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The suspected object was sharp and has been taken care of by the National Bomb Squad. Archive image. Photo: Oscar Olsson/TT

An area in Kalmar was cordoned off on Thursday afternoon following an alarm about a suspected dangerous object.

– It was a private person who called in and thought that this object looked a bit strange. It was found among lots of rubbish and may have been there for a long time, says police spokesperson Sara Andersson.

As of Friday morning, police say the suspect object was sharp and that it has been taken care of by the National Bomb Squad.

– They have taken this object apart and rendered it harmless. What kind of object it is is not something we communicate, says Andersson

The roadblocks have been maintained since around 11 pm in the evening. A notification of preparation for public-dangerous devastation has been drawn up. No one is currently a suspect.

– We continue to work as far as possible and of course we want to get in touch with people who may have seen something.

During the night, several cars burned in Helsingborg, according to the police. A total of eleven cars have been damaged.

A report of damage by fire has been drawn up. No one is a suspect at this time.

There is a fire in a closed shelter in Vänersborg, GP reports. Shortly before 06:00, the alarm came in to the emergency services. How the fire started is unknown.

– There has been a fire there once before, says Simon Willner, the duty officer of the Rescue Service to GP.

It is currently unclear whether anyone was injured in connection with the fire.

Cabin crew working at the airline SAS in Norway go on strike, reports the Norwegian Dagbladet. It is about personnel who are members of the Norwegian cabin union.

The Swedish Consumer Agency will investigate the fatal accident at Skara sommerland where a ten-year-old boy drowned, reports P4 Skaraborg.

In that investigation, the safety of the pools and the competence of the staff will be reviewed.

– We will review the facility’s preventive safety work, which risks are managed, which routines are in place for monitoring and the competence of the staff, says Richard Staxler, investigator at the Swedish Consumer Agency.

The Product Safety Act applies to bathing facilities, and it is based on it that the Swedish Consumer Agency is now starting an inspection case.

A preliminary investigation into the accident has been ongoing since before, where the police have also asked the public to send in any footage that may exist.

The police’s special event Frigg, which is an effort against gang violence, will end this autumn or early next year, reports Sweden’s Radio Ekot.

The work will now be transferred to the regular activities of the police.

– The hope is that the successful methods that the police have worked on will be brought forward in the regular organization of the police, says Tobias Lövström, head of command for Frigg.

Operation Frigg was the police’s biggest effort against organized crime to date. The initiative also led to hundreds of people being detained on suspicion of various types of crimes linked to the wave of violence that hit Sweden. In addition to that, the police stopped several murders.

Violence, threats and harassment against lawyers have increased in recent years. This suggests that lawyers should receive the same legal protection as prosecutors, write the general secretaries of the bar associations in Sweden, Norway and Denmark on DN Debatt.

“Threats, violence and harassment against lawyers in the long run risk leading to impaired opportunities for a fair trial for individuals, if lawyers do not dare or are unable to carry out their mission for their clients”, write Swedish Mia Edwall Insulander, Danish Andrew Hjuler Crichton and Norwegian Merete Smith.

A five-year-old boy in Utah in the United States has died after accidentally shooting himself with a gun he found at home.

Police in Santaquin, south of Salt Lake City, tell KSL-TV that the boy found the gun and fired a shot that hit himself. Parents and siblings were at home but not in the same room as the boy.

The boy died on the spot, despite resuscitation attempts. No crime is suspected.

Apple will allow iPhone and iPad users in the EU to delete the App Store and the Safari search engine, the technology giant announced. The reason is the EU’s new digital laws.

Until now, Apple has steadfastly defended the App Store as the only way to get digital content to its mobile devices.

Among other things, the EU has claimed that the fees that Apple charges other developers “go beyond what is strictly necessary”. Apple promised last month to make changes to comply with the EU’s digital marketing law, the DMA.

Another volcanic eruption has hit the Icelandic Grindavik, reports Rúv.

The outbreak is in the same area as the last one at the end of May, and residents have been evacuated.

The Civil Defense has urged the public to stay away and not venture out to look.

According to Sigríður Kristjánsdóttir, an expert on natural disasters at Iceland’s Meteorological Institute, the outbreak is expected to grow.

The volcanic eruption is the sixth in Iceland in eight months.

Photo: US Customs and Border Protection

Artful drug smugglers recently failed to smuggle tons of methamphetamine into the United States.

The border patrol in Otay Mesa on the Mexican border caught sight of a truck transporting watermelons.

But among the real melons were a large number of plastic packages painted in two different shades of green.

In total, over two tons of methamphetamine distributed in 1,220 packages were found – all with a value of over five million dollars.

Hiding drugs in food is a common way to smuggle illegal substances between countries. It is most common in banana cars, but recently drug finds have also been made among gouda cheeses and avocados.

At the same border crossing in Otay Mesa, 300 kilograms of methamphetamine was discovered in a load of celery last week, writes BBC.

NATO is increasing its security level at the Geilenkirchen airfield in Germany due to a possible threat according to the German Focus.

All employees not needed at the base were sent home as a precaution, a spokesman told the newspaper.

During the last week, several NATO bases were subjected to sabotage in Germany. Among other things, there was a sabotage aimed at a German military base’s water system.

“This is not a cause for concern and is merely a precautionary measure to ensure we can continue our critical operations,” the spokesman said.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is now upheld by the country’s Supreme Court, which is dominated by Maduro supporters, that he won the presidential election. Archive image. Photo: Cristian Hernandez/AP/TT

The Supreme Court of Venezuela supports President Nicolás Maduro’s claim that he won the election held on July 28.

The court also states that the vote figures published online by the opposition, which show that Maduro lost the election by a large margin to opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia, are falsified.

The Supreme Court is dominated by people loyal to Nicolás Maduro.

Opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia addressed the Supreme Court on Thursday in a post on the X social media platform.

“To the judges of the court: no decision will replace the will of the people. The country and the world know your bias and, as a result, your inability to resolve this conflict,” he wrote, adding:

“Your decision will only make the crisis worse.”

A Palestinian in his destroyed house after the attack on Jit. Photo: Nasser Nasser / AP

The head of the Shin Bet, Israel’s security police, Ronen Bar sent a letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu on Thursday, warning that “Jewish terror” in the West Bank was putting the country on the brink of disaster, reports the Jerusalem Post.

Bar specifically mentions the deadly attack on the Palestinian village of Jit in the West Bank on August 15 in which a Palestinian was murdered. The attack has been called a serious terrorist incident by the police.

He also accused the country’s security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and other coalition members of both indirectly and sometimes even explicitly encouraging threats and violence against Palestinians.

He believes it is not enough to call the violence a nationalist crime but that it is “Jewish terror”.