Latest news – The Minister of Defense on Sweden: We hope for more

A car has driven into a roundabout in Umeå. The motorist has been taken to hospital by ambulance.

There is no information on the person’s injury status.

The police do not suspect any crime in connection with the accident.

Norway will give away eight Leopard 2 tanks and up to four armored support vehicles to Ukraine. This is stated by the country’s Minister of Defense Bjørn Arild Gram at the NATO Defense Ministers meeting in Brussels, TT reports.

– We will contribute to instructors for the tanks. Many of these are already in place in Poland, and the training mission is underway today, he says.

Norway will also contribute ammunition and some spare parts as well as NOK 250 million to the EU’s European Defense Fund.

The outbreak of it the deadly Marburg virus in Equatorial Guinea is nothing to worry about in Sweden, according to Klara Sondén, infectious disease doctor and investigator at the Public Health Agency.

– The risk of spread is extremely minimal. In such cases it would be through an individual traveller. But that risk is small, not least because we don’t travel much to Equatorial Guinea.

Even if the virus were to spread to Europe, it would probably not be as deadly here.

– We actually know quite a bit about how high the mortality rate would be in our context, with fully equipped healthcare and with all the necessary resources. Then it is very likely that the mortality rate would be significantly lower.

Outbreaks of Marburg are very rare, which also means that not much is known about the virus.

– It is a relatively unknown disease. Simply because the few eruptions we have seen have been quite small. But we work actively with our environmental monitoring and we already have the opportunity to diagnose Marburg. That way, if we suspect the disease, we can ensure the diagnosis around the clock, says Klara Sondén.

Later this afternoon, the WHO will hold a crisis meeting regarding the outbreak.

The airspace over Moldova is temporarily closed, Reuters reports.

“Dear passengers, those of you who are at the airport, on board or have planned to fly today, please stay calm and follow the airport’s information,” writes the airline Air Moldova on Facebook.

The airspace is closed until 4 p.m. for security reasons.

Finland and Sweden have discussed the possibility that the countries do not have to join NATO at the same time. This is stated by sources for the newspaper Iltalehti.

According to the newspaper’s sources, NATO membership is aimed at “mutual understanding” – which means that the countries must inform each other about what is happening in the various ratification processes.

However, the term “mutual understanding” does not mean that the countries must join NATO at the same time.

Republican Nikki Haley is running in the US presidential election in 2024, she confirms on Twitter.

This means that Haley, who is the former US ambassador to the UN, becomes the first Republican to formally challenge ex-president Trump in the election.

“Hold on. It’s time for a new generation,” she writes.

The European Parliament has voted to ban the sale of new fossil-powered cars after 2035.

340 voted for, 279 against and 21 abstained from voting.

This means that all new cars sold within the Union from the year 2035 must be emission-free.

Europe thus becomes the first continent to take that step.

– With clear green rules of the game, the car industry can also put in another gear towards a more sustainable future. It will benefit our opportunities to create new green jobs, says Heléne Fritzon (S), member of the environment committee in the European Parliament.

In order for the law to be finalised, it will also go through the Council of Ministers.

The earthquake in Turkey is the worst natural disaster in a century in Europe according to the World Health Organization, WHO, TT reports.

In total, 26 million people have been affected by the disaster, according to the WHO.

– We are witnessing the worst natural disaster in Europe in a century – and we don’t yet know how extensive it is, says WHO Europe Director Hans Kluge during a press conference.

The death toll continues to rise in both Turkey and Syria. The latest figure shows that more than 37,000 people have died, Reuters reports.

After Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that Finland could possibly join NATO before Sweden during today’s defense minister’s meeting, Foreign Minister Tobias Billström (M) is now commenting on the statement.

– It is nothing new. We have a situation where we naturally have an ambition that we should implement this together, but you must not forget that it is a national decision how you choose to join NATO. We do not own that process and we do not own the entire Turkish ratification. It is a Turkish issue, he tells Swedish daily newspaper.

He continues:

– In some sense, I think it is a non-issue. We naturally have the ambition to work together with the project to become members. But it is always a national decision that needs to be made by the respective country’s parliament, he tells the newspaper.

Two people, a man and a boy under the age of 18, have been arrested on suspicion of the murder in Malå.

Both were arrested on Monday evening and have now been detained as reasonable suspects.

– During the day, the work continues through interviews with a number of people, technical examination and analyses. We are in an intensive phase of the preliminary investigation and will therefore not be able to answer any more questions or leave any comments at this time, says District Attorney Linnea Hedström at the District Attorney’s Office in Umeå.

It was during the night to Monday that the police were alerted about an injured man in a residence in Malå.

According to Aftonbladet’s information, the man must have raised the alarm himself.

He later died of his injuries.

Employees at Tesla in Buffalo, New York are tired of being monitored and want better pay and greater job security.

On Tuesday, the staff, who among other things work with analyzing the company’s technology for self-driving cars, sent an email to CEO Elon Musk in which they announced that they plan to start a trade union.

– People are tired of being treated like robots, says Al Celli, one of the initiators of the union, to Bloomberg.

If the plans become reality, it will be Tesla’s first trade union.