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6 hrs ago | Fides News

ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Asian Youth Day opens with young people from 22 nations, to give Asia a ...

The youth are 'agents of true change and transformation before their respective church communities, families and friends...' hope for the Church's evangelization and for the future of Asia.

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Related Topix: World News, Japan,

11 hrs ago | Ventura County Star

Some lawmakers send few minorities to US academies

As U.S. military academies try to recruit more minorities, they aren't getting much help from members of Congress from big-city districts with large numbers of blacks, Hispanics and Asians.

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Related Topix: US Travel, Travel, US News, Nydia Velazquez, US Politics, US House of Representatives, Charles Rangel, Democrat, World News, Japan,

16 hrs ago | Telegraph.co.uk

White tiger killed by lions at Czech zoo

The lions, 14-year-old Sultan and 11-year-old Elsa, entered the open-air area occupied by the 17-year-old tiger Isabella by opening a trap door, Liberec Zoo spokesman Ivan Langr said.

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Related Topix: Czech Republic, World News,

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Wireless Week

Sony Ericsson Closes NC, Other Sites as HQ Moves

The joint venture between Sweden's LM Ericsson and Japan's Sony Corp. will consolidate product development operations by closing sites in Research Triangle Park; Seattle; Miami; San Diego; Kista, Sweden; and Chennai, India, spokeswoman Stacy Doster said.

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Related Topix: Research Triangle Park, NC, World News, India,

The Local - Sweden's News in English

Swedish man charged for blackmailing sex buyer

A businessman from southern Sweden who attempted to pay for sex from two 18-year-old women instead found himself caught up in a blackmail scheme.

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Related Topix: World News

Health Resources

Newer Blood Thinners May Outperform Old Standbys

After years of little progress, three new trials suggest that the latest generation of blood thinners may outperform the old standbys warfarin and clopidogrel .

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Related Topix: Circulation, Medicine, Health, Plavix, Clopidogrel (generic), Medication, Aspirin (generic), Bayer, Alka-Seltzer, World News, Stroke

Wed Nov 18, 2009

The Local - Sweden's News in English

Young woman with swine flu dies in Sweden

A 20-year woman from Norrkoping in eastern Sweden has died after contracting the swine flu virus.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, World News, Medicine, Influenza

Philadelphia's WB 17

Swedish museums return Maori remains to New Zealand at ceremony in Goteborg

Swedish museum officials returned the remains of five indigenous Maori people to New Zealand on Wednesday as part of a broader move in Europe to repatriate remains taken from burial grounds.

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Related Topix: World News

Health Resources

Wireless Phones Alter Levels of Brain Chemical

Wireless phones have a biological effect on the brain, but it's too early to say whether this poses any health risks, a Swedish medical researcher reports.

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Related Topix: Cell Phones, Cellphones, Electronics, World News,

Tue Nov 17, 2009

Ecofriend

Eco Homes: Energy positive house in Sweden will sell excess electricity to the grid

Eco Factor: Energy positive house incorporates energy saving and generating technologies.

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Related Topix: World News,

The Local - Sweden's News in English

Deadly skin cancer on the rise in Sweden: study

The number of Swedes diagnosed with one of the deadliest forms of skin cancer every year has increased by 50 percent over the last decade, a new study shows.

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Related Topix: Skin Cancer, Medicine, Health, World News,

UPI

No wedding wows for Sweden's immigrants

A town in southern Sweden will allow only one "immigrant wedding" per month to be celebrated in its community center, a local politician said.

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Related Topix: Wedding, World News

Mon Nov 16, 2009

The Local - Sweden's News in English

Sweden to test 'culture by prescription'

Doctors in south-western Sweden will soon be able to prescribe cultural activities such as choir lessons or ceramics classes as part of a taxpayer-funded initiative to help reduce prolonged absences from work due to illness.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News

WUSA9.com Washington, DC

Cultural Factors Help Limit Recession's Impact

RALEIGH, N.C. - Until this summer, Loc Tran, 59, was a technician at Nortel, a global communications company that has facilities at Research Triangle Park here.

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Related Topix: Raleigh Metro, Raleigh, NC, Research Triangle Park, NC, Asian-American, World News, Japan,

San Jose Mercury News

Term of Swede convicted of US murders reduced

A Swedish woman who was sentenced to life for a double murder in California will be released in 2011, a Swedish court ruled Monday.

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Related Topix: Prison, World News, Stockton Metro, Stockton, CA, Lake County, CA

TechNudge

It Explains Sweden But Not the Rest of the World

A study at Orebro University in Sweden indicates that mobile phones and other cordless telephones have a biological effect on the brain.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Cellphones

Sun Nov 15, 2009

The Chronicle Herald

Sweden returns looted skulls to Hawaii

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - With a solemn ceremony in Stockholm's antiquities museum, Sweden on Saturday marked the return of 22 skulls looted from a native Hawaiian community mainly in the 17th century.

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Related Topix: World News

FireFightingNews.com

Arson Suspected In Swedish School Fire

Police and fire officials said they suspect an arsonist may have started the fire that destroyed a school in Gothenburg, Sweden, early Saturday.

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Related Topix: Fire, World News

CSIRO Publishing

Sexual risk-taking in the general population of Sweden

Sexual risk-taking in the general population of Sweden Claes Herlitz Dalarna Research Institute, Myntgatan 2, SE-791 51 Falun, Sweden.

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Related Topix: World News, Human Sexuality

Sat Nov 14, 2009

Clover Herald

Swedish museum returns human skulls to Hawaii

Sweden is returning 23 skulls taken from the native Hawaiian community at a solemn ceremony at Stockholm's Museum of National Antiquities.

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Related Topix: World News

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