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Dino Danelli, drummer in The Rascals, has died, according to People, writes TT. He lived to be 78 years old.

Danelli was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with the other band members of The Rascals in 1997. The band, which started under the name The Young Rascals in the 60s, was known for songs such as “Good Lovin'”, “Groovin'” and “People got to be free”.

The cause of death was linked to Danelli’s previous heart problems.

Minister of Justice Gunnar Strömmer (M) said earlier in November that the new right-wing government promises the biggest offensive ever to break organized crime.

The punishment is to be significantly toughened – it involves, among other things, introducing visitation zones, anonymous witnesses and secret telephone tapping.

But how quickly the investments will have an effect on the criminal gangs, the minister cannot answer, he says in an interview with Gothenburg Post.

– I cannot say exactly when and at what speed we will be able to see the change.

The government is ready to “try roads that Sweden has not tried before”. The measures contained in the Tidö Agreement are largely about adding investigations. Gunnar Strömmer says that these measures must be implemented.

– When we meet the voters before the election in 2026, we must be able to give credibility that we have done everything we can, taken all the measures we promised, he tells the newspaper.

At 05:20, the emergency services and police were alerted that there was a fire in a treatment plant in Sätila in Marks municipality.

It is a heavy fire.

– The building was pretty much completely burnt down when we arrived. We have not made any active extinguishing efforts but handed over to the municipality, Christer Larsson, on-duty officer at Södra Älvsborg’s rescue service association.

SMHI has issued a yellow warning for snowfall for Norra Bohuslän, Dalsland and southern Värmland.

Heavy snowfall is expected to move in and risk causing poor road conditions such as slippage, slush or poor visibility.

SMHI writes that during the night to today the snowfall has receded. It can be heavy at times and between 10 and 20 centimeters is expected until noon. The most snow is expected in the northeastern part of Bohuslän on the border with Dalsland.

The snowfall is followed by milder air and perhaps some rain, then risk of ice or slush, writes SMHI.

The Tidö parties are losing support in a new poll conducted by Kantar Sifo on behalf of SR Ekot.

The four parties receive only 46.2 percent of voter support, compared to the opposition parties at 52.1 percent.

All four parties lose. The Sweden Democrats are the party that backs the most, 1.4 percentage points. The Liberals are below the parliamentary barrier in the survey of 3.5 percent.

More than 160 people have died in the severe flooding following persistent rain in Congo-Kinshasa, according to an estimate by the United Nations Organization for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) citing local authorities.

Particularly affected are the central parts of the capital Kinshasa, where the main streets were under water for several hours.

At least 280 houses are said to have been destroyed by the masses of water.

The seagull city of Kinshasa is located on the Congo River, which can overflow, but even greater are the problems with poor drainage and housing built on loose foundations along the mountain slopes around the city.

The committee investigating the storming of the Capitol on January 6 last year will vote on whether to recommend that ex-president Donald Trump be prosecuted for, among other things, rioting in connection with the events.

In addition to riot charges, the committee is also considering recommending that Trump be charged with obstruction of justice and conspiracy against the United States.

The committee consists of seven members of Congress from the Democrats and two from the Republicans. They cannot themselves decide whether charges should be brought, but they can make a recommendation to the Department of Justice, which can bring charges. (TT)

A shortened working week with maintained salary could become a reality in Spain. On Friday, the Spanish government launched a pilot project to test how productivity is affected, writes TT.

The project will be tested for two years and small and medium-sized companies can participate.

The aim is to produce labor reforms that can “generate an increase in productivity that offsets wage costs”, according to the country’s labor market ministry.

A two-year-old boy miraculously survived a hippo attack near his home in Uganda.

CNN writes that Iga Paul was playing near the beach when the hippo struck.

The giant animal bit the boy and “swallowed almost half the body”, while a man threw stones at it, according to the police.

That made the hippo let go. The boy was taken to hospital where he received a rabies vaccine and was treated for his injuries. Now he is said to have fully recovered and has been allowed to leave the hospital.

According to an estimate, around 500 people in Africa die in hippo attacks every year, writes BBC.

The animals can weigh up to 1.5 tonnes.

During the night of Thursday, someone stole a temporary mailbox for Christmas letters from Flöjtvägen in Lund.

The next day, the red post box was found nearby – ransacked.

Many of the Christmas cards were damaged and could not be forwarded.

– A problem with Christmas cards is that it is rarely traceable to the sender, says Jonas Öhrling, production manager at Postnord Tellusgatan in Lund, to South Sweden.

He has never seen someone steal a Christmas mailbox.

– Most likely the thieves were looking for cash. Our policy is to never send cash by letter, but it does happen occasionally.

The incident has been reported to the police.

Fyr’s chimpanzees were shot at Furuviksparken on Wednesday.

Three of them are found dead. The fourth is down but it is not confirmed if it is alive or dead.

Now the park states that one of the chimpanzees that moves inside the chimpanzee house, Selma, is seriously injured.

“At the moment we cannot assess the extent of the injuries, but what we can see now is that she is injured in one eye and does not seem to be able to move one of her arms. We are trying to give her painkillers through the food,” the park writes on its website.

During the day, they have tried to lure the chimpanzees back into the enclosure and close it, but have not succeeded.

“It is still a serious situation and our work to secure the fence continues during the night.”

Here you can read more about the drama in Furuviksparken.