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Meta launches payment service

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Facebook and Instagram’s ownership company Meta will introduce a paid service for its users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a post on Facebook.

The service is a voluntary addition and is called Meta Verified. This means that users, after verifying their account, will receive a blue verification symbol on their account.

The cost will be $11.99 a month.

“This new feature is about strengthening the reliability and security of our platforms,” ​​writes Mark Zuckerberg.

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  • Missing girls found at friend’s house

    The police received an alarm at 2.50 pm that three little girls had disappeared in Linköping during the afternoon.

    A large search effort was launched with, among other things, drones and dog patrols.

    But by 5 p.m. the girls had been found.

    – They were at a friend’s house, says Torbjörn Lindqvist at the police command centre.

    The text is updated.

  • Body found in search for Nicola Bulley

    Mother-of-two Nicola Bulley, 45, disappeared without a trace after going for a walk with her dog on January 27.

    Now The Guardian reports that a body has been found in the search for Nicola Bulley but has not yet been identified. The body was found near the River Wyre where she had last been seen.

    At this time there is no cause of death, according to Lancashire Police.

    “Nicola’s family have been informed and our thoughts are with them at this difficult time,” Lancashire Police said.

    Nicola Bulley had joined a team meeting during the walk. Five minutes after the meeting ended, her dog and cellphone were found on a park bench.

    But there was no trace of Nicola.

  • Turkey ends relief efforts in earthquake-hit areas

    Turkey stops looking for survivors among the racial masses. Photo: Bernat Armangue/AP

    Almost two weeks after the catastrophic earthquake, Turkey has ended rescue efforts with the exception of the two worst-hit provinces, TT reports.

    – In many of our provinces, search and rescue efforts have ended. They continue in the provinces of Kahramanmaras and Hatay, said Yunus Sezer, head of the Turkish disaster agency.

    Over 44,000 people in Turkey and Syria have lost their lives in the natural disaster according to the official count. The real death toll is feared to be considerably higher.

  • Eleven people shot in Memphis

    One person has died and ten have been injured in a new mass shooting at a nightclub in Memphis, Tennessee, reports say Fox News.

    Shots have been fired at two different locations close to each other. The police suspect that the events are connected, they write in a statement on Twitter.

    The alarm about the shooting at the Live Lounge nightclub came at 00:43 local time.

    Two people with serious gunshot wounds were found at the scene and taken to hospital by ambulance. Another five people took themselves to hospital.

    While the police were on the scene at the nightclub, they received a call about more shooting victims nearby.

    There, one man was found dead, and three critically injured people.

    The perpetrator or perpetrators are still at large.

    It is unclear what had happened before the shots were fired.

  • Villa on fire at Orust – knocks out flames

    A villa in Orust is on fire, reports the GP.

    When the emergency services arrived at the scene, the villa was engulfed in flames.

    – It was a fully developed fire and flames shot out of a window when we got to the scene. The fire has spread to a car in the driveway, says Tero Paakki, interior commander at the rescue service.

    Emergency services, police and ambulance are on the scene.

    – Our focus is now to protect a nearby garage with quite a lot of stuff and gas cylinders.

    There is no information yet on whether anyone has been or is in the home, according to the emergency services.

  • Boy shot with air gun

    A boy has shot another boy with an air pistol in the area of ​​Hovsjö in Södertälje.

    The boy who was shot was hit in the leg and has been taken to hospital.

    The police have drawn up a report of assault and weapon crime and have informed Social Services.

  • The prime minister warns against admitting Finland to NATO before Sweden

    Ulf Kristersson. Photo: Lotte Fernvall

    Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson insists that Sweden and Finland should join NATO at the same time for strategic reasons, reports the Financial Times. He believes that cooperation with Finland would be complicated otherwise.

    – The very close military cooperation between Sweden and Finland before we became NATO members would become very complicated if we were to be separated as members, he tells the newspaper.

    Sweden and Finland are important for security, he adds.

    – We have capacity in our part of the world that all NATO countries will benefit from, including Turkey, he says.

  • More people want to pause the amortization

    More people are applying to pause amortization due to an increasingly tough financial situation, reports SVT News. But in order to be granted temporary amortization freedom, it is required that the household can demonstrate a greatly reduced income.

    – During the autumn and winter we have seen an increase in the number of applications for amortization freedom. But it is from low levels, and the number of applications is also very limited if you look at our total number of mortgage customers, says Niklas Magnusson, press manager at SEB, to SVT.

  • 30-year-old woman missing in Lund

    A 30-year-old woman has disappeared from a residence in Lund, the police report. The woman is said to have been last seen at 08.10 on Sunday.

    The woman was wearing a pink dressing gown and slippers at the time. The police write that it is important that the woman can be found as soon as possible in view of her health status.

  • Young man arrested on suspicion of murder

    A young man has been arrested after a man was found dead in a residence in Borås on Sunday morning, GP writes.

    He is suspected of murder or manslaughter.

    Read more about the event here

  • SMHI: High risk of grass fires

    It is expected to be both sunny and dry in large parts of the southern part of the country during Sunday afternoon.

    Because of this now warns SMHI because there is a large – and locally very large – risk of grass fires starting and spreading in dry last year’s grass.

    Anyone who fires outdoors is asked to be very careful.

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  • What has happened since the last update about the murder of Tove in Småland? Have they been convicted?

    Elisabeth Karlsson

    Hello! What will happen next is that the prosecutor will bring charges against the suspected women.

    It is a little unclear when that will happen. On January 25, prosecutor Adam Rullman told TT that it is doubtful that it will happen within a month.

  • Build emergency stocks with Finland? How can we trust the Finns to keep that agreement then? No thanks!

    Joakim Johansson

    Hi Joakim! Do you think about the fact that they are considering joining NATO despite Sweden’s application being bogged down? After all, they are considered to be very good at emergency storage compared to us, so it could probably still benefit Sweden with a collaboration.

  • We have been on a trip to Poland and have stocked up on cheap food and drink! Cheese, cold cuts, bread, beer, etc. are a third of the price in Sweden! Including travel and an overnight stay, what we bought is clearly cheaper than in Sweden. Will be booking a new trip in a few months and then the neighbors will join too. There is a lot of money to be made, so give it a try!

    Catherine

    Hi Katarina! It sounds incredible that you can travel so far and still make a profit from it!

  • Are Sweden’s aid efforts in Turkey noted by the Turkish government? And that Sweden’s biggest entertainment program collects money for the second week in a row?

    Catherine

    Hi Katerina! I think they have a very good grasp of what Sweden is doing and what is happening here. How it affects our relationship with Turkey or our NATO application is impossible to answer, but the relationship will hardly get any worse in any case. And above all, our money helps all the people affected by the earthquake disaster.

  • Hello! I wonder how Sweden’s government views the matter if Finland joins NATO itself, without Sweden. Personally, I think that Finland should join as soon as possible regardless of how Sweden is doing, mainly because Finland is much worse on the map than we are.

    Jorgen

    We have been looking for Prime Minister Kristersson and Foreign Minister Billström all evening to get an answer to that.

    They have chosen not to return.

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