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Letters compiled into book reveal life in early 20th century Columbia County
On June 1, 1916, Haldor Baarvig left Copenhagen, Denmark on his way to America with $50 in his pocket. In the just over two years...
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Local boy celebrates 'dream' win in Finland
By Neil Maidment Ford's Jari-Matti Latvala saw off a late challenge from Citroen's Sebastien Ogier on Saturday to become the youngest winner of his home...
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Heat wave sweeps Russia, Finland
Two girls jump into the sea at a seaside near Helsinki, capital of Finland, July 28, 2010. A rarely high summer temperature of 35 degrees...
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Sweden shows its dark underside
The Sweden of Henning Mankell and Stieg Larsson - all shadowy rightwing conspiracies and prostitution rings – might not be so far from the truth
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Tens of thousands march in Sweden Gay Pride
Tens of thousands of people joined a lively Gay Pride parade through Stockholm Saturday, with marchers in costumes ranging from the pope to Barbie dolls,...
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Swedish ex-police chief sex scandal
He used to lecture people on how to deal with sexual harassment and violence, and was seen as Swedish police's top expert on morality and...
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The first with the newest
Die-hard fans of the Apple iPhone waited up to 26 hours in line to make sure they were among the first in the country to...
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Opposition leader to address tax mistake
After a resonating day-long silence, Social Democrat leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt has announced she will return home from holiday to clear up questions about her husband’s...
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Record number of school acceptances
A record 52,544 young people will today receive school acceptance letters, according to figures published by the national Enrolment Secretariat.The number of acceptances to universities...
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‘20-year’ rain storm swamps Zealand
Towns in western Zealand were doing their best to dry out yesterday after being inundated with what amounts to a month’s worth of rain in...
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American footballer attacked with bat
An American teenager playing in the Dana Cup football tournament in town of Hjørring suffered a broken nose last night when he was attacked with...
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Husband's tax status hounds shadow PM
Social Democrat leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt has admitted that she provided inaccurate information about the number of days her husband resides in the country. Thorning-Schmidt, who...
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A family gathering
Members of the royal family gathered together for their annual summer get-together at Gråsten Palace in southern Jutland yesterday. A tradition begun by former monarch...
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Letters compiled into book reveal life in early 20th century Columbia County
On June 1, 1916, Haldor Baarvig left Copenhagen, Denmark on his way to America with $50 in his pocket. In the just over two years...
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Biogen Idec And Swedish Orphan Biovitrum Present Data On Long-Lasting Hemophilia B Therapy At The...
0 posts Biogen Idec (NASDAQ: BIIB) and Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB (STO: SOBI) announced results from a Phase 1/2a open-label, dose-escalation, safety and pharmacokinetic study...
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5 people die in Denmark when van slams into road barrier while speeding
COPENHAGEN - Danish police say five people have died when their speeding vehicle crashed into a road barrier near Copenhagen. Police spokesman Mads Firlings...
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Centre calls for partial Vattenfall privatisation
Centre Party leader and energy minister Maud Olofsson is urging Sweden to sell off sections of state-owned energy giant Vattenfall in order to generate capital...
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Thousands march in Stockholm Pride parade
An estimated 35,000 people took to the streets of Stockholm on Saturday for the city's annual Gay Pride parade.
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Sex change sterilization 'a dark chapter': Reinfeldt
The leaders of Sweden's seven main parties have expressed support for an amendment to legislation forcing anybody who has a sex change to undergo compulsory...
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Politician axed over anti-gay rhetoric
A Moderate Party politician in Stockholm has been stripped of his duties after making offensive comments on a rival politician's blog about homosexuals and their...
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Woman gets damages for pregnancy job snub
A 29-year-old woman is to receive 100,000 kronor ($14,000) in damages after reaching an out of court settlement with a store in western Sweden which...
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Man jailed after getting 12-year-old pregnant
A man in his early twenties has been found guilty of child rape after impregnating a 12-year-old girl he brought home from a party in...
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19-year-old shot dead in Stockholm
A 19-year-old man has died after a shooting incident in the Stockholm suburb of Alby on Friday night.
