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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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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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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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