Stockholm. For three years, 37-year-old Islam Ali, who is originally from Egypt, has been inspiring others to take cold baths at Hornsberg Beach on Kungsholmen. Every Sunday he meets a group who go swimming, then they drink coffee and talk about the experience.
Kyiv. Lieutenant Colonel Bohdan Pokatylov, 31, was lucky. The Iskander robot crashed next to the building, not into it. He would have been dead by then. The war cost Bohdan eight years of his life and in the end it took away half of his face. But Ukrainian surgeons almost managed to save it.
See the report: “Sometimes we get soldiers with no eyes, no upper jaw, or no face at all.”
Fiemme Valley. The ladies protested with painted beards and crossed poles. Nevertheless, the International Olympic Committee stuck to its decision to exclude women from Nordic combined at the Winter Olympics in Milan Cortina. Now the entire industry is at risk and could be eliminated from the 2030 Olympics.
See the report: The only Olympic sport to port the women: “We deserve to be included”
Purchase. She works in nursing, has an SM silver medal in boxing and is chairwoman of the SSU in western Mälardalen. But after more than ten years in Sweden, everything can be destroyed for Afnan Agha, 21, and she is now threatened with deportation to Iraq – a country she has not been to since she was eight years old.
See the report: The SSU chairman in Köping is threatened with deportation to Iraq
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