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Stockholm riots causes and consequences
After five nights of rioting throughout the outskirts of Stockholm, many in Sweden and elsewhere are trying to make sense of it all. The Local spoke to a mix of commentators and local politicians to get their ...
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Swedish capital hit by fifth night of riots
Firemen extinguish a blaze at a nursery school in the Stockholm suburb of Kista after riots in Sweden early Friday, May 24. Early media reports said the riots, which started Sunday, might have been triggered by police killing a 69-year-old man wielding a machete. But police say they are unsure of the ...
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Swedens economic mood dips survey
Swedish consumers are feeling less optimistic about the economy, with a down-turn also visible in the mood of the manufacturing industry, Sweden's National Institute for Economic Research said on ...
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US and UK issue travel warnings for Sweden
Foreign Office has issued a travel warning for Sweden after arsonists tore through several Stockholm suburbs, while Americans have been warned to stay out of the affected areas by their ...
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He should get a Nobel Prize’ - Stories from Yemens National Dialogue -
National Dialogue , the comprehensive conference that is meant to come up with solutions for Yemen’s many problems over the next five months. They sigh when asked how things are going. There are delays in most of the working groups, including Baraa’s (reconciliation and transitional ...
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‘They don’t want to integrate’ Fifth night of youth rioting rocks Stockholm
Youth gang riots in the Swedish capital Stockholm have entered fifth straight night. Hundreds of mostly immigrant teenagers tore through the suburbs, smashing windows and burning cars in the country's worst outbreak of violence in years. At least six vehicles were torched throughout the city late on Thursday while the police called for reinforcements from other Swedish cities bracing for ...
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Soul searching in Sweden Egalitarianism isn’t what it used to be
According to a study by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Sweden is no longer the egalitarian society it once was. The rich are getting richer and the number of poor is growing, even if they are not as poor as before. This surprising change may not be negative, says Swedish daily ...
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Stockholm riots Clashes grip suburbs as violence flares for fifth night
The scene of Sweden's worst riots in years, Husby is on the surface at least a typically neat suburb of colorful playgrounds, manicured parks and low rise apartment buildings. Riots that began in Husby have spread across Stockholm over the last four nights in scenes reminiscent of London in 2011 and Paris in 2005 - outbursts with their roots in segregation, neglect and poverty. ...
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Sweden rocked by fifth night of riots
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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Days of Swedish riots raise issues over inequality
Claude Regy says the team at the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) threw him the ';best birthday party ever'; when he arrived in Japan just days after the actual May 1 occasion. The 90-year-old French director is hoping for an even better birthday gift, ...
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Swedish House Mafia Bids Adieu with Music Video for Volvo
featuring French singer Lune, and follows the three band members, DJs Axwell, Steve Angello, and Sebastian Ingrosso, as they each go their separate ways in a Volvo XC ...
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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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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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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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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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