Amazon employees threaten to strike in the US

100 North Koreans dead in the war against Ukraine

At least a hundred North Koreans have died and a thousand injured in Russia’s war against Ukraine, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reports.

Earlier this week, Reuters reported that North Korean troops in Russia suffered losses in combat with Ukrainian troops.

Israel bombs Yemen

On the night of Thursday, Axio’s correspondent reports that Israel is bombing the Huthi rebels in Yemen’s capital, Saana.

Israel has reportedly informed the US of its plans, which are likely to be a response to the Houthis’ latest rocket attack on Israel.

Eleven dead after fire in karaoke bar

At least eleven people are dead and two injured after an arson attack at a popular karaoke bar in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi, writes Barrons.

The police suspect that the fire was arson and one person is to be arrested.

Gang fight in Gislaved – several ambulances on site

Three ambulances and several police patrols went out on Wednesday evening to a residential area in Gislaved after a suspected gang fight.

– We have an ongoing effort there. The classification is aggravated assault. There have been two groups against each other, says Oscar Öster, officer on duty at the police command center.

One person has been taken to hospital, but it is not yet known if there are more injured. The police are now trying to form an idea of ​​what happened.

– We have no arrests and no suspects at the moment. The injury status of the person who has been taken to hospital is unclear. We secure traces at the scene and question people who may have seen something. Some items have been seized, says Öster.

Fire attack on shop

Late on Wednesday evening, a store in Malmö was exposed to some form of fire attack.

– It is an extremely limited fire on the outside of the premises. No extinguishing work was needed, according to the emergency management operator.

The police are still on the scene to investigate what happened.

Person was stopped with a hand grenade in Uppsala

The police in Uppsala found a hand grenade when they visited a person in the Uppsala district of Lindbacken on the night between Wednesday and Thursday.

– We have probably prevented something, says Sanja Vukicevic commander at the police command center.

The find caused the police patrol to “back out” and cordon off the area. The National Bomb Squad was called to the scene, which was cordoned off well into Thursday morning.

– The bomb shelter has now been in place and handled the hand grenade. We have lifted the cordon and are ready at the site.

The person is now suspected of preparing for public destruction. Otherwise, the police do not want to say anything about the suspect.

– WE are still working on the case but are ready on the spot. We do not know if it is aimed at a specific property, says Vukicevic.

Trump at odds with Congress over shutdown

US President-elect Donald Trump is blocking Congress’s plan to prevent a Christmas shutdown of federal institutions.

In a sudden move late Wednesday, Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance are demanding that the House of Representatives renegotiate the settlement.

Among other things, he demands that the settlement be combined with raising the US debt ceiling – something that the Republicans have always opposed in the past.

Syria’s new leader wants to get rid of terror classification

In a new interview with the British BBC, Syria’s new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, formerly Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani, pleads for the outside world to lift sanctions against Syria and remove the terrorist classification of the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).

In the interview, he says that Syria is exhausted by war and poses no threat to its neighbors.

He believes that the group has never attacked civilians and that they themselves are victims of al-Assad’s regime’s crimes.

He also says that Syria will not become a new Afghanistan, that he believes in education for women and that he wants to convince everyone who does not believe that the group has broken with its extremism.

He avoids the issue of serving alcohol and refers to a new constitution being written by a group of legal experts.

– Regardless of whether you are a leader or president, you must follow the law, he says.

However, many Syrians do not trust him, and BBC underlines that the coming months will show where the group stands.

Alarm of loud explosions in Norrköping

Several callers heard on Wednesday evening about loud bangs in Norrköping.

However, it turned out not to be an explosion.

– These are ordinary firecrackers or fireworks. So there has been no need for any other measures from us, says police commanding officer Oscar Öster.

Two police officers to hospital after car chase

Two police officers have been taken to hospital after they collided with a tree in connection with a car chase in Arvika.

At 10 p.m., the patrol tried to stop a motorist in central Arvika.

– But the driver does not want to participate in our control. So after seven minutes you push this car and then it stops, says Lars Hedelin, press spokesperson at the police.

Two police officers were injured in the operation.

– Our colleagues collided with a tree in connection with the stop. It was quite a blast.

The officers have been taken to hospital. The condition of the injury is not life-threatening.

The driver will also be taken to hospital.

– There is no information on the person’s injury status.

The driver is a 35-year-old man. He is suspected of gross illegal driving, drugged driving and gross negligence in traffic.

Woman found dead – police investigate murder

A woman has been found dead in a home in Huskvarna. The police write on their website that at the moment it cannot be ruled out that the woman was the victim of a crime and has therefore opened a preliminary investigation into murder.

– I cannot go into details, but there were circumstances that ended in us deciding to start an investigation, says police spokesperson Olle Älveroth.

How long the woman had been dead is unclear. The police do not want to confirm any age except that it is an adult woman.

Police technicians have examined the home, several interviews have been held and the woman’s next of kin have been notified.

The Fed lowers the key interest rate

The Fed lowers the key interest rate by 25 basis points, US media reports.

The reduction was expected and is now in the range of 4.25 to 4.50 percent.

Person hit by truck – taken to hospital

A person has been hit by a truck in Sollefteå municipality.

The accident happened shortly before 5 p.m.

The police have been called to the scene.

The person hit is taken to hospital by ambulance.

HD addresses Tiktok’s future in the US

The United States Supreme Court announces that it is taking up the issue of a law that could ban the social platform Tiktok in the United States.

Tiktok is challenging the law that will force the company to either sell or shut down operations in the country unless Tiktok’s Chinese parent company sells its stake.

The law, which was signed into law by President Joe Biden in April, is set to go into effect on January 19. HD announces that it will take up the issue on January 10, citing the freedom of speech in the US Constitution.

When the legislation was passed, it was motivated by the fact that the United States sees Tiktok as a security risk, citing, among other things, that sensitive data of American users is stored in China.

Tiktok has denied that Beijing has any influence over its operations.

The day after the ban is scheduled to take effect, Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th president of the United States. During his last term, Trump, like Biden, was considering banning the popular app, but has since wavered.