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Speaker Mike Johnson. Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP/TT
The US state apparatus can remain open over the election. The Speaker of Congress, Republican Mike Johnson, has a preliminary agreement with the Democrats on temporary spending frameworks for the last three months of the year.
Authorities and other federal bodies may stay within previously specified ranges, there will be no level increase. The exception is that the Secret Service, which, among other things, provides bodyguard protection to the president and presidential candidates, receives roughly 2.3 billion, translated into kroner, more.
“Although this is a solution that none of us would prefer, it is the most reasonable solution now given the situation,” writes Mike Johnson in a comment.
He adds that it would be political mismanagement to shut down the state apparatus just a month before the presidential election.
THREE NEWS YOU CAN’T MISS
At least nine people have been injured in a Russian attack on the city of Zaporizhzhya in southeastern Ukraine on Sunday evening, Ukraine’s state rescue service said.
Several residential buildings were damaged in the attack, which began at 10 p.m., Swedish time. Among the injured is a child.
Rescue personnel are searching the damaged houses and several residents have had to be evacuated as a result of the attack.
Racial crowds in southern Beirut after Israel’s attack on Friday. Photo: Bilal Hussein/AP/TT
The outside world watches with horror the escalation of large-scale attacks between Israel and Hezbollah.
– What worries me is the risk of Lebanon turning into a new Gaza, says UN chief António Guterres at the General Assembly meeting in New York.
As recently as Sunday, Naim Qassem, the deputy leader of the Iran-backed Shiite militia Hezbollah, emphasized that the militia had entered a “new phase” in the fighting with Israel, which he calls an “open showdown.”
– We are ready for all military possibilities, he says.
The police are in Gottsunda in Uppsala after a suspicious shooting.
Several people reported loud explosions at 9.45pm on Sunday evening.
A large number of patrols were dispatched, and the police have made findings at the scene indicating that there was a shooting.
One person is said to have been shot at, the police say.
– We have a plaintiff, but that person is not injured, says Thomas Bertze at the police in the central region.
A cordon has been set up at the suspected crime scene.
The shooting is said to have occurred near the place where a live hand grenade was found yesterday. However, it is unclear whether there is any connection.
– We have to investigate that, says Thomas Bertze.
The incident is being investigated as attempted murder. No one is arrested.
A World War I bomb has been safely removed from a construction site near Serbia’s parliament in Belgrade on Sunday.
The bomb weighed close to 300 kilograms and was found on Wednesday.
It was used by the Austro-Hungarian army when it captured the capital during World War I, according to Interior Minister Ivica Dacić.
Before the move, the police urged residents in the area to be careful, to move their vehicles and, if possible, temporarily leave their homes.
The bomb was taken to sandy terrain about six miles from Belgrade where it was destroyed.
Party leader and Minister of Education Johan Pehrson (L) and Minister of Education Lotta Edholm (L). Archive image. Photo: Christine Olsson/TT
The Liberals want to scrap the school grade F, which excludes many from high school, write Education Minister Johan Pehrson and Education Minister Lotta Edholm on SvD Debatt.
“Replace the grade F with a more nuanced system”, they write, and mean that the current six-point grading system, A-F, should be replaced by what they call a more symmetrical scale.
“We should not have a grading system that leads to a large percentage of students being excluded from upper secondary education.”
The debate article comes a few days after Edholm’s turn in an interview with Dagens Nyheter. Then she opened to introducing a new grading system without an F limit. The Minister of Education has previously said no to removing the grade.
The terrorist group Hezbollah has entered “a new phase” in the war against Israel.
This is stated by the group’s deputy leader Naim Qassem, according to Washington Post.
He also said that rockets will continue to be fired at Israel.
Seven people have been killed in an Israeli airstrike against a school building in Gaza City, writes The Guardian and refers to health authorities in Hamas-controlled Gaza.
The attack hit the school on Sunday morning and killed, among others, the head of Gaza’s Ministry of Public Works and Housing, according to the Health Ministry.
According to Israel’s military, Hamas fighters were targeted, and the military claims that measures were taken to reduce the risk to civilians.
Schools in Gaza have been closed during the nearly year-long war and the buildings have been turned into shelters for displaced Palestinians. Israel has repeatedly carried out deadly attacks on such school buildings, based on allegations that the premises are used to coordinate terrorist activities.
In the city of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, two more attacks killed at least seven people on Sunday, reports AFP. The first strike hit an apartment building, killing four. Two of them were women. Later in the afternoon, at least three people were killed in another attack.
A man in his 30s died today in a paragliding accident in Raundalen in Norway.
– The man lived in Bergen, says Linn Søfteland at the police The Bergen newspaper.
The police will now investigate the accident.
The man’s relatives have been informed of the death.
There is a stop in the train traffic between Uppsala and Gävle due to an accident.
The stop affects the routes Stockholm-Gävle-Sundsvall/Umeå, Stockholm-Ljusdal and Stockholm-Östersund.
“Right now there is no forecast for when traffic can resume,” SJ writes on its website.
The emergency services at the collapsed house. Photo: LaPresse via AP/TT
Four people in the same family, including two children, have died since a two-storey house in Naples collapsed on Sunday morning, local emergency services said.
A six-year-old boy and a four-year-old girl have been found dead in the riots along with their mother and grandmother.
The father and a two-year-old were found alive and are being treated in hospital. The father is reported to have serious injuries.
Over 60 volunteers have participated in the rescue work. The cause of the collapse may have been a gas explosion, according to reports.
Donald Trump says he will not run for re-election in 2028, should he lose this year’s presidential election.
This is reported by the AFP news agency.
Photo: AP
At least 51 people have died after a gas leak triggered an explosion at a coal mine in eastern Iran.
It reports BBC and refers to state Iranian media.
Over 20 people are said to have been injured. According to the local governor, 69 workers were in the coal mine at the time of the explosion.
It is unclear if anyone is still trapped due to race after the explosion.
Last year, six people died in a similar accident in Iran.
Mohamed al-Fayed died in 2023, aged 94. Archive image. Photo: Matt Dunham/AP/TT
A British public prosecutor’s office says it received evidence against now-disgraced former Harrods owner Mohamed al-Fayed twice in the 2000s.
This week the BBC published a documentary in which the late billionaire is accused of several cases of abuse. In the documentary, the BBC spoke to over 20 women who worked at Harrods from the 1980s onwards. Several of them testify that they were raped by al-Fayed.
After that, the lawyers representing the victims announced that they had received more than 150 new pieces of information related to the allegations against al-Fayed, who died last year.
A spokesman for the prosecutor’s office said on Sunday that police presented evidence against al-Fayed regarding sexual abuse in 2009 and 2015.
In 2008, al-Fayed was accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl, and prosecutors reviewed the evidence the following year.
In 2013, the billionaire was accused of raping a woman, which was investigated in 2015.
In both cases, prosecutors said there was no “realistic prospect of a conviction” – and no charges were brought.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York on Sunday. Photo: Frank Franklin II/AP/TT
The UN member states have adopted a “pact for the future”, where challenges that characterize our time – conflicts, climate change and lack of human rights – are addressed. It includes, among other things, a segment where the use of nuclear weapons is discouraged.
The Future Pact was launched by Secretary-General António Guterres, who said it was a unique opportunity to influence human history by reviving international cooperation.
The pact was adopted during the ongoing General Assembly meeting in New York on Sunday, despite last-minute objections from some countries, including Russia.
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