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SMHI has suffered from IT problems.

– We have operational disruptions with several of our weather services, says AnnaKarin Norberg, communicator at SMHI.

To take part in the authority’s weather warnings, people are referred to SMHI’s app and alternative routes via the website.

It is unclear what is causing the problems.

New figures from Bris show that seven percent more children called the children’s rights organization in 2022 compared to the year before, reports TT.

The talks were permeated by concerns about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the economy.

– After the outbreak of war, children contacted us with great concern and wondered if Russia would attack Sweden. Older teenagers think about this NATO thing; will I have to do the rags? Or will I have to fight?, says Magnus Jägerskog, general secretary at Bris, to TT.

He continues:

– During the second half of last year, more children began to raise concerns about food prices, that electricity is expensive and people wonder what is going on.

According to Magnus Jägerskog, more powerful efforts aimed at families with children with small margins and long-term investments are now needed to strengthen equal growing up conditions for children in order to overcome the concerns.

An elderly man has died after a traffic accident outside Molkom in Karlstad municipality on Monday evening, reports P4 Värmland.

The man is said to have driven off the road and into a tree at county road 758.

Relatives have been notified.

Two people have died and several have been injured after a riot broke out during a concert in New York in the United States on Sunday, reports the news agency AP.

According to police, rappers GloRilla and Finesse2tymes had just finished a joint performance when the crowd began rushing towards the venue’s exits, believing a shooting was underway.

On Monday, Police Chief David Smith held a press conference about the incident and stated that the dead are two women, 33 and 35 years old respectively.

A third person is critically injured, and seven more were taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

It is unclear what triggered the chaos during the concert.

– We have no evidence that shots were fired or that anyone was shot or stabbed at the scene, said David Smith.

According to the state-controlled Syrian news agency Sana, Israel is said to have attacked the airport in Aleppo early on Tuesday. The attack caused material damage to the airport, which has been closed. It is not yet known if any people were injured.

Israel has carried out hundreds of attacks on targets in government-controlled parts of Syria in recent years, including the airports in Damascus and Aleppo.

Israel has previously confirmed that it is targeting bases belonging to Iran-backed groups such as Lebanon’s Hezbollah, which supports the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s rule.

Aleppo, which has suffered widespread devastation during the Syrian civil war, was also hit hard by the large Turkey-Syria earthquake in February. The airport in Aleppo has since been used to bring aid shipments into the area.

(TT)

Several cars and a property were damaged in an explosion in eastern Malmö during the night of Tuesday, writes Sydsvenskan.

At 2am, SOS Alarm received several calls about a loud bang.

– We were able to trace it to Annelundsgatan, where we find a crime scene. We can see several damaged cars and some structural damage to a property, says duty police officer Thomas Paulsson to the newspaper.

The cars are parked at a car company. The site will be examined by bomb technicians during the morning.

– Our opinion is that one or more cars have exploded, says Thomas Paulsson to Sydsvenskan.

Aftonbladet is looking for the police.

North Korea accuses the US of increasing tensions by holding joint military air exercises with South Korea.

“Despite our repeated warnings, the United States continues to deliberately worsen the situation,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement, according to state news agency KCNA.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un’s influential sister Kim Yo-Jong says North Korea is ready to take “swift, overwhelming” action against the United States and South Korea if the countries expand their joint military exercises, the AP reports.

(TT, Aftonbladet)

A man was found shot in Flemingsberg, south of Stockholm, during the night towards Tuesday. Police later announced that he died at the scene from his injuries.

Read more in Aftonbladet’s article.

Police, emergency services and ambulance services have been alerted to a fire in a villa in Ängelholm, after a caller saw heavy smoke coming from the property.

– When we arrived at the scene, the property was completely engulfed in flames, says Tobias Aldgård, officer on duty at the Skåne Nordväst rescue service.

It is still too hot to enter the building and the fire service will let the villa burn down.

There are no reports of injuries.

– There is daily activity in the property, so there should not have been any people there, from what we have received information about, says Tobias Aldgård.

The rescue service estimates that the extinguishing work will be completed around 02:00.

The alarm came in at 10:47 p.m.

Opposition leader Svetlana Tichanovskaya has today been sentenced to 15 years in prison in her absence, Reuters reports.

The sentence comes from a court in Minsk, which believes that Svetlana Tichanovskaja was guilty of treason and “conspiracy to seize power”, a sentence which, according to her, is a punishment for her efforts to promote democracy in the country.

It was in 2020 that Svetlana Tichanovskaya ran in the Belarusian presidential election against Aleksandr Lukashenko.

Tikhanovskaya was considered to have won the election, but instead Lukashenko was named president and the next day Tikhanovskaya was forced to flee the country.

Since then she lives in exile.

A man has been shot on Kungsholmen in Stockholm.

He has now been taken to hospital by ambulance.

The police are looking for one or more perpetrators.

Read more here.