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Magdalena Andersson was Sweden's first female prime minister
Swedish PM Magdalena Andersson resigns after right-wing parties win vote
STOCKHOLM — Sweden's prime minister has resigned after her government was defeated in Sunday's election.Magdalena Andersson's center-left coalition looks set to narrowly lose to a bloc of right-wing parties, 176 seats to 173, with 99% of the votes counted.Moderate Party leader Ulf Kristersson is now expected to form a government.The bloc includes the Sweden Democrats, a far-right party that has campaigned against rising gang shootings.It is a huge blow to Andersson's Social Democrats, which gained votes compared to the last election, and remain Sweden's largest party.But in Sweden, it is bloc politics that usually decides who gets into power and the right bloc has scored a razor-thin majority.The final result is still to be confirmed after a recount, which is standard...
September 15, 2022

Swedish PM Magdalena Andersson resigns after right-wing parties win vote

Zelensky visits retaken Ukrainian city of Izyum.
Zelensky involved in car accident but 'not seriously hurt'
KYIV — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been involved in a car accident, his spokesman has revealed.A passenger car collided with the presidential vehicle and his escort in the capital Kyiv, Sergii Nykyforov said in a short statement."The president was examined by a doctor, no serious injuries were found," he said.The driver of the car that collided with the motorcade was treated at the scene and driven away in an ambulance.Nykyforov said all the circumstances of the traffic accident were being investigated by law enforcement officers. He provided no further details.This comes after President Zelensky, 44, visited the recaptured city of Izyum, a key logistics hub in north-eastern Ukraine, on Wednesday.He thanked troops who took part in a swift counter-attack against...
September 15, 2022

Zelensky involved in car accident but 'not seriously hurt'

Ukrainian officials say as many as eight Russian missiles hit the dam on Wednesday.
Houses flooded after missiles hit major Ukraine dam
KYIV — Russian missiles have hit a reservoir dam near the southern Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, officials say.Residents in some areas were told to evacuate, city head Oleksandr Vilkul said, but he added the situation was under control.Ukraine said the strike was revenge by Russia for its recent counter-attack.President Volodymyr Zelensky — who was born in the city — described Russia as a "terrorist state" after the attack on the Karachunivske reservoir."You are weaklings who fight civilians," Zelensky said in his late night address on Wednesday. "Scoundrels who, having escaped from the battlefield, are trying to do harm from somewhere far away."This was an apparent reference to Ukraine's recent military successes in a swift counter-offensive in the...
September 15, 2022

Houses flooded after missiles hit major Ukraine dam

Sweden's Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson concedes election.
Sweden’s PM concedes election to right-wing bloc, set to resign
STOCKHOLM — Sweden's Social Democrat Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson accepted defeat on Wednesday after a close-fought election, handing the four-party right-wing opposition bloc victory and the first go at forming a new government.With 99% of the vote counted, only a handful of votes remain unassigned, but Andersson, who became Sweden's first woman PM last year, said the results showed her opponents have won."I will therefore tomorrow ask the speaker to be relieved of my post," Andersson told reporters during a news conference.The Moderates, Sweden Democrats, Christian Democrats and Liberals had held a one-seat lead after Sunday's election but looked like they were getting 176 seats in the 349-seat parliament to the center-left's 173 seats, according to the...
September 14, 2022

Sweden’s PM concedes election to right-wing bloc, set to resign

Ursula von der Leyen
EU chief sets out plans to tackle energy crisis
STRASBOURG — EU chief Ursula von der Leyen has called for cuts to electricity use across the bloc and windfall taxes on energy firms to tackle high prices.She told the European Parliament that gas and electricity prices had hit all-time highs after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.She called for electricity consumption to be cut at peak hours by at least 5%.But plans for a cap on the price of natural gas, a key Russian export to the EU, were put on hold.The plan outlined in Strasbourg targets "excess revenues" with proposals to skim the profits of low-carbon electricity producers and implement a de facto windfall tax on the oil, gas and coal sectors.The money raised, estimated to be €140bn (£121bn; $141bn), would go to families and businesses across the EU's 27...
September 14, 2022

