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Toronto mayor resigns after infidelity affair
After admitting he had an inappropriate relationship with one of his colleagues, Toronto Mayor John Tory announced his resignation, the Toronto Star reports.
Tory’s announcement came on Friday, an hour after the deal was revealed in an investigation by the newspaper.
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Person forced off train by robbers
At two o’clock last night, the police were alerted to a robbery in Näsby park in Täby municipality.
A person is said to have been forced off a train by several perpetrators and then robbed.
No one has been arrested.
The man was taken to hospital with stab wounds
A man in his 50s was arrested after a fight in Nol outside Kungälv. The fight is said to have taken place in an apartment and an 18-year-old man had to be taken to the hospital in Kungsbacka with knife injuries.
A woman in her 30s is said to have also been beaten with blows in connection with the incident.
The man in his 50s is suspected of attempted murder and assault.
Increased NATO cooperation for Sweden
Sweden is deepening its military cooperation with NATO and will soon enter into several agreements, reports SVT News.
– I think there are closer to fifteen acts to be signed, what we are seeing is an ever deeper integration of Sweden into NATO on the military side, says Defense Minister Pål Jonson (M) to SVT.
Among other things, it will concern the storage of ammunition in other countries and cooperation for joint air defense.
NATO must also set goals for how Sweden and Finland will be able to contribute to NATO’s defense planning for the first time, according to SVT.
It will take place in connection with the countries attending a meeting with NATO’s defense minister.
Over 23,000 dead in the earthquake disaster
The death toll from the earthquake in Turkey and Syria continues to rise.
Now over 23,000 people have died since Monday’s quakes, which measured 7.8 and 7.6 on the Richter scale.
But there are still reports of how people are miraculously saved from the racial masses. The Guardian writes about a ten-year-old boy found alive in Turkey’s Hatay district after days under collapsed houses.
No more cannabis smoking on the streets of Amsterdam
Amsterdam bans cannabis smoking in public places in the city center, reports SVT Nyheter.
According to the Dutch news agency DPA, the ban applies to the De Wallen area, the most famous of the so-called red light districts and with widespread brothel activity.
Restaurants and bars are also forced to close earlier.
The purpose is to increase security in the area. Residents have long complained about drunkenness and cannabis smoking. Cannabis tourism also attracts drug dealers and crime, according to a press release about the decision.
The ban comes into effect in mid-May.
SD and L oense on labor immigration: Kärvar
The Tidö parties do not agree on how labor immigration should be limited. And according to Johan Pehrson. The Liberals’ party leader, ties up the negotiations.
He says so in Ekot’s Saturday interview.
The Liberals are fighting for broad exceptions, which could apply to berry pickers and assistant nurses, among other things.
USA: Half of Russia’s tanks gone
A Russian combat vehicle that was knocked out in the war Photo: Alexey Furman
Half of Russia’s tanks have probably been destroyed or taken by Ukraine.
This is what US Deputy Defense Minister Celeste Wallander says at an event by the Center for a New American Security think tank, TT reports.
Wallander did not provide exact figures for how many tanks Russia lost during the war of invasion.
The announcement from Wallander comes not long after Ukraine received word that they will soon receive tanks from the West.
Politician attacked in lift – saved by his coffee
American politician Angie Craig, member of the Democrats in the House of Representatives, was attacked in the elevator on her way from her overnight apartment in Washington on Thursday morning.
The attacker demanded access to her flat and when Craig refused he punched her in the face and grabbed her.
The politician managed to get the man to flee by throwing his take away coffee at him and shouting for help when the lift stopped on a floor below.
With the help of surveillance cameras, a suspect, identified as Kendred Khalil Hamlin, was arrested on Friday.
He has previously been suspected of burglary.
Angie Craig coped well under the circumstances and is now resting at home in Minnesota.
– My morning coffee really saved the day yesterday, but not in the way I thought, she says according to CBS News.
Pig slaughter is increasing – other meat is decreasing
Last year, 2,672,400 pigs were slaughtered in Sweden, according to a report from the Swedish Agricultural Agency. It is the highest figure since 2011 and an increase of one percent from 2021. Translated into weight, this is over 250,000 tonnes of pigs.
For other animal species – beef, sheep, lamb and poultry – the trend is downward.
Milk production shrank, while egg production increased from low levels in 2021 due to bird flu. (TT)
Freed prisoners can be taken to Spain
Spain has decided to offer citizenship to more than 200 prisoners who were released by Nicaragua on Thursday and brought to the United States, announced Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares.
Among those released are members of Nicaragua’s opposition and regime critics. Nicaragua’s parliament has voted to strip the freed people of their citizenship.
According to Albares, those released must now be contacted and the citizenship process promised to go quickly. (TT)
Four arrested after crackdown on tattoo artists
Four people were arrested this week when the Ecocrime Agency (EMB) raided tattooists in Norrbotten, the agency writes.
The police’s task force, the Tax Agency as well as EBM’s staff participated in what is described as extensive house searches at ten addresses in Luleå, Umeå and Linköping.
“We assess that the tattoo businesses that are the subject of our preliminary investigation have connections to serious organized crime,” says chamber prosecutor Mikael Bäckström at EBM. (TT)
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There was a loose cow on the road outside Nässjö. Contrast to all the news from around the world.
Barbro Barbro
Hi Barbara! Thanks for the info! Sometimes we actually write about animals on roads if they are road hazards.
Expressen examines Botkyrka, what does AB do?
It feels serious what is happening and has happened there.
Man
Hey man! Then you have missed that we were the first with the news and that we then continued to report continuously on the development in a series of articles. I count about fifteen articles, if you don’t count debate articles. Here you can find them.
Regarding the terrorist threat against Sweden, you have written in an article that several countries are preparing a warning against traveling to Sweden, according to information.
Feels like a very scary development.
Can you provide more info on this please?
Giulia
Hi Giulia! I understand that it feels scary. At the moment, we do not have more information than what we have written about, but we will of course continue to follow up on our reporting. However, I think that it can be reassuring that Säpo is aware of threats directed at Sweden and that the police have initiated a special event to keep extra surveillance in relevant places.
Don’t you get mentally ill from such sad news you publish?
Marie
Nah. Of course it can feel heavy, but above all it is important to report on difficult things happening in the world.
Then we write about a lot of exciting and pleasant things too. The mix is the best!
Was baby Aya born in Turkey or Syria in the Turkey-Syria earthquake? You at Aftonbladet write Turkey and Expressen writes Syria. Just a wonder on my part
Marie-Louise
Little Aya was born in the city of Jindayris in northern Syria – as it says in our article and also in the Express as far as I can see!
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