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The UN climate panel IPCC publishes a new climate report on Monday with over 10,000 pages of scientific studies completed, reports AFP.

It could be the most important report in nearly a decade.

The last climate report published in 2014 stated that global warming is progressing faster than expected. Extreme weather has become more frequent and worse due to human emissions.

Lars J Nilsson at Lund University is one of the authors.

– It is quite decisive that electricity production with wind and solar becomes cheaper than electricity production with fossil fuels, he says to Sveriges Radio.

There has been a traffic accident on Hisingsleden on Monday morning – a car transport has collided, reports P4 Gothenburg.

Biltransporten has lost part of its load, a car, which has caused queues in the morning traffic.

No major stock market gains are expected on Monday, according to Esbjörn Lundevall, equity strategist at SEB, TT reports.

But the announcement that UBS bought Credit Suisse this weekend may have prevented a bigger race. On Monday, major stock market crashes have been seen in Asia in Tokyo and Hong Kong, among others.

– We always have to compare with what would have happened if we had not received a weekend solution for Credit Suisse. If I were to guess, the stock market would have been down much more then, Esbjörn Lundevall tells TT and continues:

– However, it does not seem to be 100 percent ready, but must be approved at other levels. Now the authorities probably have to convince the shareholders of Credit Suisse that if there had been no solution there would have been a bankruptcy instead, and then they would have lost 100 percent.

The Stockholm Stock Exchange looks set to open in the red.

Taiwan’s former president Ma Ying-Jeou is visiting China next week, TT reports.

It is described as an attempt to ease tensions between the self-governing island and China.

However, there are no plans for him and his delegation to visit Beijing or meet representatives of the Chinese government.

Taiwan’s incumbent President Tsai Ing-Wen’s office announced that it “hopes that Ma, in her role as former head of state … can demonstrate the value of Taiwan’s democracy and freedom and equality and dignity in cross-strait exchanges.”

Turkey’s official death toll from the earthquake disaster is over 48,000.

But according to Turkey’s National Medical Association, the figure could be twice as high.

That’s what Şebnem Korur Fincancı, president of the National Medical Association of Turkey, says to SR Ekot.

That’s because not all houses that were damaged have been searched.

Officially, there is no clear information on the number of people missing in the disaster.

Norrköping has been hit by an extensive power outage.

The outage at Eon occurred at 05:22 on Monday morning.

11,434 electricity customers are currently affected.

– There is a major interruption in central Norrköping, so it makes it a little more precarious, says Patric Elmén at Eon’s press service.

Homes, shops and other businesses are affected.

– It’s a very big fuse that has blown. We have no indications of what has happened, technicians have just arrived on the scene, says Patric Elmén.

There is no forecast for when power may be restored.

A bill in Florida may ban conversations about periods in the younger grades in elementary schools, TT reports.

According to the proposal, the subject should not be brought up until the children are around 11–12 years old.

If the bill passes, it means that conversations about human sexuality, sexually transmitted diseases and related topics will be limited to grades 6-12.

A fisherman in his 50s who was reported missing has been found during a search operation in the Ronneby archipelago in Blekinge on the night of Monday.

– He was found during the rescue operation, taken ashore and taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead, says police duty officer Peter Martin.

A major rescue operation was underway on Sunday evening. Dense fog made the operation difficult, for example the rescue helicopter could not be used. (TT)

Two aid workers kidnapped in Mali in early March were released on Sunday, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

“We confirm that two ICRC staff who were kidnapped on March 4 between Gao and Kidal in northern Mali have been released this evening,” the ICRC writes on Twitter.

The organization also writes that the two aid workers are unharmed and were released without conditions. (TT)

French President Emmanuel Macron is hopeful ahead of Monday’s final ruling on the pension reform that has led to major protests.

Macron said in a written statement on Sunday that he hopes the proposal on Monday can reach the finish line of “his democratic journey”.

The pension proposal will be adopted by parliament on Monday unless either of the two different requests for no-confidence votes against the government goes through. (TT)

A new challenge on Tiktok in which children take sedatives is causing concern in Latin America, reports Swedens radio.

Young people have ended up in hospital after taking part in the “Last to sleep” challenge.

They have then taken sedative tablets and tried to stay awake as long as possible.

In Mexico, 500 such incidents were reported in 2022.

So far this year, around 40 children in the country have needed hospital care. Similar cases have been reported in Ecuador and Chile.