Latest news – Transport parties agree on agreement

The government refuses to extradite a man accused of terrorism to Turkey, TT reports.

The man, who is in his 50s, has been requested to be extradited – but the government says no as the man is a Swedish citizen. The man has previously been suspected of membership in an “armed terrorist organization” in Turkey.

The extradition request came in November 2022 – the decision to refuse was made during last week’s cabinet meeting.

The government, on the other hand, grants the extradition of a man who has been sentenced to just over 13 years in prison for fraud. The man, who is a Turkish citizen, has also been detained in Sweden.

The Supreme Court has announced that it has found no obstacles to granting the extradition of the Turkish citizen.

Public health researchers at Harvard have published a new study in the British Medical Journal showing that microscopic air pollution can increase the risk of developing dementia, reports Washington Post.

Around 16 observational studies show that there is a connection between exposure to so-called airborne PM 2.5 particles and dementia.

The current standard from the US Environmental Protection Agency EPA is 12 micrograms per cubic meter of air per year – but the brain is affected even if an individual’s annual exposure is at these levels, the study shows.

The Social Democrats KU reports Climate Minister Romina Pourmokhtari (L), writes Expressen.

The background is an interview on Sweden’s radio in which the climate minister accused the Social Democrats of not having acted on the issue of offshore wind power.

– In the end, you get really tired of untruths. They still haven’t left the election rhetoric, says Anna-Caren Sätherberg (S) and is the one behind the report.

The echo experiences that the LO Transport union and the employers in Transport companies have reached an agreement on a new collective agreement.

The mark that other agreements have followed is 7.4 percent over two years. The transport union has demanded more mark-up than the others, with a 5.5 percent mark-up in the first year and a lump sum of SEK 5,700.

The content of the settlement is not known, but is expected to be presented during the afternoon, according to Ekot.

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin believes that there are no signs that Ukrainian forces are about to retreat from Bahmut, TT reports.

On Telegram, Prigozhin writes that “It must be said clearly that the enemy is not going anywhere.”

Prigozhin’s move comes a day after Ukrainian President Zelensky hinted that a withdrawal from the city might be possible.

The foreign ministers of both countries met in Beijing on Thursday. It is the first formal meeting between the countries’ top diplomats in seven years, Reuters reports.

China has tried to mediate the infected conflict between the countries to stabilize the relationship.

On Twitter, Iran’s foreign minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, writes that the meeting was positive. He also adds that the focus of the meeting was “stability and long-term security”.

At a press conference in Budapest on Thursday, Viktor Orban’s chief of staff Gergely Gulyás spoke about the relationship between Hungary and Sweden, reports Reuters.

He says that the relationship between the two countries is bad and that Sweden must take steps to increase trust.

Hungary is one of the member states that has not ratified Sweden’s NATO application.

A Japanese military helicopter with several people on board has disappeared outside Miyakojima.

This is reported by the Japanese television channel NHK, which refers to information from the country’s Ministry of Defense.

A search operation has been launched.

French President Emmanuel Macron is now meeting his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, TT reports.

A large part of the meeting is believed to be about the war in Ukraine and the role China can play in it.

Macron is expected to dissuade China from supporting Russia’s war of aggression and urge Xi to put pressure on Moscow to achieve peace in Ukraine.

Later in the day, talks are expected between Xi, Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who is on Macron’s trip to China.

A woman was found dead in a home in Fagersta on Wednesday.

“Circumstances at the scene mean that the police cannot rule out that crime is behind the woman’s death,” the police write on their website.

The police have opened a preliminary investigation into murder.

A man is arrested on suspicion of murder.

The investigation into who was behind the explosion of Nord Stream 1 and 2 is complex and difficult to investigate.

Chamber prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist says so in a press release.

– It is a crime whose circumstances are naturally difficult to investigate. The detonations have taken place at a depth of 80 meters on the seabed in the Baltic Sea, says Mats Ljungqvist.

A variety of theories about who carried out the sabotage have been put forward since the crime in September.

– There is a range of different information and reporting about the sabotage against the gas pipelines. The incident has obviously become a game plan for various influence attempts. These speculations are nothing that affects the preliminary investigation, which is based on the facts and information that emerged from analyses, crime scene investigations and cooperation with authorities in Sweden and in other countries, says Mats Ljungqvist.

The hope is that the investigation will be able to establish who is behind them, but Ljungqvist says that it “probably can be difficult”.

Read more about Nord Stream here.