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Sweden Russia Nato and the theatre of military-industrial complex
Dateline Dalarna, Sweden: Sometimes truly extraordinary events occur, events which impact an entire nation's people, though, the word 'surreal' perhaps fits better than 'extraordinary' in describing events here during the last third of April. Of course, too much has too long been overblown, the strongest of adjectives too frequently employed to mask the weakest of ...
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UPDATE 1-Stretched by riots Swedish police call reinforcements
Fri May 24, 2013 11:00am EDT By Ilze Filks and Mia Shanley STOCKHOLM May 24 (Reuters) - Police in Stockholm called in reinforcements on Friday after youths set cars and a school ablaze in a fifth night of rioting, the worst to hit Sweden for years. Pupils at a primary school in Kista - an IT hub that is home to the likes of telecoms equipment maker Ericsson and the Swedish office of Microsoft - ...
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Tele2 Swedbank chiefs on shortlist for TeliaSonera CEO job -source
By Simon Johnson and Olof Swahnberg STOCKHOLM | Fri May 24, 2013 10:06am EDT STOCKHOLM May 24 (Reuters) - The top executives of mobile operator Tele2 and bank Swedbank are among four candidates on a short list drawn up by the board of TeliaSonera to be its next chief executive, a source with knowledge of the process said on Friday. Tele2's Mats Granryd, Swedbank's Michael Wolf ...
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Stockholm riots continue schools set ablaze
STOCKHOLM: More than a dozen cars were torched and schools, shops and a police station were set ablaze as riots swept through Stockholm's immigrant-dominated suburbs for the fifth straight night, police and firefighters said Friday. Police plan to call in reinforcements to help quell the riots, but parents and volunteer organisations who have patrolled the streets in recent nights have ...
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Sweden Fifth Night Of Rioting In Stockholm
Riots continued for a fifth night in the Swedish capital, Stockholm. Cars, schools and a police station were set alight in response to the fatal shooting of an immigrant by ...
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IHT Rendezvous Riots Dent Image of Sweden’s Classless Social Model
Five straight nights of rioting in the suburbs of Stockholm, the Swedish capital, have dented the country's international image as a haven of tolerance, prosperity and tranquility. As the unrest spread from the outlying district of Husby, where it was apparently triggered on Sunday by the fatal police shooting of a local man wielding a knife, gangs of youths have torched schools and other ...
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Swedish police seek reinforcements after fifth night of clashes
File photo: A passerby checks out burned cars in the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby after youths rioted in several different suburbs around Stockholm for a fourth consecutive night, late May 23, 2013. (Fredrik ...
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Sweden riots Cops seek help US citizens warned
By Simon Johnson and Patrick Lannin, Reuters STOCKHOLM - Police in the Swedish capital are to seek reinforcements after youths again set cars ablaze and threw stones at police for a fifth night running, officials said on Friday.The unrest has led the United States embassy to warn U.S. citizens this week not to go to areas hit by rioting."I can confirm we have sent out a Warden ...
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Swedish firms clueless about foreign graduates
Hundreds of great job opportunities for foreign professionals at Sweden's top employers - in cooperation with Monster, Experteer, Stepstone, and ...
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Stockholm riots provoke questions about Swedens immigrants
As Stockholm wakes up after a fifth consecutive night of rioting, questions are increasingly being asked about the root causes. A police station, schools and cars in several surburbs of the Swedish capital were the latest victims of Thursday night’s public disorder. Stockholm is one of the richest cities among countries that are part of the international economic organisation – ...
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Arsonists target Stockholm schools
The Stockholm fire brigade has tackled fires at at least two schools as rioting in suburbs of the Swedish capital continued for a fifth night. Firefighters also dealt with fires in 15 cars, two containers and a fourth building, the brigade said, while police made eight arrests. But the unrest appeared to be less intense than on other nights. The nightly riots began in a deprived, largely ...
