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Missing man returns home in Dalarna

The 21-year-old man reported missing in Gagnef in Dalarna in central Sweden on New Year's Eve has returned home. A large party has been searching for him since New Year's Day. He returned home at around 5pm.

Published: 3 January 2009 09:42 CET

Up to 80 people took part in the search for the man, who went missing on his way to a New Year’s Eve party in the town.

Police, volunteers and the National Home Guard took part in the day long search for the man. Police deployed a helicopter with thermocamera to try to track the man.

The police said on Friday that they suspect that he disappeared of his own free will. Earlier in the day police spokesperson Sven-Åke Petters had this to say to news agency TT:

“We have reason to believe that the the person is staying away of his own free will. Witnesses report that he had been seen in the nearby town of Leksand.”

The 21-year-old was on his way to a party in a cabin in the town of Gagnef on Wednesday but he never arrived. He was reported missing by his family the following afternoon.

RUSSIA

Russia announces no New Year’s greetings for France, US, Germany

US President Joe Biden, France's Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will not be receiving New Year's greetings from Russian leader Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin said on Friday.

Published: 31 December 2022 09:35 CET
Russia announces no New Year's greetings for France, US, Germany

As the world gears up to ring in the New Year this weekend, Putin sent congratulatory messages to the leaders of Kremlin-friendly countries including Turkey, Syria, Venezuela and China.

But Putin will not wish a happy New Year to the leaders of the United States, France and Germany, countries that have piled unprecedented sanctions on Moscow over Putin’s assault on Ukraine.

“We currently have no contact with them,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

“And the president will not congratulate them given the unfriendly actions that they are taking on a continuous basis,” he added.

Putin shocked the world by sending troops to pro-Western Ukraine on February 24.

While Kyiv’s Western allies refused to send troops to Ukraine, they have been supplying the ex-Soviet country with weapons in a show of support that has seen Moscow suffer humiliating setbacks on the battlefield.

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