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  • Billström: Ready to label the Wagner group a terrorist

    Foreign Minister Tobias Billström wants the EU to label the Wagner group a terrorist, he says so Today’s news.

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  • Motorcycle accident on the E4

    An accident has occurred on the E4 near Salem.

    – We have a patrol on site and a motorcycle will be recovered from the scene, says Towe Hägg, press spokesperson at the police.

    The extent of the damage is currently unclear.

    According to the Swedish Transport Administration, the accident has a very large impact on traffic and is estimated to have until 7 p.m.

  • Danish teenager sentenced for terrorist crime

    On Thursday afternoon, the court in Holbæk on the island of Zealand sentenced a 16-year-old boy to five and a half years in prison for violating the terrorism legislation, Jyllands-Posten reports.

    He is convicted on several counts. Among them, he allegedly tried to recruit a friend to a right-wing extremist group and shared instructions on how to make bombs and extremist material via the Telegram messaging service.

    When the boy was arrested last spring, the police found a flag and armband with Nazi symbols as well as Adolf Hitler’s book “Mein Kampf”.

    The 16-year-old has appealed the sentence to the Supreme Court.

  • Forest fire outside Skepplanda

    There is a forest fire outside Skepplanda.

    – We have an extensive resource package in place. The extinguishing work is going well, but the forecast is unclear, says Micael Olsson at the Greater Gothenburg Rescue Service.

    The area that is burning is 3 hectares in size.

  • Tove’s relatives appeal

    Tove’s family wants Johanna Leshem Jansson to be sentenced to higher damages. Photo: The police

    Tove’s relatives appeal one of the judges, write Vetlanda-Posten.

    The family wants Johanna Leshem Jansson to pay the same amount of damages as Maja Hellman.

    Eksjö district court has sentenced Maja Hellman to pay SEK 130,000 in damages to the five relatives, which they requested.

    Johanna Jansson, on the other hand, was sentenced to only pay 110,000 kroner in damages to them, despite the fact that the district court found that she had been the more active in the crimes.

  • Fire ban in Stockholm County

    The county administrative board has introduced a fire ban in the entire Stockholm county as of Thursday evening, the county administrative board writes in a press release.

    They have decided that together with the rescue services and based on SMHI’s forecasts.

    The ban applies until further notice.

    You may, however, grill on your own property and fixed barbecue areas in public areas.

    The recent dry and hot weather has led to a high fire risk in forests and land.

  • WHO: Monkey pox no longer a global threat

    Monkeypox, or mpox, is no longer a global health emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.

    After the big outbreak last year, where around a hundred people lost their lives, cases have decreased in recent months.

    Much thanks to a vaccine becoming widely available.

  • 7,200 turkeys burned inside: “It was a short life”

    7,200 newly hatched turkeys have burned inside Norway. ATTENTION! Genre picture Photo: Matt Rourke

    7,200 turkeys have burned inside after a fire broke out in a turkey house on Helgøya in Norway on Thursday.

    The turkeys were hatched on Wednesday, says police operations manager Stig Folstad Hansen VG.

    – It was a short life. The roof has collapsed and the fire brigade is working to prevent the spread. We are still there.

    According to the local emergency services, the building was quickly engulfed in flames after they received an alarm about the development of smoke and arrived at the scene.

    No people are said to have been injured in the fire.

  • Supreme Court: Arrest of Imran Khan was illegal

    Large protests erupted after the arrest of Imran Khan. Photo: AP

    The arrest of Imran Khan, former Prime Minister of Pakistan was illegal. That’s what Pakistan’s Supreme Court thinks, the BBC reports.

    The court demands his immediate release.

    Imran Khan was arrested by the country’s anti-corruption agency on Tuesday and large protests broke out in several parts of the country.

    At least 10 people have been killed and 2,000 people have been arrested in the violent protests since the arrest.

  • Bread may contain stones – recalled

    Recalled.

