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Russia test-fired its intercontinental ballistic robot, the so-called “Satan 2”, in connection with Joe Biden’s visit to Ukraine on Monday, according to information from CNN.

According to the information, the United States must have been notified of the test firing.

The sources also state that the test failed.

A man has died after a vehicle accident that occurred shortly after 5 pm on Tuesday in Motala municipality.

The man is said to have ended up under an “all-terrain vehicle” for unclear reasons and died at the scene of the accident, the police write on their website.

The police do not suspect any crime and the man’s relatives have been informed.

Something has exploded in a shopping center in Nordsjälland in Denmark, reports TV2.

Several police patrols have been called to the scene.

One or more suspicious persons must have been seen leaving the scene after the explosion. No one has been arrested so far.

There is a heavy fire in an industrial premises on Öster in Örebro.

Rescue services are on site with six forces and are working to extinguish the fire.

– Right now the goal is that it should not spread to the roof of the building. It’s an insulated roof, so it goes quickly if it were to ignite, says Johan Gustavsson from the rescue service in Bergslagen.

To put out the fire, water is taken from the mains, something that can affect households in the area, according to the rescue service.

A water leak has affected the municipality of Köping and thousands of households wake up without water on Wednesday morning. This after a car drove over a construction site whereupon a pipe burst.

– The car drove into a small hole in a roundabout outside the fire station. Something happened then because now it has leaked. The person who drove the car was not injured and was able to push on with the car, says Stefan Malmberg, line operator at the rescue service.

It is unclear how many of the municipality’s roughly 26,0000 residents are affected by the water leak.

– What I can say is that large parts of Köping are without water, says Malmberg.

Shortly after 07:30, Sofie Åström, press spokesperson at Köping municipality, announces that the leak affects all households that use municipal water in Köping.

– This is a water leak on one of the municipality’s larger pipes. We will try to turn the water back on and according to the forecast, everything should be up and running again in an hour. But as I said, it is a forecast, not an announcement, says Åström.

– I was going to shower this morning, but no water came out of the tap. I hope they solve the problem soon because I really need to go to the toilet, says a Köping resident to Aftonbladet.

Aid and Foreign Trade Minister Johan Forssell (M) is visiting Turkey due to the earthquake disaster.

– I look forward to the talks with the Turkish counterparts in order to get a picture of the needs and aid efforts myself, he says in a press release.

In the talks with Turkey, among other things, the Turkish humanitarian needs and how the EU can support the country in the long term will be discussed, according to the government.

Earlier in February, a train carrying toxic substances crashed in East Palestine in Ohio, USA.

Now the transport company Norfolk Southern is ordered to clean up the area.

– Norfolk Southern will pay to clean up the mess they caused and the trauma they inflicted on the community, says Michael Regan, head of the environmental agency EPA, at a press conference in the city.

“I know this decision cannot undo the nightmare that the families of this city have lived through, but it can begin to deliver much-needed justice for the pain that Norfolk Southern has caused.”

It is likely that North Korea will launch a spy satellite, writes South Korea’s Yonhap news agency.

The country also has the capability to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles, according to South Korea.

North Korea has previously warned that they may launch a sharp spy satellite that they can use to spy on other countries as early as April this year.

Yonhap also writes that it is possible that the country will realize its plans.

160,000 laying hens are to be euthanized after salmonella was discovered in a barn at Sweden’s largest egg producer, TT reports with reference to local media.

Already in January, salmonella was discovered in a stable, and the Swedish Agricultural Agency has since expanded the sampling.

– We currently assume that it is not a new outbreak but part of the ongoing outbreak, where the infection has now been detected in another stable, says Maria Lundh, veterinarian and infection control officer at the Swedish Agricultural Agency to the Barometer.

In January, 165,000 laying hens had to be killed as a result of the infection on the farm.

Earlier this week, Ica, Coop and Axfood recalled several egg packages due to the infection.

New Zealand’s central bank is raising its key interest rate by half a percentage point to 4.75, despite the recent cyclone that killed 11 people and cost billions.

The reason for the increase is that the central bank wants to limit inflation and push it down towards the two percent target, from the current 7.2 percent. In addition, the unemployment rate is at a low 3.4 percent.

But at the same time, many people in the country are affected by cyclone Gabrielle, which struck with great devastation last week. And the interest rate hike can hit consumers in the form of everything from increased credit costs to increased mortgage costs.

But the central bank reasons that, in the long term, the recovery from the cyclone will push up prices, even if exports take a hit. (TT)

The United States has approved the extradition of Peru’s former president Alejandro Toledo to his home country, according to Peru’s attorney general’s office.

76-year-old Toledo, president of Peru between 2001 and 2006, is suspected of corruption linked to the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht. He is one of four Peruvian ex-presidents singled out as suspects in the tangle.

When he was arrested at his home in California in 2019, a suitcase with $40,000 in cash was found, among other things. (TT)