Truck and van in crash

Three US soldiers have been found dead

Three American soldiers have been found dead in Lithuania, AFP and Reuters report.

Paulina Brandberg resigns

Minister of Gender Equality Paulina Brandberg (L) resigns, she tells TT.

Paulina Brandberg took over as minister less than three years ago. Now she is leaving.

To TT, Brandberg says that the ministerial job comes with a very high price for private life and that she is leaving to be more with the family. Next year is the election year and Brandberg says it will require even more time away from the family.

– I have landed that I do not have the additional gear in me, which actually the Liberals and also Sweden need. Then it is better to let someone else take over, she says.

Trains are burning

The rescue service has been alerted to a fire on a freight train at the height of Stenkullen in Lerum.

– It is a fire or smoke development from one of the wagons, says Åsa Opperud, alarm and command operator.

The alarm came at 15.38. There is no information on personal injury.

The prime minister’s visit is criticized

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s visit to Greenland is “inappropriate”, says the island’s newly elected Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt, according to the Ritzau news agency.

– Especially when she has previously criticized just that and stated that it would be inappropriate for the US government to visit the country before a new Greenland government has been formed.

Then the trial begins against Olof K Gustafsson

Olof K Gustafsson is accused of over 100 crimes. On May 20, the trial will start in the United States, reports Los Angeles Times.

Gustafsson is suspected, among other things, for fraud, money laundering and organized crime after operating “Escobar Inc”, which claimed to have managed the infamous Pablo Escobar brand.

Le Pen will appeal

Marine Le Pen will appeal the judgment that fell on Monday.

It states her lawyer, according to Reuters.

Marine Le Pen was sentenced to four years in prison for embezzlement of public funds. She is stopped from running for public office for five years, and thus cannot stand in the French presidential election in 2027.

Contacted children – older man was arrested

A man in his 70s has been arrested on suspicion of attempted human rape, police say.

The man must have contacted a boy for ten years in Umeå. The man was arrested on Sunday and arrested.

The boy should not have been physically injured, according to police.

The man was released on Monday afternoon when both the suspicions of crime and against the man weakened, police write.

Children stuck in trees – again

The rescue service in Kinna had to move out after a child got stuck in a tree.

“The child was stuck in a tree clay on a branch, so we had to help the child,” says Jonas Myrén, guard officer at the rescue service.

The child did well. It is the second time in a short time that the rescue service has been moving out to the same tree. Now they have been cut off the branch.

– Now we have probably fixed so that it does not happen again, says Jonas Myrén.

1,700 Northvolt employees may stay

1,700 employees at Northvolt can work. Other staff will be free with the bankruptcy.

– Of course, it is with very strong emotions that we have received the message that very many will not be re -employed in the battery factory, says Lorent’s Burman, chairman of the municipal council (S).

Now he puts pressure on the government.

– Now the government must understand and be involved in presence and participation. We expect the government to take that responsibility and help the bankruptcy trustee help with keeping the production and eventually also finds a new ownership constellation for the battery factory in Skellefteå.

Explosion in Spanish mine – several dead

An explosion has occurred in a coal mine in northwestern Spain, reports Spanish media.

According to the public service company RTE, at least five people have died.

Everyone who was locked into the mine in Cerredo in the Asturia region at the explosion has now been retrieved. At least three of them are said to be injured.

The accident occurred when a machine exploded, writes El Mundo magazine.

New billion package to Ukraine – the largest so far

Sweden presents its largest military support package to Ukraine to date. The package covers SEK 16 billion.

“Russia has the initiative in the war and we must support Ukraine to break that trend,” says Defense Minister Pål Jonson (M).

The package is presented at a press conference with the government and the Swedish Democrats.

Most of them, just over SEK 9 billion, Sweden will buy weapons and equipment for, which will then be delivered to Ukraine. Purchases must be made mainly from the Swedish but also from the European defense industry.

Most of the deliveries should be done relatively quickly, within 24 months the idea is.

– We estimate that about 70 percent can be delivered in 2025 and the remainder in 2026, says Jonson.

Exactly what to buy will only be notified when contracts are signed. Show more

Half must leave Northvolt

About 1,500 people, ie half of Northvolt’s 3,000 employees, must leave the company. It reports Today’s industry with reference to tasks.

During a meeting today, bankruptcy manager Mikael Kubu is expected to leave the message.

Sweden’s Radio Ekot Has sources that state that negotiations have been made between the bankruptcy trustee, Scania and Northvolt’s lenders in the hope of enabling continued production at the factory in Skellefteå.

The police are investigating serious crime in Täby

At 01.30 tonight, the police were alerted to a home in Täby north of Stockholm.

One person has been subjected to a serious crime, but at present the police do not want to go into more details.

– No person is arrested and I will not go into what criminal classification the case has at the moment, says Carina Skagerlind from the police.

The home has been blocked off and the police are investigating the case further.

The man was arrested shortly after he attacked and stabbed the woman, who worked in the store.

– The man has admitted that he killed the woman and his recognition receives strong support from other investigations. Therefore, he is convicted of the murder. Since the district court makes the assessment that the man suffers from a serious mental disorder and did so even in the crime, the penalty is determined to forensic psychiatric care, says Anna Avenberg, chief counsel and chair of the case.

Marine Le Pen is sentenced for fraud

Marine Le Pen, leader of the right-wing nationalist party National Collection in France, is charged with being the brain behind an extensive embezzlement of EU funds.

If Le Pen is sentenced, she risks five years in prison, EUR 300,000 in fines and a five -year policy ban, which would prevent her from standing in the 2027 presidential election.

Now she is convicted of fraud and for embezzling public funds reports French media.

Now, the Court of Paris also announces that Le Pen is being stopped from running for public office, according to Bloomberg.