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Cease fire in Congo-Kinshasa
The M23 rebel movement has agreed to a ceasefire in Congo-Kinshasa, Angolan President João Lourenço says, according to TT.
French President Emmanuel Macron states at a press conference that all parties are on board with the ceasefire.
The EU announced on Saturday that it will establish an airlift to be able to deliver emergency aid to the war-torn parts of the country.
Biden’s Challenger: The New Age Instructor
Marianne Williamson, 70, announces her candidacy. Photo: Jose Luis Magana/AP
Until Saturday, no one in the Democratic Party had yet challenged Joe Biden for the presidency.
Then 70-year-old Marianne Williamson stepped forward, TT reports.
The 70-year-old new age instructor and author of self-help books also ran in 2020, but dropped out early.
Now she emphasizes that her candidacy is serious and says that Trump’s election victory in 2016 made the election campaign unpredictable.
– After the 2016 election, it’s strange that anyone can think they know who can be president. I’m not going to go through this whole thing again just to be part of the conversation, she says.
Smockan vs. BoJo: “Made a Trump”
Britain’s former Prime Minister Boris Johnson is in a bad mood. Photo: Jonathan Brady/PA via AP
Boris Johnson has attacked the report which shows that he violated the corona restrictions during the pandemic.
The former prime minister claims it is a political coup to remove him, reports The Guardian.
Now several heavy Tory politicians have come out and compared Johnson and his supporters to Donald Trump.
– They have made a trump card. It’s crazy. Where will this end? They are desperate.
Dramatic news about Escobar’s “cocaine hippos”
A herd of hippos on Pablo Escobar’s former ranch. Photo: Fernando Vergara/AP/TT
Drug kingpin Pablo Escobar’s hippopotamus descendants have spread like an avalanche outside the ranch he previously owned, TT reports.
The population has increased so much that they have become a source of concern for the residents of the area.
Local authorities have tried to limit the population using castration and contraceptive arrows without success.
More drastic methods are now being resorted to.
70 hippos are to leave the country, of which 60 are to be shipped to India. The remaining ten will end up in Mexico.
The hippos will be flown to their new homes in specially constructed flames and will be put to sleep if they become too anxious in the air.
Villa in flames: “Gas bottles have exploded”
Fully developed fire in Tyresö Photo: Jerker Ivarsson
A fire has broken out in a villa in Tyresö.
According to the rescue service, it must be fully developed.
– There shouldn’t be any people left, however, there are gas bottles in the villa. Some have exploded, which means we keep our distance, says officer on duty Daniel Lundin.
The emergency services have managed to get some gas cylinders out, but fear that there are more left.
– Right now we are working to limit the fire so that it does not spread to neighboring houses.
No one is said to have been injured in connection with the fire.
The text is updated here.
Shop staff hit after theft in safe
A woman is said to have asked to borrow the toilet in a store before emptying the safe, reports Gothenburg Post.
When she then fled the scene, she is said to have run over the shop staff who tried to stop the car.
No one is arrested.
The employee did not need to seek treatment for his injuries.
Car and electric scooter in collision
A passenger car and an electric scooter have collided in the center of Malmö.
The electric scooter driver is injured and has been taken to hospital by ambulance.
There is no information on the state of the damage.
The police and emergency services are also on site.
– There is no criminal suspicion at the moment, says police spokesperson Evelina Olsson.
Police laundered money – fined
A policeman is sentenced by the Svea Court of Appeal to a fine for economic money laundering.
This is reported by Dagens Juridik.
He is sentenced for having lent his ICA account to his father-in-law, who was not allowed to have his own account due to debt settlement.
The father-in-law had to make deposits and also dispose of a debit card.
During the time that the elderly man had access to the account, among other things, a payment for a copper sale ended up there.
The policeman says that he did not keep track of his account statements and that he should not be convicted of money laundering.
He must pay just over SEK 18,000 in fines.
In a statement to the district court, the police responsibility board says that the man will probably not lose his job. That’s what TT writes.
Three to hospital after collision
A traffic accident has occurred on national highway 50 north of Örebro, reports P4 Örebro.
Three people have been taken to hospital.
The accident has a strong impact on traffic, according to P4. The northbound lanes have been closed and are expected to reopen at 6:15 p.m.
Huge fire in the barn – flames several meters high and black smoke
Meter-high flames shot up from the over-lit barn. Photo: Torbjörn Axelsson/WESTY
A fire broke out in a barn in Stora Levene outside Vara on Saturday. When the Rescue Service arrived at the scene, the barn was engulfed in flames and pictures show flames several meters high and black smoke.
– It has been windy on the Varaslätten today, so the fire got a good hold. When we got there with units from Järpås, Vara and Kvänum, the roof had already started to collapse. We had to focus on containing the fire. It was quite undramatic, says Johan Wahlström, officer on duty at Skaraborg’s rescue service.
According to the police, there are no suspicions of crime.
– It was a wood boiler that overheated. There was a box loader and a truck in there, so that could possibly explain why the fire got so bad. If it was fuel that started to burn, says Göran Karlbom, officer on duty at Police Region West.
There were no animals inside the barn, but it was used as a machinery park.
No power in Kenya
The electricity grid in Kenya has been knocked out, according to the national electricity company Kenya Power.
“Good evening, we have lost the national power grid. The restoration process has begun. We apologize,” the company writes on Twitter.
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