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Sweden Democrats party leader Jimmie Åkesson believes that the government is balancing on a tightrope in relation to Turkey, reports DN.

Both Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and Foreign Minister Tobias Billström quickly distanced themselves from last week’s action with an Erdogan doll hanging from a pole.

Åkesson believes that Sweden must not go too far when it comes to adapting to what Turkey thinks. He also says that Turkey has probably already passed the limit of what they can demand from Sweden.

– It is ultimately an anti-democratic system and a dictator we are dealing with. You have to have that in mind, says Jimmie Åkesson, to the newspaper.

He also says that he has strong views on Erdogan being called the “elected president”.

– I am party leader of the anti-Islamist party SD and have strong views on an Islamist dictator like Erdogan. He is elected, yes. But so is Putin in that sense.

Wagner defector Andrej Medvedev fled to Norway during the night of Friday.

He has previously claimed to have video footage showing executions of deserters in Ukraine.

– He has brought a lot of USB sticks, says Medvedev’s lawyer Brynjulf ​​Risnes VG.

The memory sticks are now being analyzed.

Ihor Klymenko is appointed Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs and Head of the National Police of Ukraine, Ukrainian authorities announce.

The announcement comes after Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyj, Deputy Interior Minister Yevgeny Yenin and State Secretary Yuriy Lubkovich died in a helicopter crash on Wednesday.

Ihor Klymenko was also the one to announce that the ministers had died.

Earlier today, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmygal appointed a special investigation group to investigate the circumstances surrounding the accident.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 has occurred in northwestern Iran, according to the news agency Reuters.

The earthquake occurred near the town of Khoy in West Azarbaijan.

So far, there are no reports that people have been injured.

On Tuesday, the streaming service Spotify sent a letter addressed to the European Commission demanding regulatory measures against the tech company Apple.

Spotify writes that Apple is abusing its dominant market position. Which inhibits healthy competition and hurts consumers as well as developers.

“For years, Apple has imposed unfair restrictions on our business,” the letter states.

Aftonbladet has previously reported that the Center Party’s intended new leader, Muharrem Demirok, will terminate his citizenship in Turkey.

Now he comments on it in Swedens radio.

– I do not want this to be perceived as any difficulties in my continued work. I also don’t want the issue of dual citizenship to obscure the view of what I myself want to do politically, he says to Ekot.

The decision is his own, he continues.

– I have not had any discussions with anyone other than myself about this.

In the past 10 years, the bacterium xylella fastidiosa has killed tens of millions of olive trees in Puglia in southern Italy, the BBC reports.

The bacterium has left large landscapes with emaciated and gray tree trunks. The bacterium is difficult to detect and is spread via insects and blocks the channels that bring water from the roots to the leaves – suffocating the trees to death.

Now Italian authorities have specially trained dogs, which have learned to sniff out the bacteria. The dogs are expected to prevent the spread of xylella fastidiosa and save millions of olive trees.

An accident has occurred in the northbound direction on the E4 at the height of Rotsunda outside Stockholm.

At least two vehicles must be involved.

The people who were traveling in one car are said to have left the scene and ran away.

– We are on site and trying to find them, says Daniel Wikdahl, press spokesperson for the Stockholm police.

One person has been injured in the accident.

– There is a complete standstill in the northbound direction. It is unclear how far the line extends. There is also queuing in the southbound direction, says Daniel Wikdahl.

Update 13.52: The traffic has slowly begun to be allowed back on. The people who fled the scene have not yet been found.

A Russian soldier who is suspected of refusing to fight has been killed, reports TT and refers to Russian media.

According to information, the man was previously stationed as a soldier in Ukraine, but was wanted when he left his base on January 13 with rifles and grenades.

The man, who is 21 years old, has now been found and killed, writes the government of the Lipetsk region in western Russia in social media.

“The situation is under control,” writes the board.

Nurses in the UK have gone on strike again. This time the strike will last for two days, TT reports.

The nurses demand higher wages and better working conditions. At the same time, they accuse the government of negotiating in a frivolous way.

– We are going on strike with a heavy heart but a clear mind about what we want to achieve, says London nurse Anna Swift to Sky News.

276 pigs have died in Indre Salten in Nordland, writes TT.

“On December 23 around 4:40 p.m., the police received a call that several pigs had died in a barn in Indre Salten in Nordland. There had been a water leak in the barn which led to several pigs having to be slaughtered,” the police write in a press release.

The police suspect that the two people who run the farm, a man and a woman, have not had sufficient supervision of the animals in connection with the water leak.

Both are suspected of violating the Animal Welfare Act, for intentionally or grossly negligently leaving animals in a helpless state.