Latest news – Big fire at Åsarna Skicenter

The US is dropping the requirement for a negative covid test for travelers from China, probably as early as this week.

The restriction was introduced in January this year, also by Sweden and several other countries.

The US now believes it has evidence that the number of infected, treated and dead is decreasing in China.

(TT, Aftonbladet)

Russian troops will have an “open road” to more cities in eastern Ukraine if Bachmut falls. President Zelensky delivers that warning in an interview with CNN.

– This is tactical for us, he says.

The battle for Bachmut has been going on since the summer. Military experts have questioned the strategic importance of the city, stating that it is symbolism rather than tactics that drives the Russian forces, particularly the private army Wagner.

But Zelenskyy thus defends that Ukraine is resisting:

– We realize that after Bachmut they can go to Kramatorsk, to Sloviansk, to other cities in the Donetsk region. They get an open street.

Two employees at the Swedish embassy in Nairobi are being investigated, report SVT News.

According to SVT, it is about two separate cases. In one case, it concerns a Sida employee who is suspected of having leaked sensitive information and who has been called home to Stockholm.

The Danish Development Agency has launched an internal investigation and describes what happened as an “irregularity”.

In the second case, it concerns a local employee at the embassy who is suspected of embezzling large sums. That person must have terminated their employment on their own initiative before the investigation began.

Both men deny the allegations. (TT)

Several countries have regained the right to vote in the UN General Assembly since they partially paid off their debts. This was announced by the chairman Csaba Korösi on Tuesday.

The countries that got the right to vote back were Lebanon, Gabon and South Sudan.

In October, the General Assembly adopted a resolution allowing São Tomé and Príncipe, the Comoros and Somalia to vote until September despite excessive debts to the UN. The reason is the unrest that surrounds the three countries.

Thus, only Venezuela currently has its right to vote suspended. (TT)

German investigators have been able to identify six people who are suspected of being behind the explosions of the Nord Stream last autumn. This is stated by the newspaper Die Zeit and several other German media.

According to the information, five men and one woman can be linked to a boat that was rented by a Polish company, owned by two Ukrainians. From the boat, which set out from Rostock, Germany, the explosive charges must have been placed at the gas pipes about three weeks before the explosions.

Read more in Aftonbladet’s article.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has arrived in Ukraine and will meet President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, according to the UN.

It is Guterres’ third trip to the country since Russia’s full-scale invasion began.

The talks with Zelenskyy are expected to be about the so-called Black Sea Grain Initiative, the agreement that makes it possible to export grain via the Black Sea.

The current agreement expires later in March and Russia has not yet announced whether it agrees to the shipments from Ukrainian ports, writes TT.

A man in his 30s was arrested at 6pm on Monday evening in Solna after a fight in the open street.

According to the police, he is suspected of having tried to buy sex from a woman who later regretted it.

– They had arranged a meeting and he had booked a hotel room and everything. When she didn’t want to, he ran after her, says Mats Eriksson at the police’s regional command center.

Down on the street, several people witnessed the fight between the man and the woman.

– She screamed loudly and called for help, says Eriksson.

The man was still there when the police arrived and could be arrested on the spot. He is now suspected of attempted purchase of sexual services, assault, damage and violation of the Knife Act.

It is not known how he reacts to the allegations.

The police were alerted at 21.30 about several loud bangs in Skärholmen in southern Stockholm.

– It was a call that came in. We went there with lots of people, but have not found anyone injured or any signs that there has been a shooting, says Mats Eriksson at the police’s regional command center.

Violent protests have broken out in the Georgian capital Tbilisi, reports Reuters.

The protesters wave EU flags and are repulsed with water cannons and tear gas.

Outside the parliament, complete chaos will prevail.

The criticism is directed at a new bill that organizations that are financed to more than 20 percent from abroad should be classified as “foreign agents”.

The law has been compared to the one Russia established in 2012 and which has since been used to crack down on dissent.

“No to the Russian law” and “You are Russian” chant the protesters, targeting the legislative politicians.

A ceasefire would have come into effect between government forces in Congo-Kinshasa and the rebel movement M23 on Tuesday, writes TT.

But the guns never fell silent.

Insurgents clashed with soldiers in at least two different locations on Tuesday. M23 was said to have attacked and captured several villages in the province of North Kivu in the eastern part of Congo-Kinshasa.

The town of Karuba, about three miles from the central town of Goma, has “just been captured by the rebel group,” an anonymous security source told the French news agency AFP.

“We attacked the rebel group on Monday night, and it responded with a counterattack on Tuesday morning,” continued the source, who said fighting raged late Tuesday.

There are long queues on the E4 between Norrköping and Linköping as a result of several traffic accidents. According to the Swedish Transport Agency’s website, two lorries have crashed. According to readers who contacted Aftonbladet, it has been quiet for over an hour and a half.

According to the Swedish Transport Administration’s website, there will be a very large impact on traffic until 8 p.m.