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Challenging his old boss. Photo: Charlie Neibergall / AP

Former US Vice President Mike Pence is challenging Donald Trump as the Republican presidential candidate for the 2024 election.

Documents submitted to the United States election authority show that Pence is standing in the election, US media reports.

A headland on Storö outside Unnaryd is on fire, reports say P4 Halland.

A large rescue mission has gone out to the island by boat, according to the duty officer of the rescue service, Peter Stened.

Half the forest on the island is said to have burned down.

The island is now waterbombed by helicopters.

Got an increase. Photo: Ben Birchall/AP

There is baby happiness for the British royal family. This time it is Princess Eugenie who has welcomed her second child into the world.

“Jack and I want to share the news of our little boy, Ernest George Ronnie Brooksbank, born May 30,” the princess writes on Instagram.

The father of the child is wine merchant Jack Brooksbank. The couple, who have been married since 2018, also have a son, August Brooksbank, together.

Princess Eugenie is the youngest daughter of Prince Andrew and thus a niece of King Charles. She is in line to the British throne after her older sister Princess Beatrice.

The emergency services have been called to Skärholmen in Stockholm due to a fire in an apartment building.

According to information to the police, the fire started on a balcony and then spread into an apartment. There, the fire must have caused heavy smoke.

“Neighbors have intervened and tried to put out the fire,” the police write on their website.

Three people are said to have been slightly injured.

A search effort has been launched in Avisko and Norwegian Narvik after two 30-year-old Danes were reported missing, TT reports.

According to the news agency, it is about two siblings, a man and a woman, who started hiking on Thursday with the destination day on Sunday. When they did not arrive, the police were alerted by relatives, who believe that no one has heard from the siblings since Thursday.

– But it is also natural as there is poor coverage in the area, says Kai Eriksen, operations leader at the Norwegian police, to TT.

The siblings are described as seasoned hikers and one of the police’s theories is that they stopped at one of the tourist cabins on the mountain and after an unexpected storm.

The pair of siblings are now searching through a collaboration between Norwegian and Swedish police, with mountain rescue and a helicopter.

Update: The Swedish police write on their website that the hikers were found in a cabin on the Norwegian side of the border and that they are doing well.

Cutting the number of employees again. Photo: Anders Wiklund/TT

Streaming giant Spotify cuts further.

200 people in the podcast department will lose their jobs.

“We know news like this is never easy, especially for those affected. These decisions are not something we take lightly,” writes Spotify in a press release, according to Break it.

Earlier in January, Spotify notified 600 people, of which 100 were in Sweden.

Systembolaget’s website is down after an IT attack.

It reports SVT News.

In an email to the channel, Systembolaget writes that it suffered from IT disruptions due to “an attack on external suppliers” and that they are working to fix the problem.

The Wagner boss in a video posted on May 29. Photo: AP

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin claims to have captured a drunken Russian soldier, writes BBC.

In a video, Prigozhin claims that the soldier opened fire on a Wagner vehicle in Ukraine.

Tensions between the Wagner group and the Russian forces have risen recently.

Prigozhin has repeatedly attacked President Putin and Defense Minister Shoigu, blaming them for the setbacks in Ukraine.

Swish has suffered from an operational disruption that has prevented payments.

At 2:30 p.m., the company announced that the problem should be resolved.

“During this period, some users who tried to swipe up received an error message in the app asking you to check that the money has been withdrawn from your account before trying again. If you tried to swipe again despite this error message, it may have meant that the recipient received the money several times. If this happened, you need to contact the recipient of the payment to get the money back,” writes Swish.

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Three cars are involved in an accident on the E4 in Solna.

The road is completely closed in the northbound direction.

– There is a major impact on traffic, says police spokesperson Per Fahlström.

There is no information on the damage status.

– There were initially fears of personal injury, but I have no information about that, says Per Fahlström.

A dog attacked several horses in Mora.

When the horse owner intervened, she was attacked by the dog, according to the police.

She is said to have been bitten on the face and hands.

The dog’s owner is suspected of causing bodily harm and vandalism after the horses were injured.

Witnesses have alerted the police in Stenungsund about a man chasing a postman with an axe.

The man, who according to the police is in his 40s, is said to have smashed an entrance door and broken a window in a doorway before the chase.

He also allegedly threw the ax at the postman, according to the police.

The alarm came in at 11.59 and when the police arrived at the scene, the man was arrested – with the ax in one hand and a curtain rod in the other.

The man is now suspected of grossly unlawful threats, violation of the Knife Act and vandalism.

There are no reports of anyone being physically injured.

Planes have not been able to land at Bromma Airport during the day, as a punctured private plane remained on the runway.

– It suffered a puncture after landing and must be moved. In the meantime, we have redirected to Arlanda, says Ellen Laurin, press officer at Swedavia.

Swedavia had to wait until the punctured private plane could be moved before traffic could move.

– But there isn’t much traffic on Bromma right now, so it doesn’t have a big impact, says Ellen Laurin.

At 13.30 the runway was clear again as the plane could be moved from the site.

– We are running the traffic again and do not need to divert to Arlanda, says Ellen Laurin.

There is a fire in a row of terraced houses in Gävle.

The alarm came in just before 11 o’clock and the emergency services are on the scene.

– There are fires all along, a total of nine homes. We received an alarm that there was a fire on a balcony which then spread up to the roof structure, says Martin Johansson, officer on duty at the rescue service.

There is no information on the state of the damage, but according to the emergency services, the property company is on site and helping with evacuation.

– We have a lot of resources on site, says Martin Johansson.

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