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Man accused of rape – says he was asleep
A 25-year-old man is accused of raping a woman in a town in Värmland one night in October. The man denies the crime and claims that he carried out the acts while he was asleep, writes Värmland’s Folkblad.
The woman and the man knew each other from before. She needed somewhere to sleep and heard about it on social media. The man answered and offered a place to sleep.
Once she fell asleep in the man’s apartment, she woke up to find him crawling down next to her and starting to prey on her. In questioning, the woman says that she “became stiff and did not dare to move, let alone say anything”.
The man says that he was not awake and that he perceived it as a dream, something the prosecutor considers unlikely.
The trial begins on Monday. (TT)
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Accident on Finlandsbåt – one to hospital
A passenger on the Viking Glory was taken to hospital by helicopter during the night of Saturday after a fall accident with suspected head injuries.
– The alarm came at midnight. The ship turned back towards Sweden to meet the Swedish Maritime Administration’s helicopter, which took the passenger to Norrtälje hospital, says Pontus Svensson, maritime rescue leader at the Swedish Maritime Administration.
Viking Glory is on its way to Turku via Mariehamn and returned to the route after just under an hour.
6-year-old shot his teacher
A 6-year-old boy shot his teacher at a school in Virginia, USA, on Friday, reports say CBS News.
The teacher is in her 30s and she was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries. The boy allegedly shot her with a gun during some kind of dispute or fight.
The boy has been taken into custody and, according to the police, he is deemed not to have fired the weapon by mistake.
According to the police, no students were injured.
One sneaked into prison – served another man’s sentence
A man sneaked into the prison Svartjöanstalten and pretended to be another man who was going to sign in to serve a sentence for tax crimes, reports Uppsala New Newspaper.
“There is a risk that they forgot to check the identity document in connection with the registration,” says the report of the Correctional Service, which UNT has seen.
After five months, the prisoner was moved to another institution, but no new ID check was carried out there. Two months later, after the prisoner had been confined for a total of seven months, suspicions arose that the wrong person was imprisoned. What made the Correctional Service discover it at that time is unclear.
The report shows that the Correctional Service lacks rules for how an identity check should be carried out or what counts as a valid ID document.
The man convicted of the crime is now wanted internationally.
The police warn: Skiers on national highway 73
The police have received an alarm about a person on skis interpreting behind a car on national highway 73 in Jordbro.
The journey must go in a northerly direction.
A police patrol is on its way to the scene.
New Alzheimer’s medicine in the US: “Milestone”
A new Alzheimer’s medicine has been approved in the United States by the FDA, reports The Wall Street Journal.
The medicine is not a cure, but is said to slow down the progression of the disease and is very promising.
The researchers describe the approval as a milestone in the search for new treatments against Alzheimer’s.
It reduces the protein amyloid in the brain of patients who are in the early stages of the disease.
The drug lecanemab will be sold under the brand name Leqembi and comes from the companies Eisai and Biogen.
– We have tried for several years, decades, and we have to win, says Marwan Sabbagh, a specialist in Alzheimer’s disease at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix and a consultant at Biogen.
Ukraine: Russia may mobilize half a million soldiers
Ukraine’s military intelligence fears Russia is preparing to mobilize another 500,000 conscripts in January, reports The Guardian.
Intelligence chief Vadim Skibitskyy believes that a major offensive against southern and eastern Ukraine is being planned.
– We expect them to carry out attacks in the Donetsk and Kharkiv regions, as well as possibly Zaporizhzhya but defend in Kherson and Crimea. This is the number of men they will need for such a task, he told The Guardian.
Shooting in Frölunda
A gate has been shelled in Frölunda, reports Gothenburg Post.
No one is reported to have been injured.
– When we arrive, we have found bullet holes that we believe come from possible shots, says Sebastian Börjesson, officer on duty at the police in the West region.
Vattenfall: Don’t postpone the bill – more to come
Around half of Vattenfall’s 850,000 customers have signed variable electricity contracts.
