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There is a fire in a villa in Götene municipality, writes Skaraborgs Läns Tidning.

The house is completely on fire.

– Flames shot out of windows, so it doesn’t look very good, says Stefan Johansson at the rescue service to the newspaper.

The alarm came in just before 9 p.m. At 10 p.m., five units from the rescue service were on the scene.

– We are still on and off. The forecast is for around two hours, says Stefan Johansson to Aftonbladet.

Oslo Airport was evacuated at 21:30 on Friday evening after the fire alarm went off.

– It’s an automatic alarm. The emergency services are now on the scene and investigating what the cause is, says Hans Erik Tysdal, officer on duty at the rescue center Øst, to The daily newspaper.

Later, the police stated that it was food from a microwave that caused the alarm.

Several cars are involved in a collision accident on the approach to Hisingsbron in Gothenburg.

The alarm came in to the police just before half past seven on Friday evening.

The Swedish Transport Agency’s website states that the accident has a major impact on traffic.

– Initially, the cars involved were in bad shape, and a decision has been made to get rescue workers there, says Adam Isaksson Samara, press spokesperson at the police.

An ambulance is on the scene, but it is currently unclear if anyone has been injured.

Tankers are seen in front of the skyscraper where Russian Gazprom has its headquarters in St. Petersburg. Archive image. Photo: Dmitri Lovetsky/AP/TT

Russia will stop gas supplies to Austria starting Saturday, according to a spokesperson for the Austrian energy company OMV.

The announcement comes at the same time as Austria announced that the gas network is no longer dependent on Russian supplies.

European media have reported that Austria, although it still buys 80 percent of its fossil gas from Russia, has secured enough reserves and other suppliers to see it through the coming winter regardless of the Russian flow.

“We have been informed” by the Russian energy giant Gazprom that deliveries are ending, says the OMV spokesperson on Friday according to AFP.

The Ukraine war has meant that the EU has tried to cut off its energy relations with Russia, but a lot of fossil fuels are still bought in.

A carnivore was caught red-handed in a grocery store in Oskarshamn this week, writes Barometer-OT.

Three people had tried to pass the tills with beef tenderloin, pork, chicken and stain remover worth SEK 4,100.

In their car in the parking lot, a driver was waiting – and even more meat, cheese and expensive razor blades.

– We don’t know the exact value yet, but it should be somewhere between 30,000 and 50,000 kroner, says Peter Karlsson at the police in Oskarshamn.

He believes it is organized crime.

– I am completely convinced that this is a league that has traveled the country and kingdom around to steal from grocery stores.

Sweden invests over five billion kroner in strengthened air defense.

In collaboration with four other countries, a total of 1,000 robots for the Patriot air defense system are being purchased, according to a press release from the government.

The total order value is approximately SEK 60 billion.

The other countries are Germany, the Netherlands, Romania and Spain.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has spoken on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, reports several international media.

It’s their first conversation in two years.

Government sources tell AFP the conversation lasted about an hour.

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Protesters have stormed the government building in the Russian-backed breakaway region of Abkhazia in Georgia today, Reuters reports.

The background to this is an unpopular investment agreement with Moscow that would mean Russia gaining more control in the region. The protesters worry about the consequences the agreement will have on the real estate market.

Opposition politicians also demanded that the self-proclaimed president resign.

According to the news agency, the protesters drove in a truck and smashed the metal gates surrounding the capital’s parliament. People also climbed in through the windows.

Eight people had to be taken to hospital.

Abkhazia has declared independence, but only a few states support this – including Russia. Georgia and the rest of the world see Abkhazia as Georgian territory.

One person has been injured when a wall from a truck bed fell over his foot, the police write on their website.

The police were alerted to the accident in Köping at half past two today and then went to the scene.

The person, a 55-year-old man, was awake and able to speak when the police arrived.

He was then taken to hospital by ambulance for treatment.

Earlier today, Fredrik Lundgren, also called the Nytorgsmannen, was requested to be detained for another rape.

At 2:30 p.m., the detention hearing against him begins. The hearing is held behind closed doors.

– There is a risk that he can continue his crime at large, says prosecutor Anders Stridh in court.

Fredrik Lundgren’s defense lawyer says he denies any crime.

On site is Aftonbladet reporter Susanna Nygren.

Read more here.

A new major prisoner exchange is underway between the United States and Russia, states exile Russian Vazjnije Istorii and Kremlin-loyal news site Mash. The prisoner exchange is said to be planned for February 2025.

One of those to be released is Russian-American Ksenija Karelina, sentenced to twelve years in prison for treason after she donated 50 dollars to the Ukrainian army.

Over 70 people are said to be part of the upcoming exchange. In August, 26 people were included in a prisoner exchange between Russia, Belarus and several Western countries.

The Västra Götaland region is pausing the Millennium IT system, according to information from Gothenburg Post.

The region confirms the stop in a press release.

Work to activate the old systems has already begun. It will take a few days, during the weekend Millennium will be used.

But the region continues to try to solve the problems with the system, and the plan is still to introduce it throughout Västra Götaland.

– Now it is a situation with risks for patient safety with continued introduction in the same way, says regional director Håkan Sandahl at a press conference.

The criticized system was introduced in parts of the region, including at Södra Älvsborg Hospital, on Tuesday.

Millennium was bought in for a billion and the preparations to change the system have been going on this year. The idea was that the system would facilitate, among other things, that the same system would be used throughout the region. But the system has not worked as it should. Healthcare employees have gathered in demonstrations against Millennium outside Södra Älvsborg hospital.

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The government sells the Bilprovningen. This is what Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson (M) says at a press conference.

The new owner is the German company TÜV Rheinland AG. The company is present in many countries and has over 22,000 employees.

– The company goes into this with a long-term perspective and a great sense of responsibility, says Svantesson.

The price is SEK 1,200 million, the government writes in a press release.

Police and forensics technicians on site outside an apartment building on Möllevången in central Malmö in connection with the death of a woman in her 50s. Archive image. Photo: Johan Nilsson / TT

The man who had been arrested since a woman in her 50s was found dead in an apartment on Möllevången in Malmö on Monday has been released.

– The suspicion remains but has weakened as we have worked on this case, says prosecutor Carin Annerén Brunsson to Sydsvenskan.

The police were alerted on Monday evening by paramedics who were in the apartment. The man, who was in the apartment, was brought in for questioning and later arrested during the night as a probable cause of murder.