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Actress Kirstie Alley dead
today at 02.38 Johan Edgar
Actress Kirstie Alley has died after a short battle with cancer.
This is stated by her children in a statement on social media.
She was 71 years old.
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Bomb threat against aircraft at Kastrup
Police have emptied an airplane of passengers after a bomb threat at Copenhagen Airport Kastrup, writes TT with reference to Ritzau.
The Copenhagen police stated shortly before 11pm on Monday that they are working at the scene and that no suspicious object has been found.
The aircraft arrived from the Polish capital Warsaw, writes Ekstra Bladet.
Convicted serial killer admits to more murders
Serial killer Richard Cottingham, called the “Torso Killer” because he dismembered some of his victims, is convicted of murdering eight women during the 60s and 70s.
Now he has admitted four more, writes ABC News.
During a trial on Monday, the 76-year-old was convicted of another murder. Dance teacher Diane Cusick was found strangled in her car outside a Long Island mall on February 15, 1968. DNA evidence now links Cottingham to the murder.
In connection with the trial, he confessed to four unsolved murders of women in the early 170s.
Because Cottingham is already serving a life sentence, he will not be charged with those murders.
Orion has begun the journey back to Earth
Nasa’s space capsule Orion has begun the journey back home after passing around the moon one last time and sending images of both the moon and the Earth, writes TT.
Orion lost communication with Earth for 30 minutes as it passed 13 miles from the far side of the moon, the hemisphere of the moon that always faces away from Earth.
With the help of gravity from the moon, Orion has now started the 38,000 mile journey back to Earth, after circling the moon for a week.
Orion is expected to land in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego on December 11.
Person robbed at knifepoint in his car
The police were alerted to Järfälla, north of Stockholm, at around 11.30 pm this evening,
A person had been robbed of his car in a residential area.
– An offender with a knife has threatened to take a car. No one is detained, says the police officer on duty.
The car owner was not physically injured in the robbery.
At least 140 Palestinians dead this year
2022 is the deadliest year in the occupied West Bank since 2006, reports Echo. So far, at least 140 Palestinians have died.
On Monday morning, a young Palestinian was shot dead when he threw petrol bombs and stones at Israeli soldiers who had come to arrest his brother.
According to Israel, the Israeli soldiers are only shooting in self-defense, but on Friday a fatal shooting was caught on film. An Israeli soldier shot a 22-year-old Palestinian with four shots. Palestinians call the incident a cold-blooded murder.
27 dead in landslides
At least 27 people have died in a landslide in northwestern Colombia, President Gustavo Petro says.
Three of the dead are minors.
The landslide occurred on Sunday, in the middle of Colombia’s worst regional period in 40 years. A road was drowned in mud, and people were locked in both a bus and other vehicles, writes TT.
The tragedy could have claimed even more victims – the bus driver managed to back away from the worst of the slide, according to a survivor.
Impeachment vote postponed
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was due to be impeached tomorrow. But the vote is now postponed for a week, until December 13, TT reports.
The announcement comes after the president submitted a document to the Constitutional Court with the aim of having a report linked to the impeachment annulled.
Large protests after police shot Roma boy
About a hundred people set up barricades and set garbage cans on fire outside the hospital where the boy is being treated. Photo: Dimitris Tosidis/AP/TT
1,500 people in the Greek city of Thessaloniki took to the streets today in violent protest against the police shooting a Roma teenager, writes TT.
The 16-year-old boy allegedly filled up his motorcycle without paying. The police officer suspected of shooting at his head has been arrested and is off duty.
The boy is being treated in hospital and his condition is critical.
Today’s protest march is said to have been organized by left-wing and anarchist groups. Some protesters threw Molotov cocktails and destroyed shops, and police responded with tear gas and stun grenades.
A few hundred people also took part in a demonstration in Athens.
Pretended to help Ukraine – smuggled drugs
Police in Spain have uncovered a gang that smuggled cannabis into Europe.
The drug was transported in trucks purported to be carrying humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
According to TT, 30 people were arrested in the police crackdown in the region of Andalusia. Among them are Spaniards, Ukrainians, Germans and Moroccans.
The raid was made after the police identified Ukrainians on the Spanish sunny coast who kept large quantities of marijuana in an apartment near Málaga.
The police have seized nearly 800,000 euros (roughly SEK 8.7 million), six firearms and 2,500 cannabis plants.
The death toll rises after the massacre in Congo-Kinshasa
Around 300 people died in the massacre in eastern Congo-Kinshasa last week, reports the AFP news agency.
Aftonbladet has previously written about a government spokesperson stating that 100 people were killed by the M23 rebel movement, after a government meeting chaired by President Félix Tshisekedi. However, M23 denies the allegations.
Boy abused by two unknown persons
A boy in his mid-teens has allegedly been abused in Västerås. The police were alerted by a close relative of the boy.
It was two people unknown to the boy who abused him, gave him several blows, near his home.
– The boy is said to have suffered a cracked lip, says Magnus Jansson Klarin, spokesperson for police region Mitt.
The police interrogate the boy and draw up a report of assault.
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Ewa Forstén
State a problem with Facebook as you wrote, haven’t they changed their name to Meta?
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The company itself changed its name to Meta about a year ago.
But their social media platforms Facebook, Instagram and Whatspp are still named as they do!
What is happening in Näset, Lindingö? Lots of emergency vehicles… don’t even come close to the hill
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According to the police, it is a medical matter. They don’t want to say more than that.
You write that “At the Sunes Elefant restaurant in Visby, Nooshi Dadgostar eats steak and fries drenched in a brownish semi-transparent sauce”, but what did she drink with the food…? It does not appear.
Pelle brokers peace
Hey!
You cannot include everything in your text. In the documentary, it appears to be carbonated water in the glass. It could also be Sprite. But now I fall into speculation.
Pleasant evening!
What happened to Tove who was murdered? No newspaper writes more about the murder that I can find.
Pia
Hi Pia! The police and prosecutors have announced that they will wait to say more about the case while the investigation is ongoing. Both women are still in custody and on December 15, prosecutor Adam Rullman is expected to request that they be re-arrested, if nothing else happens.
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