A Swedish appeals court has overturned a lower court’s ruling and ordered that five Afghan teenagers convicted of the aggravated rape of an underage boy should be expelled from the country. The Uppsala District Court had ruled in December that the teens couldn’t be expelled because they are under 18 and because of the security situation in Afghanistan.
Category: Sweden
Jens Lekman Will See Himself Now
Before Jens Lekman recorded his fourth album, Life Will See You Now , he went through a period of disconnection from his music. “I think I was kind of trying to ruin things for myself,” Lekman says.
Sweden is pretty offended by President Trump’s claims that the country has a crime problem
Protesters carrying banners and placards take part in a Women’s March in Stockholm, Sweden, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017. The march is part of a worldwide day of action following the inauguration of US president Donald Trump.
Young P.E.I. band will perform for Swedish royals
A young folk band from Rustico will travel to Sweden and perform for their Majesties King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia at the famous VASA museum in Stockholm on February 21. Rustico’s Ten Strings and a Goatskin will travel to Sweden on Feb. 21 to perform for King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia at the famous VASA museum in Stockholm. Governor General David Johnston requested the bilingual trio of Jesse Periard, Caleb Gallant and Rowen Gallant perform during “The friends of Canada” event that will also include Canadian artists such as Cirque du Soleil.
Remembering The ‘Edutainer’ Who Made Statistics Come To Life
He called himself an “edutainer.” His gift was bringing statistics about the world to life.
Neurovive Pharmace Npv (NEVPF) Rating Lowered to Hold at Zacks Investment Research
According to Zacks, “NeuroVive Pharmaceutical AB is engaged in the research, discovery and development of mitochondrial-protecting pharmaceuticals. The company’s drug candidate consists of CicloMulsion and NeuroSTAT in clinical phases.
Amnesty International: Up to 13,000 hanged in Syria’s ‘slaughterhouse’
Omar Alshogre, a 21-year-old Syrian former detainee now living in Stockholm, Sweden as seen in the left picture in January 2017. The right picture is from July 2015 in Antakya, Turkey, a month after he got out of Syria’s Saydnaya prison, near Damascus.
Report: At least 13,000 hanged in Syrian prison since 2011
In this combination of two photos of Omar Alshogre, a 21-year Syrian former detainee, now living in Stockholm, Sweden. The left picture is of Alshogre taken on January 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden.
Mats Gustafsson &A Craig Taborn: Ljubljana
Both are original and distinctive improvisers whose paths had never crossed until the 2015 Ljubljana Jazz Festival. Taborn, of late, has been christened heir to the improvised piano chair of by ECM records chief Manfred Eicher .
Flu is breaking out; surprising studies reveal the cause and how you can protect your child
Watching for the first dip in temperature could protect your family from the annual influx of illness. Here’s what you need to know: Here are the facts Seasonal flu breaks out after the winter’s first cold spell.
Swedish party expels politicians for ‘Camp Auschwitz’ flag
Two Swedish politicians have been asked to leave the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats party after one loaded up a picture on Facebook of a man holding a flag saying “Camp Auschwitz”. The anti-racist site Inte Racist, Men… on Friday reported the post by Monica Evertson, who along with her husband Peter, represents the populist party in Savsjo, a small town in Smaland.
Friendly ghosts haunt Swedish royal palace, queen says
Queen Silvia says one of the Swedish royal family’s palaces is haunted – but the phantoms are “pretty friendly.” “There are ghosts, many,” Silvia says of the Drottningholm Palace in a documentary to be aired Thursday on public television channel SVT.
Sweden denies permit for $7.4B offshore wind farm because the project …
This file photo taken on November 04, 2015 shows a service vessel passing by wind turbines of the German offshore wind farm “Amrum Bank West” owned by German energy company E.ON near the Heligoland archipelago on the North Sea, on November 4, 2015. The GE-Alstom Block Island Wind Farm stands in this aerial photograph taken above the water off Block Island, Rhode Island, U.S., on Wednesday, Sept.
One in five Swedish men are ‘risky drinkers’
Almost one in five Swedish men are at risk of suffering harmful consequences from drinking too much alcohol, compared to one in eight Swedish women, according to national health statistics. The figures come from Sweden’s Public Health Agency’s national health survey, which interviewed people aged 16-84 in 2013-2016 about their health, and were reported by news agency Siren.
One in five Swedish men are ‘risky drinkers’
Almost one in five Swedish men are at risk of suffering harmful consequences from drinking too much alcohol, compared to one in eight Swedish women, according to national health statistics. The figures come from Sweden’s Public Health Agency’s national health survey, which interviewed people aged 16-84 in 2013-2016 about their health, and were reported by news agency Siren.
Sweden’s German-born queen hospitalized for dizziness
In this file photo dated Thursday, Nov. 24, 2016, Queen Silvia of Sweden during a meeting with the Pope, at the Vatican. Sweden’s popular German-born Queen Silvia has been hospitalized for observations on her 73rd birthday because of dizziness, according to a statement Saturday Dec. 24, 2016, from the royal household.
My Home Away From Home Is a Swedish Lifestyle Store
The first time I visited the Slussen metro station, located at the northern tip of Stockholm’s island of SA dermalm, I felt like I’d fallen down a snus -induced rabbit hole and landed at an underground Acne Studios runway show. Not only is there a disproportionate amount of beautiful people heading down the platform with blank expressions, but the style they sport is remarkably consistent.