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A number of loud explosions have been heard in Iran’s capital Tehran and the city of Karaj in the north of the country.
The Reuters reports citing Iranian media sources.
What is behind the explosions has not been announced.
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On Friday evening, a person was found dead in a residence in Botkyrka municipality.
The circumstances surrounding the death are unclear and the police have therefore opened a preliminary investigation into murder.
– You do that to be able to get the technicians there and investigate the circumstances, says the police officer on duty.
Several patrols have been on site during the evening and an area is cordoned off. According to Aftonbladet’s information, several people have been arrested.
Phil Lesh. Photo: AP
Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh is dead, writes Independent.
Lesh co-founded the band, which was active for three decades.
The artist was 84 years old.
Read more here.
Minister of Finance Elisabeth Svantesson (M). Archive image. Photo: Jonas Ekströmer/TT
Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson (M) has been elected chairman of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) development committee.
The Development Committee is the World Bank’s and the IMF’s highest advisory body on development issues. It is the first time that a Swede leads the committee, the government writes in a press release.
“It is a great honor to be elected chairman of the development committee, which is an important forum for international economic cooperation,” comments Svantesson.
Svantesson will have the assignment for two years.
Photo: AP
One of the four astronauts who have just returned home from the ISS space station is being treated in hospital, according to NASA Sky News.
The astronaut’s condition is said to be stable, but he remains in hospital for observation.
The other three have returned to Houston, according to NASA.
The team would have returned to Earth two months ago. But the return trip was stopped due to problems with the Starliner space capsule.
A drone has hit a high-rise residential building in Kyiv, local authorities say.
The drone is reported to have caused a fire and damage to apartments on three floors.
“In the Solomianskyj area, the upper floors of a high-rise building that was hit by an enemy drone are on fire. Emergency services are on the scene,” Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko announced on the Telegram messaging app.
“Apartments on the 17th, 18th, 19th floors are damaged.”
So far, there are no reports of any injuries.
An AFP news agency reporter saw what appeared to be a drone crash into the house.
The area is located in the western parts of Kyiv.
Ukrainian cities, including the capital, have been targeted by drone and robot attacks since Russia launched the full-scale war in Ukraine in February 2022.
Ukraine has long asked for more air defense from its allies.
A truck with a trailer has overturned on the E45 south of Jokkmokk, writes NSD.
According to early information, the driver should remain in the car. The police later wrote on their website that the driver escaped unharmed.
One lane is closed, and the Swedish Transport Administration expects traffic to be affected until at least 10 p.m.
Washington Post owner billionaire Jeff Bezos. Photo: AP
The Washington Post newspaper has made a decision not to support any of the presidential candidates in the election.
A decision that arouses criticism.
– This is cowardice, with democracy as a victim, writes Marty Baron, former head of the newspaper.
He continues, calling the decision a “disturbing spinelessness at an institution known for its courage.”
The Washington Post is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, one of the world’s richest people.
Reuters reports that Chinese hackers allegedly tried to access the phones of Donald Trump and his vice-presidential candidate, JD Vance.
Donald Trump’s election campaign must have been warned, according to the news agency.
It is currently unclear whether any information may have been leaked.
Many customers have problems logging into Nordea’s app on Friday evening, according to the site Downdetector.
When logging in, bank customers are greeted by a message: “Something went wrong. Try again.”
– We are working to find the fault as soon as possible, says Cathrine Graff, press manager at Nordea in Norway.
The error concerns the bank’s app and website. In Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland.
A little later, Cathrine Graff returns and says that the bank has been exposed to a cyber attack, a so-called DDoS attack.
– That is why there is currently a problem, she says.
At 21.30, Nordea’s pages were working again.
Photo: CAROLINA BYRMO
There is a fire in an apartment building in Tyresö, south of Stockholm, after an alarm about an explosion, according to information to Aftonbladet.
– There is smoke everywhere, a lot of fire engines and I see helicopters, says a witness.
Both the rescue service and the police are on the scene.
– There is a fire on the fifth floor, and there has been smoke spread to two other stairwells, says the officer on duty at the rescue service.
Residents have been evacuated from the building and three people have been taken to hospital with minor burn injuries.
The fire is now under control.
– But we are still working hard, says the officer on duty at the rescue service.
Photo: CAROLINA BYRMO
Photo: Private
Train traffic between Uppsala and Gävle is at a standstill after an accident just north of Tierp.
Emergency services, ambulance and police are now working at the scene and it is unclear when traffic can resume.
A man is said to have been robbed on a necklace and threatened with a gun-like object in the Johanneberg area of Gothenburg.
The police were alerted at 4 p.m. The masked robber is said to have hit the man on the head, but he is said to have suffered no serious injuries.
According to witness statements, the robber then ran towards Näckrosdammen.
The police are searching the area with dogs and talking to witnesses.
Recently, a large case of vomiting broke out at a primary school in Umeå.
About 100 children have become ill.
Now tests show that it was an outbreak of winter sickness, says Region Västerbotten’s infection control doctor Gunilla Persson.
– It is an unusual situation. There had been some symptoms at the school before, but now that so many people got sick at the same time, we think it probably came via the cafeteria, she says.
According to her, the school has taken measures with cleaning and food handling.
Those who fell ill are said to have recovered.
According to the Public Health Authority, there is not yet a general spread of winter sickness.
– Our own monitoring does not show that the season has started yet, says Kalle Asplund at the authority’s media centre.
Climate and Environment Minister Romina Pourmokhtari presents directives for a new investigation in the climate area. Archive image. Photo: Jakob Åkersten Brodén/TT
On Friday, the government and SD will present directives to an investigation that will analyze how Sweden can achieve its climate goals vis-à-vis the EU.
The so-called policy investigation shall, among other things, propose how the reduction obligation should be developed and it shall map how other comparable EU countries will proceed to achieve the goals.
The investigation must also propose how fossil fuels should be phased out by 2045, without it “having harmful effects on parts of the country or society”.
The investigator will be Svante Mandell, head of environmental economics at the Norwegian Economic Institute.
This week new statistics came from Statistics Norway which showed that emissions of greenhouse gases from the Swedish economy increased sharply during the second quarter of the year.
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