Well-known bar boat in Stockholm has a side

Tourists in hospital in Fiji after drinking cocktail

Seven foreign tourists are being treated in hospital with suspected alcohol poisoning in Fiji. Several are said to be in critical condition.

They are all believed to have drunk cocktails at a five-star hotel on Saturday night and shortly afterwards became nauseous, vomited and showed symptoms of neurological damage.

The tourists are aged 18 to 56, including four Australians, one American and two foreigners living in Fiji, whose nationalities have not yet been disclosed.

Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has urged tourists to be aware of the risks of, among other things, methanol poisoning when consuming alcoholic beverages in Fiji, writes the BBC.

The incident occurs just a few weeks after six tourists in Laos, two of whom are Danish, died due to suspected methanol poisoning.

Fiji police are investigating the incident.

Israel wants to increase settlements in the Golan

Israel’s government gives the green light to expand settlements on the occupied Golan Heights in Syria.

The decision has been made “in light of the war and the new front in Syria”, according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“Strengthening the Golan is strengthening the state of Israel, and that is especially important at this time,” he said in a statement according to Israeli media.

The ambition should be to double the Israeli population in the country.

The cyclone has devastated the French archipelago

Storm Chidos has devastated the French archipelago of Mayotte, north of Madagascar.

This is reported by local authorities according to AFP.

Several hundred people are believed to have died.

– I definitely believe that there are several hundred dead, maybe we will come close to a thousand or even several thousand. There is nothing left, says the mayor Francois-Xavier Bieuville to AFP.

Chidos, described as a cyclone, is the worst storm to hit the archipelago in almost 100 years.

– The island appears to be completely devastated, says French Interior Minister Bruno Retaileau according to The Guardian.

Hunting dog killed by wolf

A wolf has killed a hunting dog outside Mullsjö.

Northvolt is said to be making billions in losses

Northvolt is currently undergoing corporate restructuring, a form of bankruptcy protection, in the US. It is in documents submitted to a court where the company reports a budget.

According to Ekot, it appears there that from mid-November and three months ahead, Northvolt expects to spend SEK 3.5 billion, of which one billion is in personnel costs.

At the same time, the income from customers is estimated to remain at half a billion kroner during the same period, which points to a negative cash flow of just over three billion kroner.

In the documents, an advisor to Northvolt writes that the new financing that the company has so far secured during the reconstruction will last for ten to eleven weeks and that in the meantime they will work to bring in additional money.

According to Ekot, this means that you need a new capital injection at the turn of the month between January and February.

Man killed in tractor accident

A man in his 70s has been found dead after a tractor accident in the forest in Gislaved municipality, reports P4 Jönköping.

The man was found under the vehicle by relatives who became worried since he did not return after working in the forest.

The police do not suspect any crime.

Made twelve-year-old pregnant – charged with child rape

A man in his 30s connected with a twelve-year-old girl on Snapchat and got her pregnant. Now he is charged with child rape at the Uppsala District Court, reports UNT.

The rape must have taken place earlier this year in Uppsala county. According to the girl, the man claimed that he was significantly younger than he was. The man, who according to UNT denies any crime but admits that they had sex, claims in turn that he thought the girl was 18 years old.

The indictment states that the girl became pregnant and that a paternity test carried out before she had an abortion shows that the man is the father.

The man was arrested at the end of October and has been in custody since then.

Miner rescued from coal mine

More than 20 miners who were trapped in a coal mine in Samangan province in northern Afghanistan have been rescued, according to a spokesperson for Samangan province to AFP.

The accident is said to have occurred late on Saturday and rescue workers worked throughout Sunday to open the mine.

Earlier it was stated that 32 workers were stuck, but the number is now written down to 22, according to a spokesperson for Samangan province.

– The condition of some of them was not good, but they received first aid and feel better now, says the spokesperson.

Mine-related accidents have occurred on several occasions in Afghanistan in recent years. In February 2022, ten miners died in the northern province of Baghlan, and in June 2020, seven people died in a gas-related accident in the same province as this weekend’s race.

Contagion accident in Birmingham – two-year-old dead

A two-year-old boy has been killed in a hit-and-run accident in the UK, reports say Sky News.

Another four people were injured in the accident. A man and woman in their 30s are being treated in hospital, their condition is described as serious. In addition to them, two 30-year-olds were injured, their condition is stable.

The accident took place on the outskirts of Birmingham. The police are now asking the driver to surrender.

The driver had been driving a Porsche that was stolen earlier in December.

Brazil’s Lula discharged from hospital

Lula da Silva has been discharged from hospital, having undergone a second skull operation in a short time.

It was during Monday that a bleeding inside the head was discovered on the Brazilian president, after which he underwent emergency surgery.

The bleeding is believed to have been a result of the fall accident Lula was involved in in October.

– I’m here in one piece. . . on the way home, says the 79-year-old leftist leader at a press conference before the journey home from the hospital in São Paulo.

Car overturned – one to hospital

A passenger car overturned and drove off county road 741 in Linköping, reports Corren.

The emergency services have been called to the scene and one person is said to have been injured. The person has been taken to hospital by ambulance.

SMHI warns of snow and wind

It looks like it will be a very windy night and morning in southern Sweden.

SMHI has issued a yellow warning for wind with very strong gusts in large parts of Götaland and southernmost Svealand.

In northern Sweden, it is instead the snow that can cause it.

In northeastern Ångermanland and southern Västerbotten, SMHI has issued a yellow warning for heavy snowfall that may cause traffic problems.

The warning applies from 19:00 tonight and throughout the night. Between 10-15 centimeters of fresh snow is expected.

SMHI also warns of strong winds in combination with snowfall on the Kalffjällen in Jämtland, Laplandfjällen, Dalarna and Härjedalen.

Longest rally for bitcoin in three years

Seven weeks in a row, bitcoin’s value has risen. It is the longest price rise in over three years for the cryptocurrency, notes the news agency Bloomberg.

At noon on Sunday, one bitcoin is worth about $102,750. That’s an increase of around $30,000 since crypto-friendly president-elect Donald Trump won the US election in early November.

Israel closes embassy in Ireland

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar states that Israel will close its embassy in the Irish capital Dublin, reports Haaretz.

The reason is that Irish President Michael D Higgins supported cooperation against Israel in the International Court of Justice, ICJ.

In connection with the closing of the embassy in Ireland, a new embassy will be opened in Moldova. The reason is that Moldova is considered more friendly to Israel, according to Gideon Sa’ar’s statement.

It is expected to open in 2025.