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In connection with a house search in an apartment in Helsingborg, a suspected dangerous object was found, the police write on their website.

The property has been cordoned off and the National Bomb Squad is in place to deal with it.

The US central bank, the Federal Reserve, raises the key interest rate by 25 basis points.

The announcement comes after a two-day meeting where the board of the central bank tried to find the balance between reducing inflation and preventing more banks from collapsing.

Ahead of today’s decision, most experts agreed that the bank would settle for a 0.25 percentage point increase, or perhaps not raise at all despite high inflation. This after the recent financial unrest where several large banks, including Silicon Valley Bank, collapsed or had major financial problems.

Britain’s Prince William, 40, appeared at a military base in Poland on Wednesday, reports say Sky News.

The visit, which was organized in the utmost secrecy, came about as the prince wanted to personally thank the Polish and British forces supporting Ukraine.

The base is located approximately 9.6 miles from the border with Ukraine, which means that Prince William is now the royal closest to the war in Ukraine, Sky News writes.

The prince met, among other things, the Polish Minister of Defense, and will meet President Andrzej Duda on Thursday.

The Hungarian parliament is expected to vote on Finland’s membership in NATO on Monday.

Foreign Minister Tobias Billström (M) has not received any explanation as to why Hungary seems to be moving towards sharing Sweden’s and Finland’s NATO applications, writes TT.

– If it were to become a reality, I think an explanation is required from the Hungarian side, he says.

He emphasizes that a parliamentary delegation from the governing party Fidesz was in Stockholm on March 7. At that time, no objections were raised against Sweden.

– They explained that they welcomed Sweden into NATO and see all the strengths and capabilities we will bring with us into NATO and that they assumed that they would vote for Swedish membership, says Billström, to TT.

Lidl is lowering the price of over a hundred items, the company writes in a press release.

The new prices are on average 11 percent lower than before. Some items will be marked down as much as 32 percent, according to the company.

– Since we came to Sweden 20 years ago, we have had as our mission to offer the highest quality at the best price in the industry. With our business model where we always push prices, we as an actor in the grocery industry have a great responsibility. We will continue to offer strong campaigns, but we have now, in close cooperation with our suppliers, agreed to set new lower prices on over a hundred items in all our stores in Sweden, says Jakob Josefsson, Lidl Sweden manager.

Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson hails the announcement:

“Very good that Lidl is taking the lead by lowering and freezing its prices on over a hundred items. I hope that the big food giants follow their example and in this way make everyday life easier for all the households that are now struggling with high prices,” she writes on Twitter.

The jury investigating ex-president Donald Trump’s role in the “hush money case” will not meet today, despite that being the plan, the New York Times reports.

It is still unclear why.

Trump is at risk of impeachment after suspicions that he paid “hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels.

In the days Trump himself went out and claimed that he would be arrested on Tuesday, something that did not happen.

To indict the president, a majority of the 23 members sitting on the jury must vote in favor.

Sweden’s Riksdag votes yes to join the NATO defense alliance.

The historic decision comes after the Riksdag today debated the NATO legislation.

Since the Social Democrats changed their line in May 2022 on NATO membership, a broad majority in the Riksdag has wanted to join the alliance.

Today, the actual decision was thus made after voting in the Riksdag with the result 269 yes and 37 no.

However, for Sweden to become a member of NATO, Turkey and Hungary must ratify Sweden’s application.

Read more here.

Influencer Andrew Tate remains in custody on suspicion of human trafficking and rape for another month, reports BBC.

The detention is also extended for his brother Tristan.

The brothers are also suspected of having tried to form an organized criminal group.

Both have been in custody in Romania since December. They deny the criminal charges.

There is a fire at Renewcell in Sundsvall.

The emergency services have several units on site and there has been a heavy fire in several larger premises.

– We are currently working to prevent the fire from spreading, says Johan Keijser, internal commander at the rescue service.

No one should have been injured.

The emergency services estimate that they will remain and work for a few more hours.

– We now have a time forecast of three hours, but it is uncertain, says Johan Keijser.

The Social Democrats want to launch “people’s home”. It would be possible by the state buying in a “very large share” of the electricity that Swedish households are expected to use and then auctioning it out on long contracts.

According to the Social Democrats, this would lead to a lower and more stable price, around 40 öre per kilowatt hour.

– Our proposal for Folkhemsel means an electricity market that is on the side of ordinary people. Where Swedish households receive a low and stable electricity price for a large part of their basic consumption of electricity. Such contracts already exist for large electricity customers and now we want to ensure that ordinary people get the same opportunities. We expect the government to quickly take our proposal forward, Magdalena Andersson, party leader of the Social Democrats in a press release.