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The soldier who appears to be executed by Russian soldiers in a viral video clip has been identified.

The video shows a man who, according to Ukraine, is a Ukrainian soldier. He carries no weapon and stands smoking a cigarette by a trench. He says “long live Ukraine”, before being shot with automatic weapons by unidentified soldiers. The man collapses on the ground.

Now the Ukrainian security service says that the victim is a 42-year-old sniper born in Moldova. (TT)

The industry organization Swedish Taxi Association proposes that the age requirement for taxi driver training be lowered from 21 to 18 years.

It can help alleviate the driver shortage that has been raging since the pandemic broke out, the union states in a press release.

The union also wants to abolish the current two-year limit, which means that a job seeker must wait two years after obtaining a driver’s license before they can apply for a taxi driver’s license. (TT)

Arms imports to Europe almost doubled last year, according to a report from the peace research institute Sipri.

Above all, the war in Ukraine is behind the increase in imports, but other countries have also increased their military spending. And the increase is expected to continue.

“Although arms deliveries have decreased globally, they have increased sharply to Europe due to tensions between Russia and most other European states,” says researcher Peter Wezeman.

One night last summer, an emergency manager on duty at a detention center in the country was found sleeping on a sofa in the staff room. Now the Prison Service’s personnel responsibility board has decided on ten days’ salary deduction, writes Arbetsvärlden.

An emergency manager must be able to quickly intervene in the event of an alarm – sleeping is considered a safety risk.

The emergency manager admits that he fell asleep, but that it was only temporary. But the board believes that the emergency manager violated his obligations in employment. (TT)

American authorities close yet another bank – barely a week after the closure of Silicon Valley Bank.

It reports CNBC.

This time it concerns the New York-based crypto bank Signature Bank.

The bank’s share fell more than 22 percent in Friday trading on Wall Street, writes TT.

The reason authorities close the bank is systemic risk, just like in the case of Silicon Valley Bank.

The closure of Silicon Valley Bank has created great concern on the world’s stock exchanges. Read more here.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.