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Swedish capital hit by fifth night of riots
Firemen extinguish a blaze at a nursery school in the Stockholm suburb of Kista after riots in Sweden early Friday, May 24. Early media reports said the riots, which started Sunday, might have been triggered by police killing a 69-year-old man wielding a machete. But police say they are unsure of the ...
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Soul searching in Sweden Egalitarianism isn’t what it used to be
According to a study by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Sweden is no longer the egalitarian society it once was. The rich are getting richer and the number of poor is growing, even if they are not as poor as before. This surprising change may not be negative, says Swedish daily ...
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Too-Big-to-Fail Banks in Denmark Hit by Bail-In Reality Check
Denmark 's biggest banks that they be excluded from the nation's bail-in legislation are out of step with reality, according to the country's central bank. "A wish for more explicit government guarantees would be rather uniquely Danish," Per Callesen, deputy governor of Denmark's central bank, said in an interview in Copenhagen. "I haven't heard ...
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Days of Swedish riots raise issues over inequality
Claude Regy says the team at the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) threw him the ';best birthday party ever'; when he arrived in Japan just days after the actual May 1 occasion. The 90-year-old French director is hoping for an even better birthday gift, ...
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Swedish House Mafia Bids Adieu with Music Video for Volvo
featuring French singer Lune, and follows the three band members, DJs Axwell, Steve Angello, and Sebastian Ingrosso, as they each go their separate ways in a Volvo XC ...
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Sweden Russia Nato and the theatre of military-industrial complex
Dateline Dalarna, Sweden: Sometimes truly extraordinary events occur, events which impact an entire nation's people, though, the word 'surreal' perhaps fits better than 'extraordinary' in describing events here during the last third of April. Of course, too much has too long been overblown, the strongest of adjectives too frequently employed to mask the weakest of ...
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Mads Mikkelsen back after Cannes win with French role
Danish star Mads Mikkelsen fires crossbows, delivers a baby colt and speaks fluent French in the Renaissance drama "Michael Kohlhaas", which joined the competition Friday at Cannes.Mikkelsen, who picked up the festival's top actor prize last year for his turn as a man falsely accused of child abuse in "The Hunt", plays a 16th-century horse dealer who rises up against a ...
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The Danish North Sea Still Thriving
When people talk about North Sea oil and gas, two countries immediately spring to mind: Norway and the UK. In fact, there are five major European countries that count the North Sea as part of their respective territories for exploration and production activities, including Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark. Danish exploration and production activity does not make the news often. But just as ...
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Eurovison boosts Waitroses profits thanks to sales of meatballs and Danish pastries
That's ready meals of chicken kiev and meatballs, with Danish pastries for dessert, according to the latest figures from Waitrose. It saw sales of Danish pastries rise 17.5 per cent, meatballs by 31 per cent and chicken kievs by 45 per cent in the Eurovision week to 18 May. Overall revenues through Waitrose's tills rose 9.4 per cent to 115.3 million, excluding sales at its petrol ...
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Sweden Fifth Night Of Rioting In Stockholm
Riots continued for a fifth night in the Swedish capital, Stockholm. Cars, schools and a police station were set alight in response to the fatal shooting of an immigrant by ...
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IHT Rendezvous Riots Dent Image of Sweden’s Classless Social Model
Five straight nights of rioting in the suburbs of Stockholm, the Swedish capital, have dented the country's international image as a haven of tolerance, prosperity and tranquility. As the unrest spread from the outlying district of Husby, where it was apparently triggered on Sunday by the fatal police shooting of a local man wielding a knife, gangs of youths have torched schools and other ...
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Swedish police seek reinforcements after fifth night of clashes
File photo: A passerby checks out burned cars in the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby after youths rioted in several different suburbs around Stockholm for a fourth consecutive night, late May 23, 2013. (Fredrik ...
