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Children and young people under 16 in Australia may be banned from social media in a few years. The government has put its foot down in 16, not 14 years, in a bill, ABC reports.

– Social media is harming our children and I say now it will be enough, says Prime Minister Anthony Albanese whose Labor party has now decided on 16 years.

The proposal does not exempt children and who already have popular apps or have parental permission. Parliament supports the government.

Canada has decided to ban TikTok’s subsidiary Technology Canada Inc. in Canada for security reasons, AP writes.

However, Canada does not stop access to the app for individual citizens.

TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese company headquartered in Singapore.

Large forest fires are spreading in California, north of Los Angeles, AP reports.

The fires are described as moving out of control as a result of the weather conditions. It is dry and strong winds blow.

Hundreds of people have had to evacuate their homes, and according to the local news channel ABC7 it is estimated that around 50 houses have burned down.

Several people have been injured and taken to hospital, writes the channel with reference to the Ventura County Fire Department.

Schools in areas affected by the fire must also be closed.

Smoke rises after new attacks on densely populated suburbs south of Beirut. Photo: Bilal Hussein/AP/TT

At least 40 people were reportedly killed in eastern Lebanon by Israeli strikes on Wednesday, according to Lebanese health authorities.

On Wednesday, Israel also issued new warnings for an area in Beirut’s southern suburbs – at the same time as Hezbollah’s new leader gave a speech.

The Iran-backed militia’s new leader, Naim Qassem, spoke on Wednesday to mark 40 days since his predecessor, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli strike.

– We have tens of thousands of trained resistance fighters, said Qassem.

As the speech was broadcast, an Israeli military spokesman warned residents of three areas in the densely populated suburbs, just south of Beirut, of an imminent attack.

Loud explosions were then heard in large parts of the capital, witnesses told AFP.

Earlier in the day, Israeli attacks were also reported from the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon, as well as from the city of Nabatieh in the southern parts. In Baalbek, an AFP correspondent states that intense attacks were heard inside and around the city during the day.

Lebanese health authorities said on Wednesday evening that at least 40 people had died and over 50 were injured in the Israeli attacks in the area.

There is a fire in a villa south of Växjö.

According to initial information when the alarm came at 21.08, it is a fully developed fire.

The emergency services and the police are there.

– We are working full time on site, says the rescue service’s management operator.

It is unclear if anyone is still in the villa, but an ambulance is also on site in case that is the case, according to the emergency services.

According to Smålandsposten, the building is not inhabited, and no injuries have been reported in connection with the fire.

There is no risk of spreading to other buildings.

– It is a property that is in the countryside. It is not a residential area, says Fredrik Bratt of the police.

During Wednesday evening, many people reported that they had problems logging into Handelsbanken’s internet and mobile banking.

On the site Downdetector it was seen that the problems started just before half past ten in the evening.

Handelsbanken later wrote in an email that it was due to an operational malfunction, but which has now been resolved.

“We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused our customers,” they write.

After firing Finance Minister Chiristian Lindner, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced that he had decided on a confidence vote on 15 January.

Something that could lead to new elections if the government falls, Bild reports.

The German government has long had difficulty reaching an agreement and during his speech the Social Democrat Scholz announced that liberal Lindner was only “working for himself” and not for the good of the government.

German Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) has been fired, which could lead to a government crisis.

According to Bild magazine he received the message at around 2030 this evening from Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

Lindner is party leader for the liberal party FDP in the governing coalition, which also includes the Greens and the Social Democrats.

Lindner is said to have argued with Scholz and proposed a new election, but Olaf Scholz is said to have given the thumbs down.

The Gothia cup is a target for criminal networks according to a new UN report called “Game Over”.

Increasingly, organized crime uses sports to make money through, among other things, match-fixing and money laundering.

Dagens Nyheter was the first to report on this.

At the tournament, people linked to criminal networks posing as agents can roam around football pitches offering money, gifts or promises of contracts. This is to capture young footballers. In particular, they target players from socio-economically weak areas.

Lena Rönnefors, competition manager for the Gothia Cup, says that she did not read the report or the data before they were released.

– We have never been able to identify any activity like this, but that we are in the danger zone considering how many people come here from all over the world, it is not so strange, says Rönnefors to the newspaper.

Ica extends its recall of Ica Falukorv 800 grams.

Now also products with best before dates 10-12-2024 and 15-12-2024 are covered.

The recall is due to the fact that small pieces of metal have been found in a few products, the food giant writes in a press release.

Customers who bought the product are asked to return it to the store where it was purchased.

A motorist had to be taken to hospital after driving into an apartment building in central Märsta.

– A large part of the facade has collapsed, it is cordoned off by the police. An element also broke, so there was a leak, according to the command center of the emergency services.

The police have made a report about carelessness in traffic. The driver’s injury status is currently unknown.

Three more people are suspected after the shooting that took place at Kungsmässan in Kungsbacka at the beginning of October, writes Kungsbacka-Posten.

They were suspected on Wednesday.

Now there are a total of seven people who are suspects in the case.

It was on October 6 that an employee in a store in the shopping center was shot. The shooter is suspected to be a minor boy.

Staff in the same store have also received threats this week that new acts of violence may occur, according to information given to the newspaper.

Jessika Roswall is approved by the European Parliament’s environment committee as commissioner for the environment and water resilience, writes TT.

Roswall is the member nominated to the EU Commission by Sweden, and all nominees from each country are questioned by various committees in the parliament during this week.

Jessika Roswall was grilled in the EU Parliament on Tuesday and was not approved immediately. She received criticism for, among other things, giving incomplete answers.

The others who were questioned at the same time were approved on the same day.

Read more here.

A major austerity program may force Finnish EPN to fire up to 400 employees. Archive image. Photo: Jonas Ekströmer/AP/TT

Finnish EPN is starting an extensive savings program – which may result in 375 employees being made redundant, Finnish media reports.

“The goal of the savings program is the parliamentary working group’s demand that the company save 66 million euros,” writes EPN in a press release.

This corresponds to around SEK 770 million.

The negotiations that are starting are the first part of the savings program’s three phases that will run between 2025 and 2027, writes Journalisti, the newspaper of the Finnish Journalists’ Association.

A total of 1,798 permanent employees are covered by the negotiations.