Our reporting on three current topics right now:
arrow The networks: Unique database on Stockholm’s gang criminals
arrow The economic crisis
arrow The war in Ukraine
Police weather advisory: Work from home
Park the car and work from home if possible. The police in Östergötland and Jönköping are advising the residents ahead of today’s expected snow storm.
– If you have the opportunity to work at home, it is recommended, says police spokesperson Angelica Israelsson Silfver to P4 Östergötland.
SMHI has issued both yellow and orange warnings for Östergötland, Västergötland, Dalsland and northern Småland. Between 10 and 30 centimeters of snow is expected to fall until Thursday morning.
Read more about the weather warning here.
Latest news
More police officers are sent to Stockholm after the wave of violence
Several regions are sending police officers to Stockholm to help with the violent spiral that flared up in the capital during the Christmas and New Year holidays, writes SvD.
Among other things, police officers from the Bergslagen and Väst regions help with the investigations. According to Erik Nord, head of the investigative unit at the Gothenburg police, between ten and a hundred police officers have been sent to Stockholm.
Others help remotely.
– When some of the rest of us are in a slightly better position, we get to help. What is a bit distinctive is that it has been like this for a long time in Stockholm, he tells the newspaper.
Truck on fire in roundabout
Police, rescue services and ambulance are alerted to highway 13 in the Ängelholm area just after six o’clock in the morning.
According to the alarm, there is a fire in a lorry stopped at a roundabout.
There are no reports of injured persons.
Several injured in explosions in Somalia
Several people are said to have been injured in explosions in Somalia early in the morning, according to the site Somalimemo.
During the morning there were reports of explosions against two military bases in the Somali region of Hiran.
The militant Islamist group Al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Al-Shabab is not classified as a terrorist organization by the EU, the UN and most countries. However, Great Britain, Canada and Australia, a number of security services and the Gothenburg District Court do so.
Regions pay millions for late bills
The country’s regions are late in paying their bills – and it costs money.
Every month they pay over a million kroner in late fees, shows a survey made by SR Ekot.
Since 2018, the regions have paid 60 million for invoices that were not paid on time.
Stockholm, Västra Götaland and Skåne pay the most, accounting for half of the sum. But compared to population, it is Uppsala, Örebro and Sörmland that pay the most.
Threatens Kim to leave the agreement
In 2018, North and South Korea signed a joint military agreement with the intention of reducing tensions between the countries.
Now South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol states that the country is considering leaving the agreement if North Korea violates their airspace once more.
This was reported by the South Korean news agency Yonhap during the night.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has conducted a large number of robot tests recently.
Subway shooter admits to terrorist crime
Frank James, 63, caused panic on the New York subway when he lit smoke bombs and shot wildly around in a carriage during rush hour last April.
Ten people were injured in the shooting, but no one died.
Another 13 people were injured in the commotion after the attack in the subway.
Now James pleads guilty to terror and weapons offences. However, he believes that he did not intend for anyone to die.
Prosecutor Sara Winik dismissed the 63-year-old’s statement on Tuesday and stated in court that the evidence indicates that James targeted his victims with that very intention.
He faces life in prison.
Apollo 7 astronaut dead
American astronaut Walter Cunningham was the last survivor of the Apollo 7 flight, which was the first successful manned space flight of the Apollo program.
Cunningham was 90 years old, writes the American space agency Nasa, which confirms his passing in a statement.
The eleven-day space flight in 1968, in orbit around the Earth, was the first to be broadcast live on television and it paved the way for the moon landing less than a year later. (TT)
Man stabbed – woman arrested
Police and an ambulance rushed to the Western harbor in Malmö at 10 p.m., following an alarm that a 35-year-old man had suffered stab or cut injuries.
– The man was observed and found injured outside, but we are working after the crime is said to have been committed in a residence, says Rickard Lundqvist, press spokesperson at the police command center, to South Sweden.
A woman in her 30s has been arrested, suspected of attempted serious assault.
It should not be a danger to the man’s life.
McCarthy lost for the third time
Republican Kevin McCarth. Photo: Alex Brandon/AP
Republican Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy appeared at 11 p.m. to lose a third vote to win the post of speaker.
After further defections among his party mates, this time 20 Republican members voted against him.
Opponents have chosen to cast their vote for Jim Jordan instead.
