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Swedens happy generous image challenged by four-day riot
By Patrick Lannin and Philip O'Connor, Reuters STOCKHOLM -- Hundreds of youths 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 resentment among asylum seekers.Violence spread from the north to the south of the city on ...
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Orkla Royal Unibrew Nordic vie for Heinekens Hartwall-sources
STOCKHOLM | Thu May 23, 2013 10:56am EDT STOCKHOLM May 23 (Reuters) - Norway's Orkla, Danish brewer Royal Unibrew and private equity firm Nordic Capital have proceeded to the second round of bidding for Heineken's Finnish division Hartwall, three people familiar with the matter said. The sources, who put the value of Hartwall at around 500 million euros ($644 million), declined ...
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Sweden riots expose ugly side of Nordic model
1 of 2. Firefighters extinguish a burning car, following riots in the Stockholm suburb of Kista late May 21, 2013, in this picture provided by ...
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Stockholm ablaze with youth anger
A fourth night of rioting in the Swedish capital saw groups of people, many of them young, setting fire to cars, breaking windows and clashing with authorities. The violence, which began in the deprived northern suburb of Husby at the weekend, spread to several areas of the city on Wednesday, May 22. The police made no arrests on Wednesday night, but spokesman Lars Bystrm said it was time to ...
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Swedish parties agree to major free-school reform
Among other things, the new accord gives authorities the right to force under-performing free schools to hire more teachers. The four parties that make up the governing ...
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Soul searching in Sweden Husby riots reveal profound failure
The riots that have broken out in recent days in the suburbs of Stockholm show that the many immigrants who live there have not been integrated. The fault lies with the government and the lack of political will to take action on education and ...
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‘They don’t want to integrate’ Fourth night of youth rioting rocks Stockholm
Vehicles Youth gang riots have rocked the Swedish capital Stockholm for four straight nights. Hundreds of mostly immigrant teenagers tore through the suburbs, smashing windows and burning cars in the country's worst outbreak of violence in years. On the fourth night of violence, youths torched over 30 cars along with a restaurant in Skogas, south of Stockholm. Three law enforcement ...
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Innovations in Sanitation and Irrigation Technologies Win Stockholm Water Prize and Stockholm Industry Water Award
Dr. Morgan has invented and advanced low-cost practical solutions to provide access to safe sanitation and clean water for millions of people worldwide. By combining a scientific mind with practical skills and a knack for elegant ...
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Stockholm is not burning
Rioters torched cars and attacked local police stations in 15 immigrant-populated Stockholm suburbs in a fourth night of riots on Thursday, shattering the world's image of Sweden as a peaceful and egalitarian nation.The riots have sparked a debate in Sweden about the assimilation of immigrants, who make up about 15 percent of the population, as many of them struggle to learn the language ...
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MobiNil calls on Ericsson for network modernisation programme
Egyptian mobile network operator MobiNil has selected Swedish vendor Ericsson to modernise its network with a view to better catering for high speed internet services. According to Daily News Egypt, under the deal Ericsson will also provide MobiNil with its operations and business support systems , which include IT transformation, customer management and revenue management. The deal also ...
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TeliaSonera chief lobbies President Nazarbayev over LTE licence
Swedish telecoms group TeliaSonera, which controls Kazakhstan’s largest mobile phone company K'cell, has taken its request for a 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) licence directly to Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev, Reuters reports. TeliaSonera chief executive Per-Arne Blomquist told Nazarbayev and the Foreign Investors’ Council that his company is ready to launch 4G services ...
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Ericsson announces more than a dozen regional US LTE deals
In recent months, multiple regional operators in the United States have selected Ericsson as their Long Term Evolution (LTE) partner of choice, the Swedish telecoms vendor has announced. The list of companies who have inked deals with Ericsson is as follows: Adams NetWorks (western Illinois); Carolina West (North Carolina); Cellcom (north-east and central Wisconsin); Chariton Valley (north-east ...
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Youths riot in Sweden for fourth night
Unrest in Stockholm's suburbs continued for a fourth night as rioters showed their anger over a police shooting a week ago by setting fire to cars and buildings and pelting emergency workers with ...
