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Israel has attacked Beirut’s southern suburbs again, AFP reports shortly before midnight on Wednesday evening.
The attack came shortly after the Israeli military issued a warning to immediately leave two different areas where buildings had been identified ahead of an imminent attack on Hezbollah targets.
Images from AFP show smoke rising from one of the areas.
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Michael McCaul, Republican member of the House of Representatives and chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, was arrested earlier in November at Dulles Airport outside Washington.
The top politician says this was “the result of a bad decision” to mix sleeping pills with alcohol, writes Semafor.
McCaul, who describes himself as a “nervous air traveller”, had taken the tablets to be able to sleep on the plane to Texas.
But the mixture with alcohol made him confused and he missed the plane.
The Republican was later found by police and taken into custody pending the arrival of family members to pick him up.
Israel has stepped up work on a ceasefire deal in Lebanon to give Trump an early foreign policy victory when he takes office.
That was reportedly the message from Israel’s Strategy Minister Ron Dermer during a meeting with Trump and his adviser Jared Kushner at Mar-a-Lago this week, three Israeli sources with knowledge of Washington Post.
On the other hand, there are also sources who say that plans can be created so that the ground operations in Lebanon should not yield results, the newspaper writes.
The British newspaper The Guardian is leaving the social platform X.
It is written that the algorithm changes on the platform are one of the reasons for leaving.
The change in the algorithms has, according to the newspaper, led to a greater spread of “extreme right-wing conspiracy theories and racism” on X.
“The advantages of being on X are now fewer than the disadvantages and we believe that our journalism is better promoted by being elsewhere,” writes the newspaper in an article about its exit from the platform.
Quincy Jones’ cause of death has been determined, reports TMZ.
The legendary music producer died of pancreatic cancer, according to the death certificate.
The star was 91 years old.
Read more here.
Florida Senator Marco Rubio. Archive image. Photo: Alex Brandon/AP/TT
US President-elect Donald Trump nominates Florida Senator Marco Rubio to be his Secretary of State.
A 35-year-old woman was assaulted in Gothenburg on Wednesday evening.
According to the police, the woman is beaten and kneed by two women unknown to her.
The police write a report of assault and according to initial information there was no need for medical care at the scene.
No one is arrested.
The Republicans retain the majority in the US House of Representatives, according to calculations by several American media.
That would mean that the Republicans have a majority in all three bodies of power: the White House, Congress and now also the House of Representatives.
There has been an accident with a lorry and four other vehicles on the E4 at the height of Järna in the southbound direction.
A passenger car must be in the right lane.
The Swedish Transport Administration writes on its website that the accident has a very large impact on traffic and that an emergency vehicle is on site.
No one is said to have been injured, the police write on their website.
The text is updated.
The police are currently on site at Rosengård in Malmö.
– There is a person who has been beaten there at the scene and we are there with several patrols, says Filip Annas of the police in Malmö.
The extent of the damage is currently unclear, but an ambulance will also be sent to the scene.
The police have cordoned off a courtyard at the address.
An 85-year-old man went out this morning to pick mushrooms in Borgvik, west of Grums.
The man hasn’t come home. Now he is wanted by the police.
– He left home at 10.30 this morning. We received the report at 6:40 p.m., says Gabriel Henning, police spokesperson.
At the time, the man is said to have been wearing black sweatpants, a light gray sweater, a black jacket, dark boots and possibly a cap. He has gray hair and is said to be able to walk far.
– We search with the help of drones. Several dog patrols are also on site, says Gabriel Henning.
No crime is suspected.
At 21.45 the man was found by a patrol and according to the circumstances he is doing well.
Three people are sentenced to prison after three apartments were shelled last summer. Archive image. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT
A 36-year-old man is sentenced to 14 years in prison for, among other things, aggravated weapons offenses and attempted murder after three apartments were fired upon with several shots this summer, UNT reports.
A total of eight people lived in the apartments – one in Uppsala and two in Örebro – that the man shot. He must also pay SEK 1.6 million in damages to the victims. No one was physically injured in the incident.
The man denies the crime, but the evidence includes DNA traces and images from surveillance cameras.
He is suspected of having acted on behalf of other persons, who could not be identified.
Two younger men are sentenced at the same time for having handled the weapon used in the shootings, both to four years in prison for serious weapons offences.
One of them, who is not a Swedish citizen, must be deported after serving his sentence.
Argentina withdraws from COP29, writes The Guardian.
Argentine negotiators representing far-right leader Javier Milei’s government have been ordered to withdraw from COP29 and will no longer attend the Baku climate summit.
– We have instructions from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to no longer participate. That’s all I can tell you, Ana Lamas, Argentina’s undersecretary for the environment, told the newspaper.
Milei has previously said that the climate crisis is a “socialist lie”.
There is information that the Republicans will not give more money to Ukraine, according to information to The New York Times, writes Echo.
A man in his 80s has been taken to hospital after being hit by a car in Kungsör.
The accident happened on a county road.
The extent of the injuries is unclear, but the man was awake after the accident.
The police are investigating the accident, but no one is a suspect at this time.
Several people called today and alerted the police about a rowdy man at a gas station in Gimo.
According to the police, the man, who is 45 years old, was under the influence and he was therefore taken into custody in accordance with the law on the handling of intoxicated persons.
Staff at the grocery locked themselves in the shop before the police got there.
No one was injured in connection with the incident.
A report of illegal threats and damage will be drawn up, the police write.
It is unclear why the man started arguing and fighting.
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