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Swedish coast guard works to clean up 14,000-litre oil spill
Sweden's coast guard was on Monday working to clear up an oil spill caused by heavy winds after a large freight ship ran aground off the country's southeastern coast. The 139-metre freight ship Makassar Highway first ran aground on July 23rd and began leaking oil. Initially the coast guard was able to contain the spillage, but heavy winds on Saturday and Sunday meant the oil began to leak into the Baltic Sea, before the salvage operation could begin.
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"She Is 14 But Looks Older": Sweden Launches "Migrant Sex Courses" To Teach Newcomers How To Behave
The Swedish government will pump 5 million Swedish crowns ($564,000 USD) into migrant sex courses according to news outlet Fria Tider. A portion of the funding will support the government's sex-awareness website, "Youmo," which provides translation in Arabic, Somali and Dari. The goal of the website is to "simply inform immigrants about what is in Sweden," reports Tider.
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Resignation syndrome: Sweden's mystery illness
For nearly two decades Sweden has been battling a mysterious illness, which affects only the children of asylum-seekers.
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Heat Wave Scorches Sweden as Wildfires Rage in the Arctic Circle
High temperatures and low rainfall have fueled fires across the country. Elsewhere in Europe, drought in Britain and Ireland has exposed ancient structures.
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The ugly scandal that cancelled the Nobel prize
In the eyes of its members, there is no more important cultural institution in the world than the Swedish Academy. The members, who call themselves The Eighteen (always in capitals), are elected for life by their peers, and meet for a ritual dinner every Thursday evening at a restaurant they own in the heart of the old town in Stockholm. And once a year, at a ceremony brilliant with jewels and formality, the permanent secretary of the academy hands out the Nobel prize in literature and all the world applauds.
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Sweden to reach its 2030 renewable energy target this year
Swedish utilities and power generators have already installed so many wind turbines that the Nordic nation is on course to reach its 2030 renewable energy target late this year. By December, Sweden will have 3,681 wind turbines installed, lobby group Swedish Wind Energy Association estimates. Together with second-half investment decisions, this will be more than enough capacity to meet a target to add 18 terawatt-hours of new, renewable energy output by the end of next decade. Some new plants will be built by Norway, with which Sweden shares a renewable certificates market.
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New Swedish law recognises sex without consent as rape
A tough new law that will recognise sex without explicit consent as rape comes into effect in Sweden on Sunday, after the country was rocked by the #MeToo movement denouncing sexual harassment and assault. The law stipulates that a person has committed rape if they have been part of a sexual act in which the other person has not participated "freely". Rape had previously been defined as a sexual act carried out with the use of violence or threat.
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Sweden gets the world’s first road that recharges electric trucks as they move over it
Much has been discussed about the superiority of electric vehicles (EVs) to conventional internal combustion vehicles, but the rhetoric hits a snag every time the topic of charging comes up. A significant chunk of the EVs on the roads today struggle with charging on-the-go, and are forced to make elaborate plans on their charging schedules and stick to routes that offer EV charging stations on the sideline.
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Sweden Tries to Halt Its March to Total Cashlessness
A key committee of Swedish lawmakers wants to force the country’s biggest banks to handle cash in an effort to halt the nation’s march toward complete cashlessness.
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Skirts for Sweden male train drivers
A dozen male train drivers in Sweden have circumvented a ban on shorts by wearing skirts to work in hot weather. The workers, who operate the Roslagsbanan line north of the capital Stockholm, have been wearing skirts to work for the past two weeks. Employer Arriva banned the drivers from wearing shorts after taking over the running of the line in January.
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Two million bees stolen from Swedish farmers
Thieves have made away with an estimated 2.1 million bees from bee harvesters in southern Sweden. Two farms near Eslöv, southern Sweden, were hit this week in what appears to be a bee heist. The robbers got away with around 50 beehives, as well as bee wax and over 1,000 litres of honey.
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Sweden adopts law saying sex without consent is rape
Sweden has adopted a law requiring people to get explicit consent before sexual contact, otherwise it will be considered as rape. Swedish politicians approved the change by 257 votes to 38, with 54 absentees. The law, which goes into effect on July 1, says "it is no longer necessary for the offender to use violence or threats, or to exploit the victim's particularly vulnerable situation" for rape charges to be brought forward.
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Sweden says rape is rape, regardless of force or threats
The Swedish parliament has passed a bill that sex without consent constitutes rape, even when there are no threats or force involved. The move was welcomed by rights groups including Amnesty International.
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All the rage in Sweden: embedding microchips under your skin
Humans can get chipped, too — just like their dogs. By Victor Tangermann.
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8.5 Johan Westerholms Jihad
Johan Westerholm har grävt i finansieringen av islamististiska organisationer i Sverige och funnit att den till stor del finansieras med allmänna medel.
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ABBA to release first new material in 35 years
The members of Swedish pop supergroup ABBA say they have recorded new material for the first time in 35 years. The band announced that it had recorded two new songs, including one entitled I Still Have Faith in You, in an Instagram statement on Friday. "The decision to go ahead with the exciting ABBA avatar tour project had an unexpected consequence," Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Agnetha Faltskog wrote on Instagram.
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Sweden opens new road that charges electric vehicles like real-life slot cars
For anyone who used to play with slot cars as a child, Sweden's new electrified road might bring back some memories. In the first of its kind, the Scandinavian country is trialling the world's first public road which allows electric vehicles to recharge while driving. Similar to a slot-car track, vehicles are able to connect to an electric rail that's embedded into the road.
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1,500-Year-Old Onion Discovered in Sweden
According to a report in The Local, a burned lump recovered near a fireplace at Sandby Borg on the island of Öland is a 1,500-year-old onion. However, archaeologist Helena Victor explained that onions were not grown in Scandinavia at the time. She thinks the vegetable may have been imported from the Roman Empire as an exotic vegetable. “An onion doesn’t sound very interesting,” Victor said, but she notes that the next-oldest onion to have been found in Scandinavia dated to A.D. 650.
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World's first electrified road for charging vehicles opens in Sweden
The world’s first electrified road that recharges the batteries of cars and trucks driving on it has been opened in Sweden. About 2km (1.2 miles) of electric rail has been embedded in a public road near Stockholm, but the government’s roads agency has already drafted a national map for future expansion. Sweden’s target of achieving independence from fossil fuel by 2030 requires a 70% reduction in the transport sector.
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Journalist who infiltrated Putin’s troll factory warns of Russian propaganda in the upcoming Swedish election - ‘We were forced to create fake facts and news’
The big, grey building north of St Petersburg does not look like much to the naked eye. But behind its nondescript facade hides one of Vladimir Putin’s infamous troll factories. For two months, this was the workplace of Lyudmila Savchuk – mother-of-two, environment activist, and freelance journalist. But Savchuk wasn’t one of the trolls – far from it. Instead, her work at Internet Research was part of an undercover investigation for the newspaper My District.
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