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The airline Wizz Air is canceling its flights to Chişinău, the capital of Moldova.

The reason is the increased tensions between Russia and Moldova, reports Sky News.

“Following the recent developments in Moldova and the heightened, but not immediate, risk in the country’s airspace, Wizz Air has taken the difficult but responsible decision to cancel all flights to Chişinău from March 14.

The Moldovan government has expressed concern about Russian attempts to destabilize the country.

Hong Kong scraps the mouth protection requirement that was introduced in connection with the outbreak of the coronavirus three years ago.

Hong Kong’s leader John Lee states at a press conference on Tuesday that the requirement will be abolished as of Wednesday both outdoors and indoors – also in public transport.

The announcement comes a day after the neighboring city of Macau eased the mask requirement.

For most of the pandemic, people in Hong Kong have had to wear face masks in public. Those who violated the requirement risked a fine of 5,000 Hong Kong dollars, equivalent to around SEK 6,650.

Hong Kong has largely followed China’s zero-covid strategy during the pandemic.

John Lee says the return to normalcy is beneficial to Hong Kong’s economic development and international competitiveness. (TT)

Canada announced on Monday that Tiktok is being banned from all work phones of government employees, as the app “poses an unacceptable risk to privacy and security”.

The app is to be deleted by Tuesday and the federal government is to block the ability to download it.

Tiktok, whose parent company is China’s Bytedance, has faced increased concern in the West in recent months. On Monday, the White House in the United States announced that employees have 30 days to delete the app. (TT)

A woman in her 40s was arrested on Monday on suspicion of aggravated rape of a child, reports P4 Jämtland.

In the same case, a man in his 40s has been detained since mid-January on suspicion of several serious sex crimes against several children that allegedly took place over a ten-year period.

As for the arrested woman, according to the prosecutor, it is a child who is suspected of having been subjected to abuse which is said to have taken place in a place in Västernorrland County. (TT)

The EU has extended sanctions against Belarus by one year, due to the country’s support for Russia’s war in Ukraine and continued repression of the opposition, the Union announced on Monday.

Since Belarusian leader Aleksandr Lukashenko, among other things, crushed protests against an election in 2020 that was rigged in Lukashenko’s favor, the EU has introduced sanctions in several rounds.

Lukashenko and over 190 others have been banned from entering the EU and their assets have been frozen. (TT)

A wolf weighing almost 60 kilos with a chest girth that is the largest measured so far in Sweden was shot in connection with protective hunting in Åre municipality a couple of weeks ago, reports Östersunds-Posten.

The wolf, which was shot during protective hunting from a helicopter after hitting reindeer in an area, is the heaviest that has been killed in Sweden in 46 years.

During the autopsy of the wolf, half a kilo of reindeer remains were found in the animal’s stomach. (TT)

Thousands of households north of Stockholm were without power this evening.

This applied to Solna, Sundbyberg and Jakobsberg, among others.

At 23.08, roughly 20,000 of Vattenfall’s customers were without power, and 2,000 of Eon’s customers.

Today the indexes on Wall Street turned back up after last week’s crash.

Just last week was the worst stock market week in New York since the beginning of December last year.

The Dow Jones rose 0.2 percent, the S&P 500 rose 0.3 percent and the Nasdaq composite index closed at 0.6 percent plus.

It was also up in Stockholm.

The index OMXS30 closed at plus 1.29 percent.

A 75-year-old man has today been charged at Uddevalla district court on suspicion of aggravated rape against a child, writes Bohusläningen.

The man allegedly performed sexual acts against the girl, who is ten years old, and caused her to perform sexual acts on him.

According to the lawsuit, the girl’s age and the fact that she has a disability mean that the crime should be considered serious.

– They have no close relationship, but I don’t want to go into how the plaintiff was there, says prosecutor Josefin Pernmyr about the fact that the girl was alone with the man.

The man is said to have photographed parts of the rape, but he is not suspected of child pornography offences.

He has admitted large parts of the course of events but denies any crime.

An American citizen has been killed in the unrest in the West Bank.

This is reported by AFP and refers to the US Foreign Ministry

“Unfortunately, I can confirm that an American citizen was killed in one of the terrorist attacks in the West Bank this evening. I pray for his family,” Ambassador Tom Nides writes on Twitter.

On Sunday, two Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank were shot dead in the town of Hawara. The shooting led to protests and attacks on Palestinian targets, and around 30 homes and vehicles were set on fire in the worst outbreak of violence in decades, TT writes.

Around 100 people were injured in the unrest, most of them from inhaling tear gas.

The EU Commission wants to tighten the requirements for driving an A-tractor.

On March 1, the commission is expected to propose that you must have a B driving license to be able to drive an A tractor from the age of 16.

This is what the responsible EU commissioner Andia Valean tells Ekot and TT.

– We propose that A tractors should be able to be driven with a B1 driving license and we will then lower the age limit to 16 years, says Andia Valean.

However, this does not mean that ordinary cars should be able to be driven by 16-year-olds – it only gives them the right to drive an A-tractor.

Today, only an AM driving license is required for an A tractor and the age limit for it is 15 years.