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Last year, Swedish municipalities paid over SEK 200 million to companies that run HVB homes and which, according to the police, have links to serious organized crime. This is reported by SVT, which via sources has identified the anonymized companies that appear in the police report on the HVB homes.

According to SVT’s review are among the company representatives people who were suspected of robberies with the Bandidos, employees who paid rent to gang leaders and homes where life jackets, narcotics and ammunition were found.

According to the review, the companies still have their permits and have children placed. Several of them have previously been criticized by Ivo. For example, a home had its permit revoked by the authority citing that there was a “danger to life”, but the decision was overturned in court.

H&M has released new sales figures. Archive image. Photo: Mickan Mörk/TT

The clothing giant Hennes & Mauritz reports a clearly worse result than expected. In addition, the company is now flagging that it is not reaching this year’s profitability target.

The stock is now down 8.4 percent.

The third quarter’s results, i.e. for the period June 1–August 1, turned out to be a gloomy story for the clothing company. The profit of almost SEK 3.1 billion was significantly lower than the previous year (SEK 4.3 billion) and far below the market’s expectations of SEK 4.6 billion.

Sales at the same time amounted to SEK 59 billion, which was marginally below expectations.

There is currently a large rescue operation underway at a fire in a row of terraced houses in Sandviken. SOS received the alarm at 04.22.

Emergency services and ambulances are working full time at the scene.

– There are roughly ten units on site, says Natalie Strindberg, line operator SOS.

There is currently no information on personal injuries.

A VMA is now issued.

Read more here.

A car overturned into a ditch and caught fire in a traffic accident in Kumla during the night towards Thursday.

Police, ambulance and emergency services were alerted at 00:36. The accident occurred on the Östra leden which, according to the Swedish Transport Administration’s forecast, would be closed until 05, writes Nerikes Allehanda.

According to the newspaper, it is unclear if anyone was in the car when the fire started.

Eric Adams. Archive image. Photo: Seth Wenig/AP/TT

New York’s Democratic mayor Eric Adams is being indicted for suspected corruption, several US media reported.

It is not yet clear what the criminal classification is and the prosecutor’s office in Manhattan does not want to make any comments.

The announcement comes less than a year after FBI agents raided former police chief Adams and seized both his phone and other electronic equipment.

The king penguin Pesto, in a double sense, in his thick fur. Photo: Sea Life Melbourne/AP/TT

Pesto the penguin is just growing and growing – both in life and as a star on social media.

At nine months old, he already weighs 23.5 kilos, more than his “foster parents” Hudson and Tango together. With the daily diet of 25 fish, he will grow even bigger, according to the Sea Life aquarium in Melbourne, Australia, where the king penguin was born.

But the time as a fluffy, famous giant baby is coming to an end. Getting older like a penguin means losing the fur, getting thin and becoming one of the crowd.

A man in his 40s was robbed outside on Östermalm in Stockholm during the night towards Thursday.

The police were alerted at 01:55 and began a so far fruitless hunt for the three perpetrators that the victim perceived.

The man was kicked, beaten and his belongings confiscated. He should not have sustained serious physical injuries, according to the police.

The police searched during the night towards Thursday for a man with a weapon in central Stockholm.

The alarm came from a witness at 01 and the police helicopter participated in the work.

– We have a bigger stake in the city. The caller saw a man who possibly had a weapon. He rode an elevator and got down into the subway at the T station, said duty officer Sylvia Oldin.

At 01.47 the police ended the chase.

– We have a good description but have not found him, said Sylvia Oldin.

A preliminary investigation into serious weapons crime has been launched.

Text updated 03.17

Donald Trump criticizes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi.

During his campaign speech in Mint Hill, North Carolina, the presidential candidate claims that Zelensky refuses to agree to a peace plan with Russia.

– Those cities are gone. They are gone and we continue to give billions of dollars to a man who refuses to agree to a peace plan. Your country has been wiped out and cannot be rebuilt, says Trump according to CNN.

He also criticizes US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for the duo’s support for Ukraine.

– A peace agreement could have been drawn up if we had had a competent president – instead of a president who instigated everything, says Trump.

At least 21 prisoners in an Iraqi prison have been executed by hanging. Archive image. Photo: Karim Kadim/AP/TT

Iraq executed at least 21 prisoners on Wednesday, most convicted of “terrorism” and being active in IS. This is stated by security sources for the news agency AFP.

All the detainees were said to have been Iraqi nationals, and all but one were men.

It is the largest mass execution to be reported from Iraq in many years.

Last December, 13 prisoners were executed in what UN experts said was the largest mass execution in Iraq since 2020, when 20 prisoners were executed on the same day.

Iraqi courts have handed down hundreds of death sentences and life sentences in recent years in cases where the accused were accused of “terrorism”.

About 30 people died when a bus in Ethiopia drove into a river in the Wolaita region.

Local authorities confirmed the fatal accident on Wednesday evening, adding that around 20 people were seriously injured in the crash.

The roof of the bus crumpled and then fell off in the accident, where the vehicle appears to have plunged down a long slope before ending up in the river.

The accident occurred about 40 kilometers from the capital Addis Ababa.

Remains of liberation fighters under the rule of the apartheid regime in South Africa, who were buried in exile, have been returned to their homeland. Photo: Shiraaz Mohamed/AP/TT

The remains of 42 people who fought against the apartheid regime in South Africa, and who died in exile in neighboring Zimbabwe and Zambia, were repatriated on Wednesday. Government representatives were present at Waterkloof airbase when the remains were taken to South Africa.

The measure, and subsequent ceremonies, are part of the government’s efforts to try to create closure for the families and relatives of the dead. Many of those who fought for the armed liberation movements ANC and PAC took refuge in neighboring countries.

The movements had military training camps in the countries, but several of those who sought asylum fled the persecution of the apartheid regime.

On Friday, President Cyril Ramaphosa of the ANC party is expected to host an official ceremony before the remains are buried.

South Africa is negotiating to return remains with the governments of Lesotho, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Angola and Russia, among others.

During the evening, a fire started in a carport in Staffanstorp municipality.

The fire has since spread to a villa.

Firefighters are on the scene to put out the fire.

At the moment, there is no information on the state of the damage.

A Secret Service agent is suspected of sexually assaulting one of Kamala Harris’ associates in the presidential election campaign, writes CNBC.

The agent is accused of forcing himself on the woman in her hotel room after dining and drinking with her and several other campaign staffers during a work visit in Wisconsin.

A Secret Service spokesperson told CNBC that it is “investigating an allegation of misconduct involving an employee.”

The agent has been removed from duty pending the investigation.