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Is it time for the departure of the Syrian mercenaries sent by Turkey in Libya? In any case, it seems that Ankara transferred almost a thousand of these mercenaries to Azerbaijan to fight Armenia in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. Several planes left Libya on 28 and 29 September with mercenaries on board. On September 29, a Libyan civilian plane from the company al Borak took off from Maitigua airport in Tripoli with more than 260 Syrian mercenaries on board. He made a direct Tripoli-Baku flight, an unprecedented…

Listen: Senior officials stand trial in bribery scandalToday, the trial begins against six people who are suspected of being bribed to the Swedish Property Agency. Among other things, the former director general is charged. Ekot's reporter, Sofie Wichmann was present in Stockholm District Court: - The chief prosecutor himself describes the case as a complex bribery scandal that has taken place at the Swedish Property Agency.

Over the years, Donald Trump has not wanted to publish his tax returns. Now the New York Times has published information claiming that for a number of years Trump has in principle not paid any federal tax at all. - There has been a lack of clarity about what his finances have really looked like, says Dag Blanck, professor of North American studies at Uppsala University.

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…

- 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…

There are major questions about how the labor market will function in the future as unions and employers in the private sector are now trying to solve. What rules should apply in the event of dismissals, what help should employees and the dismissed be able to find new work through a strengthened system for adjustment and what should the support for the unemployed look like in the form of a collectively agreed unemployment insurance fund? In the last week, both the employers' side and the unions have concretized their…