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Over 100 people have been arrested in Belarus in the past week, NTB reports with reference to human rights activists in the country.

Pavel Sapelka of the human rights group Viasna tells AP that the Belarusian security forces have cracked down on people suspected of involvement in the recent attack on an airbase where a radar reconnaissance plane was blown up.

Among those arrested are opposition activists, journalists, members of sports shooting clubs and people who build drones.

It was in connection with a call to a party that the paramedics were threatened by a police officer. Now the policeman is being sentenced for illegal threats, Smålandsposten reports.

The police was not on duty, he was drunk at the time and afraid that his friend, who was unconscious as a result of intoxication, would suffer serious injuries or die, Växjö district court has concluded.

The punishment will be a suspended sentence and 40 day fines, as well as that he will have to bear his own legal costs.

John Jakes was a best-selling author of historical novels.

Among other things, he wrote “The Bastard”, which later became a series known as The Kent Family Chronicles. He also wrote the book “North and South”, which later became a trilogy that took place before, during and after the American Civil War.

Both books were made into films and mini-series during the 1970s and 1980s, in which the actor Patrick Swayze, among others, appeared.

John Jakes died Saturday in a nursing home in Florida. He was 90 years old.

A man has been taken to hospital after he was beaten with a stick in central Hedemora.

The man is in his twenties and his injuries are currently not considered life-threatening.

An object has been found at Nord Stream 2 reports Berlingske.

Russian Gazprom says it looks like an antenna, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“Specialists believe it could be an antenna to receive a signal to detonate an explosive charge that could have, I’m not sure, but it’s possible, planted under the pipeline,” Vladimir Putin said.

Danish authorities are informed.

The police received a call about a disturbance at Triangeln railway station. At the scene, a 25-year-old man was found injured on the platform. He was taken to the hospital by ambulance.

Now the police have arrested three men aged 18, suspected of attempted murder.

The police’s national bomb disposal was alerted to a residential address in Malmö after witnesses heard “a loud bang” in connection with an alarm about a fire.

The emergency services were also on the scene and lifted an injured person out of a residence, according to Sydsvenskan.

The person was taken to hospital with unclear injuries.

The emergency services waited for the police bomb squad before they went back inside.

– We are now waiting as the bomb squad has just arrived at the scene and will secure the apartment, says Patric Fors, at the police command center.

Residents were asked to stay indoors and the police blocked off the street outside.

– Something has caused injuries to the person who was taken to hospital. Then it is unclear what happened, whether it has burned or not, we do not know that at the moment.

The alarm came in at 17:45 and at 19:50 the cordons were lifted.

According to the police, it was a piece of fireworks that exploded inside the apartment, and which caused the personal injury.

Two men who participated in the Easter riots in Örebro have had their sentences reduced in the Supreme Court, something that raises questions for the police.

“Of course, we can’t help but ask ourselves what we as police officers will actually have to endure in order to apply the higher part of the penalty scale,” says commanding officer Emelie Bodegrim in a statement on the police’s website.

The men were convicted of serious blue light sabotage in the Court of Appeal after the events in Sveaparken. But then their sentences were reduced from about five years to three years and three years and three months respectively.

“Our employees who were in Sveaparken during the riot had to experience something that closely resembled a war zone while they were defending our democracy. But the verdict gives us guidance in what will be most important for us going forward in the continued investigation,” says Emelie Bodegrim.

An American reaper drone has collided with a Russian Su-27 fighter jet over the Black Sea, Reuters reports.

According to the news agency, the Russian plane must have hit the propeller of the drone, causing it to crash into the Black Sea.

– Two Russian Su-27 fighter jets conducted an unsafe and unprofessional interception of an unmanned MQ-9 surveillance aircraft operating in international waters over the Black Sea, the US military writes in a press release.

The US calls the Russian action “reckless”.

“Our MQ-9 drone was conducting routine operations in international airspace when it was intercepted and struck by a Russian aircraft, resulting in a crash and total loss of the drone,” said General James Hecker.

According to White House spokesman John Kirby, President Joe Biden has been briefed on the crash.

– Unsafe, unprofessional and reckless, says John Kirby.

NATO also states that it has informed its allies about the incident.

A nationwide strike among air traffic controllers is scheduled to take place in Greece on Thursday.

The strike is planned to last 24 hours.

All flights to and from Greece will therefore be canceled from 00.01 on the night of Thursday.

The reason for the strike is the train accident that took place on February 28, when 57 people died when a passenger train and a freight train collided near the city of Larissa in Greece.

The strike, called by the country’s largest private and public sector unions, is the latest in a series of protests against the conservative government and against a political system they say has repeatedly ignored calls from unions for safety measures, Greek media reported.

Johan Ingerö leaves his post as party secretary in the Christian Democrats after being reported for sexual harassment.

Now KD top Sara Skyttedal writes on Facebook about the police report.

“Eight years ago, a party colleague chose, against my will, to try to claim the right to my body. All these years I have been silent. Tried to repress what happened,” she writes.

“The process will have its course legally and I will unfortunately be limited in how I can comment on this going forward”.