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Investigators: Torture centers were planned by the Russian state
The torture centers established in Kherson during the Russian occupation were planned and financed by the Russian state.
This is according to a team of Ukrainian and international lawyers who investigated 20 centers in the city. According to them, they were part of “a calculated plan to terrorize, subjugate and eliminate the Ukrainian resistance and destroy the Ukrainian identity”. reports The Guardian.
In the torture chambers, the prisoners were, among other things, beaten and exposed to electric shocks.
According to them, they were operated by the Russian security service FSB.
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Sweden donates pontoons and boats to Ukraine
A load of four boats and 14 sections of temporary bridges, so-called pontoons, has been delivered to Ukraine from Sweden, the Ukrainian Ministry of Infrastructure announces.
The ministry states that they will be used in the work to ensure transport to liberated areas in the country.
In addition to Sweden, France, Norway and the Czech Republic have also sent temporary bridges.
Pope scraps free apartments for cardinals
Pope Francis. Photo: Andrew Medichini/AP
Catholic cardinals will no longer be allowed to live for free in Vatican City-owned apartments following a rule change ordered by Pope Francis.
This is reported by TT, which refers to Vatican News.
According to the Pope, the current economic climate means that “sacrifices” are required.
Existing leases must be kept but then the rent must be as high as for those who have no connection to the Vatican.
The Vatican has properties in Rome, Paris, London and Geneva, among others.
Fire in Åhus – residents are asked to stay inside
Emergency services and police were called to Åhus in connection with a fire in a villa
The alarm came at 04:04.
The building is completely engulfed in flames and toxic smoke is blowing south-east over the Äspen area.
A VMA, important notice to the public, has been issued to those concerned.
Residents are asked to stay inside, close windows and doors and turn off ventilation if possible.
The emergency services will let the building burn down and work to prevent the spread of the fire.
Read more here.
Three arrested after shooting in Linköping
Three people have been arrested after the shooting in Hejdegården in Linköping last night.
The arrested are two men and a woman born in the mid-2000s and they are suspected of serious weapons offenses and attempted murder.
– Based on what we have come to, we judge that some form of confrontation has taken place and then it has been someone who has shot but not hit, says Schånberg, officer on duty at police region East to Aftonbladet.
According to the police, no one has been injured, but there is a plaintiff.
– There may be more arrests and that we have more plaintiffs with whom we have not been contacted, says Schånberg.
The police would like to get in touch with people who observed the incident.
– We have many witness statements, but if it is the case that things have been seen and heard, we are keen to get in touch with them, says Schånberg.
SD: Learn Swedish or risk dismissal
The government is to investigate a language requirement in care for the elderly.
SD wants staff who fail a language test to risk dismissal, writes TT.
– According to our approach, you are simply not employable, says SD spokeswoman Linda Lindberg.
Her input is that language requirements should apply both to new hires and to a certain extent for already employed.
According to the Tidö Agreement, the Ministry of Social Affairs must investigate and produce proposals for how language requirements in elderly care can be implemented, what efforts can help staff meet the requirement and possible proposals for legislative changes.
Strikes after deadly train crash
The train collision killed more than 40 people.
Now the Greek Union of Railway Employees (POS) has announced a 24-hour strike on Thursday.
One is protesting, among other things, that the railway network has been neglected by several successive governments, reports the Greek newspaper Kathimerini.
“Unfortunately, our long-standing demands for staff employment, better training and, above all, the use of modern security systems always end up in the trash,” writes the union POS in a statement.
Eight railway workers died in the accident, among them four drivers of the two trains that collided.
It was shortly before midnight between Tuesday and Wednesday that a passenger train that had just driven through a tunnel collided head-on – on the same rail – with a freight train near the city of Larissa in northern Greece.
The cause of the accident is still unknown. But a number of people have been arrested, including one Stins. (TT)
Tried to take explosive material on board aircraft
A 40-year-old man has been arrested in Pennsylvania after trying to smuggle explosives on board a flight to Orlando, AP states.
Marc Muffley checked in his bag at the Lehigh Valley International Airport on Monday.
When the bag was scanned, a container was discovered tucked into the inner fabric of the bag.
The container contained a mixture of black powder and flash light powder of the same type used in fireworks.
A container with butane gas and a wick were also found.
According to the FBI, the mixture could have caught fire from friction or heat and would have posed a significant risk to passengers if the bag had been taken on board.
Muffley is arrested on suspicion of trying to take explosive material on board an airplane.
Kennedy’s killers are denied release
Sirhan Sirhan, serving a life sentence for the 1968 assassination of US senator and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, is being denied parole after more than 50 years in prison.
The parole board believes that the Palestinian-Jordanian 78-year-old still lacks insight into what prompted him to shoot Kennedy.
Sirhan has tried in vain to be released 16 times. Two years ago, another board said yes. The decision was then rejected by California’s governor. (TT)
Suspicious object – the bomb shelter in place
The police went out to an apartment building in Trelleborg this evening after an alarm about a suspected dangerous object.
The National Bomb Squad and forensics are working at the scene.
The police assess that the object does not pose any danger to the residents and the surrounding area. No one has had to be evacuated.
Car in road barrier – two to hospital
At 10:30 p.m., SOS was alerted to a single vehicle accident on road 27 in Härryda.
A car had driven into the guardrail, writes GP.
Two people have been taken to hospital by ambulance. The extent of the injury is currently unclear.
One lane in the direction of Borås had to be closed, but barely an hour later the road was fully passable again.
Suspected shooting in Linköping
The police were called this evening to Hejdegården in Linköping due to a suspicious shooting.
There are currently no known injuries.
A suspected crime scene must have been cordoned off and a preliminary investigation into attempted murder and serious weapons crime has been launched.
This is what the police in the eastern region write on their website.
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