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Building collapsed – ten dead
Excavators and rescue workers in the race masses. Photo: AP
A building collapsed in Aleppo, Syria during the morning. At least ten people are said to have died.
Right now, a major rescue operation is underway at the site.
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Alert about mass shooting in Los Angeles
Several people are said to have been killed in connection with a shooting in Los Angeles in the United States, reports BNO News. The shooting is said to have taken place in the city of Monterey Park, east of Los Angeles, shortly after 10.30pm on Saturday, local time.
According to initial information, around twelve people have been shot and some of them are said to have died as a result of the injuries.
The violence occurred at a time when many residents are celebrating Chinese New Year, in an area with many Asian businesses. Los Angeles Daily News writes that thousands of people must have been in the area.
The witnesses must have initially believed that the bangs that were heard were fireworks, BNO News writes.
E-type has had a baby
E-type and Melinda Jacobs have had a child, the couple writes on Instagram.
In a joint post on their Instagram accounts, they have published a picture of their daughter.
There they write that she will be named Izadora Elisabeth Esmeralda.
She was born two days ago, according to the post.
The congratulations are pouring in.
Man killed in fire
A man died in an apartment fire on Saturday evening, the police write on their website.
Emergency services and police were called to an apartment building during Saturday evening in connection with the development of smoke.
The man is 65 years old. The man’s next of kin have been notified.
The apartment is cordoned off and a technical examination must be carried out.
Suspect of old murder has been released
A man in his 40s suspected of an old murder has been released from custody, writes TT with reference to VLT.
The man was detained on suspicion of a knife murder that took place in 2008 in Hallstahammar, where a woman in her 50s was found dead in her apartment.
Suspicions against the man remain, however, but it is judged that he does not need to be detained any longer. He has been in custody since October 2022.
Most ad fraud on Facebook
Almost half of all ad fraud in Sweden is committed via Facebook.
It shows new statistics from the police, reports Svenska Dagbladet.
– Just under half of the reports concern Facebook, both on Marketplace and in various groups. It is a common place for fraud, says Lotta Mauritzson, crime prevention officer at the Police’s national fraud centre, to the newspaper.
A total of 25,391 ad frauds were reported in 2022. This is a slight decrease compared to 2021. But then the number had increased by 50 percent from 2020.
The fact that Facebook does not verify users makes it difficult for the police, according to Mauritzson.
Alarm about an explosion in Sköndal
Just before four o’clock, the police go out to Sköndal in southern Stockholm, following an alarm about an explosion.
– We have been there and investigated but can’t find anything that leads us further, so we have left, says Mikael Pettersson, officer on duty at the Stockholm Police.
He says that many Stockholmers call in about explosions now.
– We have been and examined quite a few of these in the region last night. Considering how the situation is at the moment, we have to take it seriously, says Mikael Pettersson.
Hipkins ready as new prime minister
Chris Hipkins has been formally appointed as the next leader of the Labor Party and thus also the next Prime Minister of New Zealand.
Hipkins says during a press conference in Wellington that Labor unanimously elected him during a party meeting on Sunday, the New Zealand Herald reports.
Carmel Sepuloni, who will become the new Deputy Prime Minister, is the first person of Pacific Island origin to hold the post in New Zealand.
Current Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced earlier this week that she is resigning. (TT)
Hundreds of tourists are evacuated from world heritage sites
More than 400 tourists have been evacuated from the Peruvian tourist attraction Machu Picchu, authorities said.
For just over a month, supporters of deposed president Pedro Castillo have been protesting in the country. The unrest has so far cost at least 45 people their lives, including a police officer.
As a direct result of the violence, the authorities decided on Saturday to close the country’s biggest tourist attraction, the Inca city and world heritage site Machu Picchu. (TT)
More secret documents with Biden
The FBI searched US President Joe Biden’s residence in Wilmington on Friday and found six classified documents. Some notes were also seized.
The documents were from both his time as senator and as vice president while the notes were from his time as vice president.
In the past, classified documents have been found, among other things, in Biden’s garage in Wilmington and at the Penn Biden Center in Washington. Then Biden’s own staff found them. (TT)
Kristersson tonight: “Want to express my sympathy”
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson writes late on Saturday evening on Twitter regarding Rasmus Paludan’s Koran burning and the subsequent unrest in Turkey.
He wants there to “express his sympathy for all Muslims who have been offended by what has happened in Stockholm today”.
Kristersson also writes that freedom of expression is a fundamental part of a democracy, but that what is legal is not necessarily appropriate.
“Burning books that are sacred to many is a deeply disrespectful act,” writes the Swedish Prime Minister.
It was noisy during the evening outside Sweden’s consulate general in Istanbul, where demonstrators, among other things, set fire to a Swedish flag.
Here you can read more.
Rush for Ukrainian beer
Many Swedes want to support war-torn Ukraine. Some do it with beer.
The sale of Ukrainian beers has increased greatly at Systembolaget, writes DI.
During November 2022, 1,970 liters of Ukrainian beer were sold – a month later it increased to 6,200 liters.
Now all three Ukrainian beers are out of stock at the suppliers.
– We are going to start ordering whole containers, i.e. full trucks, directly from Kyiv to our warehouse in Örebro, says Daniel Boltes, business area manager at Galatea, which is the supplier for the beer Obon, to DI.
However, it is not about huge numbers – 10.5 million liters of Sweden’s most popular beer Norrlands Guld were sold in 2021.
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