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Last fall, Fagersta municipality banned people from being shown in the forests due to the outbreak of African swine fever. Archive image. Photo: Pontus Lundahl/TT
The European Commission and EU member states have approved Sweden’s application to be declared free from African swine fever following last year’s outbreak.
It was in autumn 2023 that African swine fever was diagnosed in Sweden. The serious viral disease affects wild boar and pigs and an infected zone was established shortly afterwards at Fagersta and Norberg.
The Swedish strategy to combat the infection has since proven to be successful. The Swedish Agricultural Agency, together with the Norwegian Veterinary Institute, SVA, the hunters’ association and other actors, have worked intensively with infection tracking and control.
– The success factors have been determination and efficiency, says Lena Hellqvist Björnerot, chief veterinarian at the Swedish Agency for Agriculture, and points to, among other things, good cooperation between hunters, municipalities and authorities, as well as the “incredible compliance” shown by the residents of the affected area in Fagersta.
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Due to today’s announcement from Northvolt, the municipality of Skellefteå together with the County Board of Västerbotten will hold a press conference in the afternoon.
The municipality writes this on its website.
The police agency warns that fake packages, labeled as Oxymorphone, have instead contained metonitazen. The synthetic opioid is stronger and has so far caused 40 fatal overdoses in Sweden.
Over the past two years, the police have seen an increase in the number of deaths.
– There is a great risk that people think they are taking tablets that they are familiar with, but in fact it is a much more potent preparation. Then the risk of overdosing and ultimately dying increases, says Kristian Malzoff, commissioner at Noa, the National Operative Department on the police’s website.
So far this year, the opioid, which belongs to the class of nitazenes, has caused almost as many deaths as heroin and is linked to illegal sales on the Internet.
1,600 people may leave Northvolt, the company states in a press release.
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Olof K Gustafsson last year. Photo: Linus Sundahl-Djerf/SVD/TT / SVENSKA DAGBLADET
Criminal accused Olof K Gustafsson is in custody in Spain. At the same time, his company Affideer is going bankrupt, reports the news agency Siren.
The company was shut down after a legal battle with the payment service Klarna, which demanded the company for multi-million sums. In the end, Klara was awarded SEK 400,000 in compensation from Olof K’s company.
Which also constitutes the lion’s share of the bankruptcy estate’s debts of approximately SEK 430,000.
During September, several incidents were reported in Bromma, in western Stockholm. Among other things in the areas of Norra- and Södra Ängby.
Local Facebook groups mention how a young woman was stalked and jumped on at night, but managed to break free.
– We have received five reported cases during the month of September. We try to find similarities and see if it could be the same perpetrator, says Andreas Imhagen, local police area manager in Vällingby.
The classification in all cases is sexual harassment, and it concerns younger women who have been victimized, states the local police area chief.
– In cases like this, there can also be a dark story, says Andreas Imhagen.
How do you work to strengthen security in the area?
– We make a compilation of what we receive, and go out with information to the external staff that we ask to be in these areas, during the times that this happened, says Andreas Imhagen.
Tips or reports to the police can be left on telephone number 114 14.
During the night to Monday, a man in his 50s collided in a car with a horse in Piteå.
– It is a driver who drove off the road and overturned, the driver is deceased, says police spokesperson Marie Andersson.
The man’s next of kin have been notified. The horse also died in the accident and the owner has been notified of the incident.
The illegal sale of the diabetes drug Ozempic, in which the active substance semaglutide has also been shown to be very effective for weight loss, is flourishing, according to the Swedish Medicines Agency.
At the same time, the authority warns of the consequences of buying the product in other ways than at a pharmacy.
“Buying drugs on the black market is like playing Russian roulette with your health. There is no guarantee that the product contains what is promised, or that it is manufactured under safe conditions,” the Swedish Medicines Agency writes in a press release
According to it, several people have suffered serious side effects or died after using counterfeit Ozempic.
In addition to being at risk of injury or death, the Swedish Food Agency points out that the money from the illegal sale goes to criminal networks – which through the purchase also gain access to the buyers’ personal data.
During Sunday evening, a man was found dead in a residence in Örebro municipality.
– As there are some unclear circumstances surrounding the death, we have started a preliminary investigation regarding murder or manslaughter to investigate the incident further, says Sophia Jiglind, press spokesperson at the Bergslagen police region, to Nerikes Allehanda.
Relatives have been notified.
The staff at Northvolt in Skellefteå has been summoned to a meeting after the latest chemical disclosure, reports P4 Västerbotten.
CEO Peter Carlsson will meet the staff at the battery factory and after lunch he will meet the media.
Mikael Stenmark, head safety representative at IF Metall, tells P4 Västerbotten that he doesn’t know what it’s all about.
Fredrik Olovsson, energy policy spokesperson for the Social Democrats says at a press conference that the government should act so that the state will buy up Oskarshamn’s nuclear power plant.
– It is for sale, Uniper should not have the German state as owner anymore, it is a special situation that has arisen now, says Olovsson.
Olovsson does not want to go into exactly what the form of ownership should look like. He points out two possible paths, that state-owned Vattenfall buys the nuclear power plant or that it is nationalized.
The review board clears the TV4 program “Cold facts” review “Undercover in the troll factory”, reports TV4 News.
The authority for psychological defense, MPF, reported TV4 to the review board because of interviews with representatives of the authority, which MPF considered to have been taken out of context when they were shown.
Now the committee writes that it is “clear” that the sequence was recorded in an earlier context.
Norway’s Crown Prince Haakon tests the fishing life on a Norwegian boat in 2015.. Photo: Cornelius Poppe/NTB/TT
It is storming again between Norwegian and European fishermen. Difficult quota negotiations risk leading to EU tariffs on Norwegian fish.
Already this summer, Sweden and a number of other EU countries raised their concerns about Norway’s tough line in a letter to the EU Commission. When the negotiations continue in the autumn, the EU is therefore open to imposing tariffs on the Norwegian fish, if no solution is reached.
Minister for Rural Affairs Peter Kullgren (KD) is not immediately impressed with how Norway is acting.
– I think you have become a bit rigid and want to take back a bit too much compared to how we have traditionally done this, says Kullgren on his way to a meeting with his EU colleagues in Brussels.
In short, the battle is about who fishes where and how much in the “boundary waters” of the North Sea and Skagerrak. Also in the equation is Britain and British fishing.
Read more here.
A man in his 40s has been arrested on suspicion of several sex crimes against children, outdoors in Jönköping in the last month, reports P4 Jönköping.
The district court has detained the man who was arrested last week on probable cause, the higher degree of suspicion.
The man is suspected of, among other things, child rape. According to his defense attorney, he admits to five counts of sexual assault.
640 people were evacuated after a fire broke out at Seoul National University Hospital on Monday afternoon local time, Soul economic daily writes.
The fire is now said to be out and no one is reported to be injured.
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