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Electricity back for six million Ukrainians
today at 01:19 Johan Edgar
Close to six million Ukrainians who were without power after Russian robot attacks got electricity back on Saturday. That’s what President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his daily speech.
According to Zelenskyy, 14 regions, in addition to the capital Kyiv, suffered power and water cuts as a result of widespread Russian robot attacks targeting infrastructure on Friday.
He also said that there is still a lot of work to be done before electricity is back everywhere. (TT)
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Police check of 14-year-old is taken up by HD
The Supreme Court (HD) will hear a case where a police officer was convicted of an unauthorized body search of a 14-year-old, reports SVT Nyheter Sörmland.
It was in March last year that a police officer carried out the body search in a town in Sörmland. Among other things, the boy was asked to take off his pants.
The fact that it happened without the prosecutor’s approval was judged to be incorrect and the police were convicted of misconduct in both the District Court and the Court of Appeal.
It is now clear that HD grants leave to appeal – and that the case will thus be heard in the highest instance.
The policeman was sentenced to a day’s fine for the crime. (TT)
Thefts at Stadsmissionen – employees are suspected
Several employees at the Stockholm City Mission are suspected of having stolen from the organization’s central warehouse, reports say SVT News Stockholm.
The thefts must have taken place systematically during the autumn.
– We have never experienced anything like this at Stadmissionen and it is deeply regrettable. This is a year when many private individuals and companies give us gifts, then some people choose to abuse the trust in this way, says Staffan Arvas who is deputy director.
It must be at least five people who stole a “significant amount”.
At the central warehouse, donated items are sorted before they are sent on to the 24 stores in Stockholm.
Car got stuck on the tracks – was hit by a train
At around 9:30 p.m., the police received an alert that a car had been hit by the train in Sävast in Boden.
According to SOS, the car was stuck between the barriers, but everyone was out of the car when the collision happened, write NSD.
– The car had skidded and got stuck on the railway crossing. In the collision, the car was pushed about 30 meters, says Hans Lindmark at the police command center to the newspaper.
There are no reports that anyone on the train was injured.
– There are people on the train. The coffee shop in the train is open, says NSD’s reporter on the spot.
Beautiful Finnish donkey found
On Saturday morning, the police in the Finnish Lojo had to move out to take care of a runaway donkey.
A passer-by had encountered the donkey near a grocery store.
“In Lojanatten we were met by a donkey, but not by three wise men,” the police write on Twitter.
The donkey turned out to be twelve-year-old Judit, who had run away from a Bible society.
– She was once chosen as the donkeys’ Miss Finland. It was probably ten years ago, says the Bible Society’s business manager to the newspaper Ilta-Sanomat.
The donkey had only managed a few kilometres. At the course yard, they hadn’t noticed that she was gone before the police came back with her.
Monster wave pulled in – three dead
A beach in Durban. Photo: Rick Bowmer/AP/TT
Three people have died and 17 have been seriously injured after a very strong wave washed over a popular beach in Durban, South Africa.
One of the dead is a school-aged child.
– It was a monster wave that washed some people out to sea, three have drowned and 17 people have been taken to hospital, says Robert Mckenzie, spokesperson for the local rescue service, according to TT.
He warns that the death toll could rise.
The danger of power outages may be over
The Oskarsharm 3 nuclear power reactor was restarted today. Photo: Adam Ihse/TT
Sweden’s largest nuclear power reactor, Oskarshamn 3, was restarted today at 4 p.m., after being taken out of service for maintenance.
The reactor was started a day earlier than planned.
– It means a lot. Production is now so much more stable, says nuclear expert Tomas Jelinek SvD.
This means that the risk of the electricity being turned off in the country may be over, he says.
– As it looks, yes. Only there will be no new crack.
Oskarshamn 3 accounts for around eight percent of Sweden’s electricity supply.
Famous actress arrested in Iran
Taraneh Alidoosti at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Photo: Daniel Cole/AP/TT
One of Iran’s most famous actors, Taraneh Alidoosti, has been arrested after supporting the anti-regime protests.
According to state media, Alidoosti was arrested a week after she posted on Instagram about the first official execution during the protests.
“All international organizations that see the blood being spilled without doing anything are a shame for humanity,” she wrote, among other things.
She is now accused of spreading false information.
Taraneh Alidoosti starred in Asgar Farhadi’s film “The salesman”, which was awarded an Oscar.
Villa burns – risk of spread
There is a fire in a one-story villa and a garage in Irsta in Västerås.
The alarm came in at 7 p.m. The rescue service is there with nine units from three stations.
The smoke has spread throughout the villa and the emergency services are focusing on trying to extinguish the fire from the outside.
– There is a certain risk of spreading to adjacent buildings.
Will the villa be able to be saved?
– It is unclear at the moment, but we are trying.
No one should be left in the house.
“Luke Skywalker” should sound the alarm in case of danger
In the future, the people of Ukraine will hear Luke Skywalker’s voice when there are air raid alarms.
Star Wars actor Mark Hamill has read warning messages into the English version of Ukraine’s flight alert app.
His voice will alert on five different types of threats: rocket attack, shelling, street fighting, radiation and chemical threat.
According to fundraising site U24, which President Zelenskyj is behind, Hamill added classic Star Wars quotes to the warning messages.
In October, the Ukrainian government appointed Hamill as an ambassador for a fundraising project called the “Drone Army.”
Kioskran – one for hospital
Around 16:30, a masked criminal tried to rob a kiosk in Helsingborg.
A 65-year-old man who worked in the kiosk was left with stab or cut injuries.
According to the police, he was awake when he was taken to hospital by ambulance. It is currently unclear how seriously injured he is.
The police have an operation on site and are hunting the perpetrator.
Update 22:00: The police have not yet arrested a suspect in the robbery.
The chimpanzees opened the windows themselves
Furuviksparken has this week shot dead or injured most of its chimpanzees. Photo: Fredrik Sandberg/TT & Furuviksparken/Parks and Resorts
The chimpanzees at Furuviksparken were on their way out through an open window when they were shot.
That’s what the park’s CEO Sandra Wilke says Swedens radio.
– There have been a lot of open windows from the building, and it is there when the animal has been on its way out that we have shot and then Santino and Manda have rolled in. Then they moved a little, so they moved on, but we haven’t been able to see in there, she says.
According to her, the chimpanzees opened the windows themselves, and a door.
Four chimpanzees were shot to death: Linda, Torsten, Santino and Manda.
The monkey Selma was also shot, but survived.
Wilke defends the decision to shoot the chimpanzees.
– When they come out into the park, it is a life-threatening danger for people. They don’t need many seconds to get out of the park.
Read more here about the chimpanzee drama at Furuviksparken.
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Stockholm journalists don’t know the difference between Helsingborg and Helsinki?
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How do they measure the increase in covid cases when the common man cannot take a test that is registered?
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Among other things, there has been a general increase in corona in the waste water.
Hello, you wrote yesterday that Donald Trump would release something huge today. Have you heard anything about it yet?
Tobias Ljungberg
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We haven’t heard anything new from Donald Trump yet, but we’re anxiously awaiting word from the former president! We will update as soon as we know anything more!
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