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Rioting raises questions about Swedens liberal immigration policy and its inequality
FILE - In this May 21, 2013 file photo, firemen extinguish a burning car in the Stockholm suburb of Kista after youths rioted in several different suburbs around Stockholm for a third executive night. Immigrant youth in sleepy suburban communities run amok, hurling rocks at police and torching cars, restaurants and culture centers. It isn't France or Britain, but Sweden _ a Scandinavian ...
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Swedens riots raise questions about inequality
Sweden has long been a bastion of generous social welfare and an egalitarian political culture. So many people were shocked when scores of youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze during rioting in several largely immigrant areas near Stockholm this week. Few dispute that the violence was probably touched off by the fatal police shooting of an elderly man who had locked himself in an ...
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Mobile Tech Finds Wine in No Time with New OCR Integration into Vivino App
Vivino , the highest ranked wine app in the U.S. App Store, has integrated new Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology to improve the service's overall match rate. One year ago, 48 percent of wine labels were successfully matched. Today, that match rate increased to 86 percent due to the improved OCR technology. ...
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This 23-Ton 5.3-Million-Brick X-Wing Is the Biggest Lego Model Ever
The newest addition to the grand list of Coolest Things Ever is being unveiled in New York today: the Lego X-Wing, the largest Lego model ever built. The model of the ...
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Riots in Sweden raise questions about nations egalitarian culture
May 21, 2013: A burnt out car, in the Stockholm suburb of Kista after youths rioted in several different suburbs around Stockholm for a third executive night. Immigrant youth in sleepy suburban communities run amok, hurling rocks at police and torching cars, restaurants and culture ...
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Sweden riots continue for 4th day
The suburbs where the rioting is taking place are populated by immigrants from Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Somalia and have high unemployment. Many suspect the real reason for the riots is frustration with a perceived lack of opportunities for immigrants in Sweden. "In segregated areas, many are disappointed about their future prospects," Eva Andersson, co-author of Segregation and Urban ...
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Flooding forces people from homes in Norway
Hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes after heavy rain caused flooding in southeastern Norway. In Nesbyen, a mudslide reached properties, filling some basements with water. A river overflowed its banks in Kvam, sending water through the centre of the village. Around 250 people had to be evacuated. Roads and rail services have also been affected by the bad weather, including ...
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On Woolwich British media could learn from Swedish riots coverage | Andrew Brown
riots around Stockholm had made the front page of the Financial Times, I scurried over to the sites of Swedish papers to see in some detail what was happening. It turned out that the dismembered parts of a Thai woman had been found in Lapland, various television stars had been variously unhappy in their love lives, a farmer had caused the evacuation of a police station in the south of the ...
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Novo Nordisk says obesity drug trial confirms weight loss
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark's Novo Nordisk, the world's biggest insulin producer, said Phase III study results had shown people treated with its liraglutide drug had an 8 percent weight ...
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Norway Recommends Bringing Magnitsky Sanctions to the UN Security Council
23 May2013 -Norwegian Foreign Affairs Minister Espen Barth Eide has recommended bringing the issue of Magnitsky sanctions to the UN Security Council. Responding to a group of Norwegian parliamentarians, Minister Eide pointed out that the decisions of the UN Council are binding on all UN member states and would be a proper forum to consider the issue of sanctions and asset freezes in relation to ...
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Maersk to Hike Rates in Asia-Caribbean Trade
From Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Taiwan to Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Panama, Colombia and Puerto Rico, the hike will be $980 per 20-foot container and $1,400 per 40-foot and 40-foot high-cube ...
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30 cars restaurant torched on 4th night of Sweden riots
Groups of youths 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 shooting. Police spokesman Kjell Lindgren says at least 30 cars were set ablaze across western and southern Stockholm early Thursday. Firefighters said they have "never before seen so many fires ...
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Sweden Riots Police Station Set On Fire
Groups of youths in Stockholm have burnt down a restaurant and torched more than 30 cars in a fourth night of rioting. The unrest is being blamed on police shooting and killing a 69-year-old knife-wielding man on May 13. Hundreds of young people are said to have been involved in the rioting in immigrant suburbs of the Swedish capital. Local media also said a police station office was ...
