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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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Restaurant torched in 4th night of Sweden riots
STOCKHOLM -; Groups of youth have burnt down a restaurant, torched more than 30 cars and injured three police in a fourth night of riots in suburbs of the Swedish capital that started following a fatal police ...
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Karolinska joins free online-course community
Karolinska Institutet has signed up to offer free online courses, joining a network of 27 universities worldwide that reach nearly a million ...
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Stockholm riots spread south on fourth night
Wednesday night saw more burning cars, smashed windows, and stone throwing at police in at least 15 suburbs around Stockholm, as the fourth night of riots swept the Swedish ...
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EEG Diagnostic Specialist MentisCura Joins Stockholm Brain Institute Consortium
MentisCura Diagnostics will contribute as a partner and board member of the Stockholm Brain Institute, a consortium for cognitive and computational neuroscience, led by the Karolinska Institute, Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University, to address the unmet need in treating brain ...
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Swedish PM slams hooliganism
Rioting spread across Stockholm's suburbs early on Wednesday in the third night of unrest to hit the Swedish capital, as Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt blamed the violence on "hooliganism" and appealed for calm. "In the past 24 hours, around 30 cars have been set on firein the greater Stockholm area," said Kjell Lindgren, a spokesperson for the Stockholm police. ...
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Mixed results for Sweden refugee job push
Hundreds of great job opportunities for foreign professionals at Sweden's top employers - in cooperation with Monster, Experteer, Stepstone, and ...
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Ericsson makes bus windows part of a Wi-Fi network
Ericsson may have a contender for oddest networking product if it commercializes the wireless bus windows it demonstrated at this week's CTIA Wireless trade show.The windows would have built-in, translucent antennas connected to an internal Wi-Fi system for passenger use while on the road. In the example Ericsson showed at CTIA, the dual-band Wi-Fi antenna was just a square of barely ...
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Unrest continue in Stockholm suburbs
Mass unrest is ongoing for the third night in the areas around Stockholm. In Jacobsburg, the protesters have broken down the windows of a police office and a trade center. One of the buildings burnt down completely in the center of unrest-Husby. Five people have been arrested on suspicion of arson, violence and vandalism. Young people from Husby are outraged with what they call the ...
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Stockholm aflame for third night
(23 mins ago) Rioting spread across Stockholm immigrant districts yesterday in a third night of unrest, raising fears that decades of integration efforts have gone dangerously awry. The riots are believed to have been sparked by the deadly police shooting last week of an elderly man in Husby – a run down, low-income suburb that is only a short walk away from the Kista Science Tower ...
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World Briefing | Europe Sweden Riots Continue in Immigrant Neighborhoods
Hundreds of young people burned cars and attacked police officers this week in three nights of riots in immigrant neighborhoods of Stockholm, ...
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Stockholm riots spread PM slams hooliganism
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt blamed the violence on 'hooliganism' and appealed for calm after the riots spread from northwestern to southern Stockholm. ...
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Three nights’ rioting in deprived areas of Stockholm shocks placid Sweden
rioting in immigrant suburbs of Sweden's capital, shocking a country that has dodged the worst of the financial crisis but failed to defuse youth unemployment and resentment of asylum ...
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Nobel Prize Winner Participates at Vatican Conference
Development Biologist Says He Hopes to Bring Stem Cell Research to PublicBy Ann SchneibleVATICAN CITY, April 12, 2013 (Zenit.org) - In order for adult stem cell research and therapy to progress, says Nobel Prize winner Dr. John Gurdon, it is essential to promote awareness and understanding of this complex science.Dr. Gurdon was one of the keynote speakers of today's session of the Second ...
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Sweden to summon former Saab chairman in tax inquiry -report
STOCKHOLM | Wed May 22, 2013 5:28pm EDT STOCKHOLM May 22 (Reuters) - A Swedish prosecutor wants to question Victor Muller, former chairman of bankrupt carmaker Saab, for an inquiry into suspected tax offences, a Swedish newspaper reported on Wednesday. Swedish prosecutors on Tuesday questioned Saab's former Chief Executive Jan-Ake Jonsson and two other executives as part of its tax ...
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European center to coordinate hunt for asteroids near Earth
The European Space Agency says a new research hub will strengthen Europe's contribution to the global hunt for asteroids that may strike Earth. Located at the European Space Research Institute near Rome, the center will take part in the search for Near-Earth Objects, or NEOs, asteroids or comets that orbit the sun and whose orbits come close to that of Earth. The NEO Coordination Center ...
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Riots In Sweden. Thats Right. Sweden
AFP / Getty Images Sweden is one of the wealthiest, most stable and smooth-running countries in the world. Which would explain why the country's 9.5 million residents may be shocked by the events of the last few days. For the last three nights, hundreds of youths have been rampaging through parts of the capital, Stockholm, torching cars, setting fires, and throwing rocks at police and ...
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Monsters University CD features Swedish House Mafia singers
The soundtrack for Hollywood's "Monsters University" features music from Randy Newman, and Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso of Swedish House Mafia, Disney said. The hard rock band Mastodon also contributed to the album, which is set for release June 18. Directed by Dan Scanlon and produced by Kori Rae, "Monsters University" hits theaters June 21 with the short film ...
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Stockholm riots rage for 3rd day after police shooting
Youths in poor, mostly immigrant-populated Stockholm suburbs continue to torch cars and riot after police shot dead last week a local man reportedly wielding a ...
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The Daughter of Uzbekistans President Personally Negotiates Bribes With Swedish Telecom Company
Gulnara Karimova at Fashion Week in Moscow, Russia on April 2, 2011. (AP) Documents leaked to Swedish investigative journalists and reviewed by RFE/RL appear to offer fresh evidence of a link between Swedish telecom giant TeliaSonera and Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of the president of Uzbekistan. The documents, part of ...
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Stockholm riots a view from the street in Husby
Stockholm's Husby by day proved a different story from the past few nights. While the damage was still visible - broken windows, burnt walls, and scorched car parks - the people were calm as locals carried on with business as usual. Police officers were on hand in the central square to provide information and support for residents. "The people who live here don't deserve ...
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Assange accuser calls for Swedish pressure
One of the two Swedish women who have accused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of sex crimes has urged Sweden's government to put pressure on Ecuador to hand him over to the Swedish justice system."Sweden must put pressure on Ecuador to get Assange handed over to Sweden," Elisabeth Massi Fritz, a lawyer for one of the two accusers, wrote in a statement."There has been much ...
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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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