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Stockholm police brace for more unrest
Riot-weary Stockholm police were reinforced with officers from other parts of Sweden as the capital prepared for more unrest after youths burned cars, schools and damaged public property in several districts of suburban Stockholm in five consecutive nights of violence. At least 13 people, aged between 18 and 25, had been detained in connection with the disturbances which included an ...
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Sweden braced for more violence
Stockholm was braced for a fifth night of riots as violent unrest that began almost a week ago in the northern suburbs of the Swedish capital continued to spread to other corners of the city. The brother-in-law of a 68-year-old man who was shot by police in his apartment 12 days ago, in an incident said to be the initial cause of the unrest, has spoken for the first time, asking people to "stop ...
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Sweden braced for more violence
Stockholm was braced for a fifth night of riots as violent unrest that began almost a week ago in the northern suburbs of the Swedish capital continued to spread to other corners of the city. The brother-in-law of a 68-year-old man who was shot by police in his apartment 12 days ago, in an incident said to be the initial cause of the unrest, has spoken for the first time, asking people to "stop ...
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Sweden braced for more violence
Stockholm was braced for a fifth night of riots as violent unrest that began almost a week ago in the northern suburbs of the Swedish capital continued to spread to other corners of the city. The brother-in-law of a 68-year-old man who was shot by police in his apartment 12 days ago, in an incident said to be the initial cause of the unrest, has spoken for the first time, asking people ...
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Sweden braced for more violence
Stockholm was braced for a fifth night of riots as violent unrest that began almost a week ago in the northern suburbs of the Swedish capital continued to spread to other corners of the city. The brother-in-law of a 68-year-old man who was shot by police in his apartment 12 days ago, in an incident said to be the initial cause of the unrest, has spoken for the first time, asking people to "stop ...
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Sweden braced for more violence
Stockholm was braced for a fifth night of riots as violent unrest that began almost a week ago in the northern suburbs of the Swedish capital continued to spread to other corners of the city. The brother-in-law of a 68-year-old man who was shot by police in his apartment 12 days ago, in an incident said to be the initial cause of the unrest, has spoken for the first time, asking people to "stop ...
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Sweden braced for more violence
Stockholm was braced for a fifth night of riots as violent unrest that began almost a week ago in the northern suburbs of the Swedish capital continued to spread to other corners of the city. The brother-in-law of a 68-year-old man who was shot by police in his apartment 12 days ago, in an incident said to be the initial cause of the unrest, has spoken for the first time, asking people to "stop ...
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Sweden braced for more violence
Stockholm was braced for a fifth night of riots as violent unrest that began almost a week ago in the northern suburbs of the Swedish capital continued to spread to other corners of the city. The brother-in-law of a 68-year-old man who was shot by police in his apartment 12 days ago, in an incident said to be the initial cause of the unrest, has spoken for the first time, asking people to "stop ...
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Sweden braced for more violence
Stockholm was braced for a fifth night of riots as violent unrest that began almost a week ago in the northern suburbs of the Swedish capital continued to spread to other corners of the city. The brother-in-law of a 68-year-old man who was shot by police in his apartment 12 days ago, in an incident said to be the initial cause of the unrest, has spoken for the first time, asking people to "stop ...
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Sweden braced for more violence
Stockholm was braced for a fifth night of riots as violent unrest that began almost a week ago in the northern suburbs of the Swedish capital continued to spread to other corners of the city. The brother-in-law of a 68-year-old man who was shot by police in his apartment 12 days ago, in an incident said to be the initial cause of the unrest, has spoken for the first time, asking people to "stop ...
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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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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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