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Thousands of pensioners have lost their premium pension
3,300 Swedish pensioners have had their premium pension deleted, reports Sweden’s Radio Echo.
This is because they had their money in Russian funds which have now become worthless.
The Moscow Stock Exchange closed just days after Russia invaded Ukraine.
A further 24,000 Swedish pensioners are expected to have their premium pension written down because of this.
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Lack of train drivers – companies cancel trains
MTR, which runs Mälartåg, and SJ will cancel several departures in the new timetable from December 11.
The reason is that there is a lack of train drivers, reports say Sweden’s Radio Echo.
– We are working hard to get enough train drivers to get back to the level that passengers want, says Joakim Sundh, CEO MTR Mälardalen.
SJ and MTR state that they have a plan for how they will be able to gradually increase traffic again.
Hundreds of Ukrainians are denied Danish residence permits
426 Ukrainians have so far been denied a residence permit in Denmark, reports TV2.
The reason is that the people left Ukraine too early, before the war broke out.
Until March, Ukrainians who fled after February 24 could get a residence permit in Denmark.
The law was later changed to apply from 1 February – but many Ukrainians have been refused to stay despite this.
The Danish Migration Agency has so far determined 131 refusals for Ukrainians.
Texas Bans Tiktok on State Drives
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered Tiktok to be banned from all state agencies, reports say The Guardian.
He cites security concerns when it comes to the app’s data sharing with the Chinese government.
“Tiktok collects large amounts of data from its users’ devices – including when, where and how they are active on the Internet – and offers this amount of potentially sensitive information to the Chinese government,” reads one of the letters the governor sent to a government agency .
Several other Republican lawmakers across the country have introduced similar Tiktok bans.
South Dakota, Maryland and Wisconsin have also issued similar directives citing safety concerns.
Large oil spill in the USA
There is a major effort underway to clean up a large spill of oil in Kansas, USA.
According to preliminary data, they may be about up to 14,000 barrels of crude oil, which corresponds to approximately 2.2 million liters. The owner of the pipeline, Canada’s TC Energy shut down the line Wednesday night to begin the cleanup.
If the size of the spill is correct, it could be the largest crude oil spill in the United States in nearly a decade, writes AFP.
Famous sports journalist dead in Qatar
Journalist Grant Wahl has died in Qatar, his brother announced on Twitter.
– He collapsed in the stadium, was given cardiopulmonary resuscitation and was driven with an Uber to the hospital and died, says the brother in the post.
The news of his death comes just weeks after he attracted attention after he was denied entry to the USA v Wales match because he was wearing a rainbow shirt.
He reported for CBS Sports and Sports Illustrated, among others.
Free condoms – President Macron: “We’re on it”
Free condoms for everyone under 25 Emmanuel Macron announced Photo: SOAZIG DE LA MOISSONNIERE/PRESID
France will offer free condoms to everyone under 25 starting next year, the country’s President Emmanuel Macron announced on Friday, writes the AP news agency.
According to the French government, the number of venereal diseases is rising and inflation is also reducing the margins for those who are already strapped for money.
Initially, free condoms were only to be offered to those aged 18-25, but after criticism that the proposal did not include minors, the president changed his mind.
“We’re working on it,” he said in a self-recorded video and later elaborated on Twitter:
“Many minors have sex…they also need to be able to protect themselves”
EU summit is closed
The vice-president of the European Parliament, the Greek Eva Kaili, is suspended from her party group after the Belgian police opened an investigation into a suspected bribery.
Social democratic S&D tweets late on Friday evening that Kaili is suspended “with immediate effect, in response to the ongoing investigations”.
The public prosecutor’s office in Belgium states that a “third party” paid with gifts and large sums of money to gain influence within the European Parliament.
According to sources to Le Soir, it is the World Cup country Qatar that tried to bribe politicians to make decisions in their favor and take the reviled championship in defense.
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Cannabis growers are charged with serious drug offences
The couple grew cannabis in a basement in Gävle and in August the police raided the house, write Gefle Daily.
The couple was arrested and 22 kilos of cannabis were seized. A few weeks ago, two more men were arrested in Stockholm. According to the prosecutor, they provided the couple in the house with equipment, paid the electricity bills and regularly inspected the crops.
Now they are charged with serious drug offences.
67 journalists killed this year
So far in 2022, 67 journalists have been killed in the line of duty, according to the International Federation of Journalists IFJ’s compilation.
This is an increase from 47 last year and one of the reasons is the war in Ukraine where twelve journalists have been killed so far.
The number of imprisoned journalists is also increasing. 375 journalists are behind bars because of their work, most of them in China including Hong Kong, Myanmar and Turkey, according to the IFJ. That is ten more compared to last year’s report.
The politician requested mileage compensation – for flights
A moderate politician requested more than SEK 10,000 in mileage compensation for a trip from his house in the south of France to Piteå, the Piteå-Tidningen writes.
But instead of driving, he flew.
– It’s nothing to brag about, flying isn’t free after all. I had to go home because we had KS and KF, or had to and had to, anyway I did. We drove there and then I flew home, he says.
According to the policy, it is not possible to distinguish between air and car in the municipality’s reporting system and that he submitted the travel bill to test gaps in the system.
– Surely everyone must understand that it is completely unreasonable that I had intended to get money to go from France. It’s completely insane, maybe people think I’m stupid, but not stupid at all, he says to Piteå-Tidningen.
Auction fiasco for T-Rex
Photo: Mats Eriksson/Lund University
During Friday, the skull of a Tyrannosaurus Rex was auctioned at the auction company Sotheby’s in New York.
But instead of the expected price of between 15 and 20 million dollars, the price stayed at 6.1 million, writes New York Times.
The sale came a month after another auction of a Tyrannosaurus skeleton had to be canceled due to questions over how much of the skeleton was genuine.
It may have affected confidence in the industry and reduced demand for dinosaur skeletons. A market that has been hot in recent years.
– Everything is based on trust and right now it is very low, says art advisor Todd Levin to the New York Times.
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Is the report with Lavrov genuine? Does he really say that? About the toilet in Sweden? It’s great fun, what a sense of humor he has!
Conny Sundman
Yes that is correct.
He also got a witty response to Ann Linde’s speech on Twitter, you can see it here. ?
What happens in the Tove case?
Ewa Forstén
State a problem with Facebook as you wrote, haven’t they changed their name to Meta?
Iv’s sale
The company itself changed its name to Meta about a year ago.
But their social media platforms Facebook, Instagram and Whatspp are still named as they do!
What is happening in Näset, Lindingö? Lots of emergency vehicles… don’t even come close to the hill
Jens b
According to the police, it is a medical matter. They don’t want to say more than that.
You write that “At the Sunes Elefant restaurant in Visby, Nooshi Dadgostar eats steak and fries drenched in a brownish semi-transparent sauce”, but what did she drink with the food…? It does not appear.
Pelle brokers peace
Hey!
You cannot include everything in your text. In the documentary, it appears to be carbonated water in the glass. It could also be Sprite. But now I fall into speculation.
Pleasant evening!
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