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 Saffron is Sweden's Christmas spice, but John Duxbury's recipe for these soft, smooth truffles is good at the end of a meal at any time of year. https://www.thelocal.se/20171215/how-to-make-saffron-and-white-chocolate-truffles Fri, 15 Dec 2017 08:59:59 +0100 how-to-make-saffron-and-white-chocolate-truffles A new app aims to use Pokémon Go-style technology to speed up the process of learning Swedish for immigrants. https://www.thelocal.se/20161128/could-pokmon-go-technology-teach-immigrants-swedish Mon, 28 Nov 2016 12:40:49 +0100 could-pokmon-go-technology-teach-immigrants-swedish Police on Tuesday raided 13 addresses in eastern Sweden where residents have connections to extreme-left organizations, in what is believed to be a crackdown on the Revolutionary Front for a series of previous alleged crimes. https://www.thelocal.se/20131119/swedish-police-raid-far-left-extremists Tue, 19 Nov 2013 13:09:00 +0100 swedish-police-raid-far-left-extremists A student at Jönköping University in southern Sweden has been banned from the campus library after being caught masturbating by a female student. https://www.thelocal.se/20131022/50942 Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:23:00 +0200 50942 Airport staff in Gothenburg apprehended a man on Wednesday when he tried to run through security, but the bomb squad called in to assist with the situation got a tasty surprise when they opened his bag to probe its contents. https://www.thelocal.se/20131016/50836 Wed, 16 Oct 2013 18:01:00 +0200 50836 Students sobbed while others expressed their anger on Wednesday over news that scandal-hit boarding school Lundsbergs would be closed temporarily in the wake of the most recent hazing scandal. https://www.thelocal.se/20130828/49924 Wed, 28 Aug 2013 18:46:00 +0200 49924 Swedish performer Sean Banan dazzled the Gothenburg crowd in his win at Saturday's Melodifestivalen heat, in an eccentric number including 25 costume changes, a diaper, and giant angel wings. https://www.thelocal.se/20130210/46110 Sun, 10 Feb 2013 16:14:00 +0100 46110 Uganda has reimbursed Sweden some 24 million kronor ($3.75 million) in aid that had been misappropriated by senior officials. https://www.thelocal.se/20130210/46108 Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:07:00 +0100 46108 The annual Nobel banquet in Stockholm is an exercise in culinary creativity, fashion, and logistics, as staff try to get more than 1,300 starters to tables in a stately hall filled with some of Sweden's best dressed and most influential people. https://www.thelocal.se/20121210/44962 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:27:00 +0100 44962 A 16-year-old boy who was "addicted" to computer games has been involuntarily committed to institutional care after his parents were unable to get him to stop playing. https://www.thelocal.se/20121024/44012 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:01:00 +0200 44012 A heart patient died after ambulance drivers who received the high priority call just as their shift was ending decided to swing by the station to change drivers, delaying their arrival to the patient's home. https://www.thelocal.se/20120917/43268 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:56:00 +0200 43268 A group of foreign PhD students have said they will continue their fight for new rules to ease their path to permanent residency in Sweden, despite the defeat this week of a parliamentary motion in favour of the move. https://www.thelocal.se/20120601/41192 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:24:00 +0200 41192 Whitney Houston was an “awful mother” who “chose drugs and death” and thus doesn’t deserve all the media attention being devoted to her death, a local Swedish politician has argued. https://www.thelocal.se/20120220/39206 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:06:00 +0100 39206 A severe sailing accident on Saturday evening had a fatal outcome. One person died after being fished out of the water after a sail boat sank outside Harstena in the Gryt archipelago in eastern Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20111204/37728 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:48:00 +0100 37728 A new Swedish study shows an increased risk of developing the sleeping disease narcolepsy for children vaccinated with swine flu vaccine Pandemrix, a drug manufactured by pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline. https://www.thelocal.se/20110329/32878 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:49:00 +0200 32878 Sweden's social insurance minister has announced that the government has appointed a new committee to investigate whether the country should consider raising the retirement age from the current 65. https://www.thelocal.se/20110208/31922 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:48:00 +0100 31922 Sweden's Therese Alshammar of Sweden netted $100,000 (659,150 kronor) for topping swimming's overall World Cup standings on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.se/20101108/30082 Mon, 08 Nov 2010 10:14:00 +0100 30082 A Swedish lesbian couple who wanted a mortgage were told by a bank clerk that they should change their lifestyle and think about living apart. https://www.thelocal.se/20100722/27936 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:06:00 +0200 27936 A bumper week for public broadcaster SVT saw ratings explode for the finals on consecutive evenings of song competition Melodifestivalen and ever-popular game show På Spåret. https://www.thelocal.se/20100315/25540 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:29:00 +0100 25540 A Swedish bank inadvertently published a link to a porn site in a magazine distributed to hundreds of thousands of Swedish school children. https://www.thelocal.se/20091218/23912 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:56:00 +0100 23912