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“Vladimir Putin congratulates the Wagner Group and all Russian troops,” writes the Kremlin in a statement carried by the Russian news agency PAW reports on.

On Saturday, the head of paramilitary Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, claimed to have taken control of the Ukrainian town of Bakhmut.

Now the Russian Ministry of Defense also states that they captured, or “liberated”, the city.

The information is pushed back by Ukraine, which says that the fighting is still going on.

A motorcycle rider is seriously injured after an accident in connection with a police chase outside Luleå.

The chase began on Saturday afternoon after the driver ignored a motorbike police stop attempt.

– After a short chase, the fugitive drives off the road, says police spokesperson Fredrik Nilsson to TT.

Several arms dealers have been subject to break-ins recently, where the thieves have been looking for the night vision, reports say P4 Seven-way.

The industry suspects that the rifle sights, which are made for hunting, have been stolen to be taken to the war in Ukraine.

– If there have been many thefts over a limited period of time, it can be feared that it is actors whose aim is to transport them to a war zone, such as Ukraine, says Lieutenant Colonel Michael Reberg to the radio.

A picture from the capital Khartoum earlier in May. Photo: Marwan Ali/AP

The warring parties in Sudan are to enter into a new ceasefire, reports TT and refers to Reuters.

According to information to the news agency, this time a week-long ceasefire has been agreed upon, which will come into effect within 48 hours.

Several times the parties to the conflict in Sudan have signed a cease-fire, but many of them are said to have been broken by both sides.

SMHI has issued a red warning for flooding in northern Norrbotten.

As a result of high water flow, several roads have been forced to close. Among other things, the road across the border to Finland at Övertorneå, reports Finnish Howl.

– Ambulances have to travel an insanely long journey, because you can’t cross the border, says Kai Metvainio, who lives on the Finnish side of the canal.

A man has been severely beaten in Helsingborg on Saturday evening, the police write on their website.

The man was taken to hospital by ambulance. According to Region Skåne, he has life-threatening injuries.

A suspected perpetrator in his 50s has been arrested.

The Italian mafia leader Salvatore Prencipe, 64, has been shot dead, Italian media reports.

Prencipe, who belonged to the Foggia clan, was allegedly killed in an ambush by two assailants on motorcycles, according to La Gazzetta Del Mezzogiorno.

He died immediately, the newspaper writes.

The clan in Foggia is considered the most violent in all of Italy and is called the “fourth mafia” after Cosa Nostra in Sicily, the Ndrangheta in Calabria and the Camorra in Naples.

The police were called to a local south of Stockholm due to a suspected assault in progress on Saturday evening.

But according to the police, the people involved must have fled the scene in a car that was stopped by the police some distance from the scene.

Two people were then arrested and a preliminary investigation into serious assault has been launched.

One person has been seriously injured after a fire broke out in an apartment in Hallsberg, Nerikes Allehanda reports.

Another person is said to have been slightly injured in the fire, which according to the police started in the kitchen.

Later, the police announce that the fire is out, but that they are still at the scene.

– We will block off and interrogate residents in the stairwell and then we will see what criminal classification it lands in, says duty police officer Torbjörn Roos to the news agency.

A police hunt is currently underway for a man who is said to have threatened a taxi driver with a knife in Björkekärr in Gothenburg.

The man is said to have gone with the taxi driver and then refused to pay for the trip. When the driver protested, the man allegedly displayed a knife-like object.

Several patrols are in the area looking for the suspect.

In a new report, the UN states that Mali’s army, together with the Russian Wagner group, participated in a massacre in which at least 500 civilians died in April last year.

It reports The Guardian.

According to the report, the massacre continued for five days in the town of Moura in Mali.

Volker Türk, who is the UN Commissioner for Human Rights, says that rape and torture occurred at the same time as hundreds of people were killed by murder.

The Wagner Group has yet to comment on the report, but an official in Mali dismisses the UN as biased.

Stefan Sarmes takes over from Nike Örbrink as chairman of the Christian Democratic Youth Association.

It was clear when a new federal board was elected during a national meeting in Linköping on Saturday.

“I am very grateful for the trust I have received from the members and am humbled by the task ahead of us. We have to manage a proud tradition of challenging and driving Christian democracy forward – I want to continue that,” writes Stefan Sarmes in a press release.

Helping those affected by the disaster in Italy. Photo: Benjamin Fanjoy/AP

Italian insurance company Unipol and Elon Musk have decided to help in the disaster-stricken Emilia-Romagna, reports Reuters.

With the help of SpaceX’s satellites, the emergency services, citizens and hospitals should be able to connect to the internet.

“SpaceX, Starlink and Tesla are pleased to be of assistance to Italy and the people affected by the floods,” Elon Musk said in a statement.

Many people lack electricity in the region after the floods, and access to the internet should facilitate rescue operations.

Jönköping Södra won the away match against Gais 1–0.

In connection with the match, the teams’ football supporters clashed, the police write on their website.

“The police place themselves between the groups and manage to separate them. The atmosphere is angry, there is shouting and throwing of beer cans between the camps,” writes the police.

In connection with a takeover, one of the supporter groups must also try to carry out a “release attempt”.

The incident is being investigated as a violation of the Public Order Act and violent riot.