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The Swedish Transport Administration warns that parts of a sofa are lying on national highway 50 in Örebro. The parts should be in the northbound lane and personnel are on their way.

It should have a small impact on traffic.

Yesterday, Northvolt announced that they are giving notice to 1,600 employees in Sweden.

Now the government is starting a crisis management group with the employees of a number of ministers due to the crisis in the company, experience DI.

Energy and Industry Minister Ebba Busch’s (KD) state secretary Sara Modig leads the group.

The Chemicals Inspectorate is prosecuting an e-commerce company in Höganäs municipality for having sold a product that contained impermissible levels of softening phthalates, reports News Agency Siren.

The company is said to have sold around 600 copies of the product, but it is unclear how many have contained excessive levels.

Phthalates are used as plasticizers in plastics, which can leak and be absorbed by the body. It is suspected to affect, among other things, the hormonal system and the ability to reproduce.

Wind turbines in California. Archive image. Photo: Rich Pedroncelli/AP/TT

The goal of tripling renewable energy by 2030 and moving away from fossil fuels is “within reach”, the international energy agency IEA states in a new report. But then great efforts are required to remove bottlenecks.

It was at last year’s climate summit COP28 in Dubai that almost 200 countries agreed to switch from fossil fuels in energy systems so that the world can reach net zero emissions by 2050 and triple renewable energy capacity such as wind and solar.

What makes the IEA assess that the energy target is within reach are favorable economic conditions, rich manufacturing potential and strong policy decisions. But increased capacity does not automatically mean that it will be cheaper for consumers or that the use of fossil fuels will decrease, according to the IEA.

Now countries must invest in building and modernizing 25 million kilometers of electricity grids, urges the IEA, which also sees a need for 1,500 gigawatts of energy storage capacity by 2030.

On Tuesday morning, Tromsø and Evene airports in Norway were forced to temporarily close, reports VG.

– A radar error has caused Tromsø and Evens airport to close the airspace, says Ylva Celius Trulsen, press officer at Avinor, to the newspaper.

At 10 o’clock in the morning, the fault had been found and the airspace could open again.

Police and emergency services are on the scene at a villa in Nacka outside Stockholm after a fire alarm.

According to initial information, the villa must be full of smoke.

Later it was established that the development of smoke was caused by candle wax that had spilled over a stove.

There is no suspicion of crime.

The police and the correctional service have decided that a man who has been convicted of intimate partner violence may not stay in an area in Malmö. The decision has been taken within the project “Safe relationship – free from violence” and is implemented with the help of a so-called stay order.

It is about protecting a woman who has been abused and threatened by her partner on several occasions.

– That a woman feels unsafe in her own residential area because of a former partner is of course completely unacceptable, says Jonas Lander, the police’s project manager for Safe relationship – free from violence on the police’s website.

Yesterday, a man in his 20s was arrested after the weekend’s fatal shooting in Uddevalla

Now reporting P4 West that another person has been arrested in the case.

It concerns a guy in his early teens who is suspected of murder or aiding and abetting murder.

Akzo Nobel cuts staff. Archive photography Photo: BJÖRN LARSSON ROSVALL / TT

The Dutch chemical and paint giant Akzo Nobel – which, among other things, manufactures Nordsjö paint – announces major cutbacks. A total of 2,000 jobs will be lost globally in the group, according to a press release.

Akzo Nobel has 1,000 employees in Sweden, according to the company’s website. It is unclear how many of them are affected.

According to Akzo Nobel, the cut must be completed by the end of 2025 and aims to increase profitability and reduce costs.

Last summer, Färgbjässen reported an unexpectedly weak result for the second quarter of the year and then pointed to headwinds as a result of inflationary effects and volume reductions in certain markets.

Akzo Nobel’s share has so far this year fallen 22 percent on the Amsterdam stock exchange.

Reduced variable mortgage interest rates by state SBAB. Archive photography Photo: Janerik Henriksson/TT

The state-owned mortgage bank SBAB lowers the interest rate on mortgages with a three-month term by 0.20 percentage points. The reduction comes ahead of Wednesday’s interest rate announcement from the Riksbank.

SBAB thus takes its back on the series of reductions in the variable mortgage interest from other leading players in the Swedish mortgage market such as Handelsbanken, Nordea and Danske Bank.

SBAB leaves the interest rates on mortgages with longer maturities, 1–10 years, unchanged.

The Riksbank is expected to lower the key interest rate by 0.25 percentage points on Wednesday, which would be the third reduction of the year. The variable interest rates at the mortgage banks usually go up and down with the policy rate.

The Governor of the Riksbank, Erik Thedéen, has recently signaled that he expects the key interest rate to be lowered three more times until the turn of the year. But in the pricing of the interest rate market, the probability points to four more reductions this year – that is, a total of 1 percentage point.

Two cars and a pedestrian are involved in a traffic accident in central Sundsvall, the police say.

A total of five people are affected.

A passer-by alerted the police about the accident at 07:00 and at 08:00 the police wrote that they were working on the scene. The extent of the injury was then unknown.

A man has been taken to hospital after a suspected shooting in Malmö.

The police were alerted to Bergsgatan at 07:17 and are now working at the scene to search for the perpetrator and locate the crime scene, which is currently unknown.

– An intensive search operation is currently underway, we do not know whether the crime scene is indoors or outdoors, says Filip Annas, press spokesperson in the South police region.

The plaintiff, who is a man in his 40s, called 112 himself and stated that he had been shot in the leg. He is now being treated in hospital.

– We are investigating the case as attempted murder, says Filip Annas.

Iran’s security service has carried out a special operation against targets in Sweden, the Public Prosecutor’s Office states.

Through a serious data breach, hackers have taken over an SMS service and sent over 15,000 messages calling for revenge against Koran-burners.

This shows a preliminary investigation which has now been closed.

– The aim was to further tighten the situation and increase the conflict that prevailed between different groups in society. Because the actors are acting for a foreign power, in this case Iran, we make the assessment that the conditions for prosecution abroad or extradition to Sweden are lacking for the persons suspected of being behind the breach, says prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist in a press release.

Read more here.

Sexual contacts between teachers and students is the most common reason for teacher credentials being revoked, shows a survey from SVT Skåne.

Out of a total of 55 decisions, 30 cases concern sexual contact, from 2013 until 2024.

It concerns everything from rape to sexual harassment, such as groping in the classroom and students being secretly photographed.

In several cases, the teacher is convicted of sexual offences.

– It is of course incredibly serious. It is a matter of course that children have a special protection value because they are children, says Eva Frånlund Althin, chairman of the Teachers’ Responsibility Committee to SVT.