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Hungary will vote on Swedish and Finnish NATO membership early in March, the parliament confirms according to AFP.

The issue will be on the agenda during the parliament’s session, which will be held March 6-9.

Two cars have collided on road 75 at Årstalänken.

– A person complains of pain, but it is unclear what kind of pain. The ambulance is here now, says the rescue service’s management operator Oscar Davila.

According to the Swedish Transport Administration, the accident has a very large impact on traffic.

– It is completely still on the Essingeleden, says a person who is in the queues.

The actress Kerstin Tidelius, 88, is dead.

The family says so Gothenburg Post.

Tidelius died after a period of illness. Among other things, she was active in Gothenburg’s city theater ensemble and appeared in SVT’s long-running “Hem till byn”.

Noa’s former head of intelligence, Linda Staaf, believes that she has been vindicated in the investigation into the police mess.

– I deserved my job, she tells TT.

However, she had expected better backing from the police management.

– I feel that from a management perspective I was alone in this situation, she says.

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A parking attendant assigned a parking fine to a car owner in Uppsala. The car owner then attacked the parking attendant and slapped him in the face.

The parking attendant was taken to hospital with the help of the police, but without visible physical injuries.

The police have drawn up a report of threats/violence against an official.

Shortly after lunch, the police began a search operation after several people escaped from an address in Rimbo in Norrtälje municipality.

– We were there to assist the Bailiff in a matter. But when we arrived at the scene, a number of people fled. We looked for them and were finally able to arrest two people, says Daniel Wikdahl, press spokesperson at the police.

He says that one of the people was released later on Wednesday. However, he is tight-lipped about the incident and what the people are suspected of.

According to information to Aftonbladet, the people must have fled a “drug factory”. Which Wikdahl neither wants to confirm nor deny.

– I can’t say anything more than that we have been there with the Bailiff, he says.

A VMA, important notice to the public, is issued for Gällö in Bräcke municipality due to a fire with heavy smoke development in a villa.

– There are no indications that anyone should remain in the building. There is also no information that anyone is injured, says Viktor Brandt at the rescue service in Jämtland.

People in the area are asked to go indoors and close doors, windows and ventilation.

The emergency services have decided to let the building burn down.

The police have launched a preliminary investigation into arson and a person has been arrested.

– It is the circumstances of this case that make us investigate arson, says Maria Linné at the police.

Ulf Kristersson (M) has a press conference with Finnish President Sauli Niinistö and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.

They have met to, among other things, talk about the war in Ukraine and Finland’s and Sweden’s applications to join NATO.

But they also talked about their joint work in the Northern Hemisphere – and how it is affected by the NATO application.

– When Sweden and Finland become NATO members, it will be the first time in 500 years that our three countries will have a common defense. It is a historic event, says Kristersson.

A soldier from K 4 in Arvidsjaur died when an avalanche hit Kebnekaise on Tuesday.

The avalanche occurred in connection with an exercise in which several soldiers participated.

In a notification to the Work Environment Agency, the Swedish Armed Forces write that the man was walking on the ridge of Nordtoppen when a small release of snow took place, writes NSD.

“He then stumbles and a larger flat comes loose and he slides down and then falls and then a larger avalanche joins the fall,” the report says.

Two people are suspected of the murder of a man in his 20s in central Malmö on Tuesday, writes TT and refers to Skånska Dagbladet.

Both men are reasonably suspected of murder and attempted murder.

Two more people have been arrested. One of them is, on probable grounds, suspected of aggravated robbery and aggravated weapons offences. The fourth person is suspected of aiding and abetting aggravated robbery, the newspaper writes.

– Regarding gender, I don’t want to comment. There are four people. They are of different ages. All four are not the same age, says prosecutor Elena Severin to Skånska Dagbladet.

The center party wants to see a higher daily allowance for refugees from Ukraine through an amendment to the mass migration directive. The current daily allowance of SEK 71 is to be increased to SEK 132.

– SEK 71 is shamefully little for such a vulnerable group of people. We must prepare for the fact that the war may be prolonged and we must therefore also make it possible for all Ukrainian refugees to have the opportunity to learn Swedish, says Jonny Cato, migration policy spokesperson for the Center Party.

The center wants everyone who fled Ukraine to have the right to SFI, and they also want the government to follow up on reports that Ukrainian refugees have ended up in insecurity in Sweden, including information about unaccompanied children who have ended up in a sect in Höör.

– We are presenting this today, and will try to push it through various processes, but above all we hope that the government accepts the outstretched hand. There can be no conflict in this, says Jonny Cato.