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An explosion has taken place in the Tynnered district in Gothenburg.

– There has been some kind of explosion at the address, we have just arrived and are cooperating with the police on site, says Fredrik Östlund, alarm and line operator at the rescue service to Gothenburg Post.

– It is the entrance to an apartment building. It is unclear about injuries so far, but no one has been taken to hospital so far, says Johan Ljung, officer on duty at police region West.

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Three cars burned in Märsta on Friday night. The alarm came at half past one and the police and emergency services rushed to the scene.

– There were three cars that burned initially. We have just managed to put them out and now post-extinguishing work is underway, says the emergency operator at the Rescue Service.

According to the police, it is too early to say if there is any crime.

– It could be anything from a battery that ignited to someone wanting to light them, says Jenny Ryberg, officer on duty at the Stockholm Police.

The armed forces are ready to join NATO according to ÖB.

– In certain areas, we could step in today and support the deterrence capability that NATO has and needs, says ÖB Micael Bydén to SVT.

Among other things, the armed forces have adapted staffing, management support systems and air defense.

– Parts of it we can step into today, then it may be that certain components are missing, that you cannot be fully involved. But to join air policing, to join a naval force, we can do that today, says Bydén

But some things are still missing

– The parts that we could not prepare, what is within the scope of the sharp planning, we will keep that until we become full members.

Nor is he worried that Finland would become a member of NATO before Sweden.

– In the short perspective, I can’t see that it means anything dramatic and big.

On Wednesday, the UN’s nuclear energy agency IAEA reported that 2.5 tons of uranium had disappeared in Libya. IAEA chief Rafael Grossi then said that they would “clarify the circumstances surrounding the removal of the nuclear material and its current location”

But now a general, who belongs to the eastern Libyan warlord Haftar’s forces, writes on Facebook that the uranium was found five kilometers from the place where it was supposed to be stored, writes TT.

– The situation is under control. The IAEA has been informed, he told AFP.

The IAEA said on Thursday it was trying to confirm that information.

More than a thousand crab macaques are stuck in the United States following a decision by American authorities. They were imported from Cambodia by Charles River Laboratories to be used as laboratory animals, it writes NBC.

The US Department of Justice is investigating whether monkeys imported from Cambodia are being poached and as part of that effort they have stopped several imports.

Now the authorities are trying to find a new home for the monkeys. Something that proved difficult and expensive.

– There is no place for 1200 monkeys. The authorities are struggling with this and we are struggling with this, says Angela Grimes, CEO of Born Free USA, which has been tasked with finding a new home for the monkeys.

Until then, the responsibility lies with Charles River Laboratories, which keeps them in a secret location.

They have suspended their monkey imports “until we and the US Fish and Wildlife Service can develop and implement new procedures to strengthen confidence that the monkeys we import from Cambodia are purpose-bred.”

The Swedish Competition Authority is launching a new review and will raise the alarm if there are actors who raise food prices unjustifiably much, reports Today’s industry.

Director General Rikard Jermsten is also calling for sharper tools to tackle the problem.

During a hearing in the Riksdag’s business committee earlier today, Jermsten said that there were no signs that competition had been put out of play at the wholesale level, but that it should be examined more.

He also said that food prices will continue to rise for a while longer.

A man armed with a knife has been arrested at the railway station in Växjö after lunging at the surroundings, according to the police.

The man was disarmed by a security guard who intervened.

No one has been injured.

The suspect has been arrested and is suspected of attempted murder.

Six men have been arrested after the explosion at a terraced house in Hässelby in northwestern Stockholm on Thursday night, prosecutor Alexandra Bittner confirms to TT.

– In addition to that, I cannot make any further comments because it is so early in the investigation, Bittner tells TT.

A 75-year-old man has died in a drowning accident at Getterön outside Varberg. The man was found in the water by passers-by who raised the alarm.

The police have no information on how the man ended up in the water.

The Russian Wagner Group has announced a reward of 15 million dollars for whoever murders Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto. This is reported by DN with reference to the Italian intelligence service.

The reason must be that the minister accuses Wagner of being behind the recent wave of refugees across the Mediterranean. According to the Italian government, a disproportionately large group on the migrant boats come from countries partly controlled by Wagner’s mercenaries, such as Libya, Mali and the Central African Republic.

After the statement, the leader of the Wagner group, Prigozhin, went out on his Telegram channel and called Crosetto “a complete asshole”, and assured that Wagner has nothing to do with refugee smuggling.

News of the reward was reportedly received by Italian intelligence around 10 days ago but was not made public until this week, according to Euractive.

Hungary will vote on Sweden’s and Finland’s NATO applications on March 31, according to information to Ekot.