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North Korea has launched a robot from a submarine
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Photo: KCNA/KNS/AP
North Korea has fired at least one strategic cruise robot from a submarine, writes TT.
South Korea’s top military command detected a test firing from a submarine near the North Korean port city of Sinpo on Sunday, they said in a statement.
But North Korea claims it fired two.
The country has previously said it has decided to take “important practical” war deterrent measures, on the occasion of South Korea’s and the United States’ biggest joint military exercise in five years.
South Korea and the United States begin the joint exercise “Freedom Shield” on Monday.
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Alecta after bank collapse: “Could lose nine billion”
Alecta’s CEO Magnus Billing may be sweating it out shortly. Photo: Lars Pehrson/SvD/TT
The American bank Silicon Valley Bank, SVB, is in deep crisis.
Today US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced that the authorities will not bail out the bank.
The bank crash means that the Swedish pension company Alecta may lose the equivalent of almost SEK 9 billion, reports Echo.
– It is very likely that there is not much of the value left, says Jacob Lapidus, press manager at Alecta, to Ekot.
Alecta made its latest investment in SVB in 2022.
Garbage piles grow in Paris after pension strikes
General strike has led to mountains of garbage in Paris. Photo: Michel Euler/AP
On the sidewalks of Paris, the mountains of garbage are growing ever larger.
The reason is municipal cleaning workers in the French capital have been on strike for a week.
According to the city’s management, it may be thousands of tons of garbage that now cover the sidewalks in the “city of romance”.
The strike is part of the protests against President Macron’s reviled proposal to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.
Ukraine wants to change its name to Russia
Ukrainian President Voldymyr Zelenskyy is investigating the possibility of changing the name of Russia, writes the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta Europe.
The proposal comes from an online petition, and is about renaming Russia to Muskovy, or Moskovija in Russian.
The name was sometimes applied to the Russian Empire before the time of Peter the Great.
The petition has received over 25,000 signatures, and now Zelenskyy has asked the country’s prime minister to investigate the proposal.
– Zelensky wants a language where Ukraine is seen as the original, civilized Russia, and that Putin’s Moscow state is something completely different. It is an attack on Putin, says Kristian Gerner, professor emeritus of history at Lund University, to Norwegian VG.
Shots fired at residence in Malmö
The police were alerted to an address in Malmö after a hole was discovered in a window pane of an apartment, the police write on their website.
According to the police’s assessment, it is a bullet hole and the apartment has been cordoned off.
Other circumstances are unclear.
A technical survey will be conducted.
The alarm came in shortly before 6 p.m.
Task: Make-up knife man chased children
The police were alerted this evening to Södermalm in central Stockholm.
A man who was wearing make-up or a mask allegedly chased after children, according to information to Aftonbladet.
The police confirm that they were at the scene.
– There is someone who has been confused and brandished a knife. We also have information on whether it was a smaller sword, says police duty officer Pontus Sandulf.
The man was taken into custody and the police are investigating the incident as an unlawful threat.
Man and woman killed in traffic accident
Two people have died in a traffic accident south of Vårgårda in Västergötland.
– It concerns a man in his 20s and a woman in her 30s. One person in each car died. In addition to that, two people are seriously injured, says Anders Wennergren, officer on duty at the police, to TT.
One of the injured is a man in his 20s.
The accident occurred at 1:15 p.m. on Sunday. The cars collided and are said to have then caught fire.
An ambulance helicopter was dispatched to the scene.
The road was closed in both directions during the rescue operation, but was reopened at 5:30 p.m.
Next of kin have been notified.
Train with Swedish ore derailed in Narvik
Around 1000 Swedish iron ore was shipped. Photo: Jørn Ove Aspenes/NTB
One of LKAB’s trains, loaded with around 1,000 tonnes of Swedish iron ore, has derailed on the Ofot line in Narvik in Norway.
Several of the wagons are off the tracks and someone has overturned.
– It is a fully loaded ore train on its way to Narvik. About 10–12 wagons derailed. There is approximately 100 tonnes of ore in each of these wagons so it will be a colossal cleaning job, says Harry Korslund, press spokesperson at the state-owned Norwegian railway company Bane Nor to NRK.
The accident happened at 15.20 on Sunday afternoon. It is still unclear why.
No one has been injured, but there is a stop to train traffic on Malmbanan.
Moscow-linked network infiltrated by agent
Moldovan police have arrested seven people from a network “staged by Moscow”, reports TT.
According to the Moldovan police authority, the network’s goal was to destabilize the country through protests critical of the regime.
An agent allegedly infiltrated the neighborhood and collected ten hours of video and audio material, police chief Viorel Cernauteanu says.
Billström about the Swedish-Iranian sentenced to death: Working intensively
Foreign Minister Tobias Billström. Photo: Björn Lindahl
Now Foreign Minister Tobias Billström is commenting on the Iranian death sentence against Habib Chaab.
“The Foreign Ministry and the Swedish Embassy in Tehran are now working intensively to create further clarity around the information,” he writes in a comment to TT.
The Swedish Foreign Ministry has previously said that it is in contact with representatives of Iran in the case, and that it has unsuccessfully requested consular access.
“We have also expressed our concern about our citizen’s situation and requested to be present at the trial,” continues Billström.
Read more here.
Iran and the US agree on a prisoner exchange, according to Reuters
Iran’s foreign minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, spoke today on Iranian state television. Photo: Darko Vojinovic/AP
Iran and the US have agreed on a prisoner exchange, reports Reuters.
The news agency refers to a statement made by Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian on Iranian state television.
– With regard to the issue of prisoner exchange between Iran and the United States, we have reached an agreement in recent days and if everything goes well from the American side, I think we will see a prisoner exchange shortly, he says.
Car on fire after collision with fence
Police, rescue services and an ambulance are on the scene at highway 42 in Vårgårda municipality after an alarm about a traffic accident.
According to early information to SOS Alarm, one has driven into a fence and started to burn.
– Then information comes in that there is another vehicle involved. There are two cars that are supposed to burn there, but it is a little unclear what has happened, says Fredrik Svedemyr, press spokesperson for the police region West.
An ambulance helicopter has also been called to the scene.
The extent of the damage is unclear.
– The road will be closed for a couple of hours in the future, says Fredrik Svedemyr.
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Postponed is postponed 😛
Stefan Lindfors
Stab injury what is it?
Knife stuck maybe?
MvhTore
TORE SUNDMAN
Hi Thor! It could be, but as we currently cannot confirm that it is a knife in particular, we cannot write it – it could be some other sharp object.
Aftonbladet’s front page is almost exclusively about crime. Maybe time to change the name to Kriminalbladet?
Johanna
Hello Johanna! It is true that we write a lot about crime, in part it is a reflection of a serious wave of violence that has hit Stockholm in recent times. But there is plenty of other entertainment, sports, politics and lighter talk for those not interested in crime. We also welcome tips at [email protected]!
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.
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