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STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Swedish court on Sunday ordered the detention of the Russian captain of a ship that was suspected to be sailing under a false flag in the Baltic Sea and wasboarded by authoritieslast week.

Sweden Ship Investigation

The commander of the Sea Owl 1, whose name hasn't been released, was arrested on Friday — the day after the Swedish coast guard boarded the vessel off Trelleborg, on Sweden's southern coast.

Prosecutors suspect him of using a false document. They said Sunday that the district court in Ystad ordered him held in custody in line with their request, Swedish news agency TT reported.

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The tanker was sailing under the flag of the Comoros, an island nation off East Africa. But the coast guard has said that it suspects it isn't in the shipping registry there and therefore there is no flag state to vouch for safety on board.

The tanker is also on the EU sanctions list and had been traveling from Brazil to Russia, according to the coast guard. It was previously used to transport oil between those two countries though it did not appear to have cargo on Thursday.

It was the second vessel sailing in Swedish territorial waters to come under coast guard investigation in a week under suspicion of using a false flag.The cargo ship "Caffa,"sailing with a majority Russian crew, is accused of transporting stolen grain while on Ukraine's sanctions list. Its captain also has been detained on suspicion of using a false document.

Sweden last year said it wouldstep up insurance checkson foreign ships in a move aimed at tightening controls on Russia's so-called"shadow fleet" of aging ships, which are used to transport oil and gas or to carry stolen Ukrainian grain.

TAMMUN, West Bank (AP) — Israeli soldiers fired on a car carrying a family in the northern West Bank, killing four people including two children, the Palestinian Authority's Health Ministry said.

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The Palestinian Red Crescent rescue service said that Ali and Waed Odeh, and two of their four children, were shot in the head. The Odehs' two surviving children had shrapnel wounds that were examined by first responders once they were granted access, the group said, accusing Israel of delaying ambulances dispatched to the scene.

Israel's military and police said in a joint statement Sunday that forces opened fire after a car accelerated toward them in Tammun. They said the forces were pursuing suspects accused of "terrorist activity" and that the shooting was under investigation.

Najah al-Subhi, who lost her son and grandchildren, told The Associated Press the family had gone to a mall in Nablus to buy clothes for Eid al-Fitr, the holiday marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan this week. She said the two surviving children sustained shrapnel wounds in the eye and the head.

The Israeli rights group B'tselem said the Odeh family's car was riddled with bullets and Israeli forces had "violently interrogated" one of the surviving children who was wounded.

"No effective mechanism exists to hold those responsible to account," the group said.

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Israeli soldiers accused of harming Palestinians are rarely penalized and were indicted in fewer than 1% of cases based on 2,427 complaints alleging wrongdoing between 2016 and 2024, according to Israeli rights group Yesh Din.

The members of the Odeh family were the latest casualties in the occupied West Bank, where Israeli settlers and soldiers had previously shot and killed at least eight Palestinians since the start of the Iran war.

Since Israel and the U.S. attacked Iran on Feb. 28, Israeli authorities have restricted movement across the West Bank, intermittently closing hundreds of gates and checkpoints on roads used by residents, ambulances and commercial traffic. The barriers have tightened movement and made emergency response significantly more difficult, the Red Crescent told The Associated Press last week.

Yesh Din said on Wednesday that it had documented 109 incidents of settler violence in the occupied West Bank in dozens of Palestinian communities since the start of the war.

The toll is lower than at this point in 2025 — a record year for violence that began with Israelinvading northern West Bank citiesthat the military said were militant strongholds. Israeli forces still maintain a presence there.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has recorded 18 Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank since the start of 2026, including eight by Israeli settlers. ___

Metz reported from Ramallah, West Bank.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood will convene Sunday night for a nail-biterAcademy Awardsthat's steering toward a coronation for eitherPaul Thomas AndersonorRyan Coogler.Most would call that a win-win.

Anderson's"One Battle After Another"is the favorite heading into the ceremony at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. But Coogler's "Sinners" comes in the lead nominee with arecord 16 nominations. Both filmmakers are poised to leave with their first Oscar.

But little else is assured at anAcademy AwardswhereMichael B. JordanorTimothée Chalamet(despite the ballet diss heard 'round the world) could win their first Academy Award in a too-close-to-call best actor race.

How to watch and stream the Oscars and red carpet

The telecast will air live on ABC and stream on Hulu beginning at 7 p.m. Eastern. (YouTube will be the new home of the Oscars beginning in 2029.) The official red carpet preshow begins on ABC and Hulu at 6:30 p.m. EDT, while E! will kick off its red-carpet broadcast at 4 p.m.

