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About 50 people have died in a serious traffic accident in Nigeria on Sunday. A fuel transport collided head-on with a truck, according to the country’s national rescue service.
The official death toll in the Agaie region of Niger state was 48 on Sunday night. Local media reports that the victims were immediately buried in a mass grave.
The truck was traveling from Wudil in Kano State, with a heavy load of livestock in addition to the passengers.
About 50 livestock were also burned beyond recognition in the collision with the tanker.
THREE NEWS YOU CAN’T MISS
Algerian President Abdelmajid Tebboune has been re-elected. Photo: STR via AP/TT
Algeria’s incumbent President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has emerged victorious from the country’s presidential election, receiving nearly 95 percent of the vote.
Electoral Commission Chairman Mohamed Charfi says that “the election was characterized by extensive openness” and “reflected the people’s attitude to elections”.
– Of the 5,630,000 votes cast, 5,320,000 votes went to the independent candidate Tebboune, Charfi said in a statement that was delayed three hours for unknown reasons.
Exact data on turnout was missing when the electoral commission Anie announced the results. In the past, the opposition has boycotted elections.
The main opponents were the moderate Islamist Abdelaali Hassani and the socialist candidate Youcef Aouchiche.
In the 2019 elections, only 40 percent of those eligible to vote in Algeria voted.
A US military helicopter at a base in Iraq. Archive image. Photo: Qassim Abdul-Zahra/AP/TT
Iraq and the United States have agreed on a timetable for how and when all foreign military forces fighting Islamist militant groups must leave the country.
This is stated by Iraq’s Minister of Defense Thabet al-Abbassi in the Saudi television channel al-Hadath.
According to him, the international coalition will leave bases in most of Iraq in September 2025 and in Kurdistan a year later.
Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani demanded at New Year that the forces leave the country, but months of talks between Iraq and the United States have so far appeared fruitless.
This summer, the US warned that IS is trying to re-establish itself in the region. The terrorist movement claimed in July that it was behind a total of 153 attacks in Iraq and Syria during 2024.
The international forces in Iraq have been in place since 2014 to, among other things, fight the terrorist movement IS. The US has around 2,500 soldiers in Iraq and 900 in Syria as part of the operation.
A car has collided with a cow in Tolånga in Sjöbo.
The accident happened at 8 p.m.
After the collision, the car drove into a stream.
According to the police, the driver is out of the car. There are no reports of personal injuries.
“The owner of the cow is taking care of the animal,” the police write on their website.
Earlier this year, a 35-year-old Swedish man was sentenced to death for drug offenses in Iraq.
Now the sentence is reduced to 11 years, according to information TV4 News.
It was in June this year that the man was sentenced to be hanged.
Three more Swedes were sentenced to death in Iraq earlier this year. At the moment, there is no new information on when Iraq plans to carry out the punishment.
Iraq’s death penalty has received severe criticism from the Swedish government and the Foreign Ministry.
Photo: Scott Garfitt/AP
Kendrick Lamar will perform during the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show.
The show will air during half-time in the American Football Finals – and is one of the most watched telecasts in the US. The most recent programme, 2024, over 200 million viewers chose to watch all or parts of it.
The Super Bowl will take place on February 9 next year.
The announcement marks Kendrick Lamar’s second appearance during a halftime show.
In 2022, he hosted Dr. Dre along with Snoop Dogg, Eminem and Mary J. Blige, among others.
Read more here.
Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia during a political rally in May. Archive image. Photo: Ariana Cubillos/AP/TT
Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia has arrived in Spain where he has been granted asylum.
The opposition leader has been forced to flee after being threatened by Nicolás Maduro’s regime and the judiciary.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez described the opposition leader as “a hero that Spain will not abandon”.
Edmundo González Urrutia has lived largely in hiding since the disputed presidential election in July.
Venezuela has been plunged into political crisis following presidential elections in July, which both the opposition and incumbent President Nicolás Maduro claim to have won.
The EU, the US, the UN and several of Venezuela’s neighboring countries have questioned Maduro’s victory claim because the election data has not been reported in its entirety.
Jack Nitzsche, Buffy Sainte Marie and Will Jennings won an Oscar in 1983 for the song “Up where we belong” from the movie “An Officer and a Gentleman”. Archive image. Photo: Reed Saxon/AP/TT
Will Jennings, co-author of smash hits such as Steve Winwood’s “Higher love” and Celine Dion’s “My heart will go on”, has died, aged 80, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Jennings’ career, which spanned five decades, took off in the mid-1970s when he teamed up with composer Richard Kerr to write Barry Manilow’s hit “Looks like we made it.”
Jennings went on to write for a number of major artists such as BB King, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Jimmy Buffett and Roy Orbison.
In 1983, Jennings won his first Oscar for the song “Up where we belong”, written for Taylor Hackford’s film “An Officer and a Gentleman”.
Eight years later, he won a Grammy and received a Golden Globe nomination for the lyrics to Eric Clapton’s “Tears in heaven”, which is about the death of Clapton’s four-year-old son, and which was used as the theme song in the movie “Rush”.
The biggest success was “My heart will go on”, the leitmotif of “Titanic”, which swept home an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a Grammy Award in 1998.
In 2006, Will Jennings was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
The man who was shot by the police in a residential area in Eskilstuna on Saturday evening has now been arrested.
This is reported by P4 Sörmland.
The public prosecutor’s office tells the channel that the man is suspected of serious threat to an official and attempted serious assault.
The police have also opened a preliminary investigation into misconduct – due to the firing of a service weapon.
Read more here.
A man has been pulled out of the water at a swimming area in Västra Frölunda in Gothenburg after an alarm about drowning.
The accident happened shortly after 4 p.m.
Police, emergency services and ambulance are on site.
– It is an elderly man who has been affected. He has been taken to hospital by ambulance, says Pernilla Henry, duty officer at the police.
According to the GP, the man is in his 80s. Sahlgrenska’s press service tells the newspaper that the man’s injuries are serious, but stable.
A two-year-old girl was attacked by an eagle in Norway’s Trøndelag on Friday afternoon, reports say Address newspaper.
An ambulance was called to the scene.
– The girl was injured, but it does not seem to have been serious, says Ellen Maria Brende, operations leader at the Trøndelag police district, to the newspaper.
Three women in Falun have been sexually assaulted, the police say.
– It is a man who sat in a car and masturbated, says police spokesperson Anders Dahlman.
When the police arrived at the scene, the man had already left.
There has been a fire in a terraced house in Bollnäs.
The emergency services were called to the scene at 12 o’clock.
– One person has been taken to hospital, says Roland Komaromi, press spokesperson at the police.
At the moment, there is no suspicion of crime in connection with the fire.
– We have not come that far in the investigation. A technical investigation will determine that, says Roland Komarom.
The police have been called to Residenstorget in Karlstad after violence between several people.
A girl under the age of 18 has allegedly been assaulted. A 25-year-old man is suspected of crime.
According to the police, a woman in her 20s is also suspected of inciting a group of people.
No one has been arrested.
A man has died in a motorcycle accident. Archive image. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT
A man has died in a motorcycle accident outside Råneå in Norrbotten, local media reports.
The accident happened on Saturday evening. Two men in their 30s who were traveling on the motorcycle were taken to hospital.
The driver had such serious injuries that his life could not be saved.
The second man is being treated in the intensive care unit with minor injuries, according to Region Norrbotten.
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