EU chief sets out plans to tackle energy crisis

Vladirmir Putin
Russia 'spent hundreds of millions' to influence politicians and political parties abroad, says US
WASHINGTON — Russia has covertly spent more than $300 million in recent years trying to influence politicians and other officials in more than two dozen countries, including Europe.According to the US State Department, a new American intelligence assessment of Russia's global covert efforts to support policies and parties sympathetic to Moscow targeted elections in Albania, Bosnia and Montenegro, among other countries, including Ukraine.Some of the tactics Russia allegedly used included using front organizations to funnel money to preferred causes or politicians, including think tanks in Europe.Putin was spending huge sums “in an attempt to manipulate democracies from the inside,” said a US official who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity.State Department spokesman Ned...
September 14, 2022

Russia 'spent hundreds of millions' to influence politicians and political parties abroad, says US

2017 was the most tragic year for wildfires in Portugal's history
Eleven acquitted of negligence over deadly 2017 wildfires in Portugal
LISBON — Eleven people have been acquitted in a landmark trial into the devastating wildfires that hit central Portugal in 2017.The suspects were all cleared of negligent homicide and “negligent offense to physical integrity” after months of proceedings.Among the accused on trial were the municipal fire brigade commander, local elected officials, and employees of electricity distribution and road maintenance companies.The forest fires in Pedrógão Grande in the central region of Leiria killed 66 people and injured 250 others in June 2017. An estimated 24,000 hectares of land were burned, and more than 500 houses were partially or totally destroyed over five days.Dozens of the victims were killed while trapped in their cars on N236 -- the so-called "road of death" -- as the...
September 14, 2022

Eleven acquitted of negligence over deadly 2017 wildfires in Portugal

There was a solemn hush as the procession moved through crowds on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh
Hundreds of thousands expected to pay last respects to Queen Elizabeth II in London
LONDON — Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to pay their last respects to Queen Elizabeth II from Wednesday, when the former monarch's coffin lies in state in London.The coffin of the queen, who died last Thursday at 96, returned to the British capital on Tuesday evening, making its way from Scotland through a rainy London as crowds lined the route to bid the Queen a final farewell.People waved as the hearse, with lights inside illuminating the flag-draped coffin, made its way into London after the Queen arrived from her final voyage from Edinburgh to the capital by plane.Thousands gathered outside the palace clapped as the hearse swung around a roundabout in front of the Queen's official residence and through the wrought iron gates. King Charles III and other royals...
September 14, 2022

Hundreds of thousands expected to pay last respects to Queen Elizabeth II in London

File photo of Azerbaijan soldiers in position in the Tartar region in 2016
Armenia-Azerbaijan: Almost 100 killed in overnight clashes
YEREVAN — Fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan on Monday night killed almost 100 soldiers, it has emerged.Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said 49 of its soldiers died in overnight clashes, while Azerbaijan's defense ministry said 50 of its servicemen were also killed.The neighboring countries have fought two wars and seen regular smaller clashes span three decades.On Tuesday, Russia said it brokered a ceasefire for the latest outbreak.Armenia initially said the fighting had calmed, rather than ended completely. Later, Azerbaijan said it had completed its objectives following "provocations" from its neighbor.At the core of the dispute is the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. It is, according to internationally-recognized borders, firmly a part of Azerbaijan — but...
September 14, 2022

Armenia-Azerbaijan: Almost 100 killed in overnight clashes

Putin and Xi last met in person in Beijing in February.
Putin and Xi to discuss Ukraine war at Uzbekistan meeting: Kremlin
MOSCOW — China's leader Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin will discuss the war in Ukraine and other "international and regional topics" at their meeting later this week, the Kremlin says.The two will meet in Uzbekistan at a summit that will show an "alternative" to the Western world, the Kremlin said.Xi is making his first trip overseas since the beginning of the pandemic.He is seeking a historic third term while Putin's relations with the West are at rock bottom over Ukraine.Xi is beginning his three-day trip in Kazakhstan on Wednesday. He will then meet Mr Putin on Thursday at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Samarkand, which will run from 15-16 September.Putin will also meet other leaders including those of India, Pakistan,...
September 14, 2022

Putin and Xi to discuss Ukraine war at Uzbekistan meeting: Kremlin

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