2008 US presidential election campaign, Swedes remain captivated by the spectacle of US politics.
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Jersey from Sweden's Lidström makes Bush a Redwing
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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Making sense of the Iraq conference
Analysis & Opinion: 30 May 08
David Landes reviews what the Swedish press had to say about the importance of the Iraq conference held this week in Stockholm.
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Bush: Reinfeldt's present 'is a real beauty'
National: 1 Aug 07
"It is a real beauty" - that's President George W. Bush's verdict on the brush cutter he was given by Fredrik Reinfeldt following the Swedish Prime Minister's visit to the White House.
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Sweden and US in climate change deal
Politics: 28 Jun 07
Top level representatives from the Swedish and US governments met on Thursday to sign a cooperation agreement on the 'one big thing' - climate change. Volvo also committed to an environmental project partly funded by the two governments.
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Reinfeldt and Bush in climate talks
Politics: 15 May 07
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has been discussing climate change and energy policy with President George W Bush at the White House, in the high point of his US visit.
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No climate agreement when Reinfeldt meets Bush
Politics: 13 May 07
There will be no signed agreement on the environment nor a joint declaration on climate change when Sweden's prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt meets US president George W Bush this week.
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Introducing...The Ark
Lifestyle: 7 May 07
They're the bell-bottom wearing, glam-rocking sons of Sweden following in the footsteps of Abba to defend Swedish pride in Saturday's Eurovision Song Contest. Paul O'Mahony takes a closer look at The Ark.
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Swedish star drops 9/11 clanger
National: 25 Oct 06
A Swedish pop star performing in Washington at the opening of the country's new embassy sparked a diplomatic furore with a joke apparently about September 11th 2001.
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Washington welcomes the House of Sweden
National: 23 Oct 06
Sweden's royals are in the American capital for a three-day bash to mark the opening of the spectacular new Swedish embassy, in one of the best locations of any foreign embassy in the city.
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Swedish royals to visit George Bush
National: 14 Oct 06
US President George W. Bush will welcome Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia to Washington on October 23rd, the White House has announced.
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Swedish equipment to test North Korea nuclear claim
National: 10 Oct 06
South Korean officials believe North Korea's claim of a nuclear test is genuine, but they plan to borrow hi-tech equipment from Sweden to test the atmosphere for radioactive particles.
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Right Livelihood award split three ways
Society: 28 Sep 06
The 'Alternative Nobel Prize' for human rights and social justice has been awarded to Vietnam whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, along with an Indian women's rights campaigner and a Colombian festival organizer.
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"US government behind Pirate Bay raid"
National: 2 Jun 06
SEE ALSO: Raid on The Pirate Bay hits other sites
Reports that the US government was behind the action against the Sweden-based file sharing site have resulted in the Swedish government being reported to the country's Constitutional Committee.
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Swedish terror suspect "visited al-Zarqawi"
National: 18 Nov 05
The Swedish teenager being held in Sarajevo on suspicion of terrorist offences visited the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, according to the British newspaper The Times.
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Swedish teen in 'White House terror plot'
National: 10 Nov 05
A Swedish teenager being held in Sarajevo was part of a gang that planned to blow up the White House, Bosnian media are reporting. He has been identified as a radical Islamist known as Maximus, they say.
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Swedish exporters miss out on Asia's upswing
Smörgåsbord: 17 Sep 04
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Meet Sanna, 9 years old
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 »
Strindberg, king of drama
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 »
The story of K Composite Magazine »
"I’m working on a couple long articles which will be posted here soon. While those are in the works, I thought I’d share this article and interview about my magazine, K Composite, which was recently published on the site Design-Milk.com. Enjoy! Scott Ritcher launched his now digitally glossy mag, K Composite, back when Macs were used..." READ »
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