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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…

- 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…

The year he was elected president, ie 2016, Trump paid the equivalent of approximately SEK 7,000 in income tax. This is reported by the New York Times and states that they have read more than 20 years of Trump's declaration information. The low or non-existent tax payments are said to be due to Trump, among other things, making very large loss carryforwards. The New York Times also writes that Trump currently has major disputes with the US tax authorities as well as hundreds of millions of dollars in debt. It is customary…

"A small group of politicians is about to overthrow their country and its people," said a furious Macron as he taught the Lebanese politicians who let their special interests take precedence over Lebanon, a collective betrayal, as he called it. But it was against Shia Muslim Hezbollah that he directed his most outspoken criticism. Hezbollah, which together with Shia Muslim Amal sabotaged attempts to form a technocrat government by demanding continued control of the important finance ministry. "Hezbollah cannot be both…

On a sidewalk, hundreds of people hold on to each other so as not to be caught when a group of police officers throw themselves forward and spray tear gas on them straight in the face. People crouch and hold together despite coughing and breathing problems. Police have disrupted the demonstrations and arrested people in several cities in Belarus. Sunday's big demonstrations in Belarus are a protest against the fact that Alexander Lukashenko was swiftly and secretly sworn in as president this week. Despite a rainy…