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BRIEF-Novo Nordisk reports headline results for liraglutide trial
STOCKHOLM | Thu May 23, 2013 11:49am EDT STOCKHOLM May 23 (Reuters) - Novo Nordisk A/S : * Novo Nordisk A/S : Novo Nordisk reports 8% weight loss in phase 3a obesity trial with liraglutide 3 mg * Link to statement: ...
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Four-day riots challenge Swedens happy image
By Patrick Lannin and Philip O'Connor, Reuters STOCKHOLM -- Hundreds of youths have torched cars and attacked police in four nights of riots in immigrant suburbs of Sweden's 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 from the north to the south of the city on ...
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Violence continues in Stockholm as Swedish rioting mirrors London 2011 unrest
Riots continued to spread across the Stockholm last night, echoing the civil unrest of Britain's 2011 riots as police were attacked and vehicles ...
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Sweden riots expose ugly side of Nordic model
1 of 2. Firefighters extinguish a burning car, following riots in the Stockholm suburb of Kista late May 21, 2013, in this picture provided by ...
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Uganda Norway Pledges Funds for Forests
Uganda loses nearly 100,000hectares of forest cover annually through encroachment, exposing the population to the risks and costly consequences of climate change. It is therefore for this reason that the Norwegian Embassy has pledged continued support to Uganda in form of increased funding in forest restoration, environment management and conservation as part of their micro-development projects ...
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Soul searching in Sweden Husby riots reveal profound failure
The riots that have broken out in recent days in the suburbs of Stockholm show that the many immigrants who live there have not been integrated. The fault lies with the government and the lack of political will to take action on education and ...
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Youths riot in Sweden for fourth night
Unrest in 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 ...
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Riots in Sweden enter fourth day
A restaurant and police station were burned as rioting in Sweden, in its fourth day, spread to at least 15 suburbs around Stockholm, officials said. The unrest began Sunday in Husby, northwestern Stockholm, where officials said rioters set cars on fire. Violence spread to Hagsatra as rioters, largely youths, threw stones at police officers and firefighters. Police said a restaurant in Skogas, ...
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Norway gives nod to North Sea exploration
The Norwegian government said Thursday it gave its consent to energy explorers to start drilling activity in the North Sea. The Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority said it gave German company RWE-Dea consent to start drilling offshore in shallow waters. Drilling is expected to start at some point this month and last about 92 days, depending on whether the company makes a discovery. Swedish ...
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Cannes Norwegian Oil Thriller Pioneer Sells Wide
Cannes: Lars Von Trier's 'Nymphomaniac' Releases First Cast Photo With Shirtless Shia LaBeouf TrustNordisk racked up a pack of international deals for the title, which screened as a work in progress at the Marche, signing agreements with Arrow Films in the U.K., Lumiere in Benelux, Focus & Company for South Korea and Japan's Nettai Museum. Magnolia, whose U.S. release ...
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Danish director Refn exorcises his violent demons at Cannes festival
An ultra-violent thriller set in the Bangkok underworld of brothels and fight clubs came under attack at the Cannes film festival on Wednesday for its bloodletting, which Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn defended as ...
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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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Denmark's Russian relationship
Danish relations with Russia have existed for several centuries, with the first recorded diplomatic relations dating from 1493, when King Hans and Ivan III signed a treaty aimed at planning an offensive against Sweden and Lithuania. Since then the relations between the two countries have grown closer, frayed, become tense, reconciled and stagnated at different points throughout the history of their respective political development.
Denmark and Russia have always been economically and politically important to one another though. Denmark, since the end of the Cold War, has acted as a bridge between the east and west, and during much of the tumultuous politics of the post-war and Cold War period, remained largely neutral in many affairs concerning Russia. In 1939 the country refused to support measures to expel Russia from the then-League of Nations, and resisted attempts by Nordic countries to set up a defense alliance for the region. Read more
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