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| School Hit By Swine Flu? Updated 10:24Over 100 students at an upper Secondary School in the the southern country of Småland are off sick, with representatives from the local council suspecting that they may have Swine Flu.10% of all the pupils at Finnveden's Gymnasium in the town of Värnamo are currently absent, two of them have been confirmed as suffering from the Swine Flu virus, with many of the others not yet tested, according to the local council's Head of Education, Jan Holmqvist. sr.se |
Hijackers Want To Be Tried in Sweden Russian news bureau Rosbalt reports that the suspected hijackers of the ship Arctic Sea want be tried in either Sweden or Finland. The Malta-registered Finnish timmer freighter was hijacked on July 24 in Swedish waters, and was later found weeks later outside the Cape Verde islands in Africa.The Russian Navy boarded the ship, returning its Russian crew to safety and arresting the alledged hijackers. The men claim, however, that they are environmental activists held onboard as prisoners.Authorities at the Swedish Ministry for Justice have not commented on the request. sr.se |
One in five kids in Malmö live in poverty: report The southern Swedish city of Malmö has more children living in families with a low standard of living than in any other municipality in Sweden, new statistics show. thelocal.se |
Allow Afghan women to give massages: army adviser A Swedish army gender adviser in Afghanistan has taken the Armed Forces to task for only employing local men to perform massages on troops stationed in Mazar-E-Sharif. thelocal.se |
Vattenfall wins joint bid to build world's biggest wind farm Sweden's state-owned energy company is set to build a huge offshore wind farm in the UK in partnership with a Spanish energy giant. thelocal.se |