Latest news – New NATO meeting March 9, according to Reuters

The emergency services and the police were alerted to a house fire on Värmdö in Stockholm during Monday morning, the police report. A family consisting of two adults and two children must have managed to get out of the burning house through a window.

The family has been taken to hospital to check for smoke damage. The villa could not be saved, according to the rescue service.

The fire is being investigated by the police as public negligence.

Säpo processes several attack threats every day and the number of them is increasing greatly in Sweden, reports Echo. International terrorist groups such as IS and al-Qaeda are increasingly targeting the country.

– We see that violent Islamist extremists are increasingly focusing on Sweden, says Susanna Trehörning, deputy head of counter-terrorism at Säpo, to the radio channel.

A grocery store in Hägerstensåsen in Stockholm was robbed of cash during Monday morning, the police report. A man has threatened the shop staff with a knife.

No one has been arrested. The police are tracking the perpetrator with a dog.

The incident is classified as aggravated robbery.

NASA’s launch of SpaceX Crew-6 will not take place during the morning as planned. A problem arose related to the chemicals that ignite the engines and the launch was canceled just minutes before it was due.

The spacecraft had to be defueled. White clouds appeared around the craft as the tank emptied.

The plan was for it to have been launched on Monday morning, but right now it is still on the ground at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The postponement may now be pushed forward one or two days.

The preschool Nordic International School is growing and opening in more and more Swedish cities, reports SVT News. In five years, Watma Education, which is behind the concept, has doubled its turnover in five years and now wants to open 20 more schools.

Several municipalities warn of the rapid growth, according to SVT. Officials believe that it can lead to, among other things, increased segregation and the risk of closure of municipal schools.

– Every empty place is money that the student takes with him to another school and it can be difficult for the municipalities in the short term to meet the gap that may arise, says Carin Clevesjö, head of the permit unit at the School Inspectorate, to SVT.

Both the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and SMHI have previously warned of avalanches in the Swedish mountains – now SMHI extends the issued orange warning for the northern Lapland mountains. The warning applies to wind in combination with snowfall on Calffjäll until Thursday morning at 06.00.

“People are strongly advised against going out on the mountain”, writes SMHI on its website and refers, among other things, to the fact that it can be very difficult to orientate yourself due to severely reduced visibility.

It can also be very difficult to get there and rescue operations can be risky and take a long time.

The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency has issued an orange warning, which means significant avalanche danger, for Abisko/Riksgränsfjällen.

Yellow warnings for avalanche danger have also been issued for southern Jämtlandsfjällen, western Härjedalsfjällen, southern Jämtlandsfjällen, southern Laplandfjällen and western Vindelfjällen.

A newborn child died two hours after delivery at Södertälje hospital. Now the hospital reports itself, reports SVT Södertälje.

According to the hospital, the staff did not follow all procedures in connection with the death. When the child started to feel unwell, they called for medical help instead of raising the alarm.

– Our investigation has shown that the alarm routines were not fully known by all staff. Help was summoned via telephone and not via the alarm buttons, which would have been a more efficient way to quickly summon additional resources, says Henrik Overödder, head of operations for women and children to SVT Södertälje.

No cause of death could be established in an autopsy. Now Ivo will review the case.

In the Lorensborg district of Malmö, two cars have caught fire during the night. The police describe the cars as completely burnt out. An adjacent car also sustained damage.

Recently, Malmö has suffered from several arson fires, you can read more about it here.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed a high-ranking military officer on Sunday, reports Reuters.

The announcement came during the president’s nightly speech.

No reason has been given for the dismissal.

News morning in TV4 suffers from technical problems during Monday morning.

The start of the broadcast was delayed by about half an hour.

– As you have noticed, we have started much, much later and in a different way, we simply have some technical problems, says the presenter Rania Shemoun Olsson.

– We have huge technical problems in the entire TV4 house, and we are happy that we can at least get a camera out now and some sound. The whole house is working intensively to solve the problems and we hope that very soon we will be able to drive as usual, adds colleague Thomas Ritter.

In the box, the usual graphics are not visible, and the news anchor read updates without being able to display features.

– Right now, as I said, it’s a bit of a struggle for us. But we fight! says Thomas Ritter.

Just before 07 clips could be shown, but the graphics are still conspicuous by their absence.

The upstart party Nyans won a mandate in Landskrona in the election. Now the party’s representative has dropped out and become a political savage, reports SVT Helsingborg.

Together with several other defectors, they now form a new party.

– We want a policy that is more realistic and not run politics in a populist way, says Sead Busuladzic who sat on Nyan’s mandate in Landskrona to the channel.

The new party goes by the name Visionspartiet.