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Nurses Warn: Swedes Put IPads Ahead Of Newborns
Local Sweden News
A hospital in central Sweden has warned that too many new parents are more concerned with selfies and status updates than the well-being of their newborn babies.
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Van Dammes epic Split Eclipses Volvo Layoffs
Local Sweden News
A YouTube video featuring Hollywood veteran Jean-Claude Van Damme performing an "epic split" between two moving Volvo trucks left news about nearly 500 job cuts at the Swedish truck maker in the dust.
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Swedish Law To Include Crimes Against Humanity
Local Sweden News
Sweden is set to introduce crimes against humanity into its penal code in a move to tackle widespread, systematic, and inhumane crimes abroad in Swedish courts.
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Swedish Boys Hog State Sports Funding
Local Sweden News
Sweden's sport-loving boys get more funding from the state than the girls do, a new report into youth leisure activities revealed on Friday.
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From The Stands: Sixty Years Of Nobel Prizes
Local Sweden News
With the Nobel Lecture in Physics in Stockholm on Sunday, The Local chats to former nuclear physicist Hans-Olov Zetterström about the last 60 years of lectures he has attended, and what the audience can expect when Higgs and Englert take the stage this weekend.
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Sweden open To Slave Trade Reparations
Local Sweden News
Sweden's top diplomat in the Caribbean said an effort by a group of countries in the region to seek reparations from former colonial powers for the effects of the Atlantic slave trade should be 'taken seriously".
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Gothenburg Child Porn Mastermind Confesses
Local Sweden News
A 62-year-old man from Gothenburg, arrested on suspicion of extensive child pornography offences, has confessed to the charges. The man is suspected of being the main protagonist behind a huge international paedophile ring.
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Financier Fears populist Welfare Profit Debate
Local Sweden News
A high-profile financier has withdrawn his support from the Social Democrats, stating that both the opposition and the government risk populist pandering with moves to curtail profits in the welfare sector.
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