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Pressure is mounting on Germany to approve tanks for Ukraine
today at 13.03 Annica Ögren
Today French President Macron and German Chancellor Scholtz meet for a meeting in Paris.
There are hopes that Marcon will put pressure on Scholtz to open up German Leopard tanks to Ukraine.
Before the meeting, Poland has also demanded that Germany quickly approve the export of the tanks to Ukraine, TT writes.
– Innocent people are killed every day, says Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
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List of targets spread: “First come first served”
The recent acts of violence in Stockholm are mainly linked to a conflict over drug markets, between the “Kurdish fox” and a 24-year-old gang leader.
Many attacks have been directed at people with connections to these two gang members.
Now the police suspect that there is a list of targets that the Kurdish fox wants to see attacked, according to information to SVT News. It is referred to as “a kind of first-come, first-served system”.
– If there is a list, we cannot comment on that, but of course the police are working to find motives in order to rule out and prevent further crimes, says Stockholm police spokesperson Rebecca Landberg to SVT Nyheter.
Aftonbladet has previously reported that the police are monitoring a number of central addresses in Stockholm, where acts of violence are feared.
One death in a fire in Älmhult
There is a fire in a residential barracks in Älmhult.
The alarm came in at 08:21 and the emergency services, police and ambulance were called to the scene.
– It was a passer-by who saw that it was on fire and raised the alarm, says the rescue service’s command operator.
At 10:40 a.m., the emergency services state that the fire is out and that post-extinguishing work is underway.
One person is said to have been in the building during the fire.
– The person is deceased, says Evelina Olsson, at the police command centre.
The police are waiting for the extinguishing work before making a decision on whether to open a preliminary investigation.
Man dies after scooter accident
Two people ended up in the water when the scooter they were traveling on went through the ice outside Matfors, west of Sundsvall, last night.
At 09:00 today, the police announced that one of the people, a man in his 60s, had died.
It was a passerby who raised the alarm about the accident, and who himself managed to pull the one person out of the water, writes TT.
When the emergency services arrived at the scene, they also picked up the other person.
Both people were taken by ambulance to hospital, where the other person is still being treated.
Relatives have been notified.
Building collapsed – ten dead
Excavators and rescue workers in the race masses. Photo: AP
A five-story building collapsed in Aleppo, Syria during the morning. At least ten people are said to have died.
Right now, a major rescue operation is underway at the site.
Alert about mass shooting in Los Angeles
Several people are said to have been killed in connection with a shooting in Los Angeles in the United States, reports BNO News. The shooting is said to have taken place in the city of Monterey Park, east of Los Angeles, shortly after 10.30pm on Saturday, local time.
According to initial information, around twelve people have been shot and some of them are said to have died as a result of the injuries.
The violence occurred at a time when many residents are celebrating Chinese New Year, in an area with many Asian businesses. Los Angeles Daily News writes that thousands of people must have been in the area.
The witnesses must have initially believed that the bangs that were heard were fireworks, BNO News writes.
E-type has had a baby
E-type and Melinda Jacobs have had a child, the couple writes on Instagram.
In a joint post on their Instagram accounts, they have published a picture of their daughter.
There they write that she will be named Izadora Elisabeth Esmeralda.
She was born two days ago, according to the post.
The congratulations are pouring in.
Man killed in fire
A man died in an apartment fire on Saturday evening in Karlskrona, the police write on their website.
Emergency services and police were called to an apartment building during Saturday evening in connection with the development of smoke.
The man is 65 years old. The man’s next of kin have been notified.
The apartment is cordoned off and a technical examination must be carried out.
Suspect of old murder has been released
A man in his 40s suspected of an old murder has been released from custody, writes TT with reference to VLT.
The man was detained on suspicion of a knife murder that took place in 2008 in Hallstahammar, where a woman in her 50s was found dead in her apartment.
Suspicions against the man remain, however, but it is judged that he does not need to be detained any longer. He has been in custody since October 2022.
Most ad fraud on Facebook
Almost half of all ad fraud in Sweden is committed via Facebook.
It shows new statistics from the police, reports Svenska Dagbladet.
– Just under half of the reports concern Facebook, both on Marketplace and in various groups. It is a common place for fraud, says Lotta Mauritzson, crime prevention officer at the Police’s national fraud centre, to the newspaper.
A total of 25,391 ad frauds were reported in 2022. This is a slight decrease compared to 2021. But then the number had increased by 50 percent from 2020.
The fact that Facebook does not verify users makes it difficult for the police, according to Mauritzson.
Alarm about an explosion in Sköndal
Just before four o’clock, the police go out to Sköndal in southern Stockholm, following an alarm about an explosion.
– We have been there and investigated but can’t find anything that leads us further, so we have left, says Mikael Pettersson, officer on duty at the Stockholm Police.
He says that many Stockholmers call in about explosions now.
– We have been and examined quite a few of these in the region last night. Considering how the situation is at the moment, we have to take it seriously, says Mikael Pettersson.
Hipkins ready as new prime minister
Chris Hipkins has been formally appointed as the next leader of the Labor Party and thus also the next Prime Minister of New Zealand.
Hipkins says during a press conference in Wellington that Labor unanimously elected him during a party meeting on Sunday, the New Zealand Herald reports.
Carmel Sepuloni, who will become the new Deputy Prime Minister, is the first person of Pacific Island origin to hold the post in New Zealand.
Current Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced earlier this week that she is resigning. (TT)
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No question, but more pointing out that the headline in right now says E-type has had a baby, would have looked nicer if both names had space, I think?
Henrik Due
Hey! Well absolutely, it was written in a hurry. In any case, Melinda Jacobs is included in the title of the article itself!
Sharpening! It is very nice to have all the notices about what is happening in our long country, but it is often the author of the article who forgets to write which place it is about. This is of relevance to us readers, so improvement there ?
Larsa
Hi Larsa! Alas, we’ll get better! I adjusted the notice that I think you are referring to, it was in Karlskrona that a 65-year-old man died in a fire. And now we are just reporting on a similar tragic event in Älmhult.
The Green Comet. Where should we look, which direction, east, west, north, south? A little help doesn’t hurt.
Goran
Look up and north.
The green comet will pass near the Pole Star and then go towards the Chariot’s “handle”, between the constellations Little and Big Bear.
Here are there any maps showing where it should be right now.
Why is Koran burning not counted as a hate crime or incitement against a ethnic group? It would be good with an article, maybe some interviews with lawyers, the Supreme Court, people with knowledge who can explain and clarify what applies and why, around this with hate crimes and freedom of expression, where are the limits.
Linen
Koran burning provokes some, but in itself it does no harm.
The constitutionally protected freedom of expression is one of the cornerstones of democracy, it generally outweighs the risk of some people becoming a little sad or upset.
Hello folks at Aftonbladet. I would like to send a greeting to your beautiful colleague Jonatan Unge. Hahaha his article about the Kia brothers that came out here at 3pm today was just too funny.
You’re funny, Jonathan. ?? keep it up haha
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