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The pollen season has already started, writes the National Museum of Natural History on its website.

– Birch pollen doesn’t start until April. But if you are allergic to birch, you can also react to alder, says Didrik Vanhoenacker, on-call biologist at the National Museum of Natural History in Stockholm, to TT.

Low levels of alder and hazel pollen have been measured all the way up to Gävle.

Normally, the pollen season starts in March, but the mild winter has led to it starting unusually early this year.

One person has been poisoned by the substance ricin in Gloppen in Norway.

The incident took place on Saturday morning.

“The person’s apartment is cordoned off and will be handled further with the help of the police’s National preparedness resources,” the police write, according to VG.

According to the police, ricin is “very potent and toxic when manufactured properly.”

The person has been taken to hospital.

Russia may have run out of kamikaze drones, writes the British intelligence service in its latest report.

Russia has so far used drones made in Iran, but since February 15 they have not been seen – suggesting that the stockpile may have run out.

However, the British predict that Russia will try to get new supplies.

At the end of March, trade unions and employers will have decided on the first wage agreements in industry that govern wage increases in the entire labor market. But the representatives of the parties now state for Echo that they find it difficult to agree.

– Fairly tough and extensive negotiations are underway at various unions. The situation is, like this a month before, worrisome, says Mattias Dahl, vice president of Swedish business.

LO’s agreement secretary Torbjörn Johansson also expresses concern about the negotiations.

– It is a very difficult situation. I want to state with the utmost certainty that it is the most difficult negotiation since the post-war period, says Johansson and points out that the members’ demands are high.

The union demands 4.4 percent wage increases in one-year contracts, while the employers’ counteroffer is 2 percent plus a one-off payment of SEK 3,000.

Two people have been taken to hospital by ambulance and ambulance helicopter after a collision between two cars on county road 274 in Vaxholm municipality.

There is no information about the injuries of the people other than that both were awake when they were taken away, the police write on their website.

The road is closed because the cars have to be recovered. According to the Swedish Transport Agency’s forecast, the road should open at 10.15am.

The Torkham border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan will be reopened today after the border was closed by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, TT reports.

On Monday, there were reports of a shooting between turf guards at Torkham. A Pakistani soldier was reportedly injured, which led to the two countries holding talks on reopening the border.

The border crossing has been closed since Sunday, which has led to people being stranded. Before the Taliban decided to close the border, they accused Pakistan of violating an agreement between the two countries to allow sick Afghans to freely enter Pakistan for medical care.

The police received an alarm on Saturday morning about a robbery in progress in a shop in Säter.

Two people allegedly entered the store and threatened the staff with a weapon-like object. Then the suspected perpetrators fled the scene by car.

– They have robbed some kind of grocery store. They have a lot of goods with them, but I can’t estimate the value, says Lars Hedelin at the police.

Several police units chased the suspected robbers and were soon after able to arrest them.

Three masked men allegedly attacked a man in his 20s shortly before 10 p.m. on Saturday and forced the man to withdraw money at a bank machine in Linköping.

The masked men allegedly threatened the 20-year-old with a weapon-like object and then fled the scene, the police write on their website.

The police are now looking for the men and have carried out door knocking in the area. They have also taken advantage of surveillance cameras, but no one has been arrested after the incident. The men are suspected of aggravated robbery and assault in court.

Labeled as a terrorist, the PKK encourages and recruits for terrorism and conducts terrorist financing from Sweden, according to Säpo.

Säpo, on the other hand, does not consider that the PKK constitutes a direct attack threat against Sweden.

– On the other hand, we see that they conduct a supporting activity which can be solicitation, recruitment and terrorist financing to support terrorist activities, in another country or Sweden, says Susanna Trehörning, deputy head of counter-terrorism at Säpo, to TT.

According to her, it is about significant terrorist financing.

She does not want to answer how many sympathizers the PKK has in Sweden.

Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko will visit China between February 28 and March 2, Reuters reports with reference to the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The visit follows an invitation from Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The same statement also states that they will continue to support Belarus’ efforts to resist the influence of external forces.

The police have been called to Kungstorget in Gothenburg due to a fight in which 15 to 30 people were involved.

– It was a football-related fight. It was very noisy on the spot and at the moment it is quite unclear what has happened, says Mile Hristovski, officer on duty at the police in the West, during the night, to GP.

When the police arrived, the rowdy crowd quickly dispersed.

No injuries have been reported.