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Sweden's Foreign Minister calls US-North Korea agreement a 'victory for diplomacy'
Sweden's Minister for Foreign Affairs Margot Wallström on Tuesday described an agreement signed by the leaders of the US and North Korea as "a victory for diplomacy".
'Moving to northern Sweden was the best thing we've done'
In his farewell column, The Local’s northern Sweden correspondent, Paul Connolly, looks back at his first four years in Sweden.
'Wild' expats wanted for Nordic TV series
People who have moved from the UK to remote corners of Scandinavia are set to appear in a new television series being filmed in 2015.
'Why bother with a <i>bastu</i> when you can pop into your local shop'
As temperatures plunge in northern Sweden, ex-Londoner Paul Connolly discovers that wearing shorts and t-shirts while everyone else pulls on their hats and gloves betrays a past spent in more temperate climes.
‘Are they devil-worshippers looking for their next sacrifice?’
Shocked by the warm welcome he received by the natives, ex-Londoner <i>Paul Connolly</i> finds that the friendliest neighbours come from northern Sweden.
'I waved and flapped like a swan in a cattery'
While house-hunting up north, ex-Londoner Paul Connolly comes face to face with the scourge of the northern Swedish summer; the bloodthirsty and dreaded <i>mygga</i>, or mosquito.