Celebrity club in London closed – rape investigated

The junkie’s paradise converted into a skating rink

On the street where drug deals once went hot, everything is now just ice.

The world-famous “Pusher street” in Christiania, Copenhagen, is transformed from today into a skating rink.

On instagram Fristaden Christiania welcomes visitors to the opening day “with lots of good energy and great vibes”.

Pusher Street was established in the 1980s as a street for the open sale of drugs. Despite the Danish police’s attempts to shut down the illegal activity on the street, it continued for several decades.

In April this year, it was finally closed, when local residents and authorities together dug up the street to rebuild it into a safer place.

Accident on E4

A collision has occurred on the E4 in Solna just north of Stockholm in the southbound direction.

Two passenger cars are now in the right lane.

There is limited access to the site, the Swedish Transport Agency writes on its website.

– The traffic is flowing quite well now, says Ola Österling, press spokesperson at the police, at around 2.15 pm.

Rescuers must be on site.

– The emergency services and ambulance have left the scene, says Therese Stålnacke at SOS Alarm.

The Social Democrats win the election in Iceland

Now all the votes have been counted after yesterday’s election in Iceland.

It is thus clear that the Social Democratic Alliance party, led by Kristrún Frostadóttir, wins the election with 20.8 percent of the vote, reports Rough.

– There will be change in the governance of this country, says Frostadóttir.

Since the last election, support for the party has increased among voters by over 100 percent. They get 15 of the 63 parliamentary mandates.

In second place comes the Independence Party with 19.4 percent of the vote.

54 dead in boat accident in Nigeria

A boat believed to have been carrying more than 200 people has capsized and sunk in Nigeria’s Niger River, reports BBC.

At least 54 people have died in the accident and many are missing, according to local authorities.

24 of the passengers could be rescued from the water, some of whom are treated with serious injuries in hospital.

Divers are still searching the river in hopes of finding more survivors.

The boat was on its way from Kogi state in central Nigeria to a large weekly market in neighboring Niger state. The majority on board are believed to have been market traders and agricultural workers.

Metal announces warning strike against Volkswagen

Germany’s major industrial workers’ union, IG Metall, is calling a strike on Monday aimed at carmaker Volkswagen.

IG Metall announces that it is a so-called warning strike, which is being carried out ahead of the major cutbacks and austerity package announced by the car giant.

– The warning strike will be carried out at all factories on Monday, says the regional union president Thorsten Gröger in the federal state of Lower Saxony, according to the German media company ARD’s news Tagesschau.

People hit – elderly man to hospital

Two people have been hit by a car outside Lund.

According to initial information to the police, it should not be a matter of serious injuries.

A man in his 80s, on the other hand, was taken to hospital by ambulance.

The driver of the car is suspected of negligence in traffic and causing bodily harm.

Accident on the E6 – two to hospital

A party has been hit from behind in a kitchen coat on the E6 at the height of Snapparp in the southbound direction, writes Hallandsposten.

Two people have been taken to hospital by ambulance.

The extent of the damage is unclear, according to the newspaper.

Norwegian heat record on first advent

Tafjord in western Norway has measured temperatures of a whopping 18.7 degrees during Sunday morning, write VG.

– It is very hot. If it is approved, it will be a new national heat record for the month of December, meteorologist on duty Magnus Haukeland tells the newspaper.

The last time the record was broken was in 1998, when it was 18.3 degrees at Sunndalsøra.

Car into tree

According to initial information to the police, a car has crashed into a tree outside Härnösand.

One person has been taken to hospital by ambulance.

Medvedev: “Coup attempt”

– There is an attempted coup in Georgia.

This is what former prime minister, former president and now vice-chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, says, writes Dagbladet with reference to Reuters.

According to Medvedev, the coup attempt broke out on Sunday, due to the government’s decision to stop the country’s negotiations to become part of the EU.

The country’s president, Salomé Zourabichvili, has sided with the protesters. She has announced that she does not intend to resign when her term of office soon expires and is calling on the government to resume contacts with the EU.

Bloody Gaza attacks continue: around 100 dead

About 100 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks, which the Palestinian side calls pure massacres, in the past 24 hours. This is stated by the Hamastrogna Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip according to the Turkish news agency Anatolia.

Also last Friday, over 100 Palestinians were said to have lost their lives in Israeli attacks. Such bloody daily figures have been common since a month or so ago, when Israeli forces, in addition to airstrikes, also went on a ground offensive in the northern Gaza Strip.

According to Israel, the attacks are aimed at militiamen who are planning acts of war against Israelis.

The Palestinian sources, who are loyal to the terror-branded Hamas movement, make no distinction between combatants and innocent civilians in the statistics of casualties. But witnesses have told news agencies that entire families are often killed when residential neighborhoods are bombed.

Three security guards suspected of serious assault

Three security guards are suspected of serious assault in Skellefteå, reports P4 Västerbotten.

According to the channel, the security guards are suspected of having abused two men in connection with a riot breaking out in a pub.

Those men are in turn suspected of violence against an official.

No one has been arrested and the incident is being investigated further.

Belgian sex workers are entitled to maternity leave

Employment contract, health insurance, pension and parental leave. Through a world-unique law, sex workers in Belgium will be given the same rights as other workers, reports BBC.

– This is an opportunity for us to exist as human beings, says Sophie, who sells sexual services.

She says that she previously felt compelled to continue working even when she was heavily pregnant, in order to afford it.

– I had sex with clients a week before the birth, she says.

Sex work was decriminalized in Belgium in 2022.

Rape on a ferry

Two men have been arrested for rape on board a ferry, the police say.

– These are two different cases that have nothing to do with each other, says police spokesperson Ola Österling.

The ferry arrived at a port in Stockholm during the morning.

– The one man has been detained on the ferry since yesterday. The other was arrested when the ferry arrived at the port, says Ola Österling.

The plaintiffs are two women.

The police do not want to comment on the age of the men or the women.