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Angelina Jolies post-mastectomy topless portrait to be auction for charity
Less than two weeks after Angelina Jolie announced that she underwent a double mastectomy to prevent breast cancer, Swedish artist Johan Andersson has unveiled a controversial nude portrait of the actress post-surgery. The oil painting is made by Swedish Artist - Johan Andersson- and it is expected to fetch around 22,000 dollars, the New York Daily News reported. Anderson, who is the youngest ...
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Sweden cleans up after another night of riots
Riots were sparked by the police killing of a knife-wielding man who had locked himself in his apartment in one of Stockholm's neighborhoods where most residents are immigrants. (Fredrik ...
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Police hunt man after woman found dead
Stockholm have confirmed only that a preliminary investigation into murder has been launched. "I can confirm that it is a woman who is dead and that a preliminary murder investigation has been launched," said Stefan ...
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Parent patrols help quell Stockholm riots
Stockholm 's immigrant-heavy suburbs to help quell riots that have raged for almost a week, serving as a successful deterrent to troublemakers and winning praise from ...
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Video Residents in Stockholms suburbs tire of ongoing violence
Police to call in reinforcements after youths set cars ablaze in a sixth night of violence in some of Sweden's worst riots in years. Sunita Rappai ...
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Parents patrolling streets help deter Stockholm rioters
Parents and volunteers have been patrolling the streets of Stockholm's immigrant-heavy suburbs to help quell riots that have raged for almost a week, serving as a successful deterrent to troublemakers and winning praise from police. "They have helped a lot in reducing the unrest," Stockholm police spokeswoman Karin Solberg told Swedish news agency TT. Sweden has since the 1980s ...
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Swedish riots spark surprise and anger
The pace of the neighbourhood watch suddenly picks up. "Here's the fire we've been waiting for," grins Samiy, an Iraqi in a bulky jacket.It's half past two in the morning and Samiy, along with dozens of others from local Islamic groups and community organisations, has spent the night patrolling the streets of Husby, the suburb at the centre of riots in Stockholm.Soon ...
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Sweden shaken as riots continue in immigrant suburbs
Bystanders take photos of a row of burning cars in the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby after youths rioted in several different suburbs around the Swedish capital Thursday. / Fredrik Sandberg, AFP/Getty ...
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Riots spread outside Stockholm Sweden in sixth night of violence
Rioting spread beyond the Swedish capital Stockholm, with youths torching vehicles and buildings on the sixth straight night of street violence, officials said. Specially trained police from Gothenburg and Malmo backed up local officers in Stockholm, the BBC reported Saturday. The disturbances began Sunday in Stockholm, but spread Friday to Orebro, where about 25 masked youths set fire to ...
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Sweden Riots Unrest Spreads Beyond Stockholm
Rioting in Sweden spread to towns outside Stockholm as youths took to the streets for a sixth successive night. A car and school were set on fire and a police station attacked in the central town of Orebro, about 100 miles (160km) from the Swedish capital on Friday night and early Saturday morning. And in the southwest town of Linkoping, groups of youths clashed with police. Meanwhile, ...
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Sweden unrest Stockholm police ask for reinforcements to quell ongoing riots
Police in Sweden have appealed to residents to photograph and film people they see rioting in the streets, as they struggle to bring under control the violent unrest that has spread throughout the capital city of Stockholm for more than a ...
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Swedish riots spread beyond capital ease in Stockholm
Riots in Sweden spread beyond the capital on Saturday, the sixth straight night of unrest that flared in Stockholm's immigrant-dominated suburbs and has sparked a debate over integration in a country long seen as an oasis of ...
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Marrying a white man to elevate status is risky Swedish man wants his Kenyan ex-wife deported from Sweden without their baby
Sweden and the baby's Kenyan mother should be deported. He will take good care of the baby in Sweden, adding that the woman has been very cruel to him during their short-term ...
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Dad slams booze delivery to 10-year-old son
Express delivery firm DHL has been criticised for having handed over a load of alcohol ordered from Germany to a 10-year-old boy in southern Sweden who was home alone at the ...
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Sweden Riots Spread beyond Stockholm
There rioting in Stockholm has spread outside Sweden's capital for the first time Friday, with youths torching vehicles and buildings in at least two towns. The rioting in the capital continued for the sixth night where cars were set on fire in poor suburbs inhabited largely by immigrants, despite police reinforcements of specially trained officers from the cities of Gothenburg and Malmo ...
