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The number of young people in Stockholm who reported sexual abuse has doubled compared with 2016. Women's shelters warn that young women are being forced to take part in increasingly harsh sexual practices, and suspect that this is because young people are copying online porn. Politicians want prospective teachers to receive better training in sex education.

Contradictory reports circulated on Tuesday after the disappearance of Maria Kolesnikova, one of the leaders of the Belarusian opposition, and two of her colleagues. According to the Belarusian authorities Kolesnikova is in Ukraine. Acquaintances of the 38-year-old, however, have said that she was arrested. What consequences will this have for the opposition and for the regime in Minsk?

In the run-up to the eighth round of negotiations on future EU-UK relations this week the British Prime Minister has threatened to break off talks if an agreement is not reached by October 15, indicating that a no-deal Brexit would be a positive outcome for the British. London also seems to be planning laws that run counter to the 2019 agreement with Brussels. Where will these tactics lead?

Serbia's President Aleksandar Vučić and Kosovo's Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti have concluded an economic agreement in Washington brokered by the US. Under the agreement Kosovo will become part of a free trade zone initiated by Serbia. However, the paper also contains a passage stating that both countries recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and will move or open their embassies there. Journalists attempt to interpret the consequences.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has woken up from his artificial coma at the Berlin Charité hospital and, according to his doctors, is responsive. Meanwhile, the debate about stopping construction of the almost completed Nord Stream 2 Baltic Sea pipeline is becoming increasingly heated. German Chancellor Angela Merkel now no longer rules out this course of action. But not all commentators think it is a good idea.