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Details: Eleven hostages can be released

Hamas has agreed to release eleven young men as hostages in the first part of a possible cease-fire agreement, according to information on the Egyptian television channel Al-Ghad, Haaretz reports.

In exchange, Hamas will receive a “special value”, writes the newspaper without specifying what it is about.

On Saturday, terror groups Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) said in a rare joint statement that a cease-fire agreement in Gaza was closer than ever.

The statement came after diplomatic talks in Cairo on Friday.

Man beaten and stabbed

A man was found beaten and stabbed on Kungsholmen in Stockholm during the night, the police say.

He is said to have been stabbed and beaten by one or more unknown persons and had to be taken to hospital.

The incident is classified as aggravated assault.

– It is unclear where it happened, but he was found on Kungsholmen. It was a security guard who called in about it, says Anders Bryngelsson at the Stockholm police.

The suspected assault would have taken place some time before the man was found. No one is arrested.

The police are knocking on doors against domestic violence

Violence in close relationships tends to increase during Christmas and New Year.

In about 30 areas in the country, the police inform the public about the importance of contacting the police if you think someone is being subjected to domestic violence.

Police officer Reine Berglund is a police officer in Huddinge, south of Stockholm, and says that the operation is most common during Christmas.

– Christmas is certainly one of them. The feeling is that we resort to violence in close relationships much more often and it is often mixed with alcohol and drugs in combination, says Reine Berglund to Sveriges Radio.

In a survey by the Crime Prevention Council, BRÅ, roughly 13 percent of the adult population stated that they had been subjected to physical or mental abuse by a relative. But barely three percent were reported to the police.

The US accidentally shot down its own fighter jet

An American F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet with two pilots on board was accidentally shot down as it took off from the aircraft carrier Harry S Truman in the Red Sea.

This was stated by the American military in a statement during the night of Sunday.

The pilots managed to eject and escaped with minor injuries.

The military has not said why one of the ships escorting the aircraft carrier in the Red Sea could make such a mistake.

Trump threatens to retake the Panama Canal

US President-elect Donald Trump is criticizing what he calls “ridiculous” fees for US ships passing through the Panama Canal.

Trump suggests in a post on his platform Truth Social that he also does not accept China’s growing influence around the canal and threatens to regain control of the waterway that connects the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

“We would and will NEVER let it fall into the wrong hands,” writes Trump.

Russian fuel terminal attacked

Ukraine is said to have attacked a Russian fuel terminal in Oryol in western Russia.

The governor of the region, Andrei Klytchkov, writes on Telegram that a fuel facility caught fire after a “massive drone attack”. The emergency services are working to put down the fire, according to the governor. There are no reports of personal injuries.

The same facility was set on fire last week, again in a Ukrainian drone attack according to Russian data.

Several injured in commotion at shopping mall

A police chase in Killeen, Texas ended with the man in the chased car driving straight into a department store in a mall in the city.

At least five customers were injured when the car drove through the department store’s glass doors and continued far into the premises.

Police shot the man dead when he left the car and tried to flee on foot.

According to early information from the police, the injured people in the mall had been shot.

That assignment was later withdrawn.

15-year-old boy arrested after murder

A third person has been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the fatal shooting in Växjö, writes Smålandsposten.

It concerns a 15-year-old boy who was arrested in the Stockholm area on Saturday, according to the newspaper’s information.

A 16-year-old girl and a 29-year-old man are already in custody after the murder.

It was last Monday evening that a 30-year-old woman was shot dead in her stairwell. A 29-year-old man was also shot and suffered minor injuries.

USA to attack in Yemen’s capital

The US has attacked targets belonging to the Iran-backed Houthi movement in Yemen’s capital Sanaa. This is confirmed by the US military command for the Middle East, Centcom, in a post on X.

The airstrikes were aimed, among other things, at robot warehouses and a command center.

The attack comes after a robot fired from Yemen on Saturday struck the Tel Aviv area in central Israel. Several people are said to have been injured in the attack, for which the Huthi movement has claimed responsibility.

New government in Iceland – women in the majority

The leader of the Icelandic Social Democrats, Kristrún Frostadóttir, presented her government on Saturday.

The board consists, in addition to the social democratic party, of the liberal Vidreisn (roughly Renewal) and the populist Folkpartiet.

The government aims to bring down interest rates and inflation, and wants to hold a referendum on possible citizenship in the EU.

Frostadóttir, 36, will be the country’s youngest prime minister, according to Icelandic public service company Rúv.

She is also the world’s youngest current prime minister according to Rúv.

It is the first time Iceland has a government where there are more women than men and where all party leaders are women. It is also the first time the country has both a female president – ​​Halla Tómasdóttir– and a female prime minister.

One to hospital after drowning alarm

At 21.42 the rescue service was alerted to the Kajpromenaden in Helsingborg.

– The caller says that two people are missing, according to the Skåne Nordväst Rescue Service.

A rescue operation was launched with divers, surface lifeguards, ambulance and police.

Both people were found after a while, but the extent of their injuries is unclear.

– An ambulance has been loaded and is driving to hospital, so one person has been driven in, says André Nilsson on SOS Alarm at around 10.30pm.

At 23.15, the emergency services and ambulances had left the scene.

Right-wing extremists demonstrate outside the memorial ceremony in Magdeburg

A memorial ceremony is taking place in Magdeburg’s cathedral due to the attack at the Christmas market on Friday evening.

But outside, the extreme right is holding a demonstration, reports the German Spiegel.

Several hundred participate and express messages that, among other things, deal with return migration.

A well-known neo-Nazi is also present and talks about deporting “guilty politicians”.

Many dead in ferry disaster in Congo

Some 40 people have been confirmed dead and over 100 are still missing after an overloaded ferry capsized in Congo-Kinshasa, according to local authorities.

The accident happened late on Friday evening, on the Busira river in the country’s northwestern parts.

The ferry was part of a convoy with other vessels. Many of the passengers are said to have been trade workers on their way to their homes to celebrate Christmas, according to Joseph Kangolingoli, mayor of the town of Ingende, which is near the crash site.

About twenty people have been rescued.

Explosion in central Stockholm

The police received an alarm about explosions at Östermalm in Stockholm.

– Something has exploded outside, but we don’t know what. We are working at the scene to find out what hit and to document the extent of the damage, says Susanna Rinaldo, spokesperson for the police.

– There are no reports of personal injuries. We have blocked off an area.

The emergency services are also on site.

– We are there to assist the police. That’s the only thing I can say, otherwise I refer to the police, says Kim Hellberg at the rescue service.

Several ambulances are at the scene, writes TT.