Sweden to save 'sinking' town
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Sweden is to move the northern town of Kiruna to prevent it sinking into a hole left by iron ore mines.
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Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen (centre) and Swedish colleague Goran Persson are to meet on Monday in the towns of Tornio and Haparanda on adjacent banks of the Tornionjoki border river in Lapland.
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After more than 360 years, Swedenâs Post och Inrikes Tidningar, or PoIT, is going online only.
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While efforts were still under way to restore power and telephone services after a weekend winter storm that battered northern Europe on Wednesday, Swedish authorities issued a new storm warning.
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Incurable romantic Stuart Conway has spent the last 10 years throwing messages in a bottle into the sea off Britain -- but now his local town council says it's time to recycle.
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STOCKHOLM  - The Swedish government said it feared that many of the 1,500 Swedish tourists in Thailand who are still unaccounted for after giant tidal waves struck Asian coastlines may be dead.
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Sweden said on Thursday more than 1,000 Swedes may have been killed in the Asian tsunami, the worst death toll for any foreign country.
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An acid leak threatened Helsingborg in southern Sweden - but officials say the risk has now diminished.
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With some 1,500 Swedes remainingmissing in Thailand, Swedish Foreign Minister Laila Freivalds has called the disaster in Asia a &quot;national trauma&quot; for Sweden, Radio Sweden reported on Tuesday.
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An Aboriginal delegation will travel to Sweden this month to repatriate ancestral remains, that were taken from Australia by a Swedish explorer in the early 1900's. The retrieval team includes representatives ...
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Some Swedes may need a lip retread. Sweden's state-owned pharmacy Apoteket is looking for volunteers to pucker their way into the record books.
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The first Swedish dead from the Asian  tsunami came home Wednesday to a nation which fears it may have  suffered its worst loss of life for 200 years.
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The Swedish government will donate 20 million kronor (Â£1.4m) to preserve the works of the late film-maker Ingmar Bergman.
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Residents of the coastal town devastated by a mudslide that killed 10 people will be offered a package of federal loans and grants intended to help them relocate.
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Swedish Foreign Minister Laila Freivalds, who has returned from tsunami-devastated Thailand, says she believes the total death toll from the disaster in the region was rising towards 200,000.
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Sweden now seems likely to be the Western country hardest hit by the tsunamis that wrecked the southern Asian coastlines the day after Christmas and killed more than 100,000 people.
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A tidy German town that  has long flourished above its underground treasure of  subsidized coal is struggling to cope with the shock after the  government decided last week to shut down the mine.