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Israel has issued a new warning to residents of the Bekaa area of eastern Lebanon – evacuate immediately, Israel’s military will attack very soon.
“You are close to Hezbollah’s installations and interests,” writes spokesman Avichay Adraee on X.
The warning even mentions specific buildings in the area. Such actions are usually followed by large Israeli airstrikes.
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Since 2018, the Police has received more money and the number of police officers has increased significantly. But that has not led to a higher percentage of serious crimes such as murder being solved, according to a report from the Crime Prevention Council (BRÅ).
The number of serious crimes has increased during the period 2018 and 2023. But the proportion of serious crimes that are solved has been around 19 percent, despite the number of employees in the groups that are supposed to investigate serious crimes increased by 30 percent, writes Brå.
– We see that the police have had an insufficient ability to meet the development of serious crimes in recent years, says Kristin Franke Björkman, investigator at Brå in a press release.
The percentage of serious crimes linked to gang crime that are solved has increased marginally, from 27 to 30 percent.
About ten people have been detained after the recent weeks of violence that affected the southern parts of Stockholm, reports Sweden’s Radio Ekot.
According to the police, violence has escalated in the capital in recent weeks.
– 2024 has looked pretty good so far this year. Now we received a number of cases in a very short time, so it is clear that it was a temporary escalation, it is not possible to say anything else about it, says Andreas Lundberg at the Farsta Police.
According to the police, several of the crimes are linked to one and the same conflict.
– Some of them we know are connected and are being investigated together, says Andreas Lundberg.
As recently as yesterday, an explosion occurred in Gubbängen. The same apartment gate had been a target for then before. Before that, an explosion occurred at a gate in the Dalen area, also in southern Stockholm. At that address, a designated leader in a criminal network in southern Stockholm was written on the address.
The so-called surplus target is scrapped, according to information. Archive image. Photo: Martina Holmberg/TT
All parties in the Riksdag agree to scrap the so-called surplus target, according to information in several media.
The goal is to free up more money for investments. A majority of the parties have instead agreed on a balance target for the state’s finances, according to SVT’s information.
The Tidö parties, the Social Democrats and the Center Party must have agreed on a settlement, according to the newspaper ETC. It entails requirements for balance in the public finances seen over a business cycle, where deficits in recessions must be offset by surpluses during booms.
The Left Party and the Green Party are expected to reserve themselves against the decision on the balance target, according to sources for Göteborgs-Posten. The Center Party supports the balance objective, but will write a special statement.
The committee that reviews the goal will hold a press conference at 10:30 a.m. today.
During Thursday morning, the police received an alarm about an accident between a car and a horse in Bjuv.
Between four and six horses ran loose and had made their way up to the roadway, according to the police.
The police have been on site during the morning and captured five horses.
A foal was hit.
– Possibly we will call an animal ambulance to check on one of the horses, says Katarina Rusin, press spokesperson at the police.
According to the police’s initial information, the driver has no injuries.
Former party members of the Social Democrats in Botkyrka have started a new political party. They call themselves Oberoende S and were launched on Thursday, reports P4 Stockholm.
This after an internal split between the members within the party.
Independent S currently governs the municipality together with the Moderates, the Tullinge Party, the Center Party and the Christian Democrats.
The state bank SBAB expects the mortgage rate to bottom out at 3.1 percent. Archive image. Photo: Fredrik Persson/TT
The floating mortgage rate will reach its bottom next summer. The state SBAB makes that assessment.
In a new forecast, state bank SBAB expects that the variable mortgage interest rate, measured as the average interest rate on the entire mortgage market, will be 3.1 percent in time for the summer.
But it will not be lower than that.
According to the bank’s forecast, the variable interest rate will then rise slightly, to 3.3 percent, in January 2026 and then remain around that level for the following two years.
The forecast for the mortgage interest rate is based on the Riksbank lowering the interest rate by a further 0.75 percentage points before the turn of the year and then by 0.25 percentage points in January and May next year.
SBAB believes in a double reduction of 0.50 percentage points in December.
In January next year, SBAB believes that the three-month interest rate will be 3.4 percent.
At least 10 civilians were killed and 30 wounded when Russian forces carried out several strikes outside Idlib in Syria on Wednesday, according to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
Among the dead is a child and among the injured are 14 children, according to SOHR.
Among other things, a furniture workshop is said to have been attacked, according to the opposition civil defense group White Helmets.
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an extremist movement sprung from al-Qaeda, controls parts of Idlib province.
Russia, which is allied with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, has not commented on the attacks.
The United States has carried out airstrikes against several military targets in Yemen belonging to the Iran-backed Houthi movement, reports ABC News.
The attacks are said to have taken place against several weapons depots, an American defense source told the American television company. The weapons are said to have been used in attacks on ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, according to the source.
The Houthi movement, which controls large parts of Yemen after civil war in the country, has attacked civilian ships in the international shipping lanes off its coast since the Gaza war broke out.
The Iran-backed movement has also shelled Israel from Yemen on several occasions.
The cheetah Cannelle and one of her newborns during the birth at Dyreparken in Kristiansand, Norway. Photo: Dyreparken via NTB/TT
The cheetah Cannelle at Dyreparken in Norwegian Kristiansand has given birth to four cubs – in a birth broadcast live on YouTube. The number of cheetahs in the world is drastically decreasing. Cannelle’s birth is described as unique, as cheetahs are extremely selective when it comes to choosing a partner.
Both the new mother and the cubs, who are her first, are said to be doing well.
– She seems calm and relaxed. It’s nice to see, says zookeeper Olav Åsland.
Australia sends 49 M1A1 tanks. Archive image. Photo: Riley Blennerhassett/Australian Department of Defense via AP/TT
Australia is donating 49 tanks of an older model to Ukraine, the country’s Ministry of Defense says.
The American-made M1A1 tanks, equipped with heavy firepower, were supposed to be decommissioned starting next year.
“We stand side by side with Ukraine in their fight against Russia’s illegal invasion,” Australian Defense Industry Minister Pat Conroy said in a statement.
A couple are now wanted by Australian police after two train stations in Melbourne were flooded last week. The couple is suspected of having made out so wildly in a stairwell that they broke a sprinkler.
State Transport Minister Danny Pearson says it first appeared to be “deliberate vandalism”. But, he continues at a press conference where he can’t help but laugh:
– After studying surveillance video, it appears that a loving couple, on a staircase, set off a sprinkler.
But he emphasizes that “the damage is great” after the incident and that the authorities are now looking for the guilty couple.
The floods caused problems in public transport.
Photo: Joel C. Ryan
Liam Payne, former member of One Direction, has died after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires.
That’s what the Argentinian newspaper writes Clarin. The rescue service confirms the death to the newspaper La Nacion.
Read more here.
Photo: Mikael Nilsson
Shortly before 10pm on Wednesday evening, the police received a call about a shooting in Osby in Skåne.
A man in his 20s is found injured at the scene.
– He was found in the central parts of Osby, at a gas station, says police spokesperson Fredrik Bratt.
The man is taken to hospital by ambulance.
– We also have staff at the hospital and have increased security there.
The injured man, who is in his 20s, has died, the police announced later in the evening on their website. Relatives have been notified. The incident is being investigated as a murder.
The police have cordoned off the suspected crime scene. No one is arrested.
On the site downdetector.se several alerted during Wednesday evening about major problems with Telia around the country. Mainly the reports were about the problems with the television services.
Later in the evening, Telia’s press officer announced that their technicians had solved the problem and that everything should now work as usual.
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