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  • Several injured in attack on Kharkiv

    At least nine people have been injured in a Russian attack on the large city of Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine late Sunday night, local authorities said.

    Residential buildings, a gas station and high-voltage power lines have been hit in three different neighborhoods, according to Mayor Ihor Terechov.

    Power has been cut in parts of the city as a result of the attacks.

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  • Moldova: Leaning towards no EU rapprochement

    Voting in Moldova’s capital Chisinau on Sunday. Photo: Vadim Ghirda/AP/TT

    It appears to be leaning towards a no in the referendum in Moldova on writing the aspiration for EU membership into the constitution. If so, it is a major setback for President Maia Sandu.

    Opinion polls ahead of Sunday’s referendum, and presidential election, pointed towards a yes to the EU path. But when just over 90 percent of the votes were counted, the no side led with 53.5 percent against 46.4 for a yes, according to the central election commission’s website.

    As well as the White House, the EU Parliament and Moldovan authorities have pointed out that Moscow is trying to influence the election and steer the country away from the EU and the West.

  • Locals stormed Tenerife beach

    Demonstration on Fuerteventura earlier this year. Photo: Europa Press/AP

    Hundreds of people turned out in protest on a popular beach in Tenerife on Sunday, reports say Daily Mail.

    Vacationers had to huddle in their towels while the locals showed their displeasure with mass tourism.

    Many held up placards with messages such as “The Canary Islands are not for sale”, while others beat drums and blew whistles.

    Demonstrations were also held elsewhere in the Canary Islands on Sunday. It comes after a summer where there have been scores of protests in the Spanish holiday resorts.

    Many people think that the long-term tourists in particular take too much of the resources and push up accommodation prices.

  • A seriously injured person after a single vehicle accident

    Four people in their early teens have been taken to hospital after a single vehicle accident in Grödinge outside Södertälje.

    – One of them is badly injured, says Matthias Wikland, officer on duty at the rescue service.

    It was a car that ran into a tree at 10 p.m.

    – We don’t know how the accident happened yet.

    Police were also at the scene.

    – There is no suspicion of crime, says Niklas Berglund, press spokesperson at the police.

    The text is updated.

  • Hugging limits are introduced at the airport

    Do you want to say a fond farewell at Dunedin Airport in New Zealand?

    Then it is important to plan.

    Recently, the airport put up a sign stating that you can hug for a maximum of three minutes in the drop-off zone, writes CNN.

    “For a more tender farewell, use the parking lot,” reads the sign.

    There you can say goodbye for a whole quarter of an hour – for free and as lovingly as you want.

    The hug limit has sparked debate. But the airport’s CEO Daniel De Bono tells the radio channel RNZ that research has shown that it is enough to hug for 20 seconds to secrete the “love hormone” oxytocin – and that the rapid turnover of customers means that more people have time to embrace each other.

  • High-ranking Israeli officer killed

    Israeli commander Ehsan Daxa has been killed by an explosive device in northern Gaza, The Jerusalem Post reported with reference to the IDF on Sunday evening.

    He is the highest-ranking Israeli officer killed since Israel began its ground invasion of Gaza at the end of October last year, they write.

  • Former SR journalist killed in Somalia

    Amun Abdullahi, a longtime Swedish Radio employee, has been killed in Somalia according to information Echo.

    According to the channel’s sources, she must have been shot dead by masked men.

    Amun Abdullah was awarded the Publicistklubben’s freedom of expression award in memory of Anna Politkovskaja in 2010. She has also been nominated for the Golden Pad.

  • Massive crash on the E4 – one injured

    Four cars have collided on the E4 near Nyköping.

    One person is injured out of the eight involved in the accident.

    – An ambulance is on the scene, but I’m not sure if they have taken anyone to hospital. I don’t know anything about the status of the injured, says Mathias Wikland, officer on duty at the rescue service.

    The road was completely closed in the southbound direction, but now one lane is open to traffic.

    – We hope to be ready by 21, that was the latest forecast.

  • DI learns: The Ecocrime Authority can be shut down

    Government investigator Stefan Strömberg wants to dismantle the eco-crime authority and let the police take over the fight against eco-crime, Dagens industri learns.

    – We have presented our opinion, but Strömberg seems to have already made up his mind, says Henrik Lundin, at the academic association Saco, to the newspaper.

  • Crash on the E22 – one to hospital

    A car and a motorcycle collided on Sunday evening on the E22 outside Lund, the police write on their website.

    The motorcyclist was taken to hospital by ambulance.

    The person driving the car was able to drive himself from the scene.

    The police were on the scene to investigate how the accident happened.

  • The star is expecting her second child

    Actress Jennifer Lawrence is expecting her second child with love Cooke Maroney.

    This is confirmed by a spokesperson for Vogue. The newspaper writes that the star was seen in Los Angeles with a bullet on his stomach.

    The Oscar-winning actor is known, among other things, for having played Katniss Everdeen in the “Hunger Games” films.

  • The police are investigating suspected rape in Enköping

    Just before midnight on the night of Sunday, the police in Enköping received an alarm that a woman had been raped outdoors in central Enköping.

    The area where the crime allegedly took place was cordoned off and police dogs searched for tracks. The police have started a preliminary investigation, but have no suspects, says Daniel Winge at Polisen region Mitt.

    – We have worked with tracking and interrogation. Then I cannot comment on what we are doing more operationally at the moment, says Daniel Winge.

  • Lebanese soldiers killed in Israeli attack

    Smoke rises into the sky after an Israeli attack on the Beirut suburb of al-Dahiya. Photo: Hussein Malla

    Israel’s two-front war continues to rage on Sunday after several explosions rocked Beirut and other areas of Lebanon.

    Three soldiers from the Lebanese military have also been killed in an Israeli attack.

    Lebanon’s military is not part of the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.

    Since the conflict escalated in September, a total of eight Lebanese soldiers have been killed.

    Hezbollah has responded to Sunday’s attacks by firing a barrage of rockets at Israel.

    In the space of three minutes, around 70 projectiles were fired at Israel from Lebanon, according to Israel’s military. Several of them were shot down by anti-aircraft fire, while others crashed in open terrain.

  • Man arrested after cookie poisoning

    A 19-year-old man has been detained on probable cause on suspicion of aggravated assault in nine cases after a family was poisoned with hashish cookies in Karlskrona earlier this week.

    It appears according to documents from the district court.

    Among other things, two children who ingested the cookies received treatment in an intensive care unit and were treated for serious injuries. Seven of the people managed easily.

    The prosecutor has to BLT said that the man came up with a new version of what happened and says that the 19-year-old said that he lied earlier.

    – It contradicts what the plaintiff says, and I need to take more investigative measures, says Lena–Marie Bergström, senior prosecutor to the newspaper.

  • Teenager arrested for murder of man

    An 18-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of a man in his 20s in Osby, reports Kristianstadsbladet.

    The man was arrested near the crime scene during the night of Thursday. Suspicions were lower at the time, but since the arrest on Sunday have been strengthened and the teenager is a suspect on probable grounds for the murder.

    The man denies any wrongdoing.

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