For the first time, the Gripen has been used in attacks against live targets. In the border conflict with Cambodia, Thailand carried out several operations with the Swedish-made fighter aircraft. You fly in, identify a target and drop a bomb. For an aircraft like the Gripen, it is not particularly complicated, according to Stefan Wilson at the National Defence College.
SwedenThe German champion club Bayern München has recruited Liverpool's attacking star Luis Diaz. The transfer can open up for the English top club to place a bid on Newcastle's Alexander Isak.
FootballA tsunami has swept in over coastal areas in Japan and Russia after an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8. Tsunami warnings have been issued in several continents after the quake which is believed to be the strongest in the world since 2011. The waves are however reported in many places to have been smaller than feared.
WorldA court convicts Colombia's former president Álvaro Uribe, 73, of witness tampering.
World politicsThe UN's special rapporteur for the Palestinian areas says that it is high time for countries around the world to break with the state of Israel.
WorldThe relatively newly formed Hague group is meeting these days in Colombia's capital Bogotá. The UN rapporteur Francesca Albanese, recently subjected to American sanctions, praises the meeting.
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