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North Korea takes “measures” ahead of military exercise
today at 03.51 Johan Edgar
North Korea has decided to take “important practical” war deterrent measures, state news agency KCNA reports. The announcement comes the day before South Korea and the United States are to begin their largest joint military exercise in five years.
The decision was made at a meeting of the ruling party’s military commission chaired by the country’s leader Kim Jong Un.
KCNA reports that the measures are being taken to “deal with the current situation where the war provocations from the US and South Korea are approaching a red line”, but it is not clear what measures are to be taken.
South Korea and the United States will begin the joint exercise “Freedom Shield” on Monday, the focus of which is the “changed security environment” as a result of North Korea’s increased aggression, the countries state. (TT)
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Author Paul Auster ill with cancer
The American writer Paul Auster is sick with cancer, his wife Siri Hustvedt says on Instagram.
76-year-old Auster is said to have been diagnosed in December, after feeling unwell for several months. He is being treated at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
Auster has written more than 30 books that have been translated into more than 40 languages, including the “New York Trilogy”.
In January, he published the essay “Bloodbath nation” about gun violence in his home country. (TT)
Suspected bomb maker charged
A man in Bollnäs municipality is suspected of posting a video on social media where he showed how he made a thermos bomb, which he threatened to send to another man.
Now he is being charged with several threats and also arson, as according to the prosecutor he also allegedly started a small fire outside the other man’s residence, according to Ljusnan.
In the man’s mobile phone, a picture was found showing several bombs in a bag, a picture which is said to have also been sent to the victim as a threat. (TT)
Drunk drivers’ cars are sent to Ukraine
Latvia sends cars seized from drunk drivers to Ukraine. Last week, eight impounded vehicles were sent, the country’s tax authority says.
The idea is that the vehicles will be used by the Ukrainian military and by hospitals. Another 200 vehicles are now awaiting transport to Ukraine, according to the authority.
Since November, drivers in Latvia risk having their vehicle impounded if they drive with a blood alcohol level of 1.5 or higher. (TT)
France moves ahead with reviled pension reform
Many protested in Paris on Saturday. Photo: Lewis Joly/AP
Late on Saturday night, the French Senate voted in favor of President Emmanuel Macron’s criticized pension reform, reports AFP.
The reform means that the retirement age must be raised from 62 to 64 years.
The bill will now be reviewed by a committee with members from both the Senate and the National Assembly. Final voting can take place on Thursday. However, the result is unclear, as Macron’s party does not have a majority in the National Assembly.
Hundreds of thousands of French have protested the proposal in recent months.
New protests are already planned for Wednesday.
Deadly winter storm cripples California
Roads have been flooded, including in Watsonville. Photo: Nic Coury/AP
Thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes in California after another winter storm moved in.
Snow, rain and strong winds hit the state on Friday.
Bridges collapsed and thousands of households lost power. Severe floods have caused entire roads to disappear under water.
The community of Soquel in Santa Cruz County is one of the worst affected areas. There, a stream overflowed and destroyed parts of the main street. Residents are asked to stay indoors.
15 million people were under weather warnings, and warnings were still in effect across much of northern and central California on Saturday.
At least two people have died as a result of the storm, write CNN.
During the weekend, more rain is expected to fall, but it is believed not to be the same downpour as during Friday.
Private person caught knife robber
Three people robbed a teenage boy at Limhamn in Malmö this evening.
– It is a teenage boy who has been robbed by three persons unknown to him. They have threatened him with a knife, hit him in the face and taken his cap, says police spokesperson Jimmy Modin to South Sweden.
After that, a relative of the boy managed to capture the robbers, the police told the newspaper.
The person held the robber down until the police got there.
The incident is being investigated as a robbery.
Man dead – walked through the ice
A 45-year-old man has died after walking through the ice in a lake in Halmstad municipality.
This is what the police told TT.
Rescue services and an ambulance were called to Simlångsdalen shortly before 5 p.m. They got the man out of the water and then started CPR.
The man was taken to hospital by helicopter but his life could not be saved. Next of kin have been notified.
Another person who was at the scene tried to help the person in the water.
– The other person is chilled, but taken care of by an ambulance, said Peter Stened, the internal commander of the rescue service, to Hallandsposten earlier this evening.
Man shot in the leg
Aftonbladet Photo: Police on site in Hökarängen.
A man has been shot in the leg in Hökarängen in southern Stockholm.
– We are on the scene collecting information and interrogating potential witnesses, says Anna Westberg, press spokesperson for the police in the Stockholm region.
The man with the gunshot wound is 25 years old. He is said to have been found outdoors and has been taken to hospital by ambulance.
No suspected perpetrator has been arrested.
Read more here.
43 cars in mass crash in Hungary
Many forces from the rescue service worked to extinguish the burning cars Photo: Peter Lakatos/AP
43 cars have crashed on the M1 motorway leading into the Hungarian capital Budapest.
32 cars, 5 vans and 6 trucks were involved in the accident that occurred on Saturday afternoon, according to Hungary’s Ministry of the Interior.
21 vehicles caught fire.
36 people are said to have been injured, 13 of them seriously, according to the newspaper Magyar Hirlap. A person must be life-threateningly injured.
Four rescue helicopters were dispatched, and traffic on the highway had to be closed in both directions.
New strike at German airports
Security staff at the airports in Berlin, Bremen, Hamburg and Hannover are going on strike on Monday, TT reports.
351 departures are canceled and around 100,000 travelers are affected.
“In addition to canceled departures, you can expect longer time in the queue,” writes the trade union Verdi in a statement.
The union demands higher wages and better conditions for working inconvenient working hours.
A similar one-day strike was carried out in February. Around 300,000 travelers were then affected.
Person has walked through the ice
A person has walked through the ice in Simlångsdalen in Halmstad municipality, writes Hallandsposten.
The person has been taken to hospital by helicopter. It is unclear how seriously injured he is.
Emergency services and an ambulance were called to the scene shortly before 5 p.m. They pulled the person out of the water and then started CPR.
Another person who was at the scene tried to help the person in the water.
– The other person is chilled, but taken care of by an ambulance, says Peter Stened, the rescue service’s internal commander, to Hallandsposten.
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I read somewhere that Jesper Söder died in Ukraine two weeks ago… is this correct?
Sophia
In London, they are abolishing the stupid requirement that you can only have small bottles of liquid in your hand luggage. Will Arlanda do the same?
Frida
Not that I know of. Sweden follows the same rules as all airports within the EU when it comes to liquids in hand luggage.
the reporting of murders and explosions knife cuts will soon be as annoying in TV radio and newspapers as advertising Do the people really demand this news every eternal day?
route
Hello! First and foremost, it is our job as journalists to report on what is happening. Would be very strange otherwise.
The fact that there have been a lot of shootings and explosions now is largely due to the fact that Stockholm is in an intense wave of violence.
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Do you have to have such advanced and heavy scenography as m Looren has? Just sing straight up and down. It’s probably low if you don’t judge the scenography. In that case, it would be called scenography festival
Aka
Hello! Forwarded your question to entertainment colleague Stina Dahlgren (also called Schlager-Stina). She says this:
“If you only want hits on spotify, absolutely. But if you want to win Eurovision, you have to have a good number too.
Performing live with a good number, which many artists also do in the time after the Melodifestivalen, also brings significantly more income for the artists than gigs on Spotify.”
The whole with both prominent songs is, in other words, very important!
The post about a man with a gunshot wound who came into the emergency room. Where did it happen?
Jane
Hi Janne!
The police do not know that at the moment. But they assume that it happened somewhere in Malmö.
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