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Suspected remains of a human body have been found in a forest area outside Arlanda on Friday evening.

– It was people who had been out in the forest who contacted the police, says Mats Eriksson, press spokesperson at the Stockholm Police.

Police technicians are on their way to the scene and the area has been cordoned off.

– If it is human remains, it has not happened recently. Not this year.

The police have opened a preliminary investigation into murder.

The police were alerted just after 10 pm about a suspected assault at Stockholm’s central station.

A woman states that a man, unknown to her, attacked and then fled the scene.

The woman is said to have received help from people who witnessed the assault.

The extent of the damage is unclear.

Ambulance and emergency services have been alerted after a traffic accident in Grums, reports P4 Värmland.

An A-tractor has collided with a passenger car and three people are said to be involved, but it is unknown if anyone was injured.

The emergency services were alerted on Friday evening about burning explosive carpets in Kungsbacka municipality, reports Göteborgs-Posten.

– They were going to build on the site, so that’s why they had the explosive carpets, says Lars Larsson, alarm operator at the Greater Gothenburg rescue service.

The explosive mats were made of rubber, and created heavy smoke.

– It was on fire when we got there, but it’s out now. We are packing up.

On Friday, Putin signed a law that makes it easier for Russia to strip people of their Russian citizenship, write Sky News.

However, it only affects people who were not born with Russian citizenship, but received it later in life.

They can lose their citizenship if they “threaten national security”.

Threats include, among other things, “incitement to actions against Russia’s territorial integrity, intrusion into the lives of statesmen and organizing an armed rebellion”.

According to the Russian news agency RIA, Putin also signed a law increasing the penalty for high treason to life imprisonment. Previously, the penalty was up to 20 years in prison.

5,750 people’s asylum applications were granted by Sweden in 2022, reports The European portal with reference to figures from Eurostat.

That is fewer than the EU average and the second lowest figure since the measurements began.

Sweden rejected 12,590 applications and is in 14th place in terms of granted applications in relation to the number of inhabitants. The list is topped by Austria (21,275) and at the bottom is Hungary (30).

The emergency services were alerted to a fire in a forest area in Haninge on Friday evening.

– Rice had been set on fire, says Andreas Blomquist, duty officer at the Södertörn rescue service.

– We went there and put it out. Then they started cooking rice again in the same place so we had to go back.

The image shows heavy smoke in the area, but the fire service says the fire is under control.

– The grass fire risk is still great, but the forest fire risk is not great. No buildings are in direct connection.

The extinguishing work is expected to last until after 21.

The police and the emergency services have been called to the E18 at the height of the municipality of Kungsör due to a collision between a car and a light truck.

– According to initial information, one person is trapped. We work to direct the traffic while the emergency services work to help those involved, says Magnus Jansson Klarin at the police.

The Swedish Transport Administration warns of a very large impact on the road in the southbound direction.

According to the forecast, traffic is expected to return to normal shortly before 8 p.m.

Update 20:01:

The police announce that three people were involved in the accident. One of them, the driver of the passenger car, has been taken to hospital with unclear injuries.

During Friday, the company Bring suffered operational disruptions, which resulted in packages not being able to reach customers.

– We are working on this right now, says Matilda Adelborg, press contact at Bring.

She states that it is the American software giant Microsoft that has suffered from global problems, which in turn affects Bring.

– We are in contact with Microsoft. We of course regret this and unfortunately cannot announce a forecast for when the problem may be solved, says Matilda Adelborg.

Aftonbladet has applied to Microsoft, which is asking to be allowed to return.

Update 20:45:

Bring announces that the IT problems have been resolved and that the service is back up and running again.

The death toll has risen to 25 after a Russian robot hit an apartment building in the Ukrainian city of Uman, south of Kiev.

BBC News reports.

A fire broke out in connection with the attack early Thursday morning.

When the robot crashed, 58-year-old Serhiy Lubivskyj was in the building.

– All my neighbors are gone, no one is left. Only the kitchens are left, he tells Sky news.

The payment service Swish has suffered extensive IT disruptions.

Users who enter the app are met by a message in which Swish states that the problem may affect payouts as well as Swish payments to stores, online stores and apps.

“We are working hard to solve the problem,” writes Swish.

Several cars have been damaged after a car drives through a police checkpoint at high speed in Älvsjö in Stockholm.

The motorist then sped off, whereupon the police began a chase.

The police later managed to arrest the motorist, who is suspected of drunken driving, carelessness in traffic and contamination from the traffic accident.

At least five cars are said to have been damaged when the driver rammed into them. No one has been injured in connection with the collisions.

Canada has hammered through a new tightening law that forces services like Netflix and Spotify to pay support for Canadian TV series, music and content, reports Engadget.

The law has previously only covered television and radio in the country.

The new law has created great debate in the country because it gives the Canadian Radio, Television and Telecommunications Commission great power over streaming companies.

Critics believe, among other things, that the law provides the opportunity for excessive regulation and that it is excessively broad and clear, writes the platform.

The actor Stina Rautelin is dead, the Swedish Theater in Helsinki announces on Facebook. She was 59 years old.

She was known, among other things, for her roles in Rederiet and the Beck films.