Zeskkyj on state visits in the United Arab Emirates

Defense Minister: Obviously it’s a new era

Defense Minister Pål Jonson (M) comments on the US message that they do not want Europe at the negotiating table with Russia and Ukraine.

– It is obvious that it is a new era with the new administration, he says in SVT’s “Agenda” and continues:

– What is quite obvious that it is an administration that puts the United States first.

Jonson emphasizes that they have to find structures around the peace negotiations.

– Europe must have an influence, because we are part of the solution, he says in SVT.

Morphine tablets were replaced – to unknown pills

Two residents of a retirement home in Arvidsjaur got their morphine tablets replaced with different colored and glittery tablets, which SVT News Norrbotten was the first to report.

The unknown pills must have been repainted to mimic real morphine tablets, but the forgery was discovered when a nurse went through one of the residents’ drugs.

After the first discovery, all residents’ doses were examined, and then it emerged that another person was hit.

The drugs were stored in locked cabinets, according to P4 Norrbotten.

The incident has been reported to the Inspection for Health and Care (IVO).

Woman critically injured after crash with moose

A couple in their 60s were taken to hospital by ambulance after colliding with a moose in Torsås municipality in Kalmar County, police say.

The woman should be critically injured and cared for in hospital.

There is no suspicion of crime.

The alarm came at 18 on Sunday.

The coffee price is rushing

The price of coffee has reached new record levels.

The raw material expert Torbjörn Iwarson says to Today’s industry that the price has risen by 327 percent during the 2020s.

On the New York stock exchange, the price of Arabic beans is $ 4 per pound.

Several reasons are pointed out, including frost, drought and fires in the areas in Brazil where the beans are grown as well as economic uncertainty in the coffee farmers.

But soon it turns, Iwarson believes.

– I think we are pretty close to the top, he tells Di.

Duolingo owl is dead

The popular Language Duolingo mascot, the green owl Duo, is dead.

It announces the company on its accounts on various social media.

“It is with sadness in the heart that we inform you that Duo, formerly known as the Duolingo owl, is dead,” they write.

The company’s CEO Lius von Ahn has also posted a post on Instagram and X about Duo’s death.

It is currently unclear what is behind the company’s play.

UN: Millions can die in AIDS after Trump’s decision

US and President Donald Trump’s decision to shut down the Aid Authority USAID can lead to millions of more deaths in AIDS, warns the UN program Unaids.

– I have to sound an alarm to make it clear that this is a big part (of the financing of Aid help). If it disappears, people will die, says Winnie Byanyima, head of Unaids, who works globally with efforts against HIV/AIDS.

The US decision also involves a 90 day suspension of all work for the US emergency plan for HIV and AIDS (Pepfar), but the Trumpstyget has announced that exemptions apply to medication within the program.

More than 20 million people, most of them in Africa, receive antiretroviral drugs through Pepfar.

Swedish crown steams on

The Swedish krona is going strong and is up 3.54 percent against the US dollar this year. One dollar cost SEK 10.69 on Sunday.

And that makes the Swedish krona the best performing G10 currency so far this year. The G10 currencies-which are actually eleven-are the world’s most traded.

Other currencies that are strong in the G10 group this year are Japanese Yen and Australian dollars, up 3.21 and 2.65 percent, respectively, against the US dollar.

Among other things, the British pound and the Swiss franc are considered to have underperformed. They are up 0.56 and 0.84 percent, respectively.

Fully developed fire in villa

It burns in a villa in Sandviken south of Sölvesborg.

Police are in place together with the rescue service.

– It is a fully developed fire in a smaller villa. It is not possible to go in and extinguish, but we can extinguish from the outside, says the rescue service in western Blekinge.

In the house was a person with his dog.

– They could get out on their own when it started to burn and have no serious injuries. They are taken care of by an ambulance in place, says the rescue service.

Stopping in train traffic in Gothenburg – fire near the tracks

There has been a stop in train traffic between Gothenburg and Kungsbacka on the occasion of a fire.

The rescue service told Gothenburg Post that it was a “controlled heating” of rice and shrubs near the tracks.

Just before 6 pm Västtrafik announces to Aftonbladet that the stop has been lifted.

First openly homosexual imam to death

Muhsin Hendricks, 57, which is considered to be the world’s first openly gay imam, has been shot dead on an open street in South Africa, writes The Guardian.

Two masked people fired shots at the imam on Saturday when he was sitting in a car on his way to a wedding in the city of Gqeberha, formerly Port Elizabeth.

The perpetrators should then have moved from the scene.

The South African police state that the motive for the act is unknown and that they are investigating the incident.

The international LGBTQ+organization Ilga writes in a statement that they are in shock and urges the authorities to investigate the act as a possible hate crime.

Muhsin Hendricks ran a mosque for LGBTQ+Muslims near Cape Town and fought for their rights.

One who mourns his passing is the Swedish MP Ulrika Westerlund (MP).

-This is a huge loss for the global LGBTQ movement, where Hendricks was a very well-known name. He spent his life that Queera Muslims would feel that they did not have to choose between their faith and their LGBTQI identity, she tells the newspaper QX.

Russians laid flowers on Navalnyj’s grave

On the anniversary of Russian opposition politician Aleksey Navalnyj’s death day, thousands of Russians put flowers on his grave in Moscow.

The queues were long for the Borisov cemetery throughout Sunday.

“The whole world knows who ordered the murder, but we want to know who performed it,” said Modern Sound Mila Navalnaja.

USA confirms: Traveling to Saudi Arabia tonight

Officials from the United States are traveling to Saudi Arabia tonight to negotiate with Russia and Ukraine.

This confirms Trump’s Middle Eastern Conductor Steve Witkoff to Reuters.

– Hopefully we will make really great progress, says Witkoff to the news agency.

Security advisor Mike Waltz and Foreign Minister Marco Rubio from the US delegation will also participate in the negotiations.

It has not yet been officially confirmed which negotiators leave Russia and Ukraine.

On Saturday, the message came that the United States wants to make peace talks with Russia and Ukraine – without Europe.

Boy hit in Norway – died

An 8-year-old boy is dead after being hit by a car in Drammen in Norway, writes Norwegian media.

The traffic accident occurred at 13 o’clock at a private address.

The boy was taken to hospital with serious injuries but his life could not be saved.

His relatives are informed.

Woman on electrical -kick bike hit – taken to hospital

A woman on an electrical kick bike has been hit by a motorist in Borås.

The woman was taken to hospital with minor injuries. Other circumstances are unclear.