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Sweden riots Cops seek help US citizens warned
By Simon Johnson and Patrick Lannin, Reuters STOCKHOLM - Police in the Swedish capital are to seek reinforcements after youths again set cars ablaze and threw stones at police for a fifth night running, officials said on Friday.The unrest has led the United States embassy to warn U.S. citizens this week not to go to areas hit by rioting."I can confirm we have sent out a Warden ...
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Sony and Lego collaborating on toy research
A joint research project between Sony and Lego aims to come up with future projects that are part toy, part video game A team of researchers at Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Tokyo is embedding tiny motors, cameras, and actuators into Lego blocks. One demonstration uses two small motorized Lego platforms, one of which is computer-controlled and will relentlessly pursue the other, which ...
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Exclusive Tesla Model S Preview for Biodynamic Wine Lovers in Copenhagen - Turpino 2010 by Querciabella Makes Danish ...
GREVE IN CHIANTI, Italy, May 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Future of Luxury will be the theme of a Querciabella wine tasting in Copenhagen that breaks with convention in more ways than one. On May 31st, a small group of fine wine connoisseurs will gather at Tesla Motors' showroom in the Danish capital for an exclusive sneak peek of the Silicon Valley electric car company's brand new ...
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Stockholm riots provoke questions about Swedens immigrants
As Stockholm wakes up after a fifth consecutive night of rioting, questions are increasingly being asked about the root causes. A police station, schools and cars in several surburbs of the Swedish capital were the latest victims of Thursday night’s public disorder. Stockholm is one of the richest cities among countries that are part of the international economic organisation – ...
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UPDATE 1-Novo obesity drug could launch in U.S. end 2014
Fri May 24, 2013 6:20am EDT * Sees U.S. launch of liraglutide end 2014 or early 2015 * Analysts divided on likely commercial success * Bulls see peak sales of $4 bln, but reimbursement key * Novo shares up 0.7 percent, outperforming sector COPENHAGEN, May 24 (Reuters) - Danish drug maker Novo Nordisk said it could launch obesity treatment liraglutide in the United States by the end of next year ...
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Sweden reels after fifth day of riots
A car burns after 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. Photo: ...
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In Sweden we look for a further rise in consumer confidence
In Sweden we look for a further rise in consumer confidence, while manufacturing confidence is expected to take a break. For more on Scandi markets see page ...
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Wait there are riots in Sweden
The riots, which have shattered Sweden's image abroad as a peaceful and egalitarian nation, have sparked a debate in Sweden about the assimilation of immigrants, who make up about 15 per cent of the population. ...
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Comment Wait there are riots in Sweden
The riots, which have shattered Sweden's image abroad as a peaceful and egalitarian nation, have sparked a debate in Sweden about the assimilation of immigrants, who make up about 15 per cent of the population. ...
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Analysis Wait there are riots in Sweden
The riots, which have shattered Sweden's image abroad as a peaceful and egalitarian nation, have sparked a debate in Sweden about the assimilation of immigrants, who make up about 15 per cent of the population. ...
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Xtract Energy provide final results for the year ending 31 December 2012
Undertook a capital and management reorganisation which was approved at the General Meeting held in September 2012. Divested of its assets in Denmark and the Netherlands. Disposed of its interest in Julia Creek oil shale tenements to Global Oil Shale Group Limited ('GOS') in return for 6 million shares in GOS and a further 1.5 million in the event of an ...
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Sweden riot enters 5th night
(33 mins ago) Swedish police say rioters in several suburban districts of Stockholm have burned two schools and 15 cars in the fifth straight night of unrest. Police spokesman Kjell Lindgren says 13 people, aged between 18 and 25, were detained in connection with the disturbances which included an unsuccessful attempt to damage a police station, AP reports. Lindgren said Friday that the ...
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Fifth night of rioting in suburbs of Swedish capital leaves schools cars burned
STOCKHOLM - Swedish police say rioters in several suburban districts of Stockholm have burned two schools and 15 cars in the fifth straight night of unrest. Police spokesman Kjell Lindgren says 13 people, aged between 18 and 25, were detained in connection with the disturbances which included an unsuccessful attempt to damage a police station. Lindgren said Friday that the overnight violence ...
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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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