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The EU has sent two top officials to crisis-stricken Venezuela to try to reach an agreement between the government and the opposition on the contested parliamentary elections in December. Two top officials from the EU Foreign Service are currently in Caracas. Their goal is to contribute to the negotiations between the government and parts of the opposition on how the parliamentary elections in December can be done freely and fairly. The Venezuelan opposition is divided. The majority want to boycott the December…

It is a strange story that is told in TV4's review program Kalla Fakta in the beginning of 2017. A tipper must have told about unspecified invoices sent to and paid for by the Swedish Property Agency, and expensive furniture and carpets must have disappeared without a trace from Royal Rosersberg Castle north of Stockholm, which is managed by the authority. The tracks lead to a senior employee at the Swedish Property Agency, who, among other things, is suspected of having the authority pay for renovations of his private…

Listen: Animal keeper attacked by gorillaYesterday, a vet at a zoo in Madrid received serious injuries after being attacked by a gorilla.The female vet suffered serious head injuries and broke both arms before her colleagues managed to take care of the animal, which was given an anesthetic syringe to calm down. The vet's condition is said to be critical.

In the city of Essen in western Germany, the police have had a special operation against clan crime for almost two years. During a traffic check in northern Essen, police commissioner Bernd Stratmann and his colleagues have just stopped a Mercedes AMG, a car that they know is popular with high-ranking members of the city's criminal families.- We are looking for the heavyweights of the clans and the higher up in the hierarchy, the more expensive the cars, says Bernd Stratmann, who works one week a month in the Essen police's…

Today (MONDAY 28), a ministerial conference on the Baltic Sea's environmental issues is held at the invitation of the EU Commissioner for the Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Virginius Sinkevicius from Lithuania. He has invited ministers and, among others, fisheries authorities from the Baltic Sea countries to discuss how to jointly solve environmental problems with, among other things, eutrophication, overfishing and pollution. At the same time, the World Wide Fund for Nature presents a report criticizing…

The country's largest union is stepping up pressure on the government by calling for demonstrations on Monday 28 September to protest the rise in fuel and electricity prices in the country. In the context of economic crisis, the federal government has in fact decided to end its subsidies in these two sectors. The price of petrol at the pump is now indexed to market prices, while electricity prices will double in early September. The threat of a social movement launched by the Nigerian Labor Congress was at the center of…

Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula was scolded by President Cyril Ramaphosa for carrying an ANC delegation on a military plane during a trip to Harare, Zimbabwe, this month. In an attempt to quell the controversy, the South African president has decided not to pay him his salary for three months. But the main opposition party is now asking for his resignation. For Cyril Ramaphosa, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula made "a mistake in the verdict". The South African presidency announced on Saturday evening, September 26, that it had sent it "a…

Eleven years after the September 28 massacre, the victims have still not achieved justice despite the government's repeated promises. The United States, France and the European Union "call on the Guinean government to hold a trial as soon as possible". The investigation has been completed since the end of 2017, and 13 defendants are to be tried by the Dixinn court in the first instance in criminal cases. But in the absence of significant progress, Guinea's partners are considering other remedies. Last January, the…

The US Treasury Department last week announced new measures against Evgueni Prigozhin and his network in the Central African Republic. The Russian businessman, close to Vladimir Putin, is accused of interfering in the 2016 US election. He has since been on the US sanctions list. He is also accused of being the Kremlin's supervisor in Africa through his connections to the Wagner group of mercenaries. This time, the sanctions are aimed at three Russians and two companies involved in Prigozhin's operations in CAR. In a press…

- We have fewer diagnosed cancer cases during the six months that the corona pandemic has ravaged Sweden, says Johan Ahlgren, operations manager at the Uppsala Örebro Regional Cancer Center. It is every eighth cancer case for the period March to August this year that is judged to be undetected as a result of the pandemic, according to the report. This corresponds to just over 3,500 cancer cases, and may therefore be due to, among other things, canceled screening and the fact that some patients withdraw to seek care. What…