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Skistar increases its turnover
Interest in alpine skiing remains high in Sweden, reports Skistar. The company reports a turnover of SEK 2.4 billion for the second quarter of the broken financial year, TT reports.
This corresponds to an increase of 8 percent compared to the same period the year before.
The result is referred to by the Company as the “best in the company’s history”.
“The result shows that the interest in alpine skiing is still great and that the trend of vacationing at home in the Scandinavian mountain world is continuing this winter as well,” says the company’s CEO Stefan Sjöstrand in a comment.
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Ikea recalls games – children can suffocate
Ikea recalls the Blue Winged game. Photo: Ikea
Ikea is recalling the Blåvingad fish game, TT reports.
It has been discovered that small rivets on the game can come loose so that there is a risk of small children putting them in their throats.
Ikea urges all customers who own the game to stop using it and contact Ikea for a full refund. The game can be returned to any Ikea store and no receipt is needed.
Famous Hong Kong activist arrested again
Albert Ho in a picture from last year. Photo: Kin Cheung/AP/TT
Albert Ho, one of Hong Kong’s most famous human rights activists, has been arrested by the city’s security police, TT reports.
He is suspected of trying to influence witnesses while on parole, a source said.
Ho was already risking up to ten years in prison before the new charges under the city’s draconian security laws, which Beijing pushed through in 2020 to quell pro-democracy protests.
The police on the wave of violence: Haven’t broken the trend
The police continue their gathering of forces in Stockholm in connection with the wave of violence. 190 police officers from other regions have been called in to break it.
But there are still no signs that it is about to slow down.
– In the short term, we do not see that we have in any way broken the trend, says Niclas Andersson, operationally responsible for the special event to TT.
He believes that the gathering of power will rather have long-term effects and slowly decrease to a lower level. At the moment, the special event will last until the summer, according to Andersson.
– But it may very well be that it is extended.
Greta Thunberg gets an honorary doctorate
Greta Thunberg has been appointed an honorary doctorate at the University of Helsinki, Finnish media reports.
The climate activist receives an honorary doctorate at the theological faculty.
The President of Finland receives an honorary doctorate at the Faculty of Philosophy.
Thunberg is already an honorary doctorate at a Belgian university.
Farmers received electricity support intended for households
Electricity subsidies for households have in some cases gone to companies with sole proprietorships.
Among them are quite a few farmers, confirms Johnny Kjellström at the Farmers’ Confederation SR Ecot.
– They wonder why they received support. The simple explanation we can give is that you had an e-subscription that was shared between the household and the farm, says Johnny Kjellström.
Paludan is ported from Great Britain
The far-right politician Rasmus Paludan is denied entry to Great Britain, reports the BBC.
The country’s security minister Tom Tugendhat says that Paludan has been put on a “watchlist” and is not allowed to enter the country.
A few days ago, Paludan announced that he will carry out another one of his Koran burnings in a square in the West Yorkshire town.
The announcement after four students at a school were suspended after vandalizing a Koran.
Ukraine: Russian robots blown up
The Ukrainian military intelligence service claims that Russian robots were destroyed on the occupied Crimean peninsula, TT reports.
According to Ukraine, an explosion occurred near the city of Dzhankoy when the Kalibr robots were being transported by rail, presumably on their way to be loaded onto Russian warships.
The intelligence service does not specifically say that Ukraine is behind the explosion, but describes it as “part of Russian demilitarization”.
The Russian state news agency Tass writes that drones attacked the city, and hit a shop and a home where one person was injured, but does not mention anything about robots being destroyed.
Stolen fire engine and crashed – man arrested
A man has been arrested after a fire truck was stolen and then crashed in connection with an emergency in Vansbro in Dalarna during the night of Tuesday.
A person calls the police at 01:30 and says that someone has lit a fire in the yard and inserted a large gas cylinder.
– When the emergency services arrive, there is chaos at the scene. In connection with this, one of the fire engines is stolen, leaves the scene and crashes, says the police officer on duty Mathilda Borgström.
– Some equipment was also stolen from this car.
A man has been arrested on suspicion of blue light sabotage and possible arson.
Several people were at the scene and the police used pepper spray during the intervention.
– It is possible that more people will be deprived of their liberty. (TT)
Russia: Children must return
Russian UN Ambassador Vasiliy Nebenzia says an informal UN Security Council meeting will be held in April to discuss Ukrainian children taken to Russia.
According to him, the meeting has nothing to do with the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) war crimes investigation. Nebenzia claims that Russia is moving the children to protect them. When asked when they can return, he replies:
– When the conditions are safe, of course. Why not? (TT)
No plastic around this year’s declaration
This year’s paper declaration will not be wrapped in plastic as in previous years, but for sustainability reasons will come in a paper envelope, the Tax Agency announces.
“For the same reason, the declaration form is also only sent in one copy this year,” says Alem Resulovic, section manager at the Swedish Tax Agency in a press release.
Anyone who wants to declare on paper is advised to post the declaration by April 26 at the latest to be sure it arrives in time. (TT)
Ukraine: Russian robots blown up in transit
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry claims that Russian robots have been destroyed on the occupied Crimean peninsula.
According to the ministry, an explosion occurred near the city of Dzhankoy when the Kalibr robots were being transported by rail, presumably on their way to be loaded onto Russian warships.
Kalibr is a family of robots with variants that are used against naval targets or as cruise robots, where the latter, according to the think tank CSIS, can reach up to 2,500 kilometers. (TT)
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Why is one of the two men who murdered Ulf mentioned with a picture and name and not the other??? After all, both were sentenced as a return.
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Hello, why has interest in the Ukraine war cooled so much in the Swedish press and news reporting? In foreign reporting, there are lots of analyzes and status reports!
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It may feel cold compared to how it was in the first months at the outbreak of the war, when a very large part of the news reporting was devoted to the Ukraine war.
But I would say we are still reporting intensively. Among other things, we have a team in place now that reports on many fatalities. Feel free to follow our collective reporting here!
Hello. What was the big police operation in Stockholm city about yesterday? Nothing more has been written about it.
Alex
Hello Alex! We wrote about it yesterday here. It seems to have been about a fight at a hamburger restaurant.
Difficult to read the posts…. It’s usually white text on a black background! But now the text is kind of gray on a black background??? Is it just my phone that is ghosting or???
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