UN: Hunger could affect 19 million in Sudan
The conflict in Sudan continues and hundreds of thousands of people have fled the country.
Now the UN is warning that the conflict could lead to 19 million people in the country suffering from hunger and malnutrition in the coming months.
The World Food Programme, which is the UN’s food programme, estimates that the number of people in Sudan who will be affected by acute food shortages will increase by between 2 and 2.5 million people.
“That brings the number to a total of 19 million people over the next three to six months if the current conflict continues,” Farhan Haq, spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres, said in a statement.
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Russian director accused of justifying terrorism
Russian director Yevgeniya Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petrijtyuk have been arrested on charges of “justifying terrorism”, TT reports.
They risk up to seven years in prison after staging a play about Russian women who are recruited through marriage to radical Islamists in Syria.
The arrest has provoked strong reactions among Russian cultural figures who have protested, despite the risk of being taken into custody.
Police stopped car – found several weapons
During the evening, the police stopped a car on Huddingevängen in Stockholm.
Two men in their 20s and a boy in their 15s were in the car.
When the persons were to be searched and the car checked, several firearms were found.
All were arrested on suspicion of serious weapons offences.
The President: Serbia must be disarmed
Serbia has been rocked by two mass shootings in two days with at least 17 dead.
Now President Aleksandar Vucic promises measures, writes The Guardian.
Both registered and illegal weapons found are to be disposed of in what he calls an “almost total disarmament of Serbia”.
The goal is to reduce gun ownership by 90 percent. Today, there are over 760,000 registered weapons in the country.
They will also issue a time-limited amnesty so that people can hand in illegal weapons without consequences.
The verdict against Ola Bini is being appealed
Ola Bini was acquitted of data breach charges in February. Photo: Dolores Ochoa/AP
Swedish programmer Ola Bini was acquitted of data breach charges in Ecuador in February.
But now the sentence has been appealed by the country’s prosecutor and Bini cannot leave the country, reports Echo with reference to Bini’s contact persons in Sweden.
– I would like to be hopeful, but realistically I will be stuck in this situation for a number of more years, he tells Ekot.
This means that the legal process, which has already been ongoing for a long time, may continue for a few more years.
Bini was arrested at Quito airport in 2019 when he was about to board a flight to Japan.
Hundreds dead after floods
At least 176 people have died after floods in South Kivu province of Congo-Kinshasa, reports Reuters.
Heavy rain has led to destroyed buildings and flooded rivers in the area.
Additional people are still missing.
Russia: Children and the elderly should evacuate
A man with a child in front of the ruins of the Sunrise Park Hotel in Zaporizhia. The picture is from today. Photo: Andriyenko Andriy/AP
Russia calls for the evacuation of families with children and the elderly in Russian-occupied areas near the war front in Ukraine.
This is reported by Norwegian NTB.
The reason is said to be an escalation of Ukrainian airstrikes.
People with disabilities and people in hospitals should also be evacuated, writes Yevgeny Balitsky, the Russian-installed governor of the Zaporizhzhya region, on Telegram.
Teenager arrested after knife attack at school
Two people were injured in a knife attack at a school on Wednesday. Photo: Andreas Bardell
On Wednesday, a teenager attacked a school in Grimsta with a knife, two people were injured.
The teenager was arrested on the spot, and has now been detained on probable cause on suspicion of two counts of unlawful threats.
Here you can read more about the attack on Grimstaskolan.
Person found dead in Arvika
A person has been found dead in a forest area in Arvika municipality.
Just before 2 pm on Friday afternoon, the police announced that they had opened a preliminary investigation into murder.
– Circumstances surrounding the death mean that we cannot rule out murder, says Lars Hedelin, press spokesperson for the police in the Bergslagen region.
The location where the body was found is cordoned off and will be examined by police technicians.
The dead person has not yet been identified.
WHO: Corona pandemic no longer a global health crisis
WHO Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Photo: Martial Trezzini/AP/TT
The World Health Organization WHO announces that covid-19 no longer constitutes a global emergency, TT reports.
Recently, the WHO also announced that the number of deaths from covid-19 has decreased by 95 percent since the turn of the year, writes AFP.
Covid-19 was described as a pandemic by the WHO for the first time in March 2020.
Read more here.
Forssell: Do like Poland – throw them out
The Liberals’ foreign policy spokesperson Joar Forssell. Photo: Henrik Montgomery/TT
Russia has continued to use a house on Lidingö in Stockholm that they have not owned for almost ten years. According to SVT has the house used by suspected spies.
Something that the Liberals’ foreign policy spokesperson Joar Forssell is very critical of.
– This cannot be accepted, you have to put hard against hard, he says to SVT.
He thinks that Sweden should do like Poland.
– Take the house back from Russia and throw out those who are there, he says.
Foreign Minister Tobias Billström has said that the house must be protected as diplomats live there and that the people staying there are treated with dignity.
Three cars in a collision
Three cars are involved in a collision on the Angeredsbron in Gothenburg, writes GP.
According to the newspaper, queues have formed across the bridge and emergency services, police and ambulance have been sent to the scene.
18-year-old wanted in custody after stabbing
An 18-year-old is wanted in custody after a knife attack at a school. Photo: Anderas Bardell
The man who is suspected of the knife attack at Grimstaskolan in western Stockholm on Wednesday has been requested to be detained, reports SVT News Stockholm.
The 18-year-old suspect entered the school grounds at lunchtime and when school staff tried to stop him, two people were injured.
The custody hearing will be held at 3.30pm on Friday.
Read more here.
Long prison terms for gang criminals
Several people have been sentenced to long prison terms in the Uppsala District Court.
The defendants have all been part of organized crime in one way or another.
The evidence in the cases comes mainly from analyzes of messages in the encrypted chat services Encrochat and SkyECC.
Two of the convicts receive close to thirteen years in prison for both extremely serious drug offenses and preparation for murder.
Johanna Leshem Jansson is appealing the life sentence
Lawyer Clea Sangborn defends convicted murderer Johanna Leshem Jansson (inset). Photo: TT/Police
The 20-year-old’s lawyer Clea Sangborn has submitted an appeal to the Göta Court of Appeal, according to SVT.
In the appeal, Sangborn demands that Johanna Leshem Jansson be acquitted of suspicion of murder. This after she was sentenced for the murder of 21-year-old Tove in Vetlanda.
Sangborn questions the cause of death and the coroner’s credibility.
She also writes that it is strange that the district court considers that her client is credible in some parts of her story, and not credible in other parts.
Read more here.
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Jennifer
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Why don’t you write anything about food prices? Are you bought by the food companies?
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Why don’t you write anything about shooting in Belgrade????
Ana
We certainly haven’t missed that! Here you can read a whole article about the event in Serbia!
Interesting, I had no idea they make champagne in Kalix…
Always learn something new from you Ab..
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Maat.
Huh! Don’t you know the famous Kalix champagne?!
Joking aside. Have changed the notice so that it will be clearer what is meant ;)!
What are the rules now with loose dogs?
Saw on my walk a dog running around in a paddock and a bird flying around and screaming. It probably has young or eggs in the grass.
Isn’t it tethered now?
Was it the case that the incredibly obedient dogs are allowed to go loose but then at most one leash length from the owner?
Want to be able to show the owner the correct letter when it happens again.
Stephen
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