Gas release during the explosion. AP
The Nord Stream sabotage
Designated sailboat is said to have been in Sweden before Nord Stream sabotage
The sailboat Andromeda is suspected by several countries of having been used in the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipeline last year. Expressen reveals in a report along with several other media that the boat was in the harbor Sandhamn in Blekinge twelve days before the sabotage.
- It was a group of men and a woman, says the German sailor Thorsten Bruns, who met the crew on board.
In addition to Thorsten Bruns, two other sailors testify that they saw the boat in Sandhamn, intelligence sources also confirm that the boat was in Sweden before the sabotage.
What the boat did in Sweden is unclear.
Earlier this year, German police secured traces of explosives on board Andromeda. The theory is that the crew on board was Ukrainian and that divers went down from the boat and blew up the gas line. Expressen writes that Sweden, Denmark and Germany confirm in a joint letter to the UN Security Council that the sailboat is the main clue in the investigation.
Satellite image of Pankovo 2018, the launch site of burevestnik. Wikimedia
The nuclear weapons of the great powers
Nuclear weapons alarm worries: "Like a flying Chernobyl"
Norway's intelligence service is following "closely" Russia's increasing activity on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, which was used for nuclear weapons tests during the Cold War. This is what Vice Admiral Nils Andreas Stensønes says to Norwegian TV2.
CNN, Bellingcat and The Barents Observer have recently published satellite images showing increased activity in the area. One of the photos was taken at a launch site for the burevestnik robot, a robot powered by a small nuclear reactor. From it, radioactivity is emitted directly, like "a flying Tjornobyl", says The Barents Observer's editor Thomas Nilsen to TV2.
- For Norway as a neighbor, and for Russians living in the north, this is worrying, he says.
At the end of last week, satellite images obtained by CNN showed that activity is also increasing at test facilities in China and the United States. Neither country has tested a nuclear weapon since the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty was hammered out in 1996.
Refugees on the Greek island of Lesvos / UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman. TT.
The flight to Europe
Britain questions asylum rights: "It's not enough to be gay or a woman"
Britain's Home Secretary Suella Braverman is getting ready to question what role the UN refugee convention plays today, reports Sky News with reference to excerpts of the speech. According to the channel, Braverman will give a speech at an American think tank on Tuesday, and she will put a lot of emphasis on the British government's promises of a stricter migration policy.
Among other things, she will talk about whether the refugee convention from 1951 "fits in our modern times" - and that it is not enough to simply "be gay or a woman" to have the right to protection under international refugee laws. She describes the current rules as "absurd".
Braverman announced earlier this year that a British asylum freeze will prevent refugees from reaching Britain across the English Channel.
A German policeman stops a car in search of human traffickers on Monday. Patrick Pleul / AP
Police raid against suspected German people smugglers
Over 100 Syrian migrants, who are suspected of having been smuggled into Germany, have been found during a coordinated police raid in several places in the country, writes TT with reference to the German news agency DPA.
The refugees are suspected of having been brought into Germany without legal residence documents.
More than 350 police officers are said to have taken part in the operation on Tuesday morning, which was mainly carried out in locations in northern and western Germany, but also in Bavaria in the south of the country.
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