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  • Forest fire north of Stockholm

    In Upplands Väsby there is a fire in a forest area.

    – Behind a school there is a fire in a forest area, we have just extinguished the flames in the fire but will remain and extinguish and soak the ground, says Tommy Wållberg, commanding officer of the rescue service.

    According to the fire service, the fire must have been a few hundred square meters in size.

    There should not have been any risk of spreading and no people were injured.

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  • Heat wave in Oslo

    It is officially a heat wave in Oslo, Aftenposten reports.

    During Saturday morning, it was 27 degrees in Oslo for the fifth day in a row, which defines a heat wave.

    – In the coming days it will continue to be just as hot, but with precipitation, says on-duty meteorologist Rafael Escobar Løvdahl at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute.

  • New rules: No Grammy for AI music

    Only music created by humans should be able to receive the Grammy music award, the award described as music’s equivalent of the film’s Oscar.

    This is according to new rules from The Recording Academy in the USA, which hands out the Grammy awards, TT reports with reference to Reuters.

    The rules have been developed due to the rapidly growing development of music created by artificial intelligence, AI. Songs without a human as author should not be able to be nominated, but in some categories music created to some extent by AI can still be accepted.

  • Elon Musk hires 14-year-old to work with satellites for SpaceX

    14-year-old Kairan Quazi has been given a somewhat unusual task for his age.

    He has been hired by Elon Musk to work with the satellite team at the Tesla billionaire’s company Space X, reports Daily Mail.

    The 14-year-old is described as very talented and despite his young age, he will soon graduate from Santa Clara University, where he is said to be the youngest student to graduate in the university’s history.

  • Accident on E4 – several people injured

    An accident has occurred on the E4 near Mjölby. The alarm to the police came at half past ten in the morning.

    According to the police, there should be children in the vehicles and several people should be injured.

    – The road is completely blocked in the southbound direction, says Marcus Anefur, press spokesperson at the police.

    Traffic was completely shut down but reopened at 11 a.m. according to the emergency services.

    Fifteen people were involved in the accident and five people had to be taken to hospital by ambulance.

    Two people, a child and a driver of one of the vehicles are said to be seriously injured. A dog has died in the accident.

    The Östra Götaland rescue service announces that four cars were involved in the accident.

    – There is a lot of rubbish on the road and a difficult traffic situation, says Lennart Ågren, officer on duty at the rescue service.

  • Threatened to get a ride with an EPA tractor

    A group of young people were threatened and a young person was forced to give two men a ride in his EPA tractor in Svenljunga, GP reports.

    The alarm came to the police at two o’clock on Friday night. According to the report, the men must have had a knife.

    – It seems that several of the young people manage to leave the scene, but one is forced to act as a driver and drive the men to a residential area. They must also have been aggressive inside the car, says police spokesperson Jens Andersson.

    An hour later, the two men were arrested in the residential area where they were dropped off. They are now suspected of gross illegal threats.

  • Grilling caused fire

    The emergency services received an alarm on Friday evening about a ground fire in Ösmo outside Nynäshamn.

    The fire turned out to have started in connection with a barbecue and a report of public dangerous negligence is drawn up.

    Right now there is a fire ban in Stockholm County. It is permitted to grill on your own plot, but it must be done in a fire-safe manner.

  • Suspected rapist arrested

    During Friday night, a man was arrested for a rape that allegedly took place in a restaurant toilet in Stockholm.

    The alarm came to the police at three in the morning, who met the victim at another address.

    The police also made contact with the restaurant owner, who let the police into the closed restaurant. The site was cordoned off and will now be examined by technicians.

  • At least 40 dead in attack on school

    Late on Friday evening, a school in Uganda was attacked. At least 40 people are said to have died, according to the BBC.

    The attack is said to have been carried out by the group of the Allied Democratic Forces, which has links to IS. A dormitory is said to have been burned down and the group is said to have stolen food. It is currently unclear how many of the dead are school children.

    The military is said to have chased after the perpetrators who fled towards Congo-Kinshasa.

  • Defense data leaked in ransomware attack in Australia

    The Australian law firm HWL Ebsworth was recently subjected to a so-called ransomeware attack in which sensitive information about the firm’s clients may have been leaked, writes LSJ Online.

    Now it is reported that defense information has been leaked, reports The Australian. It should be about information about secret missile tests, attack helicopters and police operations, according to the newspaper.

    The Russian hacker group Blackcat is said to have claimed responsibility for the attack, writes The Guardian.

  • The EU’s guidelines are seen by Huawei

    The EU Commission’s new guidelines, which aim to phase out the Chinese telecom manufacturer as a sub-supplier of advanced 5G equipment, are seen by the Chinese state, TT reports.

    “It is clear that this is not based on verified, transparent, objective and technical evaluation of 5G networks,” Huawei wrote in a statement on Saturday.

    Sweden has previously blocked Huawei from participating in expanding the 5G network in Sweden.

  • The EU Commissioner: Tunisia is not a safe third country

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    Ylva Johansson, EU Commissioner does not consider Tunisia to be a so-called “safe third country”, she says in Ekot’s Saturday interview.

    – Tunisia does not have a fully functioning asylum system, says Ylva Johansson.

    Migrants will not be able to be sent to Tunisia from the EU if they are not Tunisian citizens, says Ylva Johansson.

    The EU had hoped that Tunisia, as a third country, would be able to receive more migrants from Italy and ease the pressure from refugees on the Union.

  • North Korea re-plans defense strategy

    Kim Jong-Un Photo: AP

    A meeting has begun in North Korea to decide on the country’s diplomatic and defense strategy, state media reports according to Reuters.

    A strategy must be drawn up to “be able to handle the changed international situation”.

    Dictator Kim Jong-Un is present at the meeting, which is expected to last several days.

    On Thursday, the US and South Korea held joint military exercises, which North Korea says increases tensions.

  • New salaries for heads of authorities – they earn the best

    National Police Chief Anders Thornberg Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT

    National Police Chief Anders Thornberg is Sweden’s best-paid head of authority, with a salary of SEK 179,900 a month, according to a survey by Everything.

    The new executive salaries mean an increase of 1.8 percent on average compared to last year.

    Thornberg is closely followed by Försäkringskassan’s director general Nils Öberg, who earns 176,500 a month. Commander-in-Chief Micael Bydén has the third most with 173,500.

    The director of the student aid appeals board, Robbert Dalman, earns the least of the authority heads. He receives SEK 86,800 a month.

    The salary increase takes place retroactively from 1 October last year.

  • Peasants brutally murdered

    At least 11 farmers have been killed in an attack suspected to have been carried out by jihadists in northeastern Nigeria.

    This is reported by TT.

    According to authorities, the attack took place while the farmers were working in their fields ABC.

    – Some victims had been beheaded, says Abudulmumeen Bulama, who is part of a civilian group fighting the militias.

    Attacking farmers hits the whole area hard. According to United Nations Food Programme 4.4 million people are suffering from acute hunger in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states.

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