https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Marine archaeologists believe they have identified a shipwreck in the south of Sweden as an historic warship the same size as the one displayed in Stockholm's world famous Vasa musem. https://www.thelocal.se/20170201/southern-sweden-may-have-its-own-vasa-as-historic-shipwreck-is-identified Wed, 01 Feb 2017 16:47:32 +0100 southern-sweden-may-have-its-own-vasa-as-historic-shipwreck-is-identified A municipality in Sweden is to put all 5,700 of its workers to through a course on issues affecting homosexual, bisexual, trans- and queer people. https://www.thelocal.se/20161126/swedish-municipality-sends-all-workers-on-lgbt-course Sat, 26 Nov 2016 13:43:59 +0100 swedish-municipality-sends-all-workers-on-lgbt-course An appeal gets underway on Monday in the case of 8-year-old Yara Alnajjar, a girl from Gaza who was beaten to death in Sweden last year. A female guardian was charged with murder while the girl’s uncle received a lesser sentence. https://www.thelocal.se/20150329/new-trial-to-start-in-8-year-olds-death Sun, 29 Mar 2015 15:38:49 +0200 new-trial-to-start-in-8-year-olds-death A man and a woman have been formally charged for fatally beating an 8-year-old girl - a child murder case that has dominated the headlines in Sweden all year. https://www.thelocal.se/20141217/guardians-charged-for-8-year-olds-death Wed, 17 Dec 2014 17:46:00 +0100 guardians-charged-for-8-year-olds-death The ongoing conflict in the middle east is delaying the investigation into the death of an 8-year-old girl who was found dead in Sweden in May. Meanwhile, over a 1,000 people attended a pro-Gaza march in Malmö. https://www.thelocal.se/20140727/gaza-crisis-delaying-case-of-murdered-child Sun, 27 Jul 2014 12:15:00 +0200 gaza-crisis-delaying-case-of-murdered-child Police in southern Sweden are being investigated on charges of suspected misconduct for failing to act on a report that a child was being abused at home. She was later found dead. https://www.thelocal.se/20140628/cops-investigated-after-8-year-olds-death Sat, 28 Jun 2014 12:07:00 +0200 cops-investigated-after-8-year-olds-death IN PICTURES: The Karlskrona couple held on suspicion of killing an 8-year-old girl in their care have told the police contradictory versions of what happened the night the young girl died. https://www.thelocal.se/20140506/child-murder-suspects-give-contradictory-evidence Tue, 06 May 2014 11:23:00 +0200 child-murder-suspects-give-contradictory-evidence An 89-year-old man from southern Sweden has been convicted of assault after ramming his shopping cart into that of another shopper. https://www.thelocal.se/20120206/38940 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:25:00 +0100 38940 A school teacher from southern Sweden was charged on Thursday after the investigation into a sex-themed text message he sent to a 13-year-old student revealed over 6 hours of child porn material on his computer. https://www.thelocal.se/20111215/37954 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:07:00 +0100 37954 A 39-year-old man from Karlskrona in southern Sweden who admitted to stabbing his neighbour to death citing incessant noise coming from the victim's flat, was sentenced to psychiatric care by a Blekinge court on Friday. https://www.thelocal.se/20110715/34972 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:47:00 +0200 34972 Some 150 pro-Palestinian protesters and some 60 pro-Israel protestors demonstrated peacefully on the sidelines of a Sweden-Israel handball match in southeastern Sweden Sunday, police said. https://www.thelocal.se/20110613/34312 Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:52:00 +0200 34312 Grunts heard through a wall were enough for police in southern Sweden to arrest a 46-year-old man on suspicion of buying sex. https://www.thelocal.se/20110420/33312 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:08:00 +0200 33312 A 39-year-old man from Karlskrona in southern Sweden who admitted to stabbing his neighbour to death blamed the attack on the incessant noise coming from the victim's flat. https://www.thelocal.se/20110121/31574 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:07:00 +0100 31574 A local education official from southern Sweden has been sacked after she disclosed sensitive information about colleagues during mobile phone conversations which were easily overheard by others. https://www.thelocal.se/20101120/30334 Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:16:00 +0100 30334 A woman was taken into psychiatric care on Friday afternoon after threatening to set fire to herself and her three children in an apartment in Karlskrona in southern Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20100226/25242 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:35:00 +0100 25242 A police vehicle ran over a 14-year-old boy in Karlskrona in southeastern Sweden on Wednesday night as the boy was fleeing the scene of a robbery. https://www.thelocal.se/20090806/21136 Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:07:00 +0200 21136 After days of heavy criticism, councillors representing Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt's Moderate Party in the southern Swedish port of Karlskrona have said they will strike no more deals with the right-wing populist Sweden Democrats. https://www.thelocal.se/20071123/9184 Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:48:00 +0100 9184 A 50-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of having shot and killed a 15-year-old boy in a small town in southern Sweden in the early hours of Saturday morning. A 16-year-old boy was also shot but his injuries are not thought to be life-threatening. https://www.thelocal.se/20071006/8706 Sat, 06 Oct 2007 12:06:00 +0200 8706 Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has been met by around 50 protesting shipbuilders during a visit to the southern naval port of Karlskrona. https://www.thelocal.se/20070910/8444 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:51:00 +0200 8444 The Swedish navy's largest ship, HMS Carlskrona, is to be mothballed due to a lack of officers. A decision on whether to refit, sell or scrap the minelayer will be made later in the autumn. https://www.thelocal.se/20070903/8369 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 13:46:00 +0200 8369