    Semper recalls the gluten-free bread “Trio breakfast bread”. In a shipment of pumpkin seeds, some foreign objects were discovered, including small stones.

    Semper is now asking everyone who bought the bread with certain expiration dates to throw it away.

    The affected products have expiration dates: May 16, May 23, May 28, June 8, July 4 and July 9. The product has article number 5630.

  • Woman stabbed in Gothenburg

    A woman has been stabbed in the arm at Backaplan in Gothenburg.

    A police hunt is now underway for the perpetrator.

    – She is in her 60s and has been stabbed in one arm, it’s a minor knife injury, says Peter Adlersson, police spokesperson.

    An ambulance is on the scene and is taking care of the injured woman.

    Witnesses saw a man dressed in black stab the woman before fleeing the scene.

    – We have several patrols out looking for him. A report of serious assault has been drawn up, says Peter Adlersson.

  • Ekot: M members want Thornberg to resign

    National Police Chief Anders Thornberg. Photo: BJÖRN LINDAHL

    Several moderate members of parliament want national police chief Anders Thornberg to resign, according to information from Echo.

    Already in February, SD wanted Thornberg to resign, but the government showed its support for the national police chief.

    A member tells Ekot that Thornberg has “east billions over the authority”, but thinks that the police are not solving enough crimes.

  • Turkish presidential candidate withdraws

    Muharrem Ince, one of Turkey’s four presidential candidates, withdraws from Sunday’s presidential election, reports Bloomberg.

    The announcement comes a day after he was accused of having been in a sex film and accepting bribes to run for the presidency, the newspaper writes further.

    On Wednesday, he canceled several performances due to health reasons.

  • The former speaker becomes the new ambassador to the United States

    Urban Ahlin. Photo: Jonas Ekströmer/TT

    Urban Ahlin, the former Speaker of the Riksdag (2014-2018) and long-time member of the Riksdag (S), has been appointed by the government as Sweden’s new ambassador to the United States, the government announces in a press release.

    Ahlin is today ambassador in Ottawa. He has previously also been chairman of the Riksdag’s foreign affairs committee.

  • Two to hospital after suspected shooting

    Police officers at the scene. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT

    Two people have been taken to hospital after a suspected shooting in Helsingborg.

    The suspected shooting took place indoors in a room.

    – We are investigating the circumstances and we have cordoned off the area, says Filip Annas, press spokesperson for police region South.

    No one has been arrested and a hunt for the suspected perpetrators is underway.

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  • To what extent do all these fires that have ravaged the world in recent years contribute? Have they caused us to get further from the climate target with emissions?

    Carina

    Hello! Partially. The fires release large amounts of carbon from the vegetation in the form of carbon dioxide, which in turn further increases global warming.

  • Why does Russia celebrate a Victory Day from 1945? The Russian Federation was formed in 1991 and has nothing to do with WWII. At the time, Russia was only a state in the Soviet Union.

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    Victory Day began to be celebrated in Russia after the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945. In fact, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the parades stopped for a while. But in 1995 the celebration was resumed again.

  • Danny Saucedo isn’t making his acting debut now is he? Wasn’t he in Evil?

    Ninna

    Entirely correct! He was an extra in the fight scene in Ondskan.

    However, he himself says that “Scenes from a Marriage” is his acting debut. Maybe he himself makes a difference between extras and acting?

    Regardless – well done Ninna!

  • Which party in Sweden is the 9th largest?

    Lisbeth

    Hello!

    The largest party outside the Riksdag, i.e. the ninth largest party, is the Nyans party. They received 28,352 votes, which is equivalent to 0.44 percent of the turnout in the 2022 election.

    In the 2018 and 2014 elections, the Feminist initiative was the largest, but they have retreated significantly and were in this election at 0.05 percent.

  • Shouldn’t journalists be able to tell the difference between them and them?

    Ante

    Hi Ante! You may think so, of course, but we are not flawless and can make mistakes. We correct them when they are brought to our attention by our colleagues or our keen readers!

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