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Canceled departures in Lund after signal failure
A signal failure at Lund was reported just before 07:30 on Tuesday, reports the Swedish Transport Administration.
This creates delays and several canceled departures in train traffic.
– It causes delays in several directions and edges. All trains that pass through Lund are affected and there is no forecast for when the problem can be remedied, says Beisi Sundin, press communicator at the Swedish Transport Administration, to South Sweden.
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Xi gives Putin his support in presidential election
Chinese President Xi Jinping gives President Putin his best wishes in the upcoming elections in Russia, writes Politico.
– I know that there are presidential elections in your country next year. Thanks to your strong leadership, Russia has made significant progress in achieving prosperity in recent years. I am sure that the Russian people will give strong support to their president, he told Putin, according to the state news agency Tass.
Xi Jinping is currently in Moscow for a three-day visit.
Injured woman found in Stockholm – man arrested for attempted murder
An injured woman was found outdoors by a private person on Södermalm in Stockholm during the night.
She was helped to get into a stairwell before the police were called to the scene.
The woman had met a man in his 30s in an apartment, where she was subjected to violence. The police then search the apartment but the man is not there.
Later, the police find him at another location, where he is arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
The woman was taken to hospital and the apartment was cordoned off for a technical examination.
Ferry accident in Gabon – many dead
Several dead have been found after a ferry accident in Gabon. A total of 26 people have been confirmed dead. Eleven passengers are still missing, TT reports.
The ferry was on its way from the capital Libreville to the city of Port-Gentil, the prosecutor’s office said.
After the incident, the country’s transport minister resigned. 33 people have been arrested in connection with a criminal investigation into the accident.
A fire was made at a playhouse in Huddinge
The police and emergency services were alerted to a fire in Huddinge at 00:14 on the night of Tuesday.
A man set fire to a playhouse and has been taken into care with the support of LPT, the Compulsory Psychiatric Treatment Act, the police report.
Skistar increases its turnover
Skistar reports a turnover of SEK 2.4 billion for the second quarter of the broken financial year, TT reports.
This corresponds to an increase of 8 percent compared to the same period the year before. The company itself describes the result before tax for the quarter as the “best in the company’s history”.
“The result shows that the interest in alpine skiing is still great and that the trend of vacationing at home in the Scandinavian mountain world is continuing this winter as well,” says the company’s CEO Stefan Sjöstrand in a comment.
Ikea recalls games – children can suffocate
Ikea recalls the Blue Winged game. Photo: Ikea
Ikea is recalling the Blåvingad fish game, TT reports.
It has been discovered that small rivets on the game can come loose so that there is a risk of small children putting them in their throats.
Ikea urges all customers who own the game to stop using it and contact Ikea for a full refund. The game can be returned to any Ikea store and no receipt is needed.
Famous Hong Kong activist arrested again
Albert Ho in a picture from last year. Photo: Kin Cheung/AP/TT
Albert Ho, one of Hong Kong’s most famous human rights activists, has been arrested by the city’s security police, TT reports.
He is suspected of trying to influence witnesses while on parole, a source said.
Ho was already risking up to ten years in prison before the new charges under the city’s draconian security laws, which Beijing pushed through in 2020 to quell pro-democracy protests.
The police on the wave of violence: Haven’t broken the trend
The police continue their gathering of forces in Stockholm in connection with the wave of violence. 190 police officers from other regions have been called in to break it.
But there are still no signs that it is about to slow down.
– In the short term, we do not see that we have in any way broken the trend, says Niclas Andersson, operationally responsible for the special event to TT.
He believes that the gathering of power will rather have long-term effects and slowly decrease to a lower level. At the moment, the special event will last until the summer, according to Andersson.
– But it may very well be that it is extended.
Greta Thunberg gets an honorary doctorate
Greta Thunberg has been appointed an honorary doctorate at the University of Helsinki, Finnish media reports.
The climate activist receives an honorary doctorate at the theological faculty.
The President of Finland receives an honorary doctorate at the Faculty of Philosophy.
Thunberg is already an honorary doctorate at a Belgian university.
Farmers received electricity support intended for households
Electricity subsidies for households have in some cases gone to companies with sole proprietorships.
Among them are quite a few farmers, confirms Johnny Kjellström at the Farmers’ Confederation SR Ecot.
– They wonder why they received support. The simple explanation we can give is that you had an e-subscription that was shared between the household and the farm, says Johnny Kjellström.
Paludan is ported from Great Britain
The far-right politician Rasmus Paludan is denied entry to Great Britain, reports the BBC.
The country’s security minister Tom Tugendhat says that Paludan has been put on a “watchlist” and is not allowed to enter the country.
A few days ago, Paludan announced that he will carry out another one of his Koran burnings in a square in the West Yorkshire town.
The announcement after four students at a school were suspended after vandalizing a Koran.
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Why is one of the two men who murdered Ulf mentioned with a picture and name and not the other??? After all, both were sentenced as a return.
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Life-sentenced murderers are often named, because the public interest in those cases often outweighs possible publicity damage.
The other man, whose name and picture we have not published, was convicted of aggravated robbery.
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I have been looking for an article I read about a police officer who lent his bank card to his father who was in debt settlement, are you able to link it to me? ☺️
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It was a policeman who lent a card to his father-in-law. Guess that’s the one you’re referring to. You can read about it here.
Hello, why has interest in the Ukraine war cooled so much in the Swedish press and news reporting? In foreign reporting, there are lots of analyzes and status reports!
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It may feel cold compared to how it was in the first months at the outbreak of the war, when a very large part of the news reporting was devoted to the Ukraine war.
But I would say we are still reporting intensively. Among other things, we have a team in place now that reports on many fatalities. Feel free to follow our collective reporting here!
Hello. What was the big police operation in Stockholm city about yesterday? Nothing more has been written about it.
Alex
Hello Alex! We wrote about it yesterday here. It seems to have been about a fight at a hamburger restaurant.
Difficult to read the posts…. It’s usually white text on a black background! But now the text is kind of gray on a black background??? Is it just my phone that is ghosting or???
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