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The emergency services have been alerted that there is a fire on two balconies in a residential area in Västerhaninge outside Stockholm.

– Residents in the area alerted us that there was a fire on two balconies and in a shrubbery, says Sara, who is a line operator at the rescue service.

She states that they are on site to investigate possible fires.

The US knew that a Ukrainian special forces was planning to attack the Nord Stream, it states Washington Post.

As early as three months before the attack, the Biden administration is said to have received the information.

It should have been about a team of six divers who planned to blow up the line, according to the Washington Post.

The information is said to come from a CIA report shared with Germany and other European countries.

Ukraine has declined to comment on the Washington Post’s data.

Finland expels nine people who work at the Russian embassy, ​​according to Reuters.

The diplomats are suspected of having worked with intelligence gathering for Russia.

At the end of June, the Riksbank will issue the next interest rate statement. And after the announcement of unexpectedly low inflation in April, many now hope that an interest rate peak is close.

TT has spoken to three economists who all agree that the Riksbank is likely to raise the interest rate at the end of June by 0.25 percentage points (to 3.75 percent) – but then that’s enough.

– We are an interest rate-sensitive economy if we see how many people own their homes and have variable interest rates, and that will decide. We believe that 3.75 will be enough to put this wet blanket over the economy which means that we will bring inflation down considerably, says Alexandra Stråberg, chief economist at Länsförsäkringar, to TT.

The former KD leader. Photo: Stefan Jerrevång

Hungary will approve Sweden as a NATO member before the summit in July, close associates of Orban state for Alf Svensson (KD), reports If you.

The former aid minister says he attended an informal meeting with the “elite” in a garden during a KD congress.

– There were those in his delegation who said it will happen, says Svensson to Omni.

Svensson also met the Hungarian Prime Minister in connection with the congress in Slovenia.

There he chose to confront Orban.

– I grabbed his arm and said that now you have to decide so we get a yes to NATO. I said they have no motive not to do it, he added SVT.

There have been two serious accidents on the E4 north of Vaggeryd.

The road is closed in both directions.

The emergency services announce that the first accident involves a car and a motorcycle. A total of four people must be involved. Ambulance and police are at the scene. The currently unclear damage status.

– There has been information that a motorcyclist drove a slalom between the cars and then drove into the back of another vehicle, says Angelica Israelsson Silfver, press spokesperson at the police.

The police have started a preliminary investigation into gross negligence in traffic.

Another accident has occurred on the same road. A car has collided with a car from the emergency services, the police state on their website.

The plane was painted using paint-filled fire extinguishers, according to Bild Foto: Letzte Generation

German climate activists entered the airport in Sylt and spray painted a private jet with orange paint.

The activists from Letzte Generation (Last Generation) were arrested by police, reports German Bild.

“Privacy marked with warning color” write the climate activists on Twitter.

The attack took place on Tuesday morning.

In Iran, a new proposal has been put forward for milder punishments for those who appear without a veil.

The proposal suggests that the punishment involves higher fines, but not prison terms. It reports UNT with reference to AFP.

According to the new proposal, a first-time offender must first receive a warning SMS from the police.

On a second occasion, it is shown without a veil with a fine of 5-60 million rials, equivalent to approximately 130-15,000 kroner.

The bill also includes other penalties such as confiscating a woman’s vehicle for up to ten days.

– The proposal shrinks going out without a veil from being a serious crime to a minor misdemeanor, like a traffic violation, but with higher fines, says Abbas Abdi, a sociologist, to AFP.

Tobias Billström Photo: Björn Lindahl

Sweden’s Foreign Minister Tobias Billström will meet NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg this Thursday.

That is what NATO writes in a press release.

According to information to TT, this meeting will take place at civil service level.

Photo: Jonas Ekströmer/TT

Today, on Sweden’s National Day and Swedish Flag Day, the Armed Forces celebrate by flying helicopters with the Swedish flag flying below, Jas 39 Gripen and Hercules TP 84 planes.

It is a tradition and this year the third helicopter squadron flies a flag flight coordinated with the municipalities of Ronneby, Karlskrona and Karlshamn.

The Swedish Armed Forces also fly Jas 39 Gripen and SK 60 over Stockholm, Strängnäs, Nyköping, Stegeborg, Norrköping and Linköping today.

Jas 39 Gripen, Typhoon, F-16 and F-18 are flown north over Älvsbyn, Arvidsjaur, Lycksele, Vännäs, Umeå, Robertsfors, Skellefteå, Byske, Piteå and Luleå.

Jas 30 Gripen also flies south over Lidköping, Mariestad, Skövde, Jönköping, Borås, Lerum, Landvetter, Amundön, Gothenburg, Marstrand, Trollhättan, Vänersborg, Såtenäs.

Hercules TP 84 planes are flown over Mariestad, Stockholm, Berga, Visby, Borgholm, Halmstad and Gothenburg.

The man was rescued by helicopter and taken to hospital. Photo: HRS Southern Norway

A man in his 80s was rescued on Tuesday morning from a sinking boat, reports VG.

When the rescue helicopter arrived, the man was sitting on the bow.

At 11 o’clock, the rescue service in Sør-Norge reports that the on-site intervention was completed and that the man was flown to hospital. The extent of the injury was then unknown.

The ship sank at the height of Fosen in Trøndelag, reports VG.

The number of cases of gonorrhea and syphilis soared last year in the UK, according to the country’s equivalent of the Public Health Agency, reports Sky News.

The number of gonorrhea cases increased to a total of 82,592 cases in 2022, a 50 percent increase compared to 2021.

It is also the highest measured number of cases since 1918.

The number of syphilis cases rose to 8,692 last year, an increase of just over 15 percent compared to 2021, and the highest recorded number since 1948.

The diagnoses usually affect people between the ages of 15 and 24, and are usually sexually transmitted.

Photo: Frank Augstein/AP

Prince Harry has left California and is in London for the trial against the British tabloid Daily Mirror and several newspapers that he accuses of hacking phones and what the AP describes as “other snooping”.

The opposing party, Mirror Group Newspapers, denies the allegations.

Read more here.

The police have been called to a shop in Västerås where a 55-year-old woman is fighting and throwing things at the staff.

Among other things, she has thrown a full beer can that hit a store employee in the face.

After the commotion, the woman is said to have left the store on foot. She was later found in the area and has now been taken into custody as she was intoxicated.

She is also suspected of assault.