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Shots have been fired at a facade of a residential building in Norsborg, south of Stockholm.
The police were alerted to the incident at around 00:30 on the night of Wednesday.
– We received calls about explosions and found bullet holes in a facade, says Jenny Ryberg, officer on duty at the police.
No one was injured and the house in question suffered no major material damage.
– We had to look for a long time, says Jenny Ryberg.
No one has been arrested. The police have opened a preliminary investigation into attempted murder and serious weapons offences.
It is the second night in a row that there have been shootings in the area. On the night of Tuesday, an apartment door was shot at.
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US forces have struck Iran-linked targets in Syria, the US military’s Middle East Command, Centcom, has announced.
According to the post on X, the attacks must have taken place after a rocket attack against the US base in north-eastern Syria, which is said not to have caused any personal or material damage.
“We have made it clear that attacks against US personnel, partner forces and facilities will not be tolerated,” writes Centcom.
Elon Musk gets a new job in a made-up ministry that Donald Trump calls “DOGE”.
Musk will work remotely and counter bureaucracy, a job that, according to Trump, could be as important as the first atomic bomb.
Read more in Aftonbladet’s article.
John Ratcliffe Photo: Patrick Semansky/AP/TT
Donald Trump has nominated John Ratcliffe to head the CIA.
He served as US national intelligence director in the final months of Trump’s last term. Before that was before that the member for Texas in the House of Representatives.
Ratcliffe is seen as a more traditional choice for the role compared to other presumptuous Trump-loyal candidates, AP writes.
Earlier Tuesday night, Trump nominated former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee to be the next US ambassador to Israel. He also appointed real estate investor Steven Witkoff as special envoy for the Middle East.
Trump also confirmed the previously tipped appointment of Mike Waltz as national security adviser. Waltz, who last week was re-elected to the House of Representatives, is an ardent Trump supporter. He is described as having a hawkish attitude towards China.
Britain’s then and short-lived Prime Minister Liz Truss prepared in October 2022 for Russia to detonate a nuclear bomb in Ukraine.
It appears in a new biography which quoted by the Independent newspaper and several other British media outlets.
According to the information, Truss had been told that Putin was “just hours” from ordering a nuclear attack. She then studied weather data and wind directions to assess whether radioactive waste could reach Britain.
It is already known that the United States had intelligence that convinced the authorities that Russia was getting ready to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine in the fall of 2022. According to the Independent, the CIA assessed the risk as high as 50 percent.
On Monday, a Spirit Airlines plane was hit by gunfire in Haiti. A flight attendant was then slightly injured.
Now CNN states that it has confirmed gunshot wounds on a JetBlue plane as well.
The US aviation authority FAA decided on Tuesday to stop all air traffic between the US and Haiti for 30 days.
During Tuesday evening, the emergency services were called to the Stockholm Fair due to a smell of smoke.
But when the patrol arrived, they found that it was not a fire – but a weather phenomenon.
– It is inversion. It will be like a lid over Stockholm. It’s about the fact that many people make fires when it’s cold and the smoke has nowhere to go, says Kurt Jonsson at the rescue service.
Police guard Haiti’s international airport the day after a plane was fired upon. Photo: Odelyn Joseph/AP/TT
The United States Aviation Authority FAA orders that all civil air traffic between the United States and Haiti be stopped for 30 days. The decision comes a day after a passenger plane was fired upon at Toussaint Louverture International Airport near Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince.
The plane, which came from Florida, was shot at in connection with criminal gangs trying to take control of the airport. Large parts of Haiti are effectively lawless, with criminal groups ruling by force.
The aircraft was diverted to the neighboring Dominican Republic on the island of Hispaniola in the West Indies.
One of the crew received minor injuries.
A pony has fallen down and got stuck in a well on a farm outside Oskarström.
– We have a force in place there now and will see what we can do, says Thomas Andersson at the rescue service to Hallandsposten.
The owner was supposed to collect his horses in the paddock on Tuesday. Then it was discovered that the pony was stuck in the well.
Just over an hour later, the rescue service announced that they had managed to pull the pony up.
Among other things, a tractor and a harness were used.
– With joint efforts and with the vet’s help in calming the horse down, we got it out of the well, says Andersson.
It is unclear how the horse is doing, the newspaper states.
Jack Teixeira, 21, is sentenced to prison after the so-called Pentagon leak.
Teixeira worked at a military base in Massachusetts and came across hundreds of classified documents.
The documents he then uploaded and shared with people on the chat platform Discord.
Teixeira is sentenced to 15 years in prison, reports Reuters.
Read more about the Pentagon leak here and about Teixeira here.
American attack helicopter on the warship USS Laboon in the Red Sea. The US naval presence in the Red Sea is to protect ships from Houthi attacks. Archive image. Photo: Bernat Armangue/AP/TT
The Houthi movement in Yemen has attacked two US warships in the Bab al-Mandab Strait, between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. The two American fighters repelled the drone attacks, the Pentagon announced.
The attack by the Islamist movement, which has taken control of large swathes of land in Yemen, consisted of eight drones and eight robots of two different types, according to Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder.
The Houthi movement, like the Hezbollah movement in Lebanon, is supported by Iran. The attacks on ships in the Red Sea began on October 19 last year and are part of the wider conflict in the Middle East following the terror-labeled Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 last year.
Palestinians in Nusairat in Gaza wait for emergency aid. Picture from last Tuesday. Photo: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP/TT
Israel has improved the flow of emergency aid to Gaza enough for the US not to limit its military support to the country.
This is stated by the US State Department, which nevertheless criticizes Israel for not doing enough to help the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
The US had set Tuesday as the deadline for Israel to meet set demands for increased emergency aid to Gaza. And after an evaluation, the country does not believe that Israel violated US laws regarding how much – or how little – emergency aid reaches Gaza.
This despite the fact that eight international aid organizations are raising the alarm that Israel has taken steps that have worsened the situation.
Read more here.
Police cordons in Malmö. Photo: Mikael Nilsson
The police were alerted to a location in Malmö where a suspicious object was found – which was later deemed harmless.
Several properties were occupied after contact with the police.
The National Bomb Squad was called to the scene to investigate the object.
The object was found in the same area where a man was found shot on Monday.
Read more here.
Huckabee with Trump. Photo: Julia Demaree Nikhinson / AP
Mike Huckabee will be the next US ambassador to Israel. At least that’s what President-elect Donald Trump wants, who has nominated the former Arkansas governor for the job.
“He loves Israel and the Israeli people, and the people of Israel love him. Mike will work tirelessly to bring peace to the Middle East!” Trump wrote in a statement.
Two cars have collided on Söder Mälarstrand.
The road has been blocked off.
One person has been taken to hospital by ambulance with what are perceived to be minor injuries, the police write on their website.
The emergency services are on the scene because a car is leaking fluid.
A man and a woman have been arrested at Arlanda on suspicion of serious money laundering.
The people were stopped at the scene at 5 p.m.
The police then seized valuables worth hundreds of thousands of kroner. Including a clock.
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