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Swedish man dead since 2011 found in apartment
Swedish police are blaming broken social networks for allowing a man to lie dead in his apartment for more than two years. The body of a man in his 50s was discovered by workmen who entered an apartment in southern Sweden to change the plumbing, The Local.se reported Wednesday. "There is no social control anymore," police spokesman Claes Bjornefelt said. "This man wasn't ...
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Third night of rioting in Swedish capital
Groups of youth have smashed shop windows, set cars ablaze and burnt down a cultural centre in a third night of rioting in the Swedish capital, Stockholm. Riots that started in one Stockholm suburb after a fatal police shooting have spread to other low-income areas of the capital. Police spokesman Kjell Lindgren said seven people were briefly detained and one person was arrested on suspicion ...
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Youths riot in Sweden for third night
A car set on fire burns, following riots in the Stockholm suburb of Kista. Sweden's capital has been hit by some of its worst riots in years after youths scorched dozens of cars, attacked a police station and threw stones at rescue services in its poor immigrant suburbs for a third night running. Photograph: Fredrik ...
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Swedish riots spread in capital
Gangs of youths have smashed shop windows, set cars ablaze and burnt down a cultural centre as riots that started in one Stockholm suburb after a fatal police shooting spread to other low-income areas of the Swedish capital.Police said seven people were briefly detained and one person was arrested on suspicion of arson of a cultural centre housed in a 19th century building.A spokesman said 30 ...
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Swedens capital Stockholm hit by worst riots in years
The riots in one of Europe's richest capitals have shocked a country that prides itself on a reputation for social justice, and fuelled a debate about how Sweden is coping with both youth unemployment and an influx of ...
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Henriksen excluded from Norway U21 squad
Senior commitments mean Markus Henriksen is out of Norway's squad for this summer's finals, while Valon Berisha, Joshua King and Hvard Nordtveit will miss the first game at ...
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Swedish capital hit by third day of riots
Rioters have set fire to dozens of cars and thrown stones at policemen in several areas of the Swedish capital Stockholm in the third day of urban unrest after police shot dead a man in a northern suburb.Police said on Wednesday eight men aged 18 to 22 had been arrested, and that 30 vehicles were torched.Police on Sunday shot dead a 69-year-old man in the suburb of Husby, where 80 per cent of ...
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30 cars set ablaze in third night of rioting in Stockholm
A night of unrest in Stockholm saw 30 cars set on fire in southern and western areas of Sweden's capital and the arrest of eight people, police said. Officials said rioters set cars on fire and threw stones at police officers and firefighters Tuesday, Swedish news agency Tidningarnas Telegrambyra reported Wednesday. The rioting Tuesday spread to areas that hadn't been affected in the ...
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Sweden stunned by third night of rioting
By Johan Sennero and Johan Ahlander, Reuters STOCKHOLM - Hundreds of youths set fire to cars and attacked police and rescue services in suburbs of Stockholm Tuesday night in Sweden's worst disorder in years.A police station in the Jakobsberg area in the northwest of the city was attacked, two schools were damaged and an arts and crafts center was set ablaze, despite a call for calm from ...
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‘Multiculturalism failing’ Swedish PM pleas for order as riots engulf Stockholm suburbs
Violence Hundreds youths hurling rocks, burning cars and smashing windows for the second day in a row in Stockholm say they are protesting against police brutality and inequality. In Sweden, critics of the multiculturalism policies lash out at immigration laws. Seven policemen were injured, at least ten cars and countless containers set on fire, and dozens of windows smashed in several ...
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BRIEF-Swedish central bank appoints two new policy board members
STOCKHOLM | Wed May 22, 2013 3:54am EDT STOCKHOLM May 22 (Reuters) - Swedish Central Bank : * New deputy governors - martin flodn and cecilia skingsley * says general council of the riksbank has today decided to appoint martin flodn and cecilia skingsley as new members of the executive board of the ...
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Danish May consumer confidence weakens
COPENHAGEN, May 22 (Reuters) - Denmark's consumer confidence index fell slightly more than expected to negative 2.6 points in May from negative 2.8 points in April, the statistics office said on Wednesday. The median forecast in a Reuters survey of analysts had been for a figure of negative 2.5 points. May 2012 April 2013 Full-year ...
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Norways Aker plans to issue NOK 3 bln worth of bonds
OSLO | Wed May 22, 2013 2:55am EDT OSLO May 22 (Reuters) - Oslo-listed holding company Aker ASA is planning to issue a 3 billion crowns ($516.66 million) worth of unsecured bonds with maturity in June 2018 and 2020, it said on Wednesday. Aker, which owns major stakes in Aker Solutions, Det norske and Kvaerner, said it would use the proceeds for general corporate purposes. Arctic ...
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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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