The Associated Presswill have a livestream of fashion arrivalsfrom noon to 3:30 p.m. Pacific on APNews.com and YouTube.

What to expect from the 2026 Oscars

Conan O'Brienis returning as host for the second year in a row. Despite thewar in Iranand expanding geopolitical turmoil, O'Brien has pledged an entertaining show in the mold of hosts like Bob Hope and Johnny Carson. "Let's have fun with it, is my attitude," O'Brien told reporters earlier in the week.

Still, the already high security will be even greater this year at an Oscars, taking place two weeks after the United States and President Donald Trump launched the war with Iran.

"Of course, every year we monitor what's going on in the world," Raj Kapoor, executive producer of the show, said earlier in the week. "We have the support of the FBI and the LAPD, and it's a close collaboration."

Two of the five best song nomineeswill be performed: "I Lied to You," from "Sinners," with Miles Caton, Raphael Saadiq and others; and "Golden" from "KPop Demon Hunters."

Theatrical looks to best streaming, again

"KPop Demon Hunters,"a Sony Pictures production that was sold toNetflix, was the most-watched movie of 2025. (It has 325 million views and counting, making it Netflix's most-streamed movie ever.) But it seems all but certain that the night's final award won't go to a streaming release;Apple's "CODA"remains the only streaming film to achieve that. Instead best picture is likely to go to an anomaly in today's movie industry: big-budget original films from a personal vision.

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"Sinners" and "One Battle After Another" were both theatrical releasesshot on film. And both came from Warner Bros., the legacy studio that'sagreed to mergewith David Ellison's new media colossus, Paramount Skydance. The $111 billion deal, which awaits regulatory approval, has rattled an industry already reconciling itself to the acquisitions of MGM (by Amazon) and 20th Century Fox (by The Walt Disney Co.).

Elegy may mark Sunday's Oscars. The in memoriam segment is expected to include, among many others, remembrances of Robert Redford, Diane Keaton and Robert Duvall. O'Brien, who had hosted a party attended byRob and Michele Reinerthe night before their deaths, has promised a "very powerful" tribute.

New this year is abest casting category. Another innovation is a requirement that Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences memberswatch all nomineesbefore voting. On the academy's streaming platform — even Oscar voting is streamed — voters had to check a box attesting to having watched each nominee before voting in a category.

Few sure things in the acting categories

Whether those changes will have any effect on some of the night's closest races remains to be seen. Coming into the show, best actor is one of the most hard-to-call categories. Chalamet had been seen as the front-runner for hisperformance in "Marty Supreme."But a swaggering meta campaign, that drew headlines, of all things, a perceived slight of ballet and opera, may have helped put Jordan into the lead. (In Chalamet's favor, the uproar only started as voting was ending.)

WhileJessie Buckley("Hamnet") is widely expecting to win best actress, a first for Irish performers, the supporting categories are highly competitive. Amy Madigan ("Weapons") is the slight favorite in best supporting actress, but Teyana Taylor ("One Battle After Another") and Wunmi Mosaku ("Sinners") are in the mix, too.

Despite almost no campaigning, Penn is viewed as the best supporting actor favorite. That award, could easily also go to Stellan Skarsgård ("Sentimental Value") or Delroy Lindo ("Sinners").

Though the Oscars often feel largely removed from their times, a crop of nominees that explicitly grapple with the current political moment will be center stage. That includes not just "One Battle After Another," which opens with a raid on an immigration detention facility, but movies like Kleber Mendonça Filho's Brazilian political thriller"The Secret Agent"and Jafar Panahi's Iranian revenge drama"It Was Just an Accident."

The war in Iran has particular meaning to Panahi, whose film is nominated for best international feature and for best screenplay. The esteemed Iranian filmmaker and last year'sPalme d'Or winnerhas made films clandestinely in his native Iran despite repeated imprisonment, travel ban and even home arrest. While promoting the film, Panahi wassentenced to a year in prison. At least one of his cowriter nominees,Mehdi Mahmoudian, was unable to leave Iran to attend Sunday's awards.

Twenty three years ago, the Academy Awards were also held amid war in the Middle East. The 2003 Oscars took place just three days before the Iraq War began. Many in Hollywood protested the war. "Chicago" won best picture.

For more coverage of the Oscars, visithttps://apnews.com/hub/academy-awards.