Conservative party members are now warning that McCarthy could continue to lose support as the polls continue.
The candidate of the largest party has not lost a vote for the post of Speaker in a hundred years.
Flat-smoked ham recalled – may contain listeria
The company Nordchark is recalling Flat Smoked Ham. This is what the Swedish Food Agency writes in a press release.
The ham may contain listeria.
The affected packages refer to those with a package date of 27-30 December 2022.
Nordchark urges consumers to return the product where it was purchased or speak to Nordchark directly.
Suspected killer extradited to Idaho
Criminology student Bryan Kohberger, 28, who is suspected in the Nov. 13 murders of four youths in the town of Moscow, Idaho, is not contesting extradition to the state.
He stated this when he was brought before a court in Pennsylvania on Tuesday. He was arrested the day before New Year’s Eve at his parents’ home in Pennsylvania.
According to defense attorney Jason LaBar, the 28-year-old is “shocked” to be suspected of the murders.
Show more posts
Ask us
check Ask your questions to the editors here!
What happened to the hunter who was beaten by an activist in the morning?
Henrik
Hi Henrik,
The person who tried to run over the hunters in Nora municipality is suspected of attempted serious assault and we are working to follow up the news further. According to P4 Örebro, no one was injured.
How is the Vietnamese boy in the hole doing?
Fredrik Håkansson
Hello Fredrik!
Unfortunately, he still seems to be stuck in the hole and the hope of saving him is slim. We will update here in the notice column if anything new happens.
Here you can read yesterday’s article about ten-year-old Nam.
“one of the released a suspected rapper.”
Is it a crime to be a rapper or do you mean that he is suspected of rapping?
Dr. Alban
Consumption is obviously reduced when people can’t afford it. I haven’t eaten a vegetable, fruit or red meat in 4 months. Stopped going to the dentist and getting a haircut. Becoming noticeable in many industries!
Julia
Hello Julia,
That sounds tough. You are certainly not alone in having a hard time right now.
In the article about covid it says in the fact box:
that covid is still “notifiable, which means that confirmed cases must still be reported by the healthcare system to the regional infectious disease doctor and the Public Health Authority.”
I don’t think people know this, during December at least 25 of my acquaintances have been diagnosed with covid but no one has reported this anywhere. Can you figure out what to do when home covid tests are positive?
Susie
Hi Suzie,
It is the care that must report positive tests for those who are cared for there, as an individual you are not obliged to report your results.
Show more posts
tip us
check Do you know more? Do you have a news tip?
check About Tip!
At Aftonbladet, we are constantly looking for new angles. And as a reader, you are an important part of our news work. With our service Tip! you can easily submit tips, pictures and videos. In our apps, we can also reach you with local push notifications and wanted notices.
check What happens to my tip?
We read all tips that are sent. If we judge your tip to be interesting, we will contact you via the contact channels you provided. When you send your picture or film to Aftonbladet, you also give your permission for publication.
check How is my data protected?
Aftonbladet guarantees all tipsters source protection, a constitutionally protected right according to the Freedom of the Press Ordinance. All tips are sent encrypted. Your identity is protected with us, but the editors may contact you for further information about your tip.
If you want to remain anonymous to the editors as well, there are several other ways to contact us: you can call from a hidden number or email us from a temporary email address, e.g. hotmail or gmail.
check Will I receive compensation?
Aftonbladet always pays for published news tips and news images/films that you own or have the right to sell. We only pay to the first person with the tip or to the person who has new information about a news story.
The decision on whether compensation should be paid is determined by the acting news director in connection with the tip being submitted. We do not replace news tips retroactively.
The size of the compensation depends, among other things, on the dignity or how unique the news is and what it adds to the reporting.
When we request images of a more general nature, e.g. summer images, which are not part of a news report, no compensation is paid.
When you send your picture to Aftonbladet, you also give your permission for publication/publications.
check I was promised compensation. When will I receive the money?
Fees for published news tips, pictures or videos are paid out as salary as soon as possible.
check Our apps
Thanks to the location service geolocation, in our apps you can receive push notifications with local news about events right where you are.
When a major news event occurs near you, a push notification is sent to you when you use Tipsa!
At the same time, we can call for your help in news reporting. With your own pictures and information – from where it happens, when it happens.
Aftonbladet’s apps can be found in App store and Google Play.
check Good to think about