Lack of meat on store shelves – “A challenge”

Train traffic stopped north of Stockholm

All train traffic past Sundbyberg station, north of Stockholm, has been stopped.

Police, emergency services and ambulance have been alerted to the scene after information that an injured person should be at the station.

The police are searching the track area and traffic is expected to be closed for the time being, as long as the operation is ongoing.

Truck in the ditch – traffic is affected

A truck drove into the ditch on road 55 at Merlänna, south of Strängnäs, at around 01.30.

The driver was taken to the hospital and, according to the police, survived without life-threatening injuries.

The truck is on its side and according to the Swedish Transport Agency there will be a major impact on traffic until 08:00 on Thursday morning.

“Alternate traffic past the site. Salvage is in progress,” the authority writes on its website.

Wolf shot – endangered hunting dogs

A hunting team felt that wolves posed a threat to their loose dogs and shot a wolf between Mullsjö and Ulricehamn this weekend, reports P4 Jönköping. The hunters have followed the law, according to the county administrative board.

Predator officer Nelly Grönberg tells the radio that the law takes notice of perceived threats. Damage or close contact is not required.

Another wolf was shot this weekend, south of Hjo, writes Ulricehamns Newspaper. There, too, hunters perceived the wolf as a threat to dogs.

Explosion outside Stockholm

A powerful explosion occurred during the night of Thursday in Brandbergen. The emergency services received the first alarm at 00.15.

An industrial property suffered damage to the facade and also cars and window panes were destroyed.

– It was the worst bang out of nowhere, says a resident nearby.

Powerful explosion in Uppsala: “Very many alarms”

Police and emergency services are on the scene at an apartment building in Uppsala after an explosion.

– The alarm came in at 00:02. It seems to have exploded in a gate, says Sören Gustavsson, team leader at SOS Alarm.

According to information to Aftonbladet, residents several kilometers away felt the ground shake.

– We haven’t received much feedback yet, but there were a lot of alarms, over 40 calls.

The police are on their way to the scene.

– We have no idea at the moment whether anyone is injured, says police spokesperson Magnus Jansson Klarin.

Trump sends 1,500 troops to the border

Donald Trump has decided in a presidential decree to send 1,500 soldiers to the US border with Mexico.

There, they will help the border police protect the border and assist with logistics, transport and the construction of barriers, according to information from the Pentagon.

The US already has a force of around 2,500 people – reservists and members of the National Guard – at the border.

New heavy fire – evacuation order issued

A new large fire is raging in Los Angeles County, US media reports.

The fire has been named “Hughes Fire” and has started for an unknown reason. It started on Wednesday morning local time.

Residents living near the fire are ordered to evacuate.

In an hour and a half, the fire had spread over 3,400 hectares, writes New York Timesciting local media.

The Palisades fires, which started in early January and caused massive damage and several deaths, are still not fully extinguished, according to US media.

Man dies after workplace accident

A man in his 60s has been found dead indoors in Ånge.

– It is currently unclear how the person died. That is why we are investigating the death, says Marie Andersson, press spokesperson at the police.

Police are investigating the death as a workplace accident.

Relatives have been notified.

– I cannot go into details about why we are investigating it as a workplace accident, says Marie Andersson.

Now Säpo will review the Landerholm case

After several revelations were made about how the national security advisor Henrik Landerholm, among other things, was careless with classified documents, Säpo has now begun to review the matter, writes The Express.

Since 2022, Landerholm has, among other things, forgotten four classified documents at a course farm, a notebook at Sveriges Radio, and his mobile phone at the Hungarian embassy.

Fire in apartment building – three to hospital

There has been a fire in an apartment in Västervik.

The police and emergency services were called at 6 p.m.

– There has been a fully developed fire in an apartment, says the management operator of the rescue service.

– We sent in smoke divers and were able to quickly extinguish the fire.

Three people have been taken to hospital by ambulance.

Trump threatens to prosecute officials who oppose the deportations

According to the US Department of Justice NY Times issued a directive to investigate and prosecute all local and regional officials who refuse to implement President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.

In an internal three-page message with guidelines for all department employees, the paper states that local and regional officials are required to cooperate under the Constitution’s so-called “Supremacy Clause,” which states that federal laws trump individual state laws should they conflict.

Trump threatens Russia with new sanctions

Donald Trump threatens Russia with punitive tariffs and sanctions if President Vladimir Putin does not agree to end the war in Ukraine.

The newly elected president of the United States writes on his platform Truth Social that he wants to do “President Putin a favor”.

“It (the war) will only get worse. If we do not reach an agreement soon, I have no choice but to impose high taxes and penalties and sanctions on all goods that Russia sells to the United States and other countries,” he writes.

On Tuesday, Trump said he would “soon” talk to Putin, adding that Putin is destroying his own country by not reaching a deal with Ukraine.

The Correctional Service wants to investigate foot shackles for detainees

Sweden’s prisons are already overcrowded, and occupancy is expected to increase by 78 percent over the next ten years.

Now the correctional service wants the government to investigate for the second time whether detained persons could be kept in the home with, for example, foot shackles, writes the Siren news agency.

In a petition to the Ministry of Justice, Director General of Correctional Services Martin Holmgren writes that up to 300 detention places could be freed in that way.

The reason for the need is assumed to be political reforms to address, among other things, gang crime, which leads to increased prosecution of suspected perpetrators.

A similar proposal was investigated 2016but never came to fruition.

Stockholm University exposed to vandalism

On Monday morning, Blom’s house on campus Frescati was vandalized with red paint and a message.

According to SU, it is Palestine activists who are behind the vandalism.

According to Expressen, the university writes on its employee website:

“Palestinian activists have vandalized Blom’s house on campus Frescati with red paint and a message. The police have drawn up a report and clean-up work is underway.”

Now the incident makes Education Minister Johan Pehrson (L) furious. He calls it all “an attack on academic freedom.”

“Society must act against forces that use threats and hatred to intimidate teachers, researchers and students into silence,” writes the Minister of Education on X.