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The Local (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
A bouncer at the Hotell Anglais in central Stockholm was shot in the legs on Saturday night after having been previously threatened by a guest that had been refused entry.
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Japan Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
STOCKHOLM — Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin recently announced that Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan have abandoned their separate talks to join the World Trade Organization. Instead, they would seek to enter the world trade body as a single customs union. In effect, this means that Russia seems to be casting aside its accession to the WTO — a major reversal of Russian strategy. Putin's...
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Allan's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Geert Wilders , the controversial Dutch politician, in a recent address to the Dutch parliament, claimed that Europe was falling victim to the Stockholm Syndrome , where a grateful captive identifies with the captors. He illustrated this by the case of a left-wing Dutch journalist, Joanie de Rijke, who in November 2008 was abducted by Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. She was held captive, raped repeatedly,...
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The Local (Free subscription) | yesterday
The prosecution of two 16-year-olds for the murder of a 15-year-old girl in Stureby, south of Stockholm, has been delayed almost two months because the forensic expert is on holidays, infuriating the defence lawyer.
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4AD News (Free subscription) | yesterday
A message we've got to pass on from Camera Obscura: Hello again. A big thanks to everyone who came out to see us in North America. We will be back soon! Now remember how we told you about all the festival shows we'd be playing throughout the summer, and we might have mentioned that we'd be touring round the UK and Europe in the Autumn. Well, here we are, barely finished in North America, and we'd...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Stockholm -France remains opposed to Turkey becoming a full member of the European Union, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday during a visit to Stockholm. Sarkozy was the first head of state to be hosted by Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt s...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Stockholm/Brussels - European Union foreign ministries summoned Iranian ambassadors in their respective capitals Friday in a concerted diplomatic protest over the detention of British embassy staff in Tehran. The move was confirmed by diplomatic sour...
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The Local (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
The antiquity of Gamla Stan, the forests of Djurgården, the cliffs of Södermalm and of course the surrounding blue sea: all these elements combine to help make Stockholm one of the world's most beautiful cities.
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The Local (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
A decorative Mongolian silver crown stolen in 1984 from a Stockholm museum has been found on the premises of the Swedish Police Service, where it has spent more than twenty years in accidental storage.
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NOVARS Research Centre Blog (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Faculty of Humanities at University of Manchester, awarded a Wilkinson Medal for Postgraduate Student of the Year to Diana, a PhD student in Electro-acoustic composition working at NOVARS. Diana has achieved the highest levels of international distinction with her PhD compositional work and research (in the form of prizes, performances and residencies), and contributed hugely to broader activities...
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The Local (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Police in Stockholm are looking for the killer of a young woman and her infant daughter who were found dead in an apartment on Södermalm late Thursday night.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Stockholm - The European Union on Thursday expressed deep concern over the political crisis in Honduras where President Manuel Zelaya was ousted in a coup on Sunday. The EU urged all relevant parties and institutions to refrain from violence and t...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Stockholm - Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt Thursday rejected claims by former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic that he had received an immunity deal from the United States. Defence attorneys for Karadzic, who is facing a war crimes trial in ...
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Margot Wallström (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Yesterday the country I know best took over the Presidency of the EU. I had the pleasure to be part of the inauguration event at the beautiful open air museum at Skansen in Stockholm, where I handed over a small gift to Fredrik Reinfeldt and José Manuel Barroso. It is a fiery cross made in [...]
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
STOCKHOLM -- The chances of concluding a new global climate change pact remain dim unless China, India and Brazil make significant cuts in carbon dioxide emissions as well a senior Swedish climate change official said Thursday.
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gamishev | 02/06/2009
Interest in furniture and design has grown incredibly in Sweden recently and today are just as important as the clothes we wear in terms of how we express our personality. Similar to clothing fashion, Stockholm is at the leading edge of furniture and i...