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Riots in Sweden enter fourth day
A restaurant and police station were burned as rioting in Sweden, in its fourth day, spread to at least 15 suburbs around Stockholm, officials said. The unrest began Sunday in Husby, northwestern Stockholm, where officials said rioters set cars on fire. Violence spread to Hagsatra as rioters, largely youths, threw stones at police officers and firefighters. Police said a restaurant in Skogas, ...
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Fourth night of violence in Stockholm
Hundreds of youth have torched cars and attacked police in four nights of riots in suburbs of Sweden's capital, Stockhohlm. Violence spread from the north to the south of the city yesterday as groups of youth pushed through Stockholm's suburbs throwing stones, breaking windows and setting cars alight. Police in the southern city of Malmo said two cars had been set ablaze. Local ...
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Stockholm riots spread around city
A fourth night of unprecedented riots in Stockholm has seen unrest spread, with a restaurant and up to 40 cars burnt, police told the BBC. Three police officers were hurt as rioters threw stones and directed laser pointers at emergency services. The worst of the latest rioting was in the south of the city, not the north-west where it began on Sunday. Stockholm police spokesman Kjell Lindgren ...
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Skanska sells property in Gothenburg Sweden for SEK 420 M
STERSUND, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Regulatory News: Skanska sells the newly constructed Radisson Blu Riverside Hotel in Gothenburg, Sweden, to the property company Fastighets AB Balder. The building has 265 hotel rooms and is operated by Winn Hotel Group, with the brand Radisson Blu, in a long-term rental agreement. The purchase amount is approximately SEK 420 M and the deal will ...
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Swedish zoo celebrates rare elephant birth
"Dudu already started showing signs of anxiety one month ago, and because last time she had a calf it was born a bit early, the animal carers were already prepared," the zoo wrote on its blog. The new calf instead showed up in the early hours of Wednesday, with no staff present. The animal carers instead found the little bull standing up in the pen when they arrived later in the ...
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Sweden riots spread to south of capital
Sweden , where immigrants bear the brunt of Scandinavia's highest unemployment rate, has suffered similar bouts of unrest before. In 2008, rioters in Rosengaard in the southern city of Malmoe clashed with police after setting fire to cars and bins. Those riots also spread to Stockholm's Tensta and Husby suburbs. Last night, firemen trying to rescue a restaurant in Skogaas were ...
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Firemen Attacked as Stockholm Riots Continue for Fourth Night
Stockholm 's suburbs continued for a fourth night as rioters showed their anger over a police shooting a week ago by setting fire to cars and buildings and pelting emergency workers with stones. As many as 30 cars burned in the Swedish capital's southern suburbs, while 11 were set alight in the Husby area, north of the city center, where the violence broke out four days ago, ...
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Sweden fails to help well-educated foreigners
The white-collar union Saco has lambasted Sweden's Employment Agency for its failure to help well-educated, foreign-born job seekers, whose unemployment rate is more than three times the average for people born in ...
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Swedish Couple To Adopt Conjoined Twins
The Social Welfare Department has finally settled on a Swedish couple to adopt the conjoined twins born at the Cape Coast Metropolitan Hospital a fortnight ...
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Police injured in Swedish riots
Groups of youths have burnt down a restaurant, torched more than 30 cars and injured three police officers in a fourth night of riots in suburbs of the Swedish capital.The disorder was sparked by a fatal police shooting on May 13.At least 30 cars were set ablaze across western and southern Stockholm early today, police spokesman Kjell Lindgren said.Firefighters said they had "never before ...
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Riots continue in Swedish capital
Groups of youths have burnt down a restaurant, torched more than 30 cars and injured three police officers in a fourth night of riots in suburbs of the Swedish ...
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Swedish riots rage for fourth night
Hundreds of youth have burned down a restaurant, set fire to more than 340 cars and attacked police in a fourth night of rioting in the suburbs of the Swedish capital, shocking a country that dodged the worst of the financial crisis but failed to solve youth unemployment and resentment among asylum seekers.Violence spread across Stockholm on Wednesday, as large numbers of youung people rampaged ...
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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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