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A car has overturned on the E45 at the height of Orsa municipality.

One person has been injured and the emergency services and ambulance are on the scene. There is no information on the state of the damage.

The road is closed in both directions.

A forest fire has broken out at Hundsjön, south of Norrtälje. The emergency services are on site with several units to get the fire under control.

– The information I have right now is that the fire is approximately 150 by 150 metres. We have two helicopters waterbombing right now. We pull hoses out into the forest to surround the fire, says Marie Nordahl, management operator at the rescue service.

People evacuate from the coastal town of Golarchi in southern Pakistan. Photo: Umair Rajput/AP

Cyclone Biparjoy is moving across the Arabian Sea and is expected to make landfall in India and Pakistan on Thursday.

Local meteorologists are now warning of widespread devastation. Therefore, more than 100,000 people have been evacuated in areas that are expected to be affected, including around the coastal stretch between Mandvi in ​​the Indian state of Gujarat and Karachi in Pakistan, reports TT.

Biparjoy, which means disaster in Bengali, is expected to be the most powerful cyclone in the area since 2021.

There is a stop in train traffic on the Uddevalla to Strömstad route after a suspected track fault.

This is reported by P4 West.

Several departures will be canceled during the afternoon and evening, according to the channel.

There is no forecast for when the trains can run as usual again.

Oscar Stenstrom. Photo: Jerker Ivarsson

Sweden’s NATO negotiator Oscar Stenström holds a press conference after the meeting with Turkey.

Stenström says that he explained to Turkey that Sweden fulfilled the parts of the memorandum and put more focus on the fight against the PKK.

– We had a more pleasant lunch and agreed to meet very soon, he says SVT’s broadcast.

Turkish President Erdogan said earlier in the day that Sweden cannot expect to become a NATO member before the summit in Vilnius in July.

Something that Stenström does not want to deal with.

– I cannot comment on that, but note that Turkey has a new government and new people in almost all positions. They will need time, he says.

Two women have been arrested for attacking a painting by Monet at the National Museum, the police write on their website.

They are suspected of serious damage. According to the police, it is still unclear if more people were involved in the incident. A number of people have been checked and the police will go through surveillance cameras.

Restore Wetlands has taken on the action

– It is a nurse and a nursing student who have done an action where they have glued themselves to the protective glass of a board and put red handprints on the glass. The painting is not destroyed and the painting is not affected, says Roxy Farhat, press spokesperson for Restore Wetlands to Expressen.

According to the police, it is too early to say how the artwork was affected.

Stoltenberg at a press conference before the NATO meeting. Photo: Virginia Mayo/AP

NATO’s Secretary General said during a press conference that he had received signals of a “constructive atmosphere” from today’s meeting between Sweden and Turkey regarding Swedish NATO membership.

– Progress has been made, says Stoltenberg at the press conference.

When asked how Stoltenberg interprets Erdogan’s latest statement that Sweden cannot expect a Turkish yes to NATO until next month, Stoltenberg also replied:

– Sweden has delivered, they have changed their terror law and lifted their arms embargo on Turkey, and I welcome that Sweden sits down with Turkey.

The TV giant HBO Max yesterday notified its customers of new prices in a mass mailing. Many then asked themselves what was true of the previous promise to the customers who had a “lifetime discount”.

Today, the answer came to affected customers.

HBO Max poodles in the new email about the previous “incorrect information”.

It should be correct that the discount remains, according to HBO’s correction email.

After the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine, mines and ammunition have been scattered as a result of the floods. The mines now pose a major explosion risk.

MSB, the authority for public protection and preparedness, is now sending 250 mine detectors to Ukraine to be used in mine clearance work.

“We have now decided to further strengthen this part of our response operations by donating 250 mine seekers to a value of SEK 15 million,” says Magdalena Tham Lindell, unit manager for humanitarian response operations at MSB in a press release.

There is a fire in the forest outside Borås. The alarm came in just before eleven on Wednesday morning.

– But it must be under control and it is surrounded, we will probably remain at the scene for quite a while, says Björn Christoffersson, officer on duty at the rescue service.

About ten units from the rescue service are on site and working with the extinguishing work.

– Then we also have helicopters via MSB as water bombs, says Björn Christoffersson.

There must be buildings in the vicinity of the fire, but it is not threatened by the fire according to the fire service.

A man in his 70s has died after a motorbike accident in Hjo. Relatives have been notified.

According to the police, the man must have tried to give way to a deer and crashed.

Emergency services, ambulance and police were called to the scene and the man was taken to hospital by ambulance.

It was 499 against 28 votes when the EU voted today for the EU Parliament’s view on new and more common rules for AI, TT reports.

The EU Commission’s proposal was already presented in April 2021 and wants to divide the use of AI into different risk groups, with tougher rules for the most sensitive bits.

Among other things, the EU wants to see a total ban on using AI for facial recognition in real time, according to TT.

The public is back at Sweden’s museums and visitation levels are now almost at the same level as before the pandemic, reports TT, with reference to a new report from the Norwegian Agency for Culture and Analysis.

A total of 26.9 million museum visits were made in Sweden in 2022. This is roughly 90 percent of the number of visits made in 2019, the last full year before the pandemic.

“We see a recovery to normal levels for pretty much all measures,” says Erik Vestin, statistician at Kulturanalys, in a press release.

At the same time as the NATO meeting in Ankara, there is now a new statement from Turkish President Erdogan about the Swedish NATO application, reports Reuters.

The message from the president is that Sweden should do more to ease Turkey’s concerns about terrorism before the regime can approve Sweden’s NATO application, according to state-controlled Daily Sabah.

“We cannot have a positive attitude towards Sweden’s NATO accession under the current circumstances. NATO cannot force us to take Sweden in without doing something against terrorism. If Sweden does not resolve this issue, we cannot happily approve Sweden’s membership in Vilnius,” Erdogan said, referring to the upcoming NATO summit in mid-July.

Turkey cannot look favorably on a Swedish NATO application as long as “terrorists” are allowed to protest in Stockholm, according to the president.

According to Reuters, Erdogan intends to once again clarify his position in the talks with Sweden at the NATO meeting in Ankara today.

Erdogan reportedly made the statement to reporters after returning from a trip from Azerbaijan shortly before the meeting, according to Reuters.