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| Hunt for Pirates After Ship Seized Off Swedish Coast Russian warships have now joined in the search for a missing cargo ship now believed to have been seized by pirates off the Swedish coast last month.In the first case of modern piracy in European waters, the armed gang posing as Swedish policeman seized the Maltese flagged , Finnish owned merchant ship Arctic sea off the Swedish island of Öland on July the 24th, a day after it set sail from Finland carring timber believed to be worth in the region of 1 million pounds and bound for Algeria.There are conflicting reports over whether the pirates, after tying up the Russian crew, left the vessel having stolen a few items or in fact stayed on board.The ship seems to have vanished with its last known whereabouts off the english channel.The Russian navy has sent ships from the Atlantic to join the search. The hijack is also being investigated by Swedish police. sr.se |
Development Aid Cut by Nine Percent Sweden is a world leader in development assistance. While the United Nations target for each country is 0.7 percent of that nation’s gross national product in aid, Sweden gives 1 percent. That’s twice as much as Britain and about six times as much as the United States.But the shrinking economy means a lower gross national product, so while the upcoming Swedish budget will still allocated 1 percent of GNP to aid, the total will be less, 9 percent less than this year, for a total of around 4 and a half billion dollars. sr.se |
Irish 'Yes' paves way for two new Swedish MEPs The Irish "Yes" vote to the Lisbon treaty means that two further Swedes are set to take their place in an expanded EU Parliament - provided that the Irish vote is backed up by the Czechs. thelocal.se |
Snow wreaks havoc on Sweden's roadways Heavy snowfall and high winds continued to disrupt traffic in many parts of Sweden into Thursday afternoon. thelocal.se |
Blast rocks Malmö nightclub A powerful explosive device detonated at the entrance of a night club in central Malmö early on Monday morning. thelocal.se |