Zelenskyi: The Russians are burning North Korean corpses

No HD trial after five-year-old John Walter’s death

The acquittal against the two employees at the HVB home where John Walter, 5, lived when he drowned, stands firm, according to TT.

The employees were convicted in the district court of causing another person’s death after the incident in the summer of 2021, but were later acquitted in the Court of Appeal.

The case will not be heard in the Supreme Court.

Workplace accident in Hörby – woman injured

On Tuesday morning, the police received a call about a suspected workplace accident at an industry in Hörby.

A woman, who is in her 60s, has had an object on her. The police arrived at the scene shortly after eight o’clock along with an ambulance.

– She should be awake and talkative, but the rest of the damage is unclear, says police spokesperson Lina Friberg.

There is no suspicion of crime in connection with the accident.

Grön Ungdom’s mouthpiece is leaving

Rebecka Forsberg and Leon Mc Manus are stepping down as spokespeople for the Green Youth Association of the Green Party, according to a press release.

Forsberg has been spokesperson since 2022 and Mc Manus since 2023.

“When I took office, it was not a matter of course for the Green Party to talk about class differences and social justice, but it is today. It is obvious that the MP is Sweden’s only green, libertarian left-wing party,” says Rebecka Forsberg in a comment.

Leon Mc Manus connects it with the fact that the Green Party “for the first time in almost a decade” is increasing in opinion among young people.

“I am convinced that it is due to Grön Ungdom’s investment in social media and the fact that many young people, just like us, see that the climate fight is connected to the fight for justice,” he says.

Språkrören leaves at the annual meeting in February.

Russian general killed in explosion

According to the Baza telegram channel, with links to Russian security services, two people from the Russian military have been killed in an explosion in Moscow. It reports Reuters.

One of the dead is said to be General Igor Kirillov, who heads the country’s radiological, chemical and biological defenses.

According to sources, the bomb must have been placed by an electric scooter and the incident occurred approximately seven kilometers from the Kremlin.

Ex-prison guards are sentenced to death for murder

A former prison guard has been sentenced to death in the United States for killing five women inside a bank in Florida, AP reports.

It was six years ago that the man ordered the women, who were both employees and customers of the bank, to lie on the floor at gunpoint before executing them one by one.

The judge found that the murders were planned, cruel and despicable.

The man has confessed to the murders.

Concerns about side effects of Ozempic

Danish researchers have seen a possible connection between use of the diabetes drug Ozempic and a serious eye disease. Now they want experts to take a closer look at the risks.

Task: 100,000 people in a mass grave

A mass grave in Syria contains at least 100,000 people killed by now-ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad. This is stated by the US-based organization Syrian Emergency Task Force for Reuters news agency.

According to the group’s head Mouaz Moustafa, the mass grave is located at al-Qutayfah, four miles north of the capital Damascus, and is one of five he has identified over the years.

“One hundred thousand is the most conservative estimate of the number of bodies,” he told Reuters.

Mouaz Moustafa entered Syria after al-Assad fled to Russia earlier in December.

He told Reuters that air force intelligence and the Damascus municipal funeral agency were behind the moving of bodies from military hospitals to mass graves after opposition figures were tortured to death.

– We have been able to talk to people who worked at these mass graves and who were able to escape on their own or with our help, says Mouaz Moustafa.

Earthquake in the Pacific Ocean

An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 occurred at 02:47, Swedish time, in the island nation of Vanuatu in the southwest Pacific Ocean.

The epicenter of the quake was in the sea just east of the capital Port-Vila.

US authorities immediately issued a tsunami warning in the area. According to the statement, waves could be up to one meter high on some coasts in Vanuatu and below 30 centimeters in neighboring island countries such as Fiji, New Caledonia and Kiribati.

The warning was withdrawn shortly after 04:00, Swedish time.

Judges refuse to overturn Trumpdom

Judge Juan Merchan refuses to throw out the verdict in which Donald Trump was convicted of accounting violations in connection with payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.

The Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity does not change the validity of the sentence, according to Merchan.

Prosecutors have said they are willing to agree to delay sentencing for four years, beyond the term Trump begins on January 20. The judge has also suggested waiting to announce the sentence.

Trump’s lawyers argue that, as a result of the HD’s ruling on presidents and immunity, he can no longer be punished.

Noise caused police action

The police were alerted just before 2 a.m. about what the caller had perceived as an attempted burglary in Alby, south of Stockholm.

– The interpretation was based on sounds from one direction. We have not found any signs of a break-in. The helicopter was chasing thieves who were not there, says an officer at the police regional command center.

Militias in Syria to be “disbanded”

The various militia groups in war-torn Syria are to be disbanded and instead become part of the country’s regular army.

That’s what Ahmed al-Sharaa (who has also used the pseudonym Abu Mohammed al-Julani), leader of the Islamist movement HTS that ousted the Assad regime, says.

“The factions will be disbanded and the fighters will be trained to become part of the Ministry of Defense and all will be subject to the law,” said al-Sharaa, according to a statement on Telegram.

Israeli minister: Close deal on hostages

Israel and Hamas are close to an agreement on the hostages in Gaza. Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz says so, according to domestic media.

Not since the truce last November have the parties been this close, Katz told parliament’s Knesset foreign affairs committee on Monday, reports The Times of Israel.

Tightened control of Russian shadow fleet in the Baltic Sea

Sweden and other countries bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea will tighten controls on ships in the Russian so-called shadow fleet, the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced in a press release.

The announcement comes in connection with a defense meeting in the Estonian capital Tallinn, the JEF meeting. Other countries – apart from Sweden and Estonia – that agree on joint measures are Great Britain, Denmark, Finland and Poland.

Among other things, regular checks of insurance certificates of oil tankers used by Russia must be made.

Fully developed fire in apartment building – residents evacuated

There is a fire in a garage located at the bottom of an apartment building in Mellerud.

The police and emergency services have been called to the scene.

– It is a fully developed fire in the garage, says Johan Yttersjö, officer on duty at the rescue service.

– We are evacuating residents. No one is seriously injured, but there are some who have inhaled some smoke that are being treated by ambulances.

According to the police, two people have been taken to hospital for a check-up.