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Sweden reels after fifth day of riots
A car burns after riots in the Stockholm suburb of Kista. Sweden's capital has been hit by some of its worst riots in years after youths scorched dozens of cars, attacked a police station and threw stones at rescue services in its poor immigrant suburbs. Photo: ...
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In Sweden we look for a further rise in consumer confidence
In Sweden we look for a further rise in consumer confidence, while manufacturing confidence is expected to take a break. For more on Scandi markets see page ...
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Stockholm rioting continues for fifth night
Police in Stockholm are to seek reinforcements after youths set cars ablaze and threw stones at police for a fifth night running, officials said.About 30 cars were set on fire in poorer districts in north-western and south-western parts of the Swedish capital on Thursday night, with rioters causing widespread damage to property, including schools. However, a police spokesman said the overnight ...
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Swedish fashion graduates take melancholy spin
This year's Beckmans fashion graduates unleashed a dramatic clash of collections in Stockholm this week. It may have been dazzlingly hot outside in the sunshine, but on the catwalk things got a little ...
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Quiz A Swedish city with a pulse
For this week's secret location picture gallery quiz, we head to a city that's among the top 20 in terms of population size. Can you guess which one it is in nine ...
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Princess Madeleine not nervous about wedding
Princess Madeleine is "less nervous than she thought" about her impending walk down the aisle at Stockholm's Storkyrka church to wed US financier Chris ...
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Man held for murder after new body parts find
A man has been arrested on the suspicion of murdering a 20-year-old woman who vanished three weeks ago in northern Sweden, and whose suspected body parts were uncovered on ...
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Wait there are riots in Sweden
The riots, which have shattered Sweden's image abroad as a peaceful and egalitarian nation, have sparked a debate in Sweden about the assimilation of immigrants, who make up about 15 per cent of the population. ...
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Comment Wait there are riots in Sweden
The riots, which have shattered Sweden's image abroad as a peaceful and egalitarian nation, have sparked a debate in Sweden about the assimilation of immigrants, who make up about 15 per cent of the population. ...
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Analysis Wait there are riots in Sweden
The riots, which have shattered Sweden's image abroad as a peaceful and egalitarian nation, have sparked a debate in Sweden about the assimilation of immigrants, who make up about 15 per cent of the population. ...
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Swedish Confidence Levels Fall on Weaker View of Economy
By Charles Duxbury STOCKHOLM--Swedish consumer and manufacturing confidence dipped in May as concerns about the state of the export- dependent economy deepened, a survey showed Friday. The National Institute of Economic Research's consumer confidence indicator, or CCI, fell to 3.6 in May from 5.2 in April. The level for manufacturers fell to minus 15 from a revised minus 9 in April. The ...
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Sweden riot enters 5th night
(33 mins ago) Swedish police say rioters in several suburban districts of Stockholm have burned two schools and 15 cars in the fifth straight night of unrest. Police spokesman Kjell Lindgren says 13 people, aged between 18 and 25, were detained in connection with the disturbances which included an unsuccessful attempt to damage a police station, AP reports. Lindgren said Friday that the ...
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Fifth night of rioting in suburbs of Swedish capital leaves schools cars burned
STOCKHOLM - Swedish police say rioters in several suburban districts of Stockholm have burned two schools and 15 cars in the fifth straight night of unrest. Police spokesman Kjell Lindgren says 13 people, aged between 18 and 25, were detained in connection with the disturbances which included an unsuccessful attempt to damage a police station. Lindgren said Friday that the overnight violence ...
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Swedish Confidence Unexpectedly Slumps as Unemployment Weighs
Institute of Economic Research said today. Economists predicted confidence would rise to 6.5, according to the median of 11 forecasts in a ...
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Sweden remains committed to green goals
Sweden wants its national electricity grid to be entirely free of oil dependence by 2025 and recent developments in the offshore wind energy sector seem to be a step in the right direction.
Sweden is a country with a strong commitment to renewable energy and environmental sustainability. The national capital, Stockholm, despite being the largest city in the country and home to almost a quarter of the population, is one of the cleanest of all European capitals. Read more
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