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'Sweden is a country that has children at its heart'
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'Sweden is a country that has children at its heart'

Jill Leckie moved to Sweden with her Swedish partner when she was pregnant because it felt like the right move. And it was, but without her old support system back in the UK, she started a blog called Littlebearabroad to compensate. And now it's a full-on business.
Child's toy bow and arrow spark police alert
Crime

Child's toy bow and arrow spark police alert

After a summer of violence the southern Swedish town of Malmö is on edge, so much so that a full-scale police operation was launched for what turned out to be a child playing with a toy gun and a bow and arrow.
Missing Malmö boys both safe in Denmark
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Missing Malmö boys both safe in Denmark

UPDATED: Both of the two boys who went missing after a controversial altercation with Swedish police at Malmö train station are now being taken care of by Danish social services, it was revealed on Tuesday afternoon.
Is child-centred Sweden ruled by bratty kids?
Family

Is child-centred Sweden ruled by bratty kids?

As the first country to outlaw hitting children to discipline them, Sweden has long been considered as a role model for good parenting, but some now wonder if children wield too much power, the AFPs <b>Tom Sullivan</b> discovers.
Bus driver kicks off 19 pre-school kids
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Bus driver kicks off 19 pre-school kids

Three adults and 19 children under the age of five were told to leave a bus in southern Sweden and were forced to walk 4 kilometres when the driver complained that the school's collective ticket was 30 kronor ($4.60) short.
Boy who sewed mouth shut to be deported
Immigration

Boy who sewed mouth shut to be deported

A 15-year-old boy from Afghanistan who sewed his mouth shut after his application for Swedish residency was rejected will be deported to Italy, in what a Swedish MEP called a "humanitarian catastrophe in my own country".
Teen 'partially confesses' to raping five kids
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Teen 'partially confesses' to raping five kids

A 19-year-old man has been detained for the suspected rape of at least five children between the ages of five and seven in central Sweden, crimes the man has partially confessed to, prosectors revealed on Tuesday.