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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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Sweden riots Cops seek help US citizens warned
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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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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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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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 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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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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