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One person has been taken to hospital by ambulance after an apartment fire in Partille in Gothenburg.

This is reported by Göteborgs-Posten.

The alarm came in to SOS shortly after 8:00 p.m. on Sunday evening.

The police are investigating the incident as suspected arson, but no one has been arrested on suspicion of crime.

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Sarah Ferguson, 63, has undergone surgery for breast cancer, reports The Guardian.

The Duchess of York – better known by the nickname “Fergie” – was diagnosed a couple of weeks ago during a routine mammogram screening.

The operation is said to have gone well and “Fergie” could be discharged from the hospital on Sunday.

– The Duchess is receiving the best medical care and her doctor has told her the prognosis is good. She is now recovering with her family, says “Fergie’s” press spokesperson to the newspaper.

“Fergie” has previously been married to Prince Andrew. However, the spouses went their separate ways in 1996. Together they have children Beatrice and Eugenie.

When two thieves broke into an ice cream van in Ljusdal on Saturday night, they left the refrigerator doors open – which resulted in the car heating up and 50,000 kroner worth of ice cream being destroyed.

It reports SVT Gävleborg.

– The temperature of the ice cream must not exceed minus 18 degrees. If it ends up above that, it must be thrown away, says the ice cream truck’s owner Micke Häggeborg to the channel.

The suspicion is that the thieves took 10 to 20 boxes of ice cream and the incident is being investigated by the police.

However, the ice cream was not lost, but was given away as a meal to “a bunch of pigs”, writes the channel.

Demand and supply for cocaine is booming worldwide and the trade in methamphetamine is expanding beyond established markets, including in Afghanistan, where the drug is produced, according to a UN report on Sunday. reports Reuters.

Cultivation of coca bushes and cocaine production peaked in 2021.

The global number of cocaine users in 2021 was estimated at 22 million that year and continues to grow, the United Nations Office For Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in its annual drug report.

Two people were injured in a knife fight in Emmaboda on Sunday evening.

The injured are currently being treated in hospital.

– We still have a lot to do. The police are still at the scene and are searching with dogs for traces, says Calle Persson, press spokesperson for the police region South at 23:45.

Curfews are in place in two cities in northern Honduras after 22 people were shot dead in separate attacks over the weekend, including in a pool hall, Reuters reports.

An official source not authorized to speak to the media told Reuters there had been at least 11 other killings on Saturday in separate episodes in the northern Valle de Sula zone, including in the industrial city of San Pedro Sulay.

On Sunday evening, a fire broke out along a power line street in Hedenlunda outside Flen, reports P4 Sörmland.

Two helicopters have taken part in the extinguishing work, which will continue for a few more hours around ten o’clock.

The rescue service states that there have been several similar fires and Svenska Kraftnät believes that the power lines they are responsible for may be the cause of the fires.

The Tax Agency notes that the sale of sexual services must be taxed like other services.

– We must follow tax laws that the Riksdag decides on. There is no room for interpretation of the law, the Swedish Tax Agency writes on its website according to Dagens Juridik.

However, the Tax Agency expresses sympathy for those who sell sexual services because they may be in a vulnerable situation.

– Anyone who has income from the sale of sexual services is obliged by law to report the income in the declaration and can pay their own tax into their tax account, adds the authority.

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According to Foreign Minister Tobias Billström (M), the government is closely following the events in Russia, TT states.

During Sunday evening, the foreign minister discusses the events with Nordic and Baltic counterparts and participates tomorrow in a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg.

– It is important to emphasize that it is an internal Russian matter, but that what happened in Russia has consequences for the outside world, says Billström to SVT’s Aktuellt, according to TT.

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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis won a landslide victory in Sunday’s election. His conservative party New Democracy has by all accounts secured its own majority for the next four years, TT reports.

In a televised speech, Mitsotakis hailed what he called “a strong mandate” from voters.

– The people have given us a secure majority. Major reforms will be pushed forward quickly, says the Prime Minister.

Environmentally hazardous substances may have flowed into the Yellowstone River. Photo: Matthew Brown/AP

Several cars belonging to a freight train carrying environmentally hazardous substances fell into the Yellowstone River on Saturday after it derailed and caused a bridge collapse, reports CNN.

Several wagons were damaged in the collapse and leaked “oil products” into the river, according to Yellowstone Disaster and Emergency Management. The damaged wagons contained “molten sulfur and asphalt”.

The train is said to have also carried sodium hydrogen sulphate, but the carriages did not fall into the river.

The cause of the collapse is still unclear and people are being asked to stay away from the collapsed bridge.

No people on board the train were reported injured.

A man forced his partner to sell sex to pay off alleged debts. Now he has been convicted of pimping and sentenced to a suspended sentence and 120 hours of community service, Dagens Juridik reports according to TT.

The woman told the district court that the man got rid of his roommate and then ran out of money. Jokingly, the woman said she would sell herself. The man took the suggestion seriously and started posting ads online.

The man denied the crime and stated that he himself participated in the sex services, TT reports.

He was also convicted of weapons offences, because he possessed a tear gas pistol without a permit. The judgment was appealed to the Court of Appeal, which upheld the district court’s decision.

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With the heat, the ticks are awakened from their winter hibernation and it is difficult to predict if it will be a real tick season or not.

Herbert “Hubbe” Öqvist, 84, who lives on Långön in the Luleå archipelago, shared his experiences with them recently to Norrbottens-Kuriren.

– There is so much spoiled, they are about to eat us, he tells the newspaper.

Eight children have been infected by an antibiotic-resistant bacteria in recent years at the Academic Children’s Hospital in Uppsala.

Now 200 employees at the hospital are to be tested to stop the spread of the bacteria, reports SVT Uppsala.

– It is difficult to say how the infection happened because it could have come here with a child or a parent, for example, says the operations manager Klas Ekström to the channel.

The bacteria, which is called MRSA, is uncommon in Sweden but occurs more and more often in other parts of the world.

– In order to reduce resistance to antibiotics, we do not want it in healthcare, says Johan Ågren, medical management manager, neonatal intensive care department to the channel.