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On Friday night, 100,000 Chinese students embarked on a 5-mile bike ride to the city of Kaifeng in China to eat dumplings, reports The Guardian.

The event blocked major busy roads and congested the small town, causing police to be called out and local residents to rage.

Now authorities have imposed temporary restrictions on the roads and cycling apps have warned to remotely lock all bikes outside of Zhengzhou.

The trend started when four students from Zhengzhou cycled to Kaifeng in search of the little dough balls. The wholesome and apolitical activity was initially welcomed by Kaifeng authorities, who are trying to attract more domestic tourists.

Elise Stepanik Photo: Evan Vucci

Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, 40, has been offered the job of US ambassador to the UN by Donald Trump, CNN reports citing two sources.

She is the fourth highest-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives and has been linked in recent days to UN service.

Stepanik has long been a close ally of Trump. She has raised large sums for the party and attended several of Trump’s campaign meetings during the election campaign.

After the 2022 midterm elections, she came out and supported Trump even before he himself had announced his presidential candidacy.l

A naked 27-year-old man was arrested Friday in a crawl space under a house in El Sereno, California.

He refused to come out and the police were forced to spray tear gas under the house to get the man to surrender.

A 93-year-old woman lived in the villa. She and her family had been hearing strange noises for weeks, but dismissed them as animals.

According to NBC, the man may have lived in the crawl space for six months. He is now suspected of burglary.

Twenty-five of the 43 monkeys that escaped from a breeder in the southern United States less than a week ago have been captured, according to local police. Those still free stay nearby and talk loudly to those inside.

The monkeys, of the rhesus macaque species, are bred to be sold as laboratory animals in medical research. The 43, all females and about three kilos in weight, escaped when an attendant had left a door partially open.

The breeder says that everything must be done to bring them all back.

The rescue service has an intervention in an industry in Kungsängen, north of Stockholm.

An automatic alarm was triggered at 01:37 and upon arrival the firefighters discovered that there was a smell of smoke in the room and that a sprinkler system had been activated.

Personnel from three fire stations are on site.

US President-elect Donald Trump has spoken on the phone with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. They are said to agree to work for a return to peace in Europe.

– They both exchanged views on the German-American relationship and the current geopolitical challenges, says Scholz’s spokesperson Steffen Hebestreit.

– They also agreed to work together to return to peace in Europe.

The people of Valencia have demanded the resignation of regional president Carlos Mazón after the natural disaster that killed over 200 people.

But now his vice president Susana Camerero announces that he will stay on.

According to El País, Mazón has been difficult to get hold of during the crisis.

Something the 100,000 protesters who gathered in central Valencia on Saturday noticed.

– Mazón came out from your hiding place, they chanted.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Photo: Denes Erdos/AP/TT

Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his German minority government are under heavy pressure from the ongoing government crisis.

The opposition wants to see a vote of no confidence as early as next week. The Social Democrat Scholz says in an interview on the German public service channel ARD that he is not opposed to an early vote.

He himself, however, would rather see a vote “before Christmas”.

– For me, it is not a problem, he says.

Last week, Scholz announced a vote in January, which drew strong criticism.

In the interview, Scholz opposes the idea that he wants to remain as the country’s leader at all costs.

– I don’t cling to my post, he says.

Scholz’s announcement about a vote of confidence in January came shortly after the news that Finance Minister Christian Lindner (liberal FDP) had been fired, in the middle of work on next year’s state budget.

Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson. Photo: Christine Olsson/TT / TT News Agency

In a new Al Jazeera documentary, Sweden is once again accused of kidnapping children.

Now Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson is speaking out about the documentary.

“Today, al-Jazeera is spreading a documentary about, among other things, the Swedish social services. The documentary risks contributing to the same misinformation as the LVU campaign. This is dangerous for Sweden and also risks seriously damaging the important work of the social services in helping the children who really getting sick and needing care” he writes in a post on X.

In the documentary, called “Behind closed doors”, the care of children in several countries is highlighted, which is allegedly done on incorrect grounds, and where Sweden is one of several countries that are singled out.

However, court proceedings and other documents that Aftonbladet has seen show a completely different picture than the one the parents paint for Al Jazeera.

The LVU campaign in which the social service was accused of kidnapping children who do not fare well is considered to have strengthened the threat image against Sweden and was, among other things, one of several reasons why the Security Police raised the terror level in the country.

Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in 2019. Photo: Susan Walsh / AP

Donald Trump has spoken on the phone with Vladimir Putin, sources told the Washington Post.

Trump reportedly urged Putin not to escalate the war in Ukraine.

Read more here.

The police searched for a 12-year-old girl in Uppsala during the evening after she disappeared from her home. The police issued a wanted notice on their website.

But at 8:30 p.m., the girl was found at the travel center in Uppsala by security guards, the police say.

A major fire broke out at the Dollarstore in Lycksele during Sunday evening.

The emergency services went out.

– It is burning with open flames and we have alerted additional resources, said the rescue service’s alarm and line operator David Hedberg at around 8 p.m.

The store had closed for the day and according to the emergency services, no one should have been in the premises.

At midnight, it was clear that the building will not be saved, according to The north.

E12 has been closed as a result of the fire, the police told the newspaper. The incident is being investigated as arson.

A picture from Russian authorities from the fighting in Kursk. Photo: Russian Defense Ministry Press Service photo via AP

The Russian military is preparing a major offensive in the Kursk region, reports New York Timesciting Ukrainian and American sources.

According to the newspaper, 50,000 soldiers have been assembled, which includes North Korean troops.

Ukrainian sources say they expect an attack involving the North Korean troops in the coming days.

A car has started to burn on the E6 at the height of Varberg, reports HN.

The emergency services have been called to the scene.

– It is not a fully developed fire. There is a bit of fire under the car and everyone is out of it, says Johan Wallin, officer on duty at the rescue service, to the newspaper.

The road is closed in the northbound direction with the emergency services working on the scene.

There is still no forecast for when the work on site will be finished.

Update: At 6:30 p.m., traffic was allowed to open again.