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Swedish capital hit by rioting
COMMUNITY patrols and a beefed-up police presence helped to calm violence around Stockholm overnight but 20 to 30 cars were still torched in poor immigrant suburbs and serious incidents were reported outside the capital for the first ...
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Top Chinese political advisor to visit Finland Sweden and Denmark
Yu Zhengsheng, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), will visit Finland, Sweden and Denmark from May 30 to June 7.Yu is visiting at the invitation of the three countries' parliaments, according to a CPPCC statement ...
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Stockholm police get reinforcements
Stockholm police have called in reinforcements from across Sweden to quell a possible sixth straight night of riots in the capital's immigrant-dominated suburbs, with Britain and the United States warning against travelling to the hotspots.Nearly a week of riots have put Sweden's reputation as an oasis of peace and harmony at risk.The unrest has also sparked a debate among Swedes over ...
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Riots prompt focus on Swedens poor immigrant suburbs
Almost a week of rioting in parts of Stockholm has highlighted social problems among the mainly immigrant communities in poor areas of Swedish cities. Heavy police reinforcements meant Friday night was relatively calm, but there was still some violence for the sixth night running. For the first time there was also trouble, notably arson attacks, outside the capital. The rioting is not on the ...
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Sixth night of violence in Sweden but police say capital calmer
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Community patrols and a beefed-up police presence helped to calm violence around Stockholm overnight on Saturday but 20 to 30 cars were still torched in poor immigrant suburbs and serious incidents were reported outside the capital for the first time. The rioting in Stockholm abated after a week of masked youths vandalizing schools and police stations, setting cars alight ...
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More burned cars in Stockholm though violence seems to calm riots west of capital
STOCKHOLM - Police say that overnight violence in suburban districts of Stockholm was less intense than previous nights but as many as 25 cars had been burned. A police officer was slightly injured west of the Swedish capital. Stockholm police spokesman Kjell Lindgren said Saturday 19 people were detained on the sixth straight night of violence, but there had been no hurling of rocks against ...
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Swedish AP Funds’ Ethical Council releases 2008 report
The Ethical Council of Sweden’s First to Fourth AP Funds has reported on 2008’s progress in its engagement with companies suspected of violating the ethical guidelines which preside over the four Funds’ investments, with success in several cases. When the Ethical Council identifies a breach of convention, it often indicates that a company has failed to acknowledge ...
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Second Swedish Pension Fund takes huge tumble
The Second Swedish National Pension Fund/AP2 has recorded a sharp fall in its market worth for 2008, amounting to a return of -24 per cent on net assets. The return value, SEK -55.1bn, meant the Fund’s capital assets totalled SEK 173.3bn at the end of December 2008, and had a net inflow of SEK 0.9bn. The capital asset value was SEK 54.2bn lower than in 2007. The drop has been ...
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Swedish pension funds sell cluster-bomb holdings
Holdings in companies that market cluster weapons are to be sold by the Second Swedish National Pension Fund (AP2) and Forsta AP-fonden (AP1). The decisions have been made on the recommendation by the Ethical Council of the Swedish National Pension Funds, a convention endorsed by Sweden in May 2008, and the First to Fourth Swedish National Pension Funds have been advised to exclude ...
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Dim outlook for Nordic economies
Nordic countries are facing an economic slowdown as stronger inflation and higher interest rates begin to take their toll, says Nordic and Baltic financial services group, Nordea. Economists at Nordea have predicted that these sluggish economies will not pick up until 2010, and warned that there are clear signs that the unemployment rate will rise in the future. Nordea’s ...
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Much thought put into new crematorium for Stockholm
A new crematorium being built on a famous UNESCO World Heritage Site had an imposing reputation to live up to, for it is being built in a woodland cemetery planted and designed by two of Sweden’s greatest architects.
Stockholm is a city renowned for developing beautiful buildings, the city is regarded as one of the most beautiful in the world with its historical architecture preserved and blended in with the modern, displaying the legacy and the current status of the city as the heart of what was once a kingdom and is now Sweden. It is no wonder then a new crematorium being built in the city will combine state-of-the-art design with seamless beauty. Read more
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