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Shamsud Din Jabbar is singled out as a suspect

Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, is singled out as the suspected perpetrator after the attack in New Orleans.

This is announced by the city and refers to a police source.

According to the source, the perpetrator had an IS flag in the car.

Trump comments on the suspected terrorist act

President-to-be Donald Trump comments on the suspected terrorist attack in New Orleans, via his account on Truth Social.

“Crime levels in our country are at a level that no one has seen before. Our hearts go out to all the innocent victims and their loved ones, including the brave police officers of New Orleans.”

Former Estonian President Arnold Rüütel dead

Arnold Rüütel, Estonia’s last communist leader during the Soviet era and the country’s second president after independence, has died.

Rüütel was elected in 1983 as Chairman of the Supreme Council of the then Soviet Republic, a position he later used to prepare Estonia for independence from the Soviet Union.

After Estonia regained its independence, in 2001 he was elected President of Estonia after Lennart Meri. Rüüter held the presidency for five years and steered Estonia into NATO and the EU.

Arnold Rüütel was 96 years old.

“Catwoman” Jocelyn Wildenstein dead

The plastic profile and society lion Jocelyn Wildenstein is dead, writes RTL.

She became known as the “cat woman” after extensive plastic surgery that made her look like a cat.

Wildenstein is reported to have died on New Year’s Eve. The cause of death is unknown.

Power is back on in almost all of Puerto Rico

After a major power outage on New Year’s Eve, the majority of electricity subscribers in Puerto Rico have regained electricity, the energy company Luma Energy announces.

This means that almost 86 percent – 1.25 million electricity customers – of those affected regained power during the afternoon of New Year’s Day.

Two of the capital San Juan’s major airports, important water facilities and at least 31 hospitals belong to them, according to the company.

Puerto Rico often suffers minor power outages due to poor wiring after Hurricane Maria in 2017. But the massive New Year’s Eve blackout shut down virtually the entire island.

Car crash on bridge – slippery

Several vehicles have collided on the Uddevalla Bridge, according to the police.

The collisions have occurred in both directions of travel.

– It will be very slippery on the bridge, says police spokesperson Jens Andersson.

According to the police, eight cars are involved. Four people are said to have been taken to hospital with minor injuries.

The bridge is still closed in the northbound direction, but in the southbound direction it should be open to traffic, writes Bohusläningen.

Violent New Year’s Eve in Germany

New Year’s Eve in Germany has gone wild. Many attacks are said to have been aimed at police officers, firefighters and rescue workers.

The worst was in the capital Berlin, where around 390 people were arrested, writes the German newspaper Bild.

13 police officers were injured in the line of duty, one of them seriously after being hit by an illegal firecracker.

A record number of refugees drowned in the Mediterranean

As 2024 draws to a close, the Spanish human rights organization Caminando Fronteras has compiled figures on how many refugees have died or disappeared while trying to cross the Mediterranean to the country.

It is about at least 10,457 people and it is the highest figure since the voluntary organization Caminando Fronteras began counting in 2007, AFP reports.

The increase is 58 percent compared to last year.

– So many deaths in a single year is an unacceptable tragedy, says the organization’s founder Helena Maleno.

The statistics come from, among other things, public rescue statistics.

Collision between two cars

Two cars have collided in Rättvik.

A total of five people are said to be affected, according to the police. The extent of the injury is unknown.

There must be poor road conditions at the site. An accident report without suspicion of crime is drawn up.

Elderly woman dead in Gislaved

A woman has been found dead in a parking lot in Gislaved this morning.

It was a passerby who alerted the police.

– She was found next to her car, says Mats Pettersson, press spokesperson at the police.

The police classify the case as causing the death of another in order to investigate the incident.

Relatives have been notified, the police write.

Disruption in train traffic between Stockholm and Gothenburg

There is limited traffic from several train stations between Stockholm and Gothenburg.

Between some stations there is a complete stop.

This is because there has been ice formation on the contact line, which resulted in an electrical fault, writes the Swedish Transport Administration.

The error was noticed by the Swedish Transport Administration just after 10.30 this morning.

The train stations that may be affected by the disruption include Laxå, Hallsberg, Vingåker, Katrineholm C, Stockholm C, Södertälje Syd, Skövde C, Herrljunga C and Gothenburg C.

French military leaves Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast’s president announced on Tuesday that French troops will leave the country after a long military presence in the country, AP reports.

They thus become the latest in a series of African countries that have thrown out the military of their former colonial powers.

France has had up to 600 soldiers in Ivory Coast according to AP.

Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Senegal and Chad are more African countries that have recently cut ties with the French military.

A man is suspected of abusing three women

The police were alerted to an address in Gothenburg this morning where a man is said to have abused three women aged between 20 and 25.

The man, who is in his 30s, allegedly hit one of the women in the head with a bottle.

How injured she was is unclear.

American Samoa celebrates New Year – at the latest into 2025

The archipelago of American Samoa is the last place on Earth to celebrate New Year.

24 hours after Kiribati, which is first into the New Year, rockets and champagne corks are fired in American Samoa.