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Dogs to save millions of olive trees
In the past 10 years, the bacterium xylella fastidiosa has killed tens of millions of olive trees in Puglia in southern Italy, the BBC reports.
The bacterium has left large landscapes with emaciated and gray tree trunks. The bacterium is difficult to detect and is spread via insects and blocks the channels that bring water from the roots to the leaves – suffocating the trees to death.
Now Italian authorities have specially trained dogs, which have learned to sniff out the bacteria. The dogs are expected to prevent the spread of xylella fastidiosa and save millions of olive trees.
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Stop on E4 after accident
An accident has occurred in the northbound direction on the E4 at the height of Rotsunda outside Stockholm.
At least two vehicles must be involved.
The people who were traveling in one car are said to have left the scene and ran away.
– We are on site and trying to find them, says Daniel Wikdahl, press spokesperson for the Stockholm police.
One person has been injured in the accident.
– There is a complete standstill in the northbound direction. It is unclear how far the line extends. There is also queuing in the southbound direction, says Daniel Wikdahl.
Update 13.52: The traffic has slowly begun to be allowed back on.
Russian soldier killed after suspected refusal to fight
A Russian soldier who is suspected of refusing to fight has been killed, reports TT and refers to Russian media.
According to information, the man was previously stationed as a soldier in Ukraine, but was wanted when he left his base on January 13 with rifles and grenades.
The man, who is 21 years old, has now been found and killed, writes the government of the Lipetsk region in western Russia in social media.
“The situation is under control,” writes the board.
British nurses are on strike – again
Nurses in the UK have gone on strike again. This time the strike will last for two days, TT reports.
The nurses demand higher wages and better working conditions. At the same time, they accuse the government of negotiating in a frivolous way.
– We are going on strike with a heavy heart but a clear mind about what we want to achieve, says London nurse Anna Swift to Sky News.
276 pigs died – woman and man suspects
276 pigs have died in Indre Salten in Nordland, writes TT.
“On December 23 around 4:40 p.m., the police received a call that several pigs had died in a barn in Indre Salten in Nordland. There had been a water leak in the barn which led to several pigs having to be slaughtered,” the police write in a press release.
The police suspect that the two people who run the farm, a man and a woman, have not had sufficient supervision of the animals in connection with the water leak.
Both are suspected of violating the Animal Welfare Act, for intentionally or grossly negligently leaving animals in a helpless state.
Urges great caution on the ice
The ice is unsafe in many places in Central Sweden, the Ice Safety Council writes in a press release.
It is recent mild weather and wind that has caused the melting ice, but there are local variations. In some places the ice is stable, but in other places it is rotten.
Therefore, the Ice Safety Council urges great caution if you are going out.
Four arrested after Russian attack on residential building in Dnipro
Russian police have arrested four people at a memorial ceremony in Moscow this weekend, writes TT and refers to the independent human rights group OVD-Info.
The memorial ceremony was held for those killed in the Russian attack on an apartment building in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro.
According to OVD-Info, two of the people were arrested when they laid flowers at a statue of the Ukrainian poet Lesya Ukrajinka in Moscow. Two more people were arrested near the memorial ceremony.
Russia has previously introduced strict laws banning what is perceived as criticism of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Read more about the attack here.
Murder suspect released
In connection with the fact that a woman in her 40s was found dead in a home in Luleå on Sunday, a man in his 30s was arrested.
But after the police carried out technical investigations of the crime scene and conducted interviews with the suspect and witnesses, the 30-year-old has now been released.
– The preliminary investigation is still ongoing and the suspect has not been removed from the investigation, says District Attorney Kristin Andersson in a press release.
Threatened with a knife and stole his car
A 35-year-old man lost his car at knifepoint in Danderyd on Wednesday morning. A lone perpetrator first threatened the man with the knife before stealing the car and driving away at high speed.
The robber was masked and his identity is still unknown.
The victim should not have any physical injuries and the robbery is classified as aggravated, the police write on their website.
Russian Foreign Minister: The US is like Hitler
Photo: Alexander Zemlianichenko
The US has started a war against Russia with the same goal that Adolf Hitler once had: a “final solution to the Russian problem”, claims Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, TT writes.
According to Lavrov, the US is using the same tactics as Napoleon and Hitler and is waging a hybrid war with the help of European allies.
At the same time, he rules out any possibility of talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, but says that Russia is willing to discuss with Western leaders and consider “all serious peace proposals”.
But according to Lavrov, he hasn’t seen any proposals yet that he can take seriously.
The water recedes – the worst is over
Aftonbladet visited Gisshult, which was hit hard by the floods earlier this week. Photo: Lotte Fernvall/Aftonbladet
Water flows are decreasing throughout southern Sweden after the recent floods.
– We see that the climax has been reached in the places where we have flood warnings issued, says Disa Ekholm, hydrologist at SMHI to TT.
But for now there are weather warnings in many places in southern Sweden. Red alerts, the highest level on the scale, have been issued for upper Viskan and upper Eatran.
– It is difficult to know exactly when the flood situation will be over. There will be a delay from the time the flows decrease until the flood surfaces recede, says Disa Ekholm.
Read Aftonbladet’s report from the floods here.
Zelensky’s words after the helicopter crash
“The pain is indescribable,” writes the president in a first statement after the helicopter crash on Telegram.
The helicopter fell near a kindergarten outside Kyiv on Wednesday. At least 18 people have died, including 3 children.
Read more here.
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