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Former Saab CEO arrested in Sweden
Police in Sweden said they have arrested former Saab Automobile chief executive officer Jan Ake Jonsson on suspicion of concealing funds from tax authorities. The Swedish news agency Tidningarnas Telegrambyra reported Tuesday that Jonsson was detained along with two other "top level colleagues." The three were held for questioning in separate rooms "because the risk is that they ...
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Rage erupts in Swedish town for a second night
(1 hr 7 mins ago) Seven people were arrested as violence flared up for a second night in a deprived neighborhood outside Stockholm and showed signs of spreading to other parts of the city, police said today. Four of those arrested in the suburb of Husby were detained, two were later released and a third person turned out to be under 15, the age of criminal responsibility in Sweden, according ...
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Sweden probes former Saab executives in tax investigation
STOCKHOLM | Tue May 21, 2013 8:55am EDT STOCKHOLM May 21 (Reuters) - Swedish prosecutors have detained the former chief executive of bankrupt car maker Saab and two others in an investigation into suspected tax offences relating to the running of the company, officials said on Tuesday. In documents released by Vanersborg court in western Sweden, home to the former car maker, the ...
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Swedishness must be split from being white
Sweden needs a new story better equipped to deal with and include today's demographic diversity and create a new Swedishness that is separate from whiteness, write representatives from ...
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Body parts found in missing woman search
Human remains were found in a military building in northern Sweden on Monday night during the search for a 20-year-old woman who has been missing for two ...
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The absolute truth about tacos in Stockholm
Unable to find good Mexican food after moving to Stockholm to study in 2008, Monterrey native David Licona now finds himself running La Neta, one of the most popular Mexican eateries in the Swedish capital. The Local finds out ...
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Cannes U.K.s Rainmark Films Partners With Germanys Beta for Nordic Crime Thriller
Cannes: U.K. to Get 'Sake-Bombed' The novel follows 82-year-old widower and ex-Marine Sheldon Horowitz who, having grudgingly moving to Oslo with his granddaughter and her Norwegian husband, witnesses the murder of a woman in his apartment complex. He rescues her six-year-old son and goes on the run, fearing that the Balkan gang responsible for the murder will return. Chased by the ...
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Borg Tells Swedish Banks 12 Capital Requirement May Be Raised
Sweden 's banks need to prepare for even stricter capital rules than those due to be enforced from 2015. A requirement that Sweden's four largest banks hold at least 12 percent core Tier 1 capital of their risk-weighted assets by 2015 may be too lax, Borg said today ...
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4 arrested after more riots in Stockholm suburb
HUSBY, Sweden (AP) -- Police have arrested four people after a second night of escalating riots in a Stockholm suburb, during which some 200 youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze in anger over the police shooting death of an elderly ...
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Volvo Philippines launches luxury 5-door 5-seater hatchback
The All-New Volvo V40, a modern expressive car, with characteristics from larger Volvos wrapped in a sleek, compact package, is now in the Philippines. This 5-door, 5-seater luxury hatchback combines trendsetting design with class-leading driving ...
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Slander charges for Instagram slut-shaming
The 15-year-old has admitted she set up the account on the picture-sharing website Instagram, where she encouraged other users to publish photographs of "sluts" with claims of their sexual activities. The girl claimed she clicked "OK" on most of the posts, more or less in panic, reported the local newspaper ...
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Gotland Oil merges with Gripen Gas
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Stockholm Business Region Exclusive Showcase at BioEquity Europe 2013 in Stockholm Meet Stockholm’s Most Promising ...
STOCKHOLM--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The 14th annual BioEquity Europe is being held in Stockholm tomorrow May 22nd 2013. The conference offers a unique possibility to meet companies listed on Stockholm-Uppsala Life Science Investment Hotlist during an exclusive showcase. The hotlist features carefully selected, investment-ready Stockholm-Uppsala based companies on the cutting edge of life ...
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Confident Fischers case for Swedens defence
Newly settled at the heart of Sweden's defence, Nilla Fischer says life under Pia Sundhage is "intense" and, as she nears 100 caps, she predicts the hosts will win all three group ...
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Topless woman to be lifted from Swedish map
After a caricature of a topless woman on a tourist map in western Sweden left some residents seething, a local official has promised to have the offending image ...
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Ericsson probed over suspected bribes
Swedish business daily Dagens Industri (DI) reported on Tuesday that Ericsson had agreed to provide the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) with documents related to how the company compensated agents based abroad. According to DI, the compensation used a bank account in Switzerland to make "secret" payments to the company's agents all over the world. The move comes ...
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Samsung First to Achieve Sustainability Certification for Smartphones
STOCKHOLM, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Samsung's flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone is the first to achieve internationally recognized requirements for environmental ...
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Sweden April Unemployment 445000
The following is a press release from Statistiska Centralbyran, or SCB, the Sweden central government authority for official statistics. STOCKHOLM--In April 2013 the number of employed persons aged 15-74 amounted to 4.64 million (34,000). The employment rate was 65.0 ( 0.5)%. The number of employed women increased by 39,000 and amounted to 2.23 million (26,000), while the number of employed ...
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Ethiopia Sweden Wants to Reinforce Relation With Ethiopia
Sweden seeks partnership with Ethiopia to build its relation with Africa on a new foundation, Swedish Ministers said on Monday. The remark came up while Sweden's Minister of Finance Anders Borg and Minister for International Development Cooperation Gunilla Carlsson held discussion with Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn in Addis Ababa. The Ministers said the economic growth of Africa and ...
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Stockholm police clash with youths
Young people angered by the police shooting of an elderly man hurled rocks at officers and set cars and buildings on fire in the Swedish capital Stockholm ...
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Fresh clashes as more cars burn in Husby
Firefighters who arrived to extinguish the blazes were met by young people throwing rocks. Four people were arrested on suspicion of rioting. Shortly after midnight the fire from one burning car spread to three other nearby cars as emergency crews were unable to extinguish the flames. Riot police with dogs were dispatched in an attempt to disperse the stone throwing youth so that ...
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Ex-Saab executives arrested
A SWEDISH prosecutor says three former executives of automaker Saab Automobile AB have been arrested on accounting fraud charges. Prosecutor Olof Sahlgren says the three are "suspected of aggravated attempts to avoid tax controls" by allegedly falsifying parts of Saab's accounts between 2010 and 2011 - a crime that carries a sentence of up to four years in prison. Sahlgren ...
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Ex-Saab executives arrested
A SWEDISH prosecutor says three former executives of automaker Saab Automobile AB have been arrested on accounting fraud charges. Prosecutor Olof Sahlgren says the three are "suspected of aggravated attempts to avoid tax controls" by allegedly falsifying parts of Saab's accounts between 2010 and 2011 - a crime that carries a sentence of up to four years in prison. Sahlgren ...
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Ex-Saab executives arrested
A SWEDISH prosecutor says three former executives of automaker Saab Automobile AB have been arrested on accounting fraud charges. Prosecutor Olof Sahlgren says the three are "suspected of aggravated attempts to avoid tax controls" by allegedly falsifying parts of Saab's accounts between 2010 and 2011 - a crime that carries a sentence of up to four years in prison. Sahlgren ...
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Ex-Saab executives arrested
A SWEDISH prosecutor says three former executives of automaker Saab Automobile AB have been arrested on accounting fraud charges. Prosecutor Olof Sahlgren says the three are "suspected of aggravated attempts to avoid tax controls" by allegedly falsifying parts of Saab's accounts between 2010 and 2011 - a crime that carries a sentence of up to four years in prison. Sahlgren ...
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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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