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Yesterday, the US election season began with the Republicans’ first primary debate in which several of the party’s biggest names participated. One who was conspicuously absent is former President Donald Trump, who declined to publish a pre-recorded interview instead.

It must be possible to joke and satirize Jesus, but the same must also apply to Mohammed. That is what the Christian Democrats’ Ebba Busch thinks, who in Aktuellt discusses the content of his summer speech which touched on the Koran burnings.

The fires on the island of Maui have claimed at least 114 lives and left at least 1,800 people homeless. But in the middle of the devastation is a hundred-year-old wooden house that improbably escaped the flames.

– It looks very exceptional, says Lars Brodin, fire engineer Brandskyddsföreningen.

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