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Right now there is a stop in the train traffic between Arboga and Örebro due to an electrical fault, writes the Swedish Transport Agency on its website.

At the moment, there is no forecast for when traffic can resume.

According to SJ, a fault finding is underway.

Here you can see which stations are affected by the stop.

On New Year’s Eve, the new year would be celebrated with fireworks in the inner harbor in Örnsköldsvik.

But it is canceled after the organizers received several threats, reports Örnsköldsvik’s Allehanda.

“Very unpleasant that people who want to make a nice event for 95 percent of Örnsköldsvik’s citizens are threatened. Umeå and Sundsvall shoot at full blast, but in Örnsköldsvik there will be no collected, nice, well-ordered fireworks this year. Even though everything was within laws and regulations,” writes the organizer Jörgen Schulze in a text message to the newspaper.

The future looks pitch black for animal life on Earth.

At best, 10-15 percent of all animal species will have died out by the year 2100 – assuming global warming and habitat destruction are curbed.

If we continue as we do today, 30 percent of animal species risk extinction.

This is shown by two new studies, writes TT.

The studies show that thousands of animal species are in the scales. The researchers have evaluated the situation of roughly 87,000 animal species – of which 3,877 are classified as acutely threatened.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says in his New Year’s speech that countries in the West are “using” Ukraine as a tool to destroy Russia, writes Reuters.

The speech was broadcast on state TV and Putin talked about Russia “will never give way” to the countries in the West.

He also accused countries of lying to Russia and “provoking” the invasion of Ukraine.

The family-owned candy manufacturer Bubs is bought by the Norwegian food giant Orkla, writes Gothenburg Post.

Bubs manufactures some of the country’s most popular candies – not least the classic raspberry licorice shell.

The journey began in Huskvarna in Småland in 1992 when Ulrik Lindström started candy production together with his older brother and his parents.

The name Bubs comes from the family members Bernt, Ulrik, Birgitta and Stefan.

The movement has grown strongly over the years and had a turnover of 211 million in the last financial year.

– It has been a fantastically fun trip, but in the end we got a little fed up with all the investing. The downside is that the responsibility increases the better it goes, says Ulrik Lindström, production manager, to Göteborgs-Posten.

The price for the sale is kept secret by the parties.

Several explosions have been heard in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, reports AFP.

According to Reuters, witnesses say they heard ten explosions.

“There are explosions in Kyiv. Stay in the shelters!” writes the city’s mayor Vitaly Klitschko on Telegram.

At least one person has been killed and several others have been injured in Kyiv, according to Vitaly Klytchko.

At lunchtime, the flight alert was set off throughout the country.

At lunchtime, a fire started on a balcony in Farsta södra Stockholm.

The fire brigade went out. On site, it is established that the plastic chair that caught fire was extinguished by the tenants.

The cause of the fire is probably fireworks, according to the police.

The rescue service says there is information that a New Year’s rocket has hit the balcony.

On the night of New Year’s Eve, the bells in Lund’s cathedral suddenly began to ring.

The church bells rang for several hours. The Church does not know why.

– Of course we are very sad, this shouldn’t happen, says cathedral planner Lena Sjöstrand South Sweden.

Sleepless residents contacted local media and the police.

The cathedral was informed at 03:00.

– We rushed out as soon as we got the message and stopped them. And we are now investigating what is behind it, says Lena Sjöstrand.

A 75-year-old man has died after an apartment fire in Helsingborg.

SOS was alerted to the fire at 11.14 today.

The emergency services have been on site with several units.

– We have had an apartment fire in a kitchen on the fifth floor, says Jonas Hemert, officer on duty at the rescue service.

The fire should now be out. The man was found in the apartment when the emergency services arrived.

– One person has been found and the extent of the damage is unclear, says Jonas Hemert.

The man’s next of kin have been notified.

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

The former Pope Benedict XVI is dead, the Vatican writes in a statement.

Recently, the former pope’s health has deteriorated.

He lived to be 95 years old.

Elon Musk became the second person ever to amass a fortune of over $200 billion.

Now reporting Bloomberg that the entrepreneur will be the first in the world to get rid of 200 billion dollars.

The 51-year-old is currently worth $137 billion, a figure that has been greatly affected by the collapse of the Tesla stock in recent weeks.

Musk himself has dismissed speculation that the company is doing badly.

“Tesla is doing better than ever” he wrote on Twitter in mid-December and instead pointed out that the interest rate increases had a negative impact on business.