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A man in his 40s alerted the police that he had been stabbed by another man during the night of Thursday, the police report.

The man says that he must have woken up to the fact that another person was in his home.

He is said to have then been attacked with a knife.

The stabbed man was taken to hospital by ambulance with serious injuries.

The incident is being investigated as attempted murder.

A man in his 30s was arrested during the night.

Riksdag member Elsa Widding announced that she is leaving the Sweden Democrats earlier this week.

This after she did not feel supported by her party after the Minister of Education criticized her participation in a conference where vaccine opponents, climate deniers and Holocaust deniers participated.

Now she comments on the dropout in P1 Morgon.

– These are terrible accusations. Then I think it is absolutely necessary for the party leader to come out and distance himself from these abhorrent claims.

She says she asked for support from the party leadership.

– Above all from Jimmie Åkesson, but it has been completely silent. I have asked him if you trust me but have not received an answer.

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The police and emergency services were alerted to a fire in a residential garage outside Knivsta at 03:23, Thursday night.

The fire was fully developed and did not spread further.

No one has been injured.

The police have drawn up a report of arson.

Figures from the United Nations show that poverty in Afghanistan has doubled since the Taliban took power, reports Echo.

Today, 85 percent of people live below the poverty line. That corresponds to 34 million people.

– If you don’t have a relative abroad, you can’t manage the finances, says the tailor Mohamed in Kabul to Ekot.

Greek authorities rescued a large group of migrants and refugees from an islet in the Evros River on Wednesday, AP reports.

In total, nearly 40 people could be rescued from the area where the police suspect that a people smuggler left the group.

13 men, 11 women and 15 children were taken in a plastic boat from the Turkish side of the river, according to a police statement.

Food prices are falling after soaring for over a year, TT reports.

According to Matpriskollen’s latest measurement, prices fell by 0.4 percent in April compared to March. Daily goods decreased by 0.3 percent during the same period.

This compares with the record month of February, when food prices increased by 2.5 percent compared to January.

– Lower prices, you don’t do that in this industry. It is extremely unusual, says Ulf Mazur, founder of Matpriskollen, to TT and continues:

– It’s a big break from the trend. Prices have not been reduced for at least four years.

A total of 44,000 items have been examined at all the major chains.

Ulf Mazur assesses that prices will not fall further.

– If the prices can stay at this level, and not rise any more, then that is positive, he says.

Something exploded in a stairwell to an apartment building in Malmö during the night of Thursday.

– There is damage to a door and also to an elevator on the third floor, says Thomas Paulsson at the police.

Neighbors raised the alarm about the detonation at 03:30. One person was in the apartment when the explosion occurred, but no injuries have been reported.

The police have cordoned off the site and called in technicians and the national bomb squad.

Residents in other apartments have been asked to stay indoors until further notice. (TT)

A loud bang woke many residents in Eskilstuna shortly after midnight.

The reason was a burning car, writes Ekuriren.

– We received lots of calls about it, it seems that it has hit quite hard, says Torbjörn Lindqvist, officer on duty at the police.

No injuries have been reported.

Imports of the plant kratom have increased from 7.2 tons in 2020 to around 39 tons last year, P3 News reports.

The plant is legal and can, among other things, be used in soap production. But it also contains the narcotic substance mitragynine, which can produce opioid-like effects.

– 39 tonnes, that’s a huge amount. There will be a lot of soap if soap is to be made from these plants, says Jenny Åberg, an expert at the Swedish Customs Service, to the radio.

– We at the Customs are not allowed to do anything about it because at the time of import it is a plant and not classified as a drug, she continues.

According to Joakim Strandberg at the Public Health Authority, several authorities and even the government have discussed how the plant can be regulated. (TT)

Nearly 40 migrants, including several children, have been rescued from an islet in the Evros River bordering Turkey, Greek police said.

The group consisted of 13 men, 11 women and 15 children. Police have not released their nationalities.

It was activists who alerted the police about the people. A smuggler from the Turkish side had taken them to the islet using a dinghy and left them there, according to the police. (TT)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi traveled on Wednesday from the meeting with Nordic leaders in Finland to the Netherlands.

Among other things, the Ukrainian leader will visit the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. He will also give a speech there with the title “No peace without justice for Ukraine”.

A meeting with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is also planned during the visit, according to local media. (TT)

Brazilian police have searched the home of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro in search of fake vaccination certificates for covid-19.

According to BBC the police suspect that the vaccine passport was falsified so that Bolsonaro could travel to the United States, despite the fact that he is unvaccinated.

The police seized the mobile phones of the ex-president and his wife. Several people close to Bolsonaro have been arrested.

Jair Bolsonaro, who is outspokenly skeptical of the corona vaccine, denies the accusations.

He traveled to Florida in late December, just days before his opponent Lula da Silva was sworn in as president.

An accident occurred in central Uddevalla on Wednesday evening.

The alarm came in at 9.50pm.

– It is a passenger car which for an unknown reason has driven into a wall, says Ulrik Olsson, officer on duty at the rescue service, to Bohusläningen.

One person has been taken to hospital by ambulance.

At least 21 people have been killed and 48 injured in Russian attacks in and around the city of Kherson on Wednesday morning, according to Ukrainian authorities.

According to President Zelenskyi, the attacks have targeted a railway station, an intersection, a house, a hardware store, a grocery store and a gas station.

“The world must see and know about this,” writes Zelensky on Telegram, where he also posted pictures of bodies and injured people on the floor of a store.