A small plane has crashed in a wooded area in Ponts-de-Martel in Switzerland, reports RTN.
Several people have died, according to Tages Anzeiger.
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A picture from the battles near Bachmut. Photo: LIBKOS/AP
The Wagner Group has taken control of the Ukrainian town of Bachmut. The leader of the Russian group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, claims that, reports AFP.
– Today, at 12 o’clock, Bachmut was completely absorbed, says Prigozhin in a video published on Telegram.
Furthermore, he states that the group plans to hand over the city to the Russian military by May 25 at the latest.
Ukraine has denied the information.
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In Saivomuotka, the Muonio River has flooded. Photo: Private
During yesterday, SMHI announced a red warning for high flows in Norrbotten. Starting tomorrow, the warning will be extended down the Torneälven, all the way to Haparanda.
In parts of the river, there are also warnings of floods. According to SMHI, these are flows that occur on average every 50 years or less frequently.
Roads have been closed and several basements have been flooded.
At 12:30, the emergency services were called to a fire in an apartment in Borlänge, the police say.
An ambulance and the police have also been called to the scene.
Shortly after 1 p.m., the police state that the fire is out.
– We are on site and according to our information the fire should be out now, says Anders Dahlman, press spokesperson.
According to him, three people must have been evacuated via a balcony – but the extent of the damage is still unclear.
Dahlman says that the fire must have been limited to an apartment.
He does not know whether the rest of the apartment building had to be evacuated.
– I don’t know, it was a five-storey building. Now we will investigate what caused the fire.
Countries seeking to contribute F-16 fighter jets face ‘huge risks’, says Russia’s deputy foreign minister Aleksander Grushko to the Russian news agency Tass.
The statement comes as a reaction to US President Joe Biden’s go-ahead for Western countries to contribute warplanes to Ukraine.
Biden’s green light came yesterday during the ongoing G7 summit in Hiroshima.
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On Friday evening, the Norwegian police contacted the Swedish regarding a Norwegian man aged 75 who is believed to be in Sweden.
The man’s car has been found five kilometers northwest of Dorotea but it is unclear where he is. According to the Norwegian police, he is in need of care.
The area has been searched with drones and mountain rescuers have helped in the search.
The police urge people who have observed the man to call 112.
Update 12:00: The man has been found.
– He has been found in the area and will be taken to the healthcare system for a check-up, says police spokesperson Marie Andersson.
On a small forest road near Hamrånge north of Gävle, a man with a four-wheeler overturned.
The accident happened early at night, but the alarm to the police did not come until the morning.
– A close relative calls an ambulance. The man did not have the opportunity to raise the alarm earlier than that, says Mathias Rutegård, press spokesperson at the police.
The driver is said to have been both injured and chilled, he is said to have been on the scene for a couple of hours before an ambulance arrived and took him to hospital.
The extent of his injuries is unclear, but he is said to have been awake and able to speak. The police do not suspect any crime.
During the night, Russia carried out “massive drone attacks” against Kiev, writes Serhiy Popko, the leader of the military administration in Kiev on Telegram.
The attack must have been repelled as all targets were shot down.
However, falling rubble is said to have caused damage around the city.
Among other things, a building is said to have caught fire, but no one was injured in connection with the attacks.
Japanese television broadcast live the motorcade bringing President Volodymyr Zelensky to the Hiroshima summit Photo: TBS News
On Saturday morning, Swedish time, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky landed in Hiroshima, Japan.
There, the president will participate in the G7 summit, which in recent days has agreed on a series of sanctions against Russia.
Shortly after landing, Zelenskyy confirmed his presence in Japan on Telegram:
“Today, peace comes closer,” writes the president.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry does not want foreign embassies to have a Ukrainian flag.
But the Estonian embassy in Beijing does not plan to take down the flag, informs the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
– Of course we will make this decision together with other ambassadors and see where it all leads, but at the moment I don’t see that it will happen, says Hannes Hanso, Estonia’s ambassador to China.
He also says that Estonia was the first country to put up a Ukrainian flag outside the embassy in Beijing after the war in Ukraine broke out.
Two adults and two children have been taken to hospital after a car accident near Säter.
The car must have first driven off the road and then through a game fence.
The police have no information about the damage.
The incident is being investigated as negligence in traffic.
A young man has received life-threatening injuries after he was attacked with what the police believe to be a knife in a stairwell in Haninge, south of Stockholm.
The police were called to the scene at 04.17. The man has been taken to hospital by ambulance helicopter and the suspected crime scene has been cordoned off.
The police have knocked on doors in the area and spoken to neighbors. At the moment, no one has been arrested.
In normal cases, 18 weeks’ advance notice is required for the train companies to be able to give notice of train departures in time.
But only in December will the Swedish Transport Administration be able to keep that plan. That’s what Roberto Maiorana, Director General of the Swedish Transport Administration, says Ekot’s Saturday interview.
During the autumn, the authority introduced a new planning system, which has provided it several times for train traffic.
– Now we have said that we will be able to manage it when we enter a new train plan, and we will do that in December. Until then, we must work our way to better foresight right here and now, says Roberto Maiorana.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 has occurred in the sea off New Zealand and New Caledonia.
The New Zealand Emergency Management Agency’s investigation showed that there was no tsunami risk in connection with the earthquake.
Last Friday morning, they were forced to issue a tsunami warning due to an earthquake.
Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin has received a contract worth 3.4 billion to build a lunar lander for the US space agency Nasa, TT reports.
The Amazon founder’s company will build “Artemis 5” which will land on the moon in 2029 if all goes according to plan.
For the past two years, the Artemis mission has gone to Elon Musk’s space company Space X.
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It’s not lunch yet, but haven’t heard anything about the May 17 special in the lunchbox yet. Norwegians eat an average of four sausages per person on May 17, according to a press release from SAS . So if you want to pay tribute to Norway, a sausage with bread can be a suitable way!
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