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A 25-year-old man is accused of raping a woman in a town in Värmland one night in October. The man denies the crime and claims that he carried out the acts while he was asleep, writes Värmland’s Folkblad.

The woman and the man knew each other from before. She needed somewhere to sleep and heard about it on social media. The man answered and offered a place to sleep.

Once she fell asleep in the man’s apartment, she woke up to find him crawling down next to her and starting to prey on her. In questioning, the woman says that she “became stiff and did not dare to move, let alone say anything”.

The man says that he was not awake and that he perceived it as a dream, something the prosecutor considers unlikely.

The trial begins on Monday. (TT)

A passenger on the Viking Glory was taken to hospital by helicopter during the night of Saturday after a fall accident with suspected head injuries.

– The alarm came at midnight. The ship turned back towards Sweden to meet the Swedish Maritime Administration’s helicopter, which took the passenger to Norrtälje hospital, says Pontus Svensson, maritime rescue leader at the Swedish Maritime Administration.

Viking Glory is on its way to Turku via Mariehamn and returned to the route after just under an hour.

A 6-year-old boy shot his teacher at a school in Virginia, USA, on Friday, reports say CBS News.

The teacher is in her 30s and she was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries. The boy allegedly shot her with a gun during some kind of dispute or fight.

The boy has been taken into custody and, according to the police, he is deemed not to have fired the weapon by mistake.

According to the police, no students were injured.

A man sneaked into the prison Svartjöanstalten and pretended to be another man who was going to sign in to serve a sentence for tax crimes, reports Uppsala New Newspaper.

“There is a risk that they forgot to check the identity document in connection with the registration,” says the report of the Correctional Service, which UNT has seen.

After five months, the prisoner was moved to another institution, but no new ID check was carried out there. Two months later, after the prisoner had been confined for a total of seven months, suspicions arose that the wrong person was imprisoned. What made the Correctional Service discover it at that time is unclear.

The report shows that the Correctional Service lacks rules for how an identity check should be carried out or what counts as a valid ID document.

The man convicted of the crime is now wanted internationally.

The police have received an alarm about a person on skis interpreting behind a car on national highway 73 in Jordbro.

The journey must go in a northerly direction.

A police patrol is on its way to the scene.

A new Alzheimer’s medicine has been approved in the United States by the FDA, reports The Wall Street Journal.

The medicine is not a cure, but is said to slow down the progression of the disease and is very promising.

The researchers describe the approval as a milestone in the search for new treatments against Alzheimer’s.

It reduces the protein amyloid in the brain of patients who are in the early stages of the disease.

The drug lecanemab will be sold under the brand name Leqembi and comes from the companies Eisai and Biogen.

– We have tried for several years, decades, and we have to win, says Marwan Sabbagh, a specialist in Alzheimer’s disease at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix and a consultant at Biogen.

Ukraine’s military intelligence fears Russia is preparing to mobilize another 500,000 conscripts in January, reports The Guardian.

Intelligence chief Vadim Skibitskyy believes that a major offensive against southern and eastern Ukraine is being planned.

– We expect them to carry out attacks in the Donetsk and Kharkiv regions, as well as possibly Zaporizhzhya but defend in Kherson and Crimea. This is the number of men they will need for such a task, he told The Guardian.

A gate has been shelled in Frölunda, reports Gothenburg Post.

No one is reported to have been injured.

– When we arrive, we have found bullet holes that we believe come from possible shots, says Sebastian Börjesson, officer on duty at the police in the West region.

Around half of Vattenfall’s 850,000 customers have signed variable electricity contracts.

The December invoice will soon arrive and Vattenfall has called in extra staff to cope with the pressure on its customer service.

– We know from experience that it will happen and we have prepared as much as possible and further trained our staff, says William Fredriksson at Vattenfall customer service, in a press release.

Vattenfall writes that the high electricity costs will be especially felt for households with small margins in their budget and that there is ultimately the possibility of applying for deferment or partial payment. But the call is not to postpone the payment

– Winter continues in January, February and March. The call is therefore to pay as much as you can because there will be more electricity bills to be paid. So the main advice we give for the coming months is to review the electricity consumption you have at home, says William Fredriksson.

There has been wolf hunting since Monday and so far 36 out of 75 wolves have been killed, TT reports with reference to a compilation of Swedish hunting.

A total of 75 wolves may be shot and the hunt is conducted in Dalarna County, Gävleborg County, Värmland County, Västmanland County and Örebro County. It may last until February 15 at the latest.

Since the end of the 1990s, the number of wolves has increased, according to the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. Today’s number of 460 is the highest recorded since the inventories started, followed by the 2014/2015 season when the number was estimated at 415 wolves, writes TT.

The goal of the hunt is to clear certain areas.

Two cars have collided head-on south of Gothenburg, reports GP.

– We have blocked the road and are cleaning up. One car is in the ditch and one is on the road, says Jörgen Bech, alarm and line operator at the rescue service, to the newspaper.

Several ambulances must have been called to the scene. At the moment, there is no information on the state of the damage.