Close to 200 executed in Saudi Arabia this year

Close to 200 executed in Saudi Arabia this year

THREE NEWS YOU CAN’T MISS

  • Close to 200 executed in Saudi Arabia this year

    Flag of Saudi Arabia. Photo: Amr Nabil/AP/TT

    198 people have been executed in Saudi Arabia this year. This means that the country has carried out the highest number of executions in more than 30 years.

    Last year, only in Iran and China were more people executed, according to the human rights organization Amnesty International.

    After Saudi Arabia announced the latest executions, the toll for the year has surpassed the 196 people executed in 2022 and the 192 executed in 1995, according to the organization, which began keeping statistics on the numbers in 1990.

  • THREE NEWS YOU CAN’T MISS

  • Banks must say when loans become more expensive

    Banks must be forced to notify the customer when a loan becomes more expensive.

    It will be the consequence of the Financial Supervisory Authority’s new rules, reports SVT News.

    When you take out a mortgage, you have to negotiate with your bank – the banks call it giving a discount.

    But usually the discount only applies for one year – then it ticks away without the customer being notified.

    That will change now. The Financial Supervisory Authority must force the banks to inform in good time that the discount is on its way out. The rules can be introduced within a year.

    – Many mortgage customers think that financial services are boring and difficult and you don’t understand why you get a certain mortgage interest rate and not how long the discount that you negotiated is valid for. The banks need to do more here, says Moa Langemark at the Financial Supervisory Authority to SVT.

  • Dengue fever outbreak in Rwanda – several dead

    Six people have died in an outbreak of Marburg hemorrhagic fever in Rwanda, the country’s Ministry of Health announced.

    Around 20 patients have been treated for the disease.

    – The infected and the deceased were mainly healthcare workers, says the country’s health minister Sabin Nsanzimana to local media.

    He adds that efforts are underway to trace and test people who have been in contact with them.

    Marburg is similar to Ebola and has a fatality rate of up to 88 percent. The course of the disease is rapid and sudden, with high fever, severe headache and nausea. At a later stage, the infected may begin to bleed in the skin and internal organs.

    There are no approved cures or vaccines.

  • Ebba Busch shows hard rock signs and leaves the party

    Photo: Krister Hansson

    KD leader Ebba Busch just left Jimmie Åkesson’s wedding party.

    She arrived at the party without giving any comment to the media. She also left without saying anything to reporters.

    Instead, she waved a hard rock sign to the assembled press from the back seat of the car.

    According to SAOL, the finger sign shown by the KD leader is a “devil’s sign”.

    “A finger sign that symbolizes the devil” it says in the dictionary.

  • Energy drinks are being recalled

    Photo: Celsius

    Celsius Sweden AB is recalling cans of the beverage Celsius Oasis Vibe, 355 milliliters, due to a possible health risk.

    This applies to cans sold in Sweden with a best before date of March 2025.

    The recall only applies to the Celsius Oasis Vibe flavor that was sold in Sweden and with batch number 5L01:3130 or the best before date of March 2025.

    “The company has received information that parts of the packaging material from the manufacturing process of the cans may have ended up in one or more cans of Oasis Vibe that were sold in Sweden with a best before date of March 2025. An investigation has begun,” the company writes in a press release.

  • Billström can take over after Kinberg Batra

    Photo: Peter van den Berg

    Former foreign minister Tobias Billström (M) is highlighted as the favorite to take over as governor in Stockholm after Anna Kinberg Batra.

    This is stated by sources SvD.

    – Billström is standing in line to get something, if he is now interested in a government job, says political scientist Marja Lemne at Södertörn University to SvD.

    Billström recently quit his job as foreign minister. It is still not entirely clear why he quit.

  • Rocket launched – to save two stuck in space

    The Space X rocket when it was launched. Photo: John Raoux/AP/TT

    A rescue mission to bring home two astronauts stuck on the International Space Station ISS has been launched by Space X. However, the astronauts will not be allowed to return to Earth until next year.

    The now-launched Space X craft has two empty seats for astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, and in order not to alter the schedule of other planned missions, they will not return home until the end of February.

    The Boeing Starliner craft with which the two astronauts went up into space landed on Earth earlier in September, when Nasa judged that the journey home with it was too risky.

  • Elderly man walking on E6

    The police have received several calls about an elderly man walking on the E6 at the Kallebäcksmotet in the direction of Gothenburg.

    The police are on their way there.

    The text is updated.

  • Dozens dead in torrential Nepal

    The Bagmati River has overflowed after torrential rains in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu. Photo: Gopen Rai/AP/TT

    The cloud falls over the high-altitude country never seems to end. At least 66 people have died and around 70 are missing in Nepal, according to authorities.

    Dozens of people have been injured and over 3,000 have been rescued around the country. According to the forecasts, the rainy weather will continue at least through the weekend.

    Flood warnings have been issued for the entire country, meaning security forces are on standby and buses are not running at night.

  • Four-wheeler and flat moped in collision

    A four-wheeler and a flat moped collided on Donsö in Gothenburg’s archipelago around 7 p.m., reports P4 Gothenburg.

    – One person was taken away by ambulance, says police spokesperson Jens Andersson to Aftonbladet.

    Update 20.05: Two people have been taken to hospital

  • Man arrested with suspected weapon

    On Saturday afternoon, several police patrols alerted the police to Möllevången in Malmö.

    There, a person had been seen with what looked like a gun.

    A man in his 30s was arrested at the scene.

    – A gun is said to have been found and seized, says police spokesperson Filip Annas to Sydsvenskan.

    Whether it is a sharp weapon or a soft airgun is currently unclear.

    The man is currently suspected of unlawful threats against a group.

  • Motorist hit motorist – and battered

    Two cars collided at Wieselgrensplatsen in Gothenburg around 3:30 p.m.

    – One of the drivers must have got out of the car and according to the caller, the person must have issued a blow and then driven off, says police spokesperson Jens Andersson to GP.

    The police have been looking for the hit-and-run driver, a man in his 50s, but without success.

    No one is said to have been injured.

    The incident is being investigated as harassment, negligence in traffic, illegal threats and contamination from the scene of a traffic accident.

  • Shooting at residence

    Shots have been fired at a residence in Märsta north of Stockholm.

    According to Aftonbladet’s information, several shots have been fired.

    – We received an alarm at 2 p.m. about a suspicious shooting where shots were fired at the front door of a residence, says police spokesperson Carina Skagerlind.

    According to her, there were several people at home in the residence, but no one was physically injured.

    Several police patrols are on the scene looking for the perpetrators.

    – We will also start knocking on doors and checking people in the area.

    The incident is being investigated as attempted murder.

  • 17 dead in mass shooting in South Africa

    17 people have died in a mass shooting in South Africa, reports BBC.

    The shooting took place in a remote town. Two homes in the town of Lusikisiki were exposed.

    The shooting is said to have taken place at two locations in the city. 12 women and one man died in one place and three women and one man died in another place.

    South African media write that the victims were relatives and neighbors.

    An 18th person is being treated with critical injuries at a hospital.

    At the moment, no one has been arrested and there is now a hunt for one or more perpetrators.

  • Frontal collision outside Båstad – two to hospital

    Two cars have collided head-on outside Båstad, the police write.

    Police, ambulance and emergency services have been called to the scene.

    – It is a head-on collision and we have sent a patrol there. Two have been taken to hospital by ambulance with unclear injury status, says Filip Annas, press officer at the police region South.

    The accident took place on a country road.

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