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A Swedish woman, tired of the noise made by her amorous neighbors in the apartment above, took her quest for some peace and quiet to an official environmental health committee.
Jon Persson, who works with the local health committee in Simrishamn, some 382 miles south of the capital, Stockholm, said Thursday that the woman said she was "distressed, angry and tense all over" because her neighbors make love loudly almost nightly.
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THE placing of a mythical monster on Sweden’s endangered species list, in an apparent fit of bureaucratic zeal, has caused an administrative problem for the country’s authorities.

"During a routine inspection of the environment court in Jaemtland recently, we came across a decision that attracted our interest," said Nils-Olof Berggren, a Swedish parliamentary ombudsman.
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Scientists conducted a successful test of a German-made prototype of a future European space shuttle on Saturday. In 20 years, the vessel could shuttle satellites and humans to space. Read More (DW-World)
Guided by Global Positioning System satellites, the EADS Phoenix was dropped by a heavy-duty helicopter over Sweden at 9.45 am and "landed perfectly" 90 seconds later on a test runway north of Stockholm , a project spokeswoman said. Read More (The Times of India)

The Swedish parliament voted on Wednesday against the Social Democratic government’s proposal to temporarily restrict job opportunities for nationals of the countries set to join the EU on May 1. Lawmakers rejected by 182 votes to 137 temporary measures that would have required nationals of the new European Union members, excluding Malta and Cyprus, to prove that they have an employment contract before they could receive a work permit in Sweden.
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Sweden's prime minister told President Bush Wednesday that the United States must either release or bring charges against a Swedish prisoner held for two years at Guantanamo Bay in the war on terrorism.
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A rocket has slammed into the grounds of the Swedish embassy in Baghdad, witnesses say.
There was no immediate word on any casualties on Monday.
In Stockholm, the Foreign Ministry said the embassy had been closed since 1991 and only an Iraqi guard would have been working there.
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Saab AB said Monday it received contracts to provide the U.S. Army with a new light anti-tank weapon for use in urban warfare, which could be used in Iraq, and a system to help soldiers in gunnery training.
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The King of Sweden has admitted speeding - after some of his subjects claimed to have seen him weaving in and out of traffic in a yellow Porsche.
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Swedish police have arrested four people suspected of links to terrorism and Islamic extremism.
"Four people have been taken in for questioning, people with links to terror activities, Islamic extremism," Sweden's TT news agency quoted a SAPO security police official, Janne Jonsson, as saying.
The daily Aftonbladet said the four were arrested on suspicion they had supported Iraqi rebel attacks on US troops in Iraq.
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Seven months after Sweden's foreign minister was fatally stabbed, another government minister was punched by an attacker this week but wasn't seriously injured, officials said Saturday.

Swedish media reported Integration Minister Mona Sahlin was hit on the shoulder during a political rally Thursday. Police confirmed the attack but would not provide details.
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he Swedish government revised its economic growth forecast for 2004 up from 2.0% to 2.5% during a parliamentary presentation of its complementary spring budget.
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Scandinavian airline operator SAS announced Wednesday it had reached wage agreements with its pilots and cabin crew that it said would help the company cut costs by about $1.7 billion by 2005.
The SAS board also formally approved previously announced plans to split its largest carrier, Scandinavian Airlines System, into three wholly owned subsidiaries to operate flights in Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
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A senior official in the Mozambican Education Ministry has denied that the Ministry failed to account properly for Swedish aid money - but the Swedish authorities are demanding that the money be repaid.
According to a report in the respected Norwegian magazine "Development Today",dated 15 March, the Ministry has already agreed in principle to refund 1.7 million Swedish crowns used for scholarships.
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In his college days chairing a right-wing Stockholm student political association, Carl-Magnus Stenberg could not have guessed that his future would lie with the former Soviet Union.
The only revolution Stenberg has joined is the technological revolution, and today he is the chief operating officer and acting CEO of the telecommunications company Tele2 Russia.
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Harald Sandberg, Swedish ambassador to Korea: Sweden Still Playing Peacekeeper Here
An Interview with The Kroea Times.