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At least 70 dead in cold weather
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Afghanistan has been hit by a cold snap. At least 70 people have died and the temperature has at most dropped to minus 32 degrees, TT reports.
The temperature started to get sick on January 10 and the cold will last at least another week. It is described as the coldest winter in years.
In addition, around 70,000 livestock are said to have died from the cold.
More than half the population is threatened by famine this winter, writes TT and refers to aid organizations.
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Man killed in traffic accident
A man in his 70s has died after a traffic accident in Boden.
Two passenger cars collided at 4 p.m. and a total of three people are said to have been involved in the accident.
Next of kin have been notified.
Two cars in collision with moose
Two passenger cars have collided with a moose in the municipality of Marks, writes Gothenburg Post.
A man has been taken to hospital by ambulance. There is no information on the state of the damage.
The driver reportedly collided with the moose and then crashed into a tree.
– The car is quite tight, says Pontus Studahl, the duty officer of the rescue service, to GP.
The moose died in connection with the collision, according to the police.
Russian crypto top arrested in US
US Department of Justice in Washington. Photo: Andrew Harnik/AP
Founder and majority owner of crypto platform Bitzlato, Anatoly Legkodymov, has been arrested and charged with unauthorized money transfer.
This is announced by the US Department of Justice during a press conference.
Bitzlato is a cryptocurrency exchange platform. The company is said to have processed illegal funds worth over $700 million, including in connection with ransom money.
Legkodymov himself is said to have written on the company’s internal chat room that the users of the service were “known to be crooks”. He was arrested in Miami on Tuesday and will appear in court on Wednesday.
– As suspected, Bitzlato sold himself to criminals as a “no questions asked” cryptocurrency exchange platform, resulting in him making hundreds of millions of dollars. The defendant is now paying the price for the harmful role his company has played in the cryptocurrency ecosystem, said Attorney General Breon Peace.
Expanded support to Ukraine – can send Archer
Sweden will increase support for Ukraine. The government announced this on Wednesday afternoon.
Tomorrow Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson will hold a press conference together with Energy and Business Minister Ebba Busch, Labor Market and Integration Minister Johan Pehrson and Defense Minister Pål Jonson.
The details of the increased support will be presented there.
One of the items on tomorrow’s agenda concerns preparing the transfer of an artillery system to Ukraine.
Prime Minister Kristersson recently opened up about sending the Archer artillery system to Ukraine.
Four arrested for kidnapping
During Wednesday, the police were alerted to a suspected kidnapping in Luleå.
Relatives of a man are said to have been pressured for money in exchange for the man’s release.
The man was found by police in connection with a house search at an address in Luleå. The man’s injury status is unclear.
Four people were also arrested on the spot.
A preliminary investigation into kidnapping and attempted extortion has been launched.
The police write that they “assess the incident as an isolated incident in the criminal environment”.
Fire in villa
A fire has broken out in a villa in Kristianstad.
The emergency services state that it was a passing motorist who noticed that there was smoke coming from the villa.
– There was a lot of smoke so he stopped and knocked on the villa. He got the homeowner, who was unaware of the fire, out of the home with him, says Patrik Freij at the rescue service.
At the scene, the rescue service sent in smoke divers, who managed to extinguish the fire.
– The villa is quite destroyed. Now we are on site to make sure that there is no fire in the construction, says Patrik Freij.
No one is said to have been injured in the fire. However, the villa owner has several cats, it is unclear if they may have been injured.
Electricity subsidy protest received 40,000 signatures
The protest outside the Riksdag Photo: Skiftet
Shift’s protest list against the “panicked cover-up” of the electricity subsidy has collected almost 40,000 signatures and today a protest was held outside the Riksdag.
– How should we be able to evaluate and see how it went? Did those who needed it get it or not?, said Christian Tengblad, campaigner and fundraiser at Skiftet before the protest.
As Aftonbladet wrote about earlier, the Riksdag will vote on the bill that would make the payment of the electricity subsidy secret for up to 20 years next Wednesday at the earliest.
The Supreme Court demands the minister’s resignation
The Supreme Court of Israel orders Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to depose Interior and Health Minister Aryeh Deri, TT reports.
This as Deri, who is the leader of the ultra-Orthodox party Shas, was previously convicted of tax evasion.
According to the judgment against Deri, he must pay 180,000 shekels, which corresponds to roughly half a million kroner.
The Supreme Court writes that Deri “cannot remain” as minister as he is unfit for the role given the previous sentence.
Trump is trying to get his accounts back
Donald Trump is trying to get his Facebook account back before a possible re-election campaign, it says NBC. He has written to Meta – the company that owns Facebook – demanding that his account be reactivated.
He got his Twitter account back after Elon Musk took over the company, but hasn’t tweeted yet.
– Trump will probably come back to Twitter, it’s just a matter of how and when, says an anonymous Republican who discussed the matter with Trump, according to NBC.
Flows about the Erdogan doll: “Is both and”
Gunnar Strommer. Photo: BJÖRN LINDAHL
The suspended Erdogan doll has been called both a sabotage against the NATO application and an expression of opinion.
Minister of Justice Gunnar Strömmer believes that it is both.
– It can certainly be both. We have strong protection of freedom of expression in Sweden, and that means that you can make statements that others may perceive as offensive. At the same time, different opinions can have consequences, which in this case complicate a Swedish negotiation on NATO membership.
What do you think about the fact that there was no investigation?
– It is entirely a matter for the police in a case like this to decide which questions should proceed to a preliminary investigation.
Zelenskyy invites to talks with China’s leaders
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has written to China’s leader Xi Jinping and invited him for talks. The letter was handed over during the ongoing World Economic Forum conference in Davos in Switzerland, reports the news agency TT.
The Ukrainian government has on several occasions sought contact with Beijing in the hope that Beijing will use its influence over Moscow – and thus prevent the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
– It was a gesture and an invitation to dialogue, I really hope we get a response to this invitation, says First Lady Olena Zelen, who told about the invitation during a press conference in Davos.
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