Four arrested for preparation for aggravated arson

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The fact that Sweden now meets the EU’s climate goals is the reason behind the previous red-green government’s high reduction obligation, reports Echo.

But when the government presented the proposal for a new reduction obligation earlier this week, nothing was presented.

Ebba Busch explains in Ekot’s Saturday interview that it is about the fact that the entire budget has not been presented yet.

– I think it can be good to tell even as a person in power, it doesn’t always turn out as you imagined, says Ebba Busch in the Saturday interview.

The government will increase the reduction obligation from six to ten percent. A reduction was one of the Tidö parties’ most important election promises.

– The important thing for us is reduced emissions overall, and it is above all the heavy emissions in industry and the heavy emissions in the transport sector that must be responsible for this, not individual households, says Ebba Busch.

The entire autumn budget will be presented on 19 September.

In the early hours of Saturday morning, the police were called to Mariatorget in Södermalm, Stockholm, due to a suspected serious assault.

– It appears to be a man who has been severely abused by another man. The injured man was taken to hospital by ambulance, says Helena Boström Thomas of the Stockholm Police.

Parts of the park on the square have been cordoned off and a crime scene investigation has been carried out.

– It is possible that an extra has been used, says Helena Boström Thomas.

No one has been arrested at this time. A preliminary investigation into suspected serious assault has been initiated.

– But we have a good investigative situation.

A man on his way home on a bicycle was stopped by six perpetrators during the night. They allegedly threatened the man with a knife and then took his bicycle.

The police went to the scene but no one could be arrested. There are no reports of physical injuries and a report has been made.

Two cars have collided on the E4 outside Markaryd, according to the police.

Emergency services and an ambulance are sent to the scene. The condition of the victims is unclear.

According to the Swedish Transport Administration, the road is closed and that several vehicles were involved in the accident.

Four horses have been running loose on national highway 25 near Öjaby, the police write.

The horses had taken to the road and in connection with that three of them were hit and died.

The police managed to capture the fourth horse which could be transported to its owner.

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A violent crash has taken place when a car drove into a roundabout from county road 113 near Eslöv.

It is a single accident. According to information to Aftonbladet, the car must have ended up about twenty meters out in the terrain. Three young women in their 20s were traveling in the car.

– They must have come driving from Eslöv and driven straight into the roundabout. It has been quite a strong collision, says Patric Fors, spokesperson for the police in the South.

All three have been taken to hospital. Their injury status is unclear.

The driver is suspected of drunken driving, carelessness in traffic and illegal driving.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says that Ukraine’s offensive in Kursk is okay, and that the country’s right to self-defense does not end at the border with Russia.

In an interview with German World he makes his first statement about the Ukrainian shock offensive.

– The Russian soldiers, tanks and bases are legitimate targets according to international law, he says.

Since the offensive, the Kremlin has accused NATO and the West of having been informed of the attack. But Stoltenberg hits back.

– Ukraine did not discuss its planning for the Kursk offensive with NATO in advance. In this regard, NATO did not play a role, he says.

American forces, together with personnel belonging to the Iraqi security services, have killed 15 people belonging to IS, the US military command center for the Middle East, Centcom, states in a post on X.

According to the post, the raid took place on the night of Thursday local time.

“IS remains a threat to the region, our allies as well as our homeland. Centcom will continue our intensive hunt for these terrorists together with our Iraqi partners,” it writes.

Almost all wind power projects were stopped in the first half of 2024, shows a report from Swedish Wind Energy.

The municipal veto was the main reason why none of the eleven applications for wind power on land and in the territorial sea that were finally decided in the first half of the year received permission.

During the first half of 2024, 12 out of 16 current projects on land-based wind power, 75 percent, were also stopped by the municipal veto.

Of the four projects that the municipalities approved, the Swedish Armed Forces stopped three, which means that only one project out of 16 could proceed in the permit review.

According to the report, the eleven projects could have produced approximately 16.7 TWh, which corresponds to two of Sweden’s existing nuclear power reactors, or the electricity use from the paper and pulp industry.

Two Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank late Friday night, Israel’s military said in a statement.

According to the statement, the two, who were shot on separate occasions, should have tried to attack the soldiers from each side.

According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, well over 600 Palestinians in the West Bank have been killed since the war between Israel and terrorist-branded Hamas broke out last October.

Here the man is arrested. Photo: Alex Brandon/AP

A man tried to climb into the press area during Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania last night Swedish time.

The man was overpowered by police and arrested, AP writes.

The uproar arose after the former president criticized the television channel CNN for the interview with Kamala Harris that was broadcast on Thursday evening.

– Is there anything more fun than a Trump meeting? the former president said as the man was led out of the arena.

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The police were alerted this evening to Årby in Eskilstuna after several people heard loud bangs.

In connection with the alarm, a person with a gunshot wound was taken to hospital.

According to information to Aftonbladet, the man must have been hit by several shots. His condition is serious but stable, according to the police.

A suspected crime scene has been cordoned off.

The police are also on site at the hospital.

The alarm was received on 22.10. The incident is classified as attempted murder and aggravated weapons offences.

Two cars have been impounded for technical examination.

No suspected perpetrator has been arrested.

Several buildings have been hit in connection with the shooting, the police write on their website.

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Social media platform X is being shut down across Brazil, reports say AP.

A judge in the country’s highest court has decided, after X owner Elon Musk refused to appoint a legal representative in Brazil within 24 hours.

Last spring, Brazilian HD judge Alexandre de Moraes ordered X to shut down several accounts that were said to be spreading misinformation. But Musk refused, saying it was censorship.

A limited number of tickets for Oasis’ comeback tour went on sale on Friday.

Just minutes after they were released, tickets were up for sale on the secondary market at 40 times the original price, reports BBC.

Now Oasis is issuing a warning and a call not to resell tickets on pages that are not connected to the organizer. This is because the tickets may then become invalid.

“Tickets sold in violation of the terms and conditions will be voided by the organizer,” the band wrote in a statement.