Finland wants Sweden to lead a NATO force in northern Finland. The Swedish government is positive, but no decision has been made. This was announced by Sweden’s Minister of Defense Pål Jonson (M) and his Finnish colleague Antti Häkkänen at a press conference today.
It is about a forward-based ground force that within NATO is called FLF (Forward Land Forces), which Sweden is therefore proposed to lead.
– We are at an early stage of the process, says Pål Jonson.
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Russia says it has retaken two villages in Russian Kursk, where Ukraine launched a surprise offensive in August.
According to the Ministry of Defense in Moscow, these are Uspenovka and Borki. The information comes at the same time as Russia is said to be starting a counter-offensive in the area.
Demonstrators outside the court in Avignon support Gisele Pelicot who was drugged and raped by a large number of men – on the orders of her husband. Photo: Michel Euler/AP/TT
The trial in which the Frenchman Dominique Pélicot, who is accused of drugging his wife and letting men prey on her, is paused. This as he is too ill to come to court.
It is the 71-year-old Dominique Pélicot, who largely confessed to the crimes, who cannot appear in court because of problems with the bladder and an incipient kidney infection, AFP reports.
The trial against Dominique Pélicot and 50 other men suspected of assaulting 72-year-old Gisèle Pélicot began on September 2 and is expected to last four months. Several of the defendants risk 20 years in prison for aggravated rape.
In the evidence submitted, there are thousands of pictures and videos showing how over 70 different men raped her – abuse that took place over a ten-year period. The defendants are aged 22 to Show more
During Monday, several customers had problems logging into Nordea’s banking services.
– Some may experience difficulties logging into the app and we are currently focusing on solving the problem, says Hugo Laigar, press communicator at Nordea.
It is still unclear when Nordea’s services will function as usual again.
The coast guard is collecting and towing about ten small boats in Hjulstafjärden, the police report.
The police write that the boats were “floating in the bay” after probably being stolen.
Before they were released into the water outside Enköping, they had been towed behind a tugboat. That boat cut off its cargo after being spotted by the Coast Guard.
The police are now urging boat owners in the area around Enköping, Märsön and Grönsö to check their boats.
Fortum pauses the collaboration with Effective Communication. Archive image. Photo: Tor Erik Schrøder/NTB/TT
Even the energy company Fortum now chooses to pause the collaboration with the criticized telemarketing company Effective Communication. This after the information about how the company conducted sales of the Social Democrats’ lotteries.
“Given the additional information that emerged about Effective Communication over the weekend, Fortum will pause cooperation with the company with immediate effect,” the company’s press service writes in a message to TT.
Fortum questions, among other things, how the working situation for employees has been ensured and which routines apply to recruitment.
“We also need to get a clearer picture of how our brand has been used in the company’s recruitments,” writes Fortum.
In the past, the Swedish Postcode Lottery has taken the same decision after revelations in Dagens Nyheter about dubious sales methods where they targeted mainly older people.
Around 90 passengers on the Öresund train are to be evacuated, reports say P4 Blekinge.
The train has stopped outside Ronneby where the passengers are waiting for buses, the rescue service told the channel.
The cause is a contact line that collapsed and started a grass fire just before eight o’clock on Monday morning.
This in turn resulted in an electrical fault and the train from Ronneby station being stopped.
All traffic between Karlshamn and Karlskrona is canceled during the morning, reports the channel.
Intersport is recalling a reflective vest from Energetics, which lacks a so-called CE mark.
“Thus there is a risk that it does not provide the visibility our customers can expect,” the company writes in a press release.
The sports retail chain is now asking all customers who have purchased the ENE Reflective Endu (Energetics) product with item number “1498993” to stop using the vest and return it to the nearest store.
On Thursday, charges are expected to be filed against a 52-year-old woman who is suspected of genocide, crimes against humanity and serious war crimes in Raqqa, Syria, from August 2014 to December 2016, the Swedish prosecutor’s office writes in a press release.
– The woman was previously convicted of a serious war crime and a serious violation of international law, for not having prevented her son, who was under 15 years old, from becoming a child soldier, says prosecutor Reena Devgun in the press release and continues:
– The crimes in this indictment took place under IS rule in Raqqa, and this is the first time that IS attacks against the Yazidi minority have been tried in Sweden. It is also the first time that charges for crimes against humanity have been brought in Sweden.
French EU Commissioner Thierry Breton is leaving the EU Commission with immediate effect, he announces on X.
The defection takes place in protest against President Ursula von der Leyen, according to his own statement, having asked France to replace him with a woman.
SOS was alerted yesterday just before midnight about a fire in a restaurant on Färgfabriksgatan in Gothenburg.
No one is said to have been injured, but the material damage is extensive.
– The premises are more or less burned out inside, says Jens Andersson, the police’s press spokesperson in the west region.
The cause of the fire is unknown and a report of arson has been made. The police will carry out a technical investigation of the scene.
A single vehicle accident has occurred on the E4 in Umeå, north of Sörmjöle. A car has driven into the center barrier.
– An ambulance is on site and the police are on their way, but the extent of the damage is unclear, says Engla Hansson, operator at Rescue Center North.
The road is closed in both directions.
According to the police’s website, the driver should be unharmed and will be given a ride home by the patrol. No notification is made.
A young woman has died in a motorbike accident in Skellefteå, the police write on their website.
It was during Sunday afternoon that the police were alerted to the serious accident on county road 774 in the area of Östra Falmark.
A car and a motorcycle are said to have been involved.
It was an ugly woman who drove the motorcycle and had to be taken to hospital by ambulance helicopter.
She died during the night from her injuries.
Her next of kin have been notified.
Emergency services have been alerted to E4 at Kungens Kurva, south of Stockholm, after three passenger cars have collided.
– One person has been taken to hospital by ambulance, says Andreas Linder, officer on duty at Södertörn’s rescue service.
Two lanes are closed in the northbound direction. According to the Swedish Transport Administration’s website, the accident has a “very large impact” on traffic.
Emergency services were called to Arlanda on Monday morning after an emergency alarm. But the alarm was “smoke without fire”, it turned out not to be sharp.
According to UNT it seems that someone has smoked in the cabin of an airplane and caused the alarm.
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