New undersea cable broken under 'NATO lake'
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Daniel Orton is an editor on the live news team at Newsweek, based in London, U.K. He was previously a video news editor at the company between 2017 and 2019, before spending several years as a senior video journalist on the social news team at The Wall Street Journal, where he primarily produced short-form and breaking-news videos for the Journal's X (Twitter) page, with a focus on business, finance and markets. He also produced longer videos for other platforms on a wide range of subjects, from the U.K. royal family's finances to the cost of tackling climate change. He has also worked for The London Evening Standard, Fox News and Bauer Media.
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An undersea cable break has occurred in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Gotland, Sweden, according to Swedish media reports.
"The government is being kept informed by the relevant authorities who are investigating what has happened." Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
"We take all reports of possible damage to infrastructure in the Baltic Sea very seriously," he added.
This is a breaking news story and will be updated