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A VMA has been issued because there is a fire in a sawmill near Kalix.

There is heavy smoke development as a result.

The rescue leader urges everyone in the area to go indoors and close doors, windows and ventilation.

For more information, listen to Sweden’s Radio P4 Norrbotten.

Storm Boris has swept across Europe and created problems for the past week with wind and torrential rain.

Now over 1,000 people have been evacuated from northern Italy, write SVT.

Schools and authorities are closed and a large part of the train service has been cancelled.

Several people have died as a result of the storm in Romania, Austria, the Czech Republic and Poland.

An older model of the JAMSS-type robot that the US may be about to supply Ukraine with. The robot can be hung on the US-made F16 planes that Ukraine received from countries in Europe. Archive image. Photo: Alik Keplicz/AP/TT

The United States is considering medium-range robots to Ukraine for the F16 plane that the country received from countries in Europe, reports Politico.

The robot model Jamss can be used against targets at a distance of up to 110 kilometers. That would make it easier for Ukraine’s warplanes to hit targets some distance into Russia without risking being shot down.

No decision has been made, but the robots could be part of a $375 million package of arms support that is expected to be presented soon.

Ibrahim Aqil. Photo: Hezbollah’s media department via AP/TT

The Iran-backed Shia militia Hezbollah confirms Israeli reports that a high-ranking commander, Ibrahim Aqil, was killed in Israel’s attack on an area in the Lebanese capital Beirut.

Aqil was part of the leadership of Hezbollah’s military branch, the Jihad Council.

He was wanted and sanctioned by the United States for connection, among other things, to the 1983 bombing of the US embassy and a US Marine Corps facility in Beirut, killing 300 people.

Rayne Beau the cat. Photo: Alexandra Betts via AP/TT

Cat Rayne Beau became frightened and disappeared into a wooded area during a camping trip in Yellowstone National Park in June. After four days of searching, his owner was forced to give up and went home to Salinas, California.

Two months later, they received an unlikely call: Rayne Beau had been found in the town of Roseville, about a 3.5-hour drive from the couple’s home.

How the little gray cat survived the nearly 150-mile trek from Wyoming to California remains a mystery. His owner thinks he was trying to get home.

– I really think he did the hike mostly on his own. His paws were in poor condition, he had lost 40 percent of his body weight and he had very low protein levels due to inadequate nutritional intake. So he doesn’t seem to have been cared for by anyone, says the cat’s mother Susanne Anguiano.

After 13 years, the state of South Carolina in the American South has resumed executions. First, a 46-year-old was convicted of a murder in 1997.

The long pause is due to the fact that the authorities could not obtain preparations that were allowed to be used in executions by injection.

According to the new regulations decided during the break, a death row inmate can choose the method of his execution – injection, arquebusing or the electric chair. The now executed person let his lawyer choose.

The Taliban have stopped door-knocking vaccinations in Afghanistan, according to sources The Guardian.

The reason must be, among other things, that it is women who carry out the vaccinations.

The Taliban instead want the vaccinations to take place in mosques and for families to take their children there themselves.

– This is very bad news. Without the door-knocking campaign, we will not be able to reach our goals. It puts the whole country in danger, says an anonymous source with insight into the work.

There is now great concern about an outbreak of polio in the country. The WHO has confirmed 18 cases so far this year, which is a big increase from six cases in total in all of 2023.

According to local health workers, the number of real cases could be many more.

The shot polar bear Photo: Ingvar Jakobsson/AP

A polar bear that probably drifted ashore from Greenland on an iceberg has been shot dead by Icelandic police, Icelandic Rúv reports.

It was Thursday that a homeowner alerted the police that a polar bear was on the person’s property on the Westfjords peninsula in northwestern Iceland.

The police went out by helicopter and they saw the polar bear on a beach. A decision was made to euthanize the animal in consultation with the environmental authority.

According to Rúv, there have been quite a few icebergs off the coast of the Westfjords in recent weeks, and it is possible that the polar bear traveled on one of these all the way from Greenland.

Police say they had no choice but to euthanize the bear.

The coast guard has transported the polar bear to Reykjavik where it will be further examined by the Institute of Natural History.

Shortly after 9 p.m., the police were called to Stadsparken in Borås.

There, a man had approached three 18-year-old friends.

– This man comes forward and allegedly molested one of the women. When they tell him to stop, he has become threatening and pulled out a knife or at least a knife-like object, says police spokesperson Jens Andersson.

The man forced the woman’s cell phone and fled the scene on foot.

– We are working there with dogs and patrols and looking for the man and talking to witnesses.

An accident occurred at Forsmark’s nuclear power plant on Friday morning, writes Gefle Daily.

One person was seriously injured in connection with welding work.

– It is such a serious accident that we called the emergency services, and the person was taken to hospital by ambulance helicopter, says Anna Ek, deputy press manager at Forsmark, to the newspaper.

They have convened a crisis support group for the staff and launched an internal investigation into the accident.

The police found out about the incident during the afternoon, and would go out to the nuclear power plant during the evening.

At 19.42 the police were alerted to Gårda in Gothenburg.

A man in his 20s was found there with cuts on his arms. The man was taken to hospital by ambulance. His injuries should not be life-threatening.

According to the police, there were four masked perpetrators who fled in a car after the incident.

The signal element on the car has been alerted to the patrols who are working.

Just before 10 p.m., no one was arrested.

– However, we have confiscated the plaintiff’s car, because it could be the scene of the crime, says police spokesperson Jens Andersson.

A man in his 50s has died after a car accident outside Edsbyn.

The accident happened at 3.30 pm on Friday. The man was taken by ambulance to hospital but his life could not be saved.

Relatives have been notified.

Several police patrols were alerted today to an address in Dals-Ed where an injured man was found.

He was taken to hospital by ambulance, condition of injuries unclear.

A woman was also in the home.

She was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. That’s what the police in the west region write.

The police are currently conducting witness interviews and other initial investigative measures at the scene.

The residence is cordoned off for a technical examination.

Amortization requirements on mortgages may be lowered. That’s what SvD writes.

John Hassler, professor of macroeconomics at Stockholm University, has a government assignment to submit a proposal in just over a month.

He believes that there will be slightly easier rules.

– I will come at the beginning of November with a proposal for relief.