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This year Marcus & Martinus won, now it is clear how many entries have come in for next year’s edition of Melodifestivalen. Archive image. Photo: Claudio Bresciani/TT
The interest in competing in the Melodifestivalen continues. 2,794 contributions had been uploaded to SVT when the application period expired at 11:59 a.m. on Friday. Now a secret selection jury will select 15 entries and SVT will select the same number for next year’s competition.
Which artists are allowed to participate in the competition will be revealed in the autumn. SVT has not yet revealed the dates, host cities or presenters for Melodifestivalen 2025.
For the past ten years, interest in Melodifestivalen has been at about the same level, with between 2,000 and 3,000 entries submitted to the competition each year.
New for next year is that the contributions will be released in their entirety already the day before the sub-competition in which they participate.
THREE NEWS YOU CAN’T MISS
Three men were seen stealing a riding lawnmower in Bromölla in Skåne.
The police were called there, but one of the people who had previously tried to stop the perpetrators, a man, drove after them in a car.
The perpetrators then tried to force the man to drive off the road and take his keys from him.
Once at the scene, the police were able to arrest three men aged 20-25.
The riding lawnmower, which has a great value, could be returned to the owner immediately, according to the police.
A robbery report is taken.
Pia Kjærsgaard. Archive image. Photo: Claus Bech/Scanpix/Ritzau/TT
The right-wing political profile Pia Kjærsgaard, who founded the nationalist party Dansk Folkeparti (DF), will leave the Norwegian Parliament after more than 40 years.
When Denmark goes to the next election – which will take place no later than autumn 2026 – the 77-year-old will not run again.
– You should stop when you are loved and respected, she says to Danish TV2.
Pia Kjærsgaard had previously worked in home care when she was elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1984, then for the right-wing populist and more fiscally oriented Progress Party. In 1995 she left the party and formed the DF, which for a long time was one of Denmark’s largest parties with more focus on strict criticism of immigration.
Kjærsgaard resigned as party leader in 2012. Since 2018, the party’s support has decreased and it is currently around five percent in the surveys.
A man has been taken to hospital by ambulance after a workplace accident north of Sveg. This is what the police write on their website.
According to initial information, the man sawed himself in the leg with a chainsaw. The injuries are said not to be serious as the man was wearing so-called chain pants.
The European outbreak of bluetongue has reached Sweden, announces the Swedish Agency for Agriculture.
The first case since 2010 has been found on a farm in Uddevalla.
The spread concerns a variant called BTV-3 and recently it was found to have spread to our neighboring countries Norway and Denmark.
Bluetongue affects ruminants such as cattle, sheep and goats, states the Swedish Agency for Agriculture.
At around 10.30, staff at a preschool in Linköping called the police after they discovered that two six-year-old boys were missing.
The police are currently working with close searches in the area. There are no suspicions of crime.
– I would say that they are on an adventure, but they shouldn’t be, says Mats Pettersson, press spokesperson for the East region.
The boys are said to have light skin, and blond or medium blond hair.
Shortly before twelve o’clock the boys were found.
A man in his 30s is dead after a single vehicle accident on the E4 near Åstorp.
The car must have driven off the road and into a field.
Relatives have been notified.
SD top Richard Jomshof tells in Quarterly Friday interview that he will be served with suspicion of incitement against a ethnic group, this after sharing satirical images online.
He will then leave the post as chairman of the Riksdag’s justice committee temporarily.
SD’s group leader in the Riksdag, Linda Lindberg, comments on the information in a statement to Aftonbladet:
“Purely in principle, this is of course a very important issue. Our freedom of expression must be far-reaching when it comes to the right to problematize, criticize and even parody important social issues in order to create debate.
At the moment, many question marks remain and we want to wait until the interrogation is completed before we comment on this further.
We of course respect Richard’s wish to temporarily step down from the chairmanship. While this process is ongoing, Adam Marttinen will instead shoulder the responsibility as chairman of the committee.”
According to Jomshof, it is about two satirical cartoons critical of Islam that he shared on the platform X. Aftonbladet has sought Richard Jomshof.
Crown Princess Mette-Marit’s son, Marius Borg Høiby, has violated the restraining order against his ex-girlfriend, according to Norwegian Se og Hør.
The crime can lead to up to a year in prison.
Marius Borg Høiby was arrested by the police after beating his ex-girlfriend and vandalizing her apartment on August 4. He has confessed to the crime and is now on trial.
After the crime, he harassed the ex-girlfriend with text messages and phone calls at all hours of the day, which led to a restraining order.
A minor has been taken into custody after Wednesday’s stabbing in Hässelby, according to the police.
Read more here.
After DN’s review of party lotteries within the Social Democrats, many in the party are pissed off.
S has chosen to stop telephone sales of lottery tickets while waiting for the company Kombispel to “get to the bottom of” the information that dubious sales methods were used.
Erik Nises, municipal councilor in Borlänge, is one of everyone in the party who is now demanding more from the party leadership.
– We are several districts that think it’s so fucking strange. That the party is in this environment at all. Young people with immoral bosses in Barcelona, selling things over the phone. It is astonishing, Nises adds DN.
– It goes without saying, the CEO and board of Kombispel must resign, he says.
Several leaders of the terrorist organization have been killed in a special operation in the Iraqi province of al-Anbar, the news site reports Shafaq.
The decision must have been made at the end of August.
Among those killed is Abu Ali al-Tunisi, who has been identified as a key figure within IS.
Among other things, he has taught terrorists how to make bombs and suicide vests.
A Syrian citizen in Germany is in custody on suspicion of having planned to attack soldiers from the German Armed Forces with a machete in the Bavarian city of Hof, writes t-online.
The man planned to attack during the soldiers’ lunch break and kill as many of them as possible, an investigator said Friday.
The man, who is 27 years old, is said to have bought two machetes for the purpose a few days ago.
A total of six people are suspected of involvement in the murder of a gang leader in Berga in Linköping on 13 August.
On the same evening as the murder, the police arrested three men previously known to them, suspected of involvement. On Thursday, three more people were arrested, one of them a 14-year-old boy, writes Corren.
The detention proceedings will be held in the Linköping District Court on Friday.
The fatal shooting of a woman on a street in Finnish Tampere is being investigated by the police. Archive image. Photo: Fredrik Sandberg/TT
The three shots were fired in the middle of the evening rush hour in central Tampere. A woman, who was accompanied by a child, was hit and has died.
The child was not physically injured by the shooting, according to Finnish media.
The man suspected of shooting fled the scene but was arrested during the night. A few hours later, it was announced that the woman had died from her injuries.
The incident is now being investigated as murder as well as weapons offenses and causing danger, according to Finnish media.
The victim and the perpetrator knew each other from before, reports the public service channel EPN’s Swedish-language service.
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