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Two dead after collision – crime under investigation
Two people died just before 8 pm on Friday evening in a head-on collision on national highway 73 near Ösmo in Nynäshamn municipality.
The accident occurred while overtaking and is being investigated as gross negligence in traffic, the police state.
The dead are a 25-year-old man and a 48-year-old woman. The man was a passenger in the car that overtook and the woman was traveling in the oncoming car.
The driver of the car suspected of causing the accident, a woman in her 20s, was taken to hospital by ambulance helicopter. The extent of the damage is unclear.
Relatives have been notified of the death, according to the police.
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“Recalcitrant man” arrested after car chase
When the police wanted to check a car in Bräcke in Jämtland shortly after 11 pm on Friday evening, the driver drove away. The ensuing car chase along the E14 lasted 45 minutes. According to the police, it ended when several patrols connected and were able to “push the car off the road at low speed”.
“The man was still resistant during the arrest and had to be sprayed with pepper spray and handcuffed,” writes officer Michael Saveman in an incident report on the police’s website.
The man is now suspected of several crimes, including aggravated drunk driving, gross negligence in traffic and attempted aggravated assault.
Mocked Putin with ear spaghetti
Local politician Mikhail Abdalkin in the Russian city of Samara protested against Putin’s speech on Tuesday. In a YouTube video, he is seen watching the speech with spaghetti hanging from his ears – a Russian expression meaning to hear lies.
The Communist Party, to which Abdalkin belongs, has distanced itself from the spaghetti mockery.
Abdalkin has previously attracted attention by sending a penis-shaped bar of soap and a bucket of poo to political rivals, writes the Moscow Times.
Biden: No F-16s for Ukraine right now
An F-16 fighter aircraft from the Danish Air Force. Photo: AP
Ukraine wants the F-16 fighter jet and Zelenskyi has long appealed to the US and other countries to donate them.
Now Joe Biden says that at the moment it is not relevant from the US side, reports ABC News.
Biden and Foreign Minister Anthony Blinken have previously said that they are open to discussion. Now that door appears to be temporarily closed for Zelenskyi.
– He doesn’t need the F-16 now, says Biden in an interview with ABC News.
Biden is not saying that the US will never send the F-16, but that the US military believes that it is not justified now.
– We send him what our seasoned military believes he needs now. He needs tanks, artillery, air defense and Himars, says Biden.
Orbán: Must listen to Turkey’s concerns about Sweden
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán wants Sweden and Finland to join NATO. But his Fidesz party is divided.
On Friday, Orbán said on Hungarian radio that further talks are needed in the party because some are “not so enthusiastic” about inviting the countries into the alliance, Reuters reports.
At the same time, Orbán says that it is important to listen to Turkey’s attitude to a Swedish NATO membership and that Turkey’s concerns should be taken into account.
– Turkey is also one of our allies, and therefore we must also listen to them, says Orban.
The Hungarian parliament is to begin debating Sweden and Finland’s NATO application on Wednesday.
Mrs. Biden: Joe is running for office
Jill Biden was on Friday in Nairobi, Kenya. Photo: Brian Inganga/AP
US President Joe Biden, 80, will run for a second term.
At least that’s how it sounds to his wife Jill Biden. She says in one interview with AP that he is ready and that there is basically just a lack of time and space to make it public.
In his statements, Joe Biden has hinted that he will run again, but has not given any official notice. He will be 86 at the end of a second term and his age has been debated as to whether he is too old for the job of President of the United States.
– He says he is not finished. He has not finished what he has started. That is what is important, she tells AP.
Traffic light man fought with rear view mirror
A man in his 70s is charged after a traffic incident in Simrishamn, writes Ystad’s Allehanda.
Last autumn, two cars collided in a village in Simrishamn. The man’s car is said to have suffered damage to a rear-view mirror.
He then got out of the car and walked towards the other driver, a man in his 40s.
The older man reportedly broke off the rear view mirror and hit the other driver in the back of the head.
Now he is charged with assault. He says in questioning that he does not remember being beaten, and can therefore neither deny nor admit crime.
The man in his 40s suffered a head wound and was not seriously injured.
EU agrees on tenth sanctions package
The EU has hammered through its tenth package of sanctions against Russia, reports Reuters.
The decision was made on the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This was announced by the Swedish EU presidency on Friday evening.
Among other things, the countries have agreed on tighter restrictions on the export of technology. In addition, measures are introduced against parties that support the war and supply Russia with drones. Russia has used hundreds of Iranian-made drones during the war.
The package is described as the most powerful to date.
The judge fell asleep – got fired
An elderly man in Stockholm has been fired from his role as a judge in the administrative court, reports Middle of.
The president of the court noticed during a hearing that the juror was sitting with his eyes closed. Then the chairman kicked him on the foot so that he woke up. A minute or so later he had dozed off again, whereupon the chairman gave him another kick.
When the juror closed his eyes a third time, the hearing was interrupted.
The man has denied the accusations and believes that he did not fall asleep, but closed his eyes to hear better.
Now he has been fired. The man is also said to have asked irrelevant questions in other cases, arrived late and not been to class and blamed for “computer trouble”, writes Mitt i.
The Administrative Court now considers that he is not suitable for the role of juror. He is considered to have “behaved in a way that risks damaging trust in the judiciary”.
Serious assault at a fast food place
A man in his 20s was taken to hospital by ambulance on Friday evening after a major fight at a fast food restaurant on Södermalm in Stockholm.
Another man, in his 30s, was injured but did not require hospital treatment.
A man in his 20s has been arrested and is now suspected of aggravated assault.
The assault occurred shortly before 9 p.m. and, according to the police, took place with blunt affection.
– Those involved are people who eat or have eaten. There are many involved, many witnesses and many patrols have been there, says Daniel Wikdahl, press spokesperson at the police’s regional command center.
Two cars in a head-on collision
Two cars have collided head-on outside Nynäshamn.
Police, emergency services and ambulance were called to the scene at 8pm on Friday evening. One person has been taken to hospital.
50,000 dead after the earthquakes
The death toll from the earthquake disaster in Turkey and Syria has passed 50,000, Reuters reports.
Over 44,000 people are said to have died in Turkey, according to the Turkish agency Afad.
6,000 people are said to have died in Syria.
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Have you heard anything more about what happened in the Uppsala mall
Tobias Ljungberg
A suspected dangerous object had been found and the mall was evacuated. The national bomb disposal unit was called to the scene and it was later determined that the object was harmless.
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Why haven’t you written anything about the Russian ship that docked in Nynäshamn with Russian gas today??
It is a bigger scandal when all EU countries including Sweden have to follow the sanctions!!!!
LL Lindqwister
Hello, enter the Gym murder and they are released. Is the 17 year old who shot released too?
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Hello! All suspects have been released pending sentencing on March 10.
The suspected shooter has been placed in SIS home.
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Why did you remove the post about the police going up with a large number of drones over Sthlm to monitor serious crime/gang criminals? Was the news not true? In that case, it was a great pity.
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Are there several TV companies in Europe that have broadcast their news from Kiev on the 24/2 anniversary of the start of the war.
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