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A person has been found dead north of Stockholm.

The police have a large effort at the scene.

– You cannot explain what happened and at the moment it is not possible to rule out murder. We have to investigate it further, says police spokesperson Towe Hägg.

Technicians are on their way to the scene.

EU parliamentarian Sara Skyttedal (KD) wants Sweden to legalize cannabis.

She writes that DN Debate.

According to Skyttedal, she has so far been for zero tolerance towards drugs, but has now changed her mind.

“The ongoing state drug investigation should instead try to clarify how a decriminalization of drug use would improve addiction treatment,” she writes.

Skyttedal believes that legalization would also cut off criminal gangs’ income from cannabis.

On Saturday evening, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz met voters at a meeting in Potsdam outside Berlin.

Then he took the opportunity to tell about his conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, writes Focus. Both on the phone and at the “comically large table” in Moscow.

– As far as the process is concerned, I can now, I think, reveal that it was always done politely, says Scholz.

The chancellor says he believes in continued talks with the Kremlin.

– Despite everything, I would talk to him again. This is because I want to experience the moment where it becomes possible to get out of the situation. And it won’t work if you don’t talk.

Scholz underlined that Putin has been forced to correct his goals – apart from the hunger to seize Ukrainian land by force.

– The most burdensome thing is that it has not changed despite heavy losses on the Russian side. I mean, we don’t know exactly how many soldiers have died, but it could be over 100,000, says the Chancellor, according to Focus.

Two Swedish tourists were found bloody in the San Francisco area on Friday, according to Petaluma Police.

They are said to have stopped at a hotel parking lot to pick up a friend, when a man suddenly attacked.

According to the police, the man, who is suspected of being under the influence of drugs, accused them of being in his hotel room before he attacked.

He allegedly assaulted them in their vehicle and held them for almost an hour while forcing them to hand over their mobile phones.

A person in the hotel staff is said to have discovered the two Swedes in the back seat of the car and alerted the police.

“Police would like to thank hotel staff for carefully checking suspicious vehicles in their parking lot and immediately notifying police of the incident,” police said in a statement.

One of the injured Swedes is said to have had his nose broken, otherwise there is no information on the state of the injury.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has no information about the case.

Ukraine may be about to lose the city of Bachmut in the Donetsk region. Russian forces have bombed the city heavily and advanced with ground troops – despite heavy losses. A large number of mercenaries from the infamous Wagner group are said to be fighting at the front.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi accuses Russia of having completely destroyed the city.

– The Russian army has turned the city into burnt ruins, he says ARD.

Only a fraction of the residents of Bachmut remain in the city. Water, electricity and heating have been switched off.

– It’s like hell, says a Ukrainian officer Financial Times.

Bachmut itself is not considered to be of great strategic importance. However, the city is approximately three kilometers from Kramatorsk and Slovjansk, which are considered significantly more important.

The Ukrainian army states that the fiercest battles of the war are now raging around Bachmut, where around 20 residential areas are under fire, ARD reports.

Local elections in four places in the Serb-dominated northern part of Kosovo are postponed, TT reports.

This is announced by President Vjosa Osmani with reference to increased tensions in the region.

Several hundred Kosovo Serbs are said to have set up roadblocks on two major roads between Kosovo and Serbia on Saturday in protest and are demanding that a police officer with Serbian roots be released. The police were arrested when he allegedly tried to destroy polling stations and attacked police officers in Kosovo with Albanian roots in December.

The election was due to be held on 18 December but has been postponed until April 2023.

The emergency services have been called to an office premises in Bredäng following an alarm about a fire and explosion.

– It is said that there must be some kind of explosion, but we have not been able to verify that. It’s an ongoing fire in any case, line operator Peter Tistam said at 6 p.m.

Smoke divers have now searched the building. There is no information that anyone was injured in connection with the fire

– Those who raised the alarm are out of the property, thank God, says Peter Tistam.

At 7 p.m., the emergency services stated that the fire was out and that they had begun to leave the scene.

According to the police, the fire must have occurred in connection with a gas stove being started.

A hospital in Kherson has been hit in a Russian airstrike, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy chief of staff at the Ukrainian presidential office, said on Telegram.

According to Tymoshenko, a maternity ward has met. No one should have been physically harmed.

Ukraine recaptured Kherson on November 11 after the Russians occupied the area since the beginning of the war.

Mikail Yüksel has been re-elected as party leader for Nyans during an extraordinary congress, reports The Express.

Several members left the meeting in protest and plan to form a new party.

– The opposition realizes that it is not possible to save Nyans anymore, says Hassan Khan, who is one of the party’s founders, to Expressen.

A large-scale fire reportedly broke out in the Russian soldiers’ barracks on the occupied Crimean peninsula, reports Ukrainian TSN.

Several hundred Russian soldiers are said to have been in the barracks, according to the newspaper. There is no information on how many were injured.

A video, which is said to be from the scene, shows how the flames rise tens of meters into the air.

– Either something flew in there or they are full as hell, says a voice in the recording.

The Metropolitan Opera in the United States has been subjected to a cyber attack. The website, ticket sales and customer service have been shut down.

TT reports that the opera usually sells tickets for 2.1 million kroner per day before Christmas and New Year, now their computer system has been down for three days.

On The Met’s website, you will find an information text about the cyberattack, and that you can buy tickets via Lincoln Center.