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Record year for arctic foxes
The mountain fox was threatened with extinction for a long time – but now it is breaking a new record.
164 arctic fox litters were registered in Sweden, Norway and Finland in 2022 and the adult foxes are now estimated to be over 550.
“In the last 20 years, it has been a record year,” says Malin Åhl, wildlife officer at the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, in the press release.
According to the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, the explanation is that there were plenty of rodents this year, which are the arctic fox’s main food.
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Prisoners forced to pee in sink: ‘Is undignified’
Inmates at the detention center in Gothenburg were forced to urinate in sinks and trash cans in their cells, reports say P4 Gothenburg.
Now the Justice Ombudsman directs sharp criticism against the detention center.
– It is completely undignified, says JO Katarina Påhlsson and points out that some cells do not have toilets.
The problems must have been greatest in the evenings and nights when staff did not have time to let inmates out to be able to go to the toilet.
Truck in ditch – stop on E20
A truck has driven off the road on the E20 south of Strängnäs.
Traffic has been stopped during the salvage work and according to the police, the situation has become more difficult after the ground gave way.
The driver was not injured.
New head of border protection in the EU
Frontex, which is responsible for border control in the EU, has recruited a new manager.
The Dutch general Hans Leijtens takes over from the acting chief Aija Kalnaja, who stepped in after the much-criticized Fabrice Leggeri, writes TT.
The manager’s mandate is for five years.
The EU plows down 530 million salmon in Säffle
A salmon farm in Säffle in Värmland with 15,700 inhabitants receives 530 million in investment support from the EU.
– We will create a controlled ocean on land, says Katarina Klingspor, chairman of the company Re Ocean, which is behind the cultivation to TT.
The entire venture with 88 salmon pools is expected to cost SEK 2.5 billion and be able to produce 10,000 tons of salmon a year.
– It will have just over 100 employees, says Katarina Klingspor to TT.
Baerbock replaced Bismarck – the family is furious
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has changed the name of the “Bismarck” hall at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin to the “Hall of German Unity” – which made the relatives of the “Iron Chancellor” angry, reports Der Spiegel.
The family writes in a statement that it is “upsetting and indescribably sad” and accuses the State Department of a “lack of awareness of history”.
Otto von Bismarck is famous for the saying “iron and blood” and was German Chancellor 1871–1890. Bismarck also founded the German Foreign Ministry.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the new name is better anchored in the country’s democratic history, writes Picture.
The Taliban ban women from universities
A spokesperson for the Taliban’s Ministry of Education says that women will be barred from universities in Afghanistan for the time being. It reports Norwegian The daily newspaper citing Reuters.
The Afghan news channel Tolo News has also reported on the decision.
UN: Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has previously criticized the Taliban in Afghanistan for restricting girls’ and women’s access to school, higher education and working life.
Robbers on bicycles attacked the kiosk
On Tuesday evening, a kiosk in northern Västerås was robbed.
A man with a sharp attachment is said to have forced cash and then sped off on a bicycle.
“A preliminary investigation into robbery is being launched and the police have begun a search operation for the suspected perpetrator,” the police write.
No one was physically injured in connection with the robbery.
Ukraine brings Danish journalist
The Danish journalist Matilde Kimer has been stripped of her press accreditation in Ukraine and can therefore no longer work in the country. This is reported by TT with reference to the Danish newspaper Journalisten.
The decision is said to have been made in early December when the Ukrainian security service accused Kimer of having spread Russian propaganda and that posts she published on social media sympathized with Russia. Kimer himself says that to Reuters, according to The Guardian.
According to Kimer, however, no evidence should be presented. Ukraine’s SBU or the Ministry of Defense did not respond to Reuters’ request for comment on the incident.
“I have not engaged in propaganda. I work with no other task than to inform Danes about what is happening in Ukraine,” Kimer told Reuters.
Zelenskyy visits the front in Bachmut
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has visited the front in Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine to meet and hand out medals to fighting Ukrainian soldiers, reports The Guardianciting Reuters.
In a video clip, the Ukrainian president is seen giving a speech outside a building and surrounded by soldiers. There was also a minute’s silence for those who died in the war before Zelensky handed out medals to the soldiers.
According to Ukrainian authorities, five people were killed in eastern Donetsk and southern Kherson during Tuesday.
On Monday, Russia carried out the largest drone attack against Ukraine to date, according to Kyiv Independent, with 35 kamikaze drones, most of which were directed at the capital, Kyiv. According to the Ukrainian military, they should have shot down the majority of them.
Sledgehammer throwing at the Finnish embassy in Moscow
The Finnish embassy in Moscow has been attacked by masked perpetrators, reports Swedish EPN.
A video posted on Telegram shows them throwing sledgehammers into the embassy grounds.
– The sledgehammers were thrown into the front of the courtyard of the Finnish embassy in Moscow. The act caused no personal or material damage to the embassy, says a spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Svenska EPN.
The Covid crisis in China: Burning like “24 hours a day”
The spread of the coronavirus in China is at levels not seen so far during the pandemic.
The Chinese Public Health Authority states that each infected person spreads the infection to an average of 16 people, reports Danish TV2.
Images circulating show long queues at crematoria in China. A hearse driver tells Financial Times that he usually drives four or five corpses a day. Now there are 20-30 of them.
– We burn 24 hours a day, says a crematorium employee The Wall Street Journal.
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How far has it come in the investigation into who was behind the explosion of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipes? When is the investigation expected to be completed? Will the investigation, parts of it, become classified information?
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Franco Baresi
Hey! Good question, so far not much has emerged from the investigation. But we’ll keep an eye on it and write about it in case we find out more!
Is it really a case if the police suspect attempted murder? Why suspect the woman instead of putting the weight and weight on what the police suspect: that a man pushed her to her death.
Redo do right… again…. ?
Angry!
See answer to the question below.
One person has been arrested and there are reports that the woman fell because she was pushed. It’s in the notice.
Fake news again? The woman was thrown from the balcony, she didn’t fall.. Distorting, keeping silent or lying as a journalist seems to be a code of honor at AB.. Ugh..
Eric T.
We still don’t know exactly what happened.
There are reports that she may have been pushed, and the police have arrested one person. It’s in the notice.
Whether it is so or not is not something we can confirm, the police investigation will have to show that.
All this misery. How are you coping?
The sandwich
You have to try to take advantage of the small flashes of light that appear at regular intervals! A tip to keep hope up is to read the articles from “Swedish heroes”, which you can find here!
Can also tell you about the “Svenska hältar gala” which will be broadcast tonight, which you can see here on Aftonbladet and TV4 at 8pm!
We keep the positivity up together!
Why do you have a pinned post from October 3rd?
Pinned post
The Coast Guard: The gas release is increasing
October 3 at 12:29 p.m
Emil Forsberg
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Hello,
It should not be pinned down by us at the editorial office. The post you click on is automatically pinned to the top of Aftonbladet Direkt. So maybe you accidentally clicked into it somehow? 🙂
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