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The committee investigating the storming of the Capitol on January 6 last year will vote on whether to recommend that ex-president Donald Trump be prosecuted for, among other things, rioting in connection with the events.

In addition to riot charges, the committee is also considering recommending that Trump be charged with obstruction of justice and conspiracy against the United States.

The committee consists of seven members of Congress from the Democrats and two from the Republicans. They cannot themselves decide whether charges should be brought, but they can make a recommendation to the Department of Justice, which can bring charges. (TT)

A shortened working week with maintained salary could become a reality in Spain. On Friday, the Spanish government launched a pilot project to test how productivity is affected, writes TT.

The project will be tested for two years and small and medium-sized companies can participate.

The aim is to produce labor reforms that can “generate an increase in productivity that offsets wage costs”, according to the country’s labor market ministry.

A two-year-old boy miraculously survived a hippo attack near his home in Uganda.

CNN writes that Iga Paul was playing near the beach when the hippo struck.

The giant animal bit the boy and “swallowed almost half the body”, while a man threw stones at it, according to the police.

That made the hippo let go. The boy was taken to hospital where he received a rabies vaccine and was treated for his injuries. Now he is said to have fully recovered and has been allowed to leave the hospital.

According to an estimate, around 500 people in Africa die in hippo attacks every year, writes BBC.

The animals can weigh up to 1.5 tonnes.

During the night of Thursday, someone stole a temporary mailbox for Christmas letters from Flöjtvägen in Lund.

The next day, the red post box was found nearby – ransacked.

Many of the Christmas cards were damaged and could not be forwarded.

– A problem with Christmas cards is that it is rarely traceable to the sender, says Jonas Öhrling, production manager at Postnord Tellusgatan in Lund, to South Sweden.

He has never seen someone steal a Christmas mailbox.

– Most likely the thieves were looking for cash. Our policy is to never send cash by letter, but it does happen occasionally.

The incident has been reported to the police.

Fyr’s chimpanzees were shot at Furuviksparken on Wednesday.

Three of them are found dead. The fourth is down but it is not confirmed if it is alive or dead.

Now the park states that one of the chimpanzees that moves inside the chimpanzee house, Selma, is seriously injured.

“At the moment we cannot assess the extent of the injuries, but what we can see now is that she is injured in one eye and does not seem to be able to move one of her arms. We are trying to give her painkillers through the food,” the park writes on its website.

During the day, they have tried to lure the chimpanzees back into the enclosure and close it, but have not succeeded.

“It is still a serious situation and our work to secure the fence continues during the night.”

Here you can read more about the drama in Furuviksparken.

The Swedish Defense Forces have signed two different agreements to purchase a total of 276 tracked vehicles from BAE Systems Hägglunds in Örnsköldsvik, writes TT.

In part, Sweden, together with Germany and Great Britain, has procured 436 tracked wagons of the BVS10 type for approximately eight billion kroner.

Of these, Sweden will receive 236, which are expected to be delivered at the beginning of 2024.

In addition, Sweden has signed another agreement for 40 BVS10s from the same defense group.

Stock indexes in the US fell on Friday. The trading week ended in the red.

The broad S&P 500 index retreated 1.1 percent, the Dow Jones closed at minus 0.9 percent and the Nasdaq fell 1.0 percent.

Among the winners were software giant Adobe and social media company Meta. They rose three and 2.8 percent respectively.

Even Apple went against the trend and ended up in the plus.

The dollar strengthened against the euro and the krona.

A woman in her 80s has died after an accident in Emmaboda.

The woman and another person were hit by a car at 5pm today when they were out walking.

The condition of the other person’s injuries is unclear.

The woman’s relatives have been notified.

The police will investigate the accident. At the moment, the driver is not suspected of any crime.

Ukraine’s second-largest city Kharkiv is without power after the latest wave of Russian attacks.

According to official sources, as many as nine power stations have been hit by rockets and drone attacks, write BBC.

– Right now there is no water either because the pumping stations do not work without power, says Kharkiv resident Anastasia.

The local government hopes to have the power back on by midnight. But the electricity network operator Ukrenergo warns that the damage is so extensive that it will take longer.

Meanwhile, three people were killed and 13 injured when a residential building was attacked in Kryvyi Rih. Another person has died in Kherson and in Kyiv the subway has stopped.

Thousands of tourists are stranded in the city of Cusco in Peru due to the large protests in the country, TT reports.

– There are 5,000 tourists stranded in Cusco, they are in their hotels and waiting for the flights to start again, says Darwin Baca, mayor of the nearby city of Machu Picchu.

Several roads in the city are blocked and the airport has been closed since Monday, when protesters tried to storm the terminal.

At the same time, 800 tourists are stranded in town at the foot of the mountain where the world heritage Macchu Picchu is located.

The protests flared up after President Pedro Castillo was ousted and arrested on December 7. A court has decided that he will be detained for 18 months.

Now the de-icing in northern Sweden is complete and the hydropower plants can produce electricity at full capacity again, reports Echo.

It will result in lower electricity prices throughout Sweden, says Vattenfall.

– More production capacity has a dampening effect on electricity prices given that there is more production to meet the demand that exists. There is also an opportunity to once again fully export to the south of the country,” says Per Larsson, head of production planning in the Nordics at Vattenfall, to the radio.

During the last few weeks, the power plants have gone down in production to allow the ice to settle.