The December invoice will soon arrive and Vattenfall has called in extra staff to cope with the pressure on its customer service.
– We know from experience that it will happen and we have prepared as much as possible and further trained our staff, says William Fredriksson at Vattenfall customer service, in a press release.
Vattenfall writes that the high electricity costs will be especially felt for households with small margins in their budget and that there is ultimately the possibility of applying for deferment or partial payment. But the call is not to postpone the payment
– Winter continues in January, February and March. The call is therefore to pay as much as you can because there will be more electricity bills to be paid. So the main advice we give for the coming months is to review the electricity consumption you have at home, says William Fredriksson.
Almost half of the wolves shot
Archive image. Photo: Junge, Heiko
There has been wolf hunting since Monday and so far 36 out of 75 wolves have been killed, TT reports with reference to a compilation of Swedish hunting.
A total of 75 wolves may be shot and the hunt is conducted in Dalarna County, Gävleborg County, Värmland County, Västmanland County and Örebro County. It may last until February 15 at the latest.
Since the end of the 1990s, the number of wolves has increased, according to the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. Today’s number of 460 is the highest recorded since the inventories started, followed by the 2014/2015 season when the number was estimated at 415 wolves, writes TT.
The goal of the hunt is to clear certain areas.
Two cars in a head-on collision
Two cars have collided head-on south of Gothenburg, reports GP.
– We have blocked the road and are cleaning up. One car is in the ditch and one is on the road, says Jörgen Bech, alarm and line operator at the rescue service, to the newspaper.
Several ambulances must have been called to the scene. At the moment, there is no information on the state of the damage.
Reuters: Russian hackers tried to trick US labs
Russian hackers Cold River tried to break into three research laboratories in the United States this summer, reports say Reuters.
The laboratories researched nuclear weapons.
The hackers created fake login sites and sent emails to the researchers to trick them into accidentally giving out their passwords.
Reuters, together with five cyber security experts, reviewed the incident and it is still unknown what the hackers’ purpose was and whether they managed to get into the systems. Spokespeople for the laboratories have declined to comment on Reuters’ data.
Reuters has traced Cold River to an address in Russian Syktyvar, and the hackers are said to have been linked to a data breach at the British Foreign Office in 2016, among other things.
Reuters has contacted the Russian security service FSB without success.
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Now that the snow and wind are blowing outside, it suits me to surf around and plan the spring plantings! Think how much money you save by cultivating yourself for the whole year’s use. Now I have the privilege of having my own land, but in the past I have had to cultivate a plot of land both with relatives and friends. Take care of the people and then enjoy what you have grown.
Mikael
It is not only infants who are at risk of becoming seriously ill from the RS virus, even the elderly >65 years of age can be severely affected. Why is nothing mentioned about it. The weekly report from the Public Health Authority on the number of cases is terrible.
26% of them are >65 years and older.
Emergency care is hard hit!
Stay home if your child is sick, is my advice. Don’t go to work and leave a sick child with grandparents…
Emergency
Why do you go to the emergency room if you have the flu?
How was it with the thing where you are they if in the past you get sick call 1177 in the first place and ask for advice. Hope our evening and weekend ends like they had at some health centers will come back.
Ingalena Eriksson
Hey! You’re right about 1177. The regions still urge people to first call 1177 for advice and guidance – unless it’s a life-threatening case.
Martin Melin very dear. Reading value????
Who cares????
BTh
Bernt Thuresson
Hi Bernt,
Quite a few actually! Everyone is interested in different articles and topics, you might find something else that you want to read instead 🙂
Nice weekend!
When you write that a wolf has been shot in Västmanland, why not mention that it is only western Västmanland where the hunt is ongoing?
Berndt Ahlm
Wolves may be hunted in Västmanland, Örebro, Gävleborg, Dalarna and Värmland.
If you want to follow the wolf hunt, Swedish hunting has a good article where they update with the latest news, here is a link to it.
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