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Sweden stunned by third night of rioting
By Johan Sennero and Johan Ahlander, Reuters STOCKHOLM - Hundreds of youths set fire to cars and attacked police and rescue services in suburbs of Stockholm Tuesday night in Sweden's worst disorder in years.A police station in the Jakobsberg area in the northwest of the city was attacked, two schools were damaged and an arts and crafts center was set ablaze, despite a call for calm from ...
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Stockholm rocked by 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 for a third night running. Photo: ...
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‘Multiculturalism failing’ Swedish PM pleas for order as riots engulf Stockholm suburbs
Violence Hundreds youths hurling rocks, burning cars and smashing windows for the second day in a row in Stockholm say they are protesting against police brutality and inequality. In Sweden, critics of the multiculturalism policies lash out at immigration laws. Seven policemen were injured, at least ten cars and countless containers set on fire, and dozens of windows smashed in several ...
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The Fraser Institute Sweden Shows Canada How to Reduce Health Spending While Improving Medicare
Sweden's universal health care system, which ranks among the world's best in terms of patient outcomes, offers critical lessons for Canada on reducing costs while improving health system performance, argues a new report from the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian think-tank. "Canadians are paying for the most expensive universal-access health care system in ...
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Swedish Riksbank unveils board members
Sweden's central bank has appointed two new board members plucked from banking and academia to replace two outgoing members, one of whom was an outspoken critic of ...
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Doc went on holiday as Swedes cancer spread
A Swedish man has been left facing death after his doctor went on holiday, leaving a cancer diagnosis stranded in the computer system while the increasingly desperate patient fought for help ...
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Riots in Stockholm spread to more suburbs
STOCKHOLM -; Groups of youth have smashed shop windows, set cars ablaze and burnt down a cultural center as the riots that started in one Stockholm suburb after a fatal police shooting spread to other low-income areas of the Swedish ...
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Stockholm suburbs gripped by riots
Rioters have lit fires and stoned emergency services in the suburbs of Stockholm for the third night in a row after a man was shot dead by police. Incidents were reported in at least nine suburbs of the Swedish capital and police made eight arrests. On Sunday night, more than 100 cars were set alight, Swedish media report. Police in the deprived, largely immigrant suburb of Husby shot a man ...
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Stockholm riots spreading youths burn down cultural centre housed in 19th century building
STOCKHOLM - Groups of youth have smashed shop windows, set cars ablaze and burnt down a cultural centre as the riots that started in one Stockholm suburb after a fatal police shooting spread to other low-income areas of the Swedish capital. Police spokesman Kjell Lindgren says seven people were briefly detained early Wednesday and one person was arrested on suspicion of arson of a cultural ...
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Utrikesdepartementet Sweden pushing for human rights online
Internet freedom is one of the top priorities of Swedish foreign policy. Everyone should be free to think and say what they want - on the internet too. This is far from the reality in many countries. Today representatives from more than 90 countries are meeting in Stockholm to discuss how internet freedom and openness can promote human rights and social and economic development ...
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Swedish Police Arrest Eight as Husby Riots Spread in Stockholm
Stockholm suburbs last night as young people set fire to cars and schools and vandalized property. About 30 cars burned overnight in suburbs including Husby, Jakobsberg, Norsborg and Vaarberg, Kjell Lindgren, a spokesman for the Swedish Police, said by phone today. In Husby, a school and the Husby Gaard cultural center were set on fire while rubbish bins burned across Stockholm's ...
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Swedish Riksbank Appoints New Deputy Governors
The Swedish Riksbank said Wednesday it has decided to appoint Martin Floden and Cecilia Skingsley as new deputy governors of the central bank's executive board, succeeding Lars E.O. Svensson and Barbro Wickman-Parak whose terms of office expired May 20."We are very pleased to be able to present another two such highly qualified people as members of the executive board. The General ...
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350 jobs lost as Ericsson shuts Swedish factory
Ericsson has buckled under the pressure of European competition and will turn off the switch on a cable production plant in Sweden, leaving 350 employees without ...
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Swedish serial killer cleared of two murders
A Swedish man originally convicted of eight murders saw two more of the killings wiped from his record when the prosecutor's office announced Tuesday it was dropping charges in a ...
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BRIEF-Swedish central bank appoints two new policy board members
STOCKHOLM | Wed May 22, 2013 3:54am EDT STOCKHOLM May 22 (Reuters) - Swedish Central Bank : * New deputy governors - martin flodn and cecilia skingsley * says general council of the riksbank has today decided to appoint martin flodn and cecilia skingsley as new members of the executive board of the ...
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Fires spread in third day of Stockholm riots
Police arrested eight people on Tuesday night as more cars were torched in several areas around Stockholm, with rioters terrorizing the streets for the third night in a ...
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Seven arrested in second night of Stockholm riots
STOCKHOLM--Seven people were arrested as violence flared up for a second night in a deprived neighbourhood outside Stockholm and showed signs of spreading to other parts of the city, police said on ...
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BRIEF-Nordic Capital and CVC sell 15.6 pct stake in Cloetta
STOCKHOLM | Wed May 22, 2013 2:03am EDT STOCKHOLM May 22 (Reuters) - Cloetta AB: * Nordic capital fund v and cvc capital partners have sold 15.6% of the shares in cloetta ...
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Eritrea Eritrean Nationals in Stockholm Celebrate 22nd Independence Day Anniversary With Patriotic Zeal
Asamara - Eritrean nationals in Stockholm and its environs celebrated the 22nd Independence Day anniversary on 18 May with patriotic zeal under the theme "ERITREA - Shield of Resilience and Nobility of Work". Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Yonas Mana, Charge D'Affaires of the Eritrean Embassy in the Scandinavian countries, explained that preserving sovereignty is challenging as ...
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Stockholms ten best-kept secrets - revealed
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Sweden ranks 20th in new tax burden index
While Sweden has a reputation for having one of the most painful tax bills in the world, a new report ranks Sweden 20th when comparing the tax-burden on salaries when social security payments are taken into ...
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Greenpeace drops item on Swedish reactor from glider to make point
STOCKHOLM - Environmental pressure group Greenpeace on Tuesday said it flew a paraglider over a nuclear reactor building in south-western Sweden and dropped an item upon it from the air to show how vulnerable the facilities ...
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Dave Bidini Unlike Stockholm Toronto is infected by misguided ideas about time money and space
STOCKHOLM -- Ah, Europe. Sure, it's easy to make fun of things like the Eurovision song contest (staged in nearby Malmo during my stay here and won by Danish pixie Emmelie De Forest); man purses on flat-capped bearded dads pushing strollers (a phenomenon in Sodermalm, Stockholm's trendiest neighbourhood); the worst potato chips in the world; and those silly gold helmets handed out to ...
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Ericsson Software Automates Wi-fi Vs. Cell Choice in Mixed Networks
IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau) - New network software from Ericsson is designed to make sure mobile users get the best possible connection when there is both a Wi-Fi and a cellular network available. The software, which Ericsson introduced at the CTIA Wireless trade show on Tuesday, is an enhancement to its platform for mobile operators that use Wi-Fi to supplement their cellular ...
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Former Saab Execs Arrested on Tax Charges
Three former executives of Swedish carmaker Saab Automobile were in custody Tuesday on suspicion of tax-related accounting fraud prior to the company's bankruptcy at the end of 2011. The suspicions centred on "aggravated attempts to avoid tax controls" through accounting procedures during the period 2010 to 2011, chief prosecutor Olof Sahlgren told Swedish media. The ...
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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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