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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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Tired Swedes have less sex than ever study
Swedes are having 24 percent less sex than sixteen years ago, a new survey has revealed, and their libidos appear to have waned too, leaving researchers warning of "desire ...
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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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Stockholm suburbs beset by 5th night of violence
Eleven cars and parts of two schools and a police station were charred early Friday after a fifth night of unrest in immigrant enclaves around Sweden's capital. Some 300 to 500 youths gathered around eight blazing cars in northwestern suburban Rinkeby, with some young men vandalizing other vehicles, police told Sweden's Tidningarnas Telegrambyra news agency. More than a dozen ...
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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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Stockholm Police Seek Reinforcements After Fifth Night of Riots
Stockholm police are asking for reinforcements to help end riots that have spread through the Swedish capital's most ethnically mixed areas. About 30 cars burned overnight in Stockholm's western and southern suburbs as unrest that started in Husby, north of the capital, continued for a fifth night, police spokesman Kjell Lindgren said by phone. Schools were also set on fire, he ...
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Stockholm Cars schools torched
At least nine cars were torched and two schools and a police station were set ablaze as riots swept through Stockholm's immigrant-dominated suburbs early Friday for the fifth straight night, police and firefighters said. The riots, which have shattered Sweden's image abroad as a peaceful and egalitarian nation, have sparked a debate about the assimilation of immigrants, who make up ...
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NORDIC STOCKS - Factors to watch on May 24
HELSINKI | Fri May 24, 2013 2:08am EDT HELSINKI May 24 (Reuters) - The following stocks may be affected by newspaper reports and other factors on Friday: NOVO NORDISK The world's biggest insulin producer said late on Thursday that Phase III study results had shown people treated with its liraglutide drug had an 8 percent weight loss. It said in a statement that from a mean ...
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Police Shooting in Immigrant Neighborhood Sparks Sweden’s Worse Riots
By Madeline Schiesser Impunity Watch Reporter, Europe STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Stockholm is burning, sparked by an incident of alleged police brutality twelve days ago. According to the brother-in-law of the deceased 69 year-old male victim, the man returned home when he was accosted by a gang of youths, who he threatened with knife. Later when police knocked on his apartment door, he mistook them ...
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Stockholm riots throw spotlight on Swedish inequality
Five nights of rioting in the suburbs of Sweden's capital Stockholm have raised the national debate about immigration, unemployment and social inequality, the BBC's Stephen Evans reports. It's hard to discern a pattern in the violence that has wracked Stockholm for five nights. The cars attacked are not high-end - not the BMWs and Porsches you might expect to see torched by ...
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Rioting triggers questions about inequality in Sweden
HUSBY, Sweden -- Sweden has long been a bastion of generous social welfare and an egalitarian political culture. So many people were shocked when scores of youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze during rioting in several largely immigrant areas near Stockholm this week. Few dispute that the violence was probably touched off by the fatal police shooting of an elderly man who had ...
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Riots in Sweden continue
After first starting on last Sunday night in Husby, northwest to the Stockholm city, the riots now had spread to more suburbs, mainly in the areas near Husby and over the places to the south of the city, said the Swedish daily ...
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Youth riots hit Stockholm
Firefighters extinguish a burning car, following riots in the Stockholm suburb of Kista late May 21, 2013, in this picture provided by Scanpix. (Photo:Agencies) Hundreds of youth have torched cars and attacked police in four nights of riots in immigrant suburbs of Sweden's capital, shocking a country that dodged the worst of the financial crisis but failed to solve youth unemployment and ...
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Riots in Stockholm continues
After first starting on last Sunday night in Husby, northwest to the Stockholm city, the riots now had spread to more suburbs, mainly in the areas near Husby and over the places to the south of the city, said the Swedish daily ...
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Riots in Stockholm continues
/enpproperty--> STOCKHOLM - Riots in suburbs of Swedish capital Stockholm continued and had spread around the city, local media reported on Thursday. After first starting on last Sunday night in Husby, northwest to the Stockholm city, the riots now had spread to more suburbs, mainly in the areas near Husby and over the places to the south of the city, said the Swedish daily ...
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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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