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Government urges commission on Roma
A truth commission is one of the proposals the Delegation for Romani Affairs delivered to cabinet minister Nyamko Sabuni on Friday.
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Sweden's Dreyer named security body police chief
The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), a European security body, has named Sweden's Knut Dreyer as the new head of its police...
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102-year-old seeks to ditch legal guardian
A 102-year-old woman in Halmstad in southwestern Sweden wants to get rid of the legal guardian that the municipality arranged for her against her will...
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Top cop jailed for sex crimes
Göran Lindberg, once one of Sweden's most senior police officers, has been jailed for six and a half years for a string of sex crimes.
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Geely gets second green light for Volvo purchase
A second Chinese government body had approved China's Zhejiang Geely Automobile's plan to buy Swedish automaker Volvo from Ford, the company announced on Thursday.
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Sweden reports 3.7% GDP growth in Q2
Sweden's gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 3.7 percent in the second quarter compared with the same period last year, Statistics Sweden (Statistiska centralbyrån, SCB)...
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Mankell's bag returned - with women's clothes
Swedish novelist and Ship to Gaza participant Henning Mankell has had his bag returned to him by Israeli authorities - filled with women's clothes.
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Chaos reigns in central Sweden after heavy rain
Central Sweden was hammered by heavy rainfall on Thursday, with emergency calls overwhelming rescue services on flooded roads and properties. Several traffic accidents occurred, but...
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Geely gets second green light for Volvo purchase
A second Chinese government body had approved China's Zhejiang Geely Automobile's plan to buy Swedish automaker Volvo from Ford, the company announced on Thursday.
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Sweden reports 3.7% GDP growth in Q2
Sweden's gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 3.7 percent in the second quarter compared with the same period last year, Statistics Sweden (Statistiska centralbyrån, SCB)...
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China approves Geely's takeover of Volvo
China's Ministry of Commerce has approved Zhejiang Geely Holding's plans to buy Sweden's Volvo Cars from Ford, a report said on Thursday.
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AstraZeneca Q2 profit jumps on drug sales
Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca said on Thursday that second-quarter net profit jumped to $2.1 billion (15.35 billion kronor) on strong performance across emerging markets and...
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Glitch makes losing impossible at web casino
Swedish online casino Mr Green announced on Wednesday that it has corrected a technical problem that made it impossible to lose money when gambling on...
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Stieg Larsson first to sell one million Kindle books
Sweden's Stieg Larsson has become the first author to sell more than one million books in Amazon's Kindle electronic bookstore, the company announced on Tuesday.
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Finnair starts Bromma service in August
Finnair will launch a new connection from Helsinki to Stockholm through Bromma on August 16th in addition to its services to Arlanda, the airline has...
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Saab turns profit after 2009 crisis
Crisis-hit carmaker Saab Automobile turned a profit of 3.9 billion kronor ($531 million) in 2009, but only thanks to deals with its creditors and a...
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Taxes on tourists 'illogical'
A tourist who takes a guided wildlife tour in Sweden pays four times as much tax on his or her ticket as a tourist who...
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Pirate Bay co-founder banned from running site
One of the co-founders of The Pirate Bay, Peter Sunde, has been banned by Stockholm district court from continuing to run the filesharing site.
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Swedish banks pass EU stress test
Sweden's four main banks are well equipped to withstand the fallout from a financial crisis, according to the results of stress tests carried out on...
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Truckmaker Scania posts surprise Q2 results
Swedish truckmaker Scania reported unexpectedly strong second-quarter results on Friday as the auto industry rebounded from a disastrous 2009, when the global economic downturn savaged...
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Ericsson Q2 sales disappoint, shares drop
Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson reported a surge in second-quarter profits, but a fall in sales disappointed investors as its shares dropped.
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Volvo Trucks posts surprise Q2 profit
Volvo Trucks, the world's second-largest maker of heavy-duty trucks, reported unexpectedly strong quarterly profits on Thursday and maintained its forecast of recovery in US and...
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ABB Q2 earnings fall, but issues upbeat guidance
Swedish-Swiss engineering group ABB said on Thursday that its net income fell in the second quarter, but it issued an upbeat forecast for the rest...
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