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Northvolt will move operations from California to its Labs facility outside Västerås. Archive image. Photo: Ali Lorestani/TT
The battery manufacturer Northvolt is to move the development of what the company calls next-generation lithium battery technology from California to Västerås, according to a press release.
It will be the already existing research and development department at Northvolt Labs in Västerås that will be responsible. According to the company, the change is being made to gather all development and research on battery cells in one place, a facility where the company can benefit from expertise and opportunities that are “unparalleled in the Western world”.
THREE NEWS YOU CAN’T MISS
Kamala Harris took the stage in an unannounced appearance as the Democratic Convention opened its doors on Monday. Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP/TT
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris wasn’t actually scheduled to appear at the party’s convention until Thursday.
But ahead of President Joe Biden’s planned Monday speech, she made an unannounced appearance.
– Joe, thank you for your historic leadership, for your lifelong commitment to the service of the nation, and for all that you will continue to accomplish. We are eternally grateful, Harris said.
Iran was behind the cyber attack on the Trump campaign that became known earlier in August, the FBI and several other federal agencies said.
According to the statement, the attack is part of a broader strategy by Tehran, which aims to influence American policy and undermine trust in democratic institutions.
Iran is also said to have attempted to carry out attacks against Kamala Harris’s campaign.
A man in his 20s was found during the night of Tuesday with suspected knife wounds in Partille outside Gothenburg. He has been taken to hospital with injuries not considered life-threatening, according to the police.
A preliminary investigation into attempted murder has been launched. No one is arrested.
Musk and Trump at a White House meeting in 2017. Photo: Evan Vucci / AP
If he wins the election in November, Donald Trump is ready to give Elon Musk a post as a minister or adviser.
This is what the ex-president says in an interview with Reuters – with a caveat:
– If he agrees to it.
Elon Musk – who owns Tesla, Space X and X – has become increasingly vocal as a Trump supporter during the year.
Earlier this summer, he was said to be planning to contribute $45 million a month to the election campaign – something he later denied.
However, confirmed according to The Guardianhe that he had formed a donor organization for “lower level” donations.
One person has been pinned down after rocks fell at a power station in Västerbotten.
The alarm came in at 10pm on Monday.
– One person got a large rock over both legs and got stuck, says Lena Andersson, line operator at the rescue service.
According to SOS, an ambulance has been called to the scene.
– We have been able to help the person so the person is no longer stuck, says Lena Andersson.
The person’s injury status is unclear.
According to TT, the person did not need to be taken to hospital.
Impeached Congressman George Santos on his way to the courtroom in New York. Photo: Stefan Jeremiah/AP/TT
Former US Congressman George Santos has pleaded guilty to two felony counts. Santos, who represented New York state in the U.S. House of Representatives, pleaded guilty to fraud and identity theft at a pretrial hearing in Central Islip, Long Island.
A trial against him was scheduled for the beginning of September, which he will now probably avoid.
Santos will be sentenced early next year, he faces up to six years in prison.
Controversial Republican Santos was expelled from the US House of Representatives last December after an audit found “overwhelming evidence” of lies and financial manipulation.
Louise Erickson. Photo: Krister Hansson
The entire board of the Sweden Democrats in Sölvesborg is resigning, BLT reports.
The message will be a meeting on Sunday.
Group leader Louise Erixon hails the decision because she believes the board is the answer to the fiasco in the EU elections.
– At the same time, I want to point out that we consider it both honorable and humble of the board to listen to the criticism by now leaving their seats available. They have my deepest respect for that decision, she tells the newspaper and continues:
– The board was responsible for organizing the election campaign and that they did not fulfill that mission in a satisfactory manner.
According to information to BLT, the defection is not due to the low election result – but to the fact that the group leader is back from maternity leave and that harsh words are said to have been handed out at Sunday’s meeting.
– They thought it was enough with the crap they had to take on Sunday and decided collectively to drop out, says the source to BLT.
Going forward, the district will step in as a board.
A woman in a refugee camp near Goma suspects that she has been infected with the mpox virus. Archive image. Photo: Moses Sawasawa/AP/TT
Congo-Kinshasa will be able to expand vaccination against mpox next week. Then the first doses of a vaccine will arrive in the country, state the health authorities.
The country has reported more than 15,600 cases, which is 96 percent of all known cases in the world. In addition, the number of darkness is believed to be large.
Health Minister Roger Kamba says that Congo-Kinshasa needs at least three million doses, but it is unclear how many will arrive in the first stage.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) and Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in a previous meeting. Archive image. Photo: Evelyn Hockstein/Pool via AP/TT
Israel and the United States are to cooperate to bring about a mass vaccination of residents of Gaza against polio. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters in Tel Aviv.
– I estimate that we can get started with a plan to do this within the next few weeks, said Blinken and continued:
– It is urgent. It is life-changing.
The UN has already drawn up a plan to vaccinate children against polio in the Gaza Strip, which could start before the end of the month. But to succeed with a necessary vaccination, a ceasefire must be declared in two rounds of one week each, UN Secretary-General António Guterres believes.
There are about 640,000 children in Gaza; the first confirmed polio case was discovered late last week.
An Israeli projectile strikes in southern Lebanon near the border with Israel earlier in August. Photo: Leo Correa/AP/TT
Sources within the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement said on Monday that the Israeli military attacked one of the movement’s weapons depots located in eastern Lebanon, far from Lebanon’s southern border with Israel.
The attack was carried out against three targets in the Bekaa region, but quite far from the border area where Israel and the militia movement Hezbollah are involved in almost daily clashes.
The data has not been commented on by the Israeli military.
On Monday, an Israeli soldier was reportedly killed by a drone in northwestern Israel. The Islamist militia Hezbollah said drone strikes were carried out against two Israeli military bases, and that two Hezbollah militiamen were killed in Israeli strikes.
At 19:00, the police were called to Haninge outside Stockholm due to people who were in a fight in Haninge.
– According to initial information, it is about 15 people, says Anna Westberg, press spokesperson at the police.
It is unclear what the people were arguing about.
– When we arrived at the scene, several people ran, so we have had an operation in the area and looked for the people.
According to the police, two people have been taken to hospital.
Eight men have been arrested and the police are investigating the incident as assault.
– Some people must have had knives. We are trying to sort this out and will hold interviews. I can’t go into more about what it’s about, but what we know at the moment is that it’s not some kind of hooligan fight.
A taxi driver has died after a traffic accident in Gothenburg.
The accident happened at 2 p.m.
The man drove into a lamppost and overturned.
He was in his 70s and suffered an acute illness.
Relatives have been notified.
A truck and a car have collided on Dalbyvägen in Lund, the police announce.
The driver of the car, a man in his 80s, was taken to hospital by ambulance.
The road towards central Lund is closed.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in Tel Aviv on Sunday. Photo: Kevin Mohatt
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has given his approval to the US plan for a ceasefire in the war in Gaza.
This is what US Foreign Minister Antony Blinken says after his meeting with the Prime Minister, a meeting both described as constructive.
– Netanyahu confirmed that Israel accepts our proposal. He stands behind it. Now it is up to Hamas to do the same, Blinken told journalists in Tel Aviv.
Ceasefire talks are expected to continue in Cairo on Tuesday.
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