Tiktok is being sued in the US – harming the health of young people

A car and a person on an electric scooter have collided on the outskirts of Örebro.

Police, ambulance and emergency services were on the scene. A woman has been taken to hospital by ambulance.

Her injury status is unclear.

US President Joe Biden is expected to speak with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about Israel’s plans to attack Iran, several sources told the news site Axios.

This will be the first conversation between the two of them in months. The background should be precisely that Israel is considering an attack that could escalate the conflict further, according to the site.

Israeli sources tell Axios that Netanyahu has been in intensive talks with ministers and military leaders to get an idea of ​​what an attack on Iran would entail.

A woman in her 70s stated during the night of Wednesday that she had been abused by two unknown perpetrators in Mjölby.

She then sought help at the Stadshotellet, and the police were alerted.

“The woman is not seriously injured, but has injuries to her head after some form of abuse and was taken to hospital for treatment,” the police write on their website.

At the moment, there are no suspects or detainees, according to the police.

Less than two weeks ago, Hurricane Helene caused enormous destruction and many deaths. Storm floods caused record high water levels in several places. As Hurricane Milton approaches, storm surges up to three and a half meters high are forecast to sweep into areas that were not among the worst hit last time.

Evacuation orders have been issued for most communities along the state’s west coast and its many elongated sandbar islands. About 5.9 million inhabitants live in those areas, according to the AP news agency, which is based on official statistics on how many people are registered. Emergency services have warned that no one can count on being rescued once the storm has moved in.

– You should evacuate now, now, now. You should have already evacuated. It’s a matter of life and death and that’s no exaggeration, President Joe Biden warned at a White House press briefing on Tuesday.

Everyone has the right to survive their pregnancy. That is this year’s theme for “Musikhjälpen”.

This year’s “Musikhjälpen” is broadcast from Stora Torget in Sundsvall on December 9-15 in P3 on Sveriges Radio and SVT Play.

According to Radiohjälpen, a woman in the world dies every two minutes linked to pregnancy and childbirth. The situation is particularly problematic in low- and middle-income countries, where access to care is often inadequate.

“Ensuring women’s sexual and reproductive rights and health is fundamental for the individual, the family but also for the whole society,” says Radiohjälpen’s secretary general Kristina Henschen in a press release.

Read more here.

During Tuesday, the police closed down a pro-Palestinian camp in Dortmund in Germany because the Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was supposed to be present, according to Der Spiegel.

In the police’s first press release issued on Tuesday, they said the reason was that she was judged to be “violent”.

But on Wednesday morning, that wording is gone.

Instead, the police write that “recent events related to Thunberg as a person were taken into account during the assessment.”

The police also believed that Thunberg’s presence would cause more protesters than allowed to come.

The pro-Palestinian camp had been going on for months, according to the paper.

On her Instagram afterwards, Greta Thunberg shared a video in which she criticized the actions of the German police. She also said that the German state is “complicit in this genocide”.

The costs of water and sewage skyrocket. In every fourth municipality, the rate has been increased by over 20 percent this year.

The vast majority of the country’s municipalities have raised the price during 2024, on average it is 13.9 percent. The differences between the municipalities are still large

The reason for the price increases is a great need for maintenance.

A number of municipalities keep the price from last year, while only two lower the rate: Växjö and Hallsberg.

According to the figures from the Nils Holgersson group, consisting of several organisations, every fourth municipality has raised prices by over 20 percent in 2024.

– We haven’t really seen this type of increase that some are making before, says chairman Joachim Höggren.

In a number of municipalities, the increases are even greater. In Danderyd municipality, the rate has been increased by 63 percent.

Read more here.

A person has died after being hit by a truck on route 24 outside Hässleholm on Tuesday evening, Norra Skåne reports with reference to the police.

Next of kin have been notified.

The alarm about the accident came at 9:45 p.m.

A state grant to Botkyrka municipality of SEK 600,000 would be directed against gang crime and used to prevent the new recruitment of young people. But instead the money went to a PR campaign – which was then scrapped. It reveals Sweden’s Radio Echo.

– It is unacceptable. It confirms that we failed in both ordering, control and follow-up, says the municipality’s press manager Lennart Agén.

Part of the money had also gone to a New York trip, something Ekot previously reported on.

PR campaign was produced in collaboration between a non-profit organization and an advertising agency. But when the campaign was finished, the municipality was not satisfied and has therefore not used any of the material.

The University of Oxford, number one in the world ranking, consists of 38 different colleges and the city is visited by almost half a million tourists annually. Archive image. Photo: Malin Hoelstad/SvD/TT

Europe is losing ground to Asia in the ranking of the world’s best universities. But Swedish universities climb the list the most when Times Higher Education ranks the 2,000 best in the world.

Karolinska Institutet is the only Nordic university to make it into the top 50 in the world in the British magazine’s ranking. KI ends up in 49th place, which is one place better than last year’s ranking.

Read more here.

The number of serious accidents on Swedish railways increased in 2023, according to the Swedish Transport Agency’s annual safety report.

In 2022, 8 people died in accidents and 8 were seriously injured, in 2023 15 died and 14 were seriously injured.

The most common cause of death on the railway is suicide. The number of suicides on the railway increased during the year from 60 people in 2022 to 78 people in 2023.

According to Sweden’s national target, the number of people killed in rail traffic must be halved from 2020 to 2030.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has started a review of two medicines that are used, among other things, against hair loss, the Swedish Medicines Agency states in a press release.

The reason is that suicidal thoughts and self-harming behavior are suspected to be possible side effects of the drugs.

Psychiatric side effects, such as depression, are already known risks for the drugs.

File photo of a Qantas flight taking off from Sydney Airport. Photo: Mark Baker/AP/TT

Passengers on a flight from Sydney to Tokyo last week got more entertainment than they bargained for.

Due to technical problems, passengers could not choose what they wanted to see on their screens. Instead, the cabin crew chose a film that was shown to everyone: the drama “Daddio” with explicit references to oral sex and masturbation.

The film also shows, among other things, an erect penis and bare female breasts.

“The film was clearly not suitable to be shown for the entire flight and we sincerely apologize to customers for this experience,” said a spokesperson for the airline Qantas.

An Afghan citizen living in Oklahoma has been arrested on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack in the United States during election day on November 5.

Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, was arrested Monday and arraigned today in federal court in Oklahoma City, writes NBC News.

The man is said to have admitted his plans in questioning immediately after the arrest. He then stated that the act would have taken place in a large crowd and that he intended to “die a martyr’s death”.

Tawhedi is said to have sworn allegiance to the terrorist group IS.