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Many dead in bus accident in Bolivia

At least 13 people were killed when a truck collided with a bus on a highway in the Bolivian Andes on Friday, according to local police.

The truck driver is believed to have lost control of the vehicle before the collision, which occurred between the capital La Paz and the city of Oruro. At least three injured people have been taken to hospital.

Around 1,400 people lose their lives in traffic in Bolivia every year, according to the authorities. The country has roughly 12 million inhabitants.

Tesla recalls 700,000 vehicles

The electric car manufacturer Tesla is recalling nearly 700,000 vehicles. The cause is a problem with the warning light in the system that monitors the tire pressure.

The recall applies to certain vehicles of Cybertruck model year 2024, Model 3 model year 2017–2025 and Model Y model year 2020–2025.

The problem with the monitoring system is that the warning light may not stay on and then not alert the driver that the tire pressure is low.

US avoids shutdown – budget hammered

The US House of Representatives has agreed on a temporary budget settlement, and the risk of a shutdown of the state apparatus this Christmas thus appears to have been removed.

The decision, which is quickly expected to be approved by the Senate, comes just hours before the midnight deadline.

Donald Trump, who will take office as US president in a month’s time, stopped the negotiated settlement with the opposition party Democrats on Wednesday. He demanded, cheered on by tech billionaire Elon Musk, that party mates renegotiate the budget.

The now hammered proposal, put forward by Republican Speaker Mike Johnson, however, drops Trump’s sudden demand to scrap or raise the US debt ceiling.

It was the third attempt by Johnson to persuade the most staunch Trump loyalists to pass the budget, raising questions about whether he will Show more

Tua Forsström leaves the Swedish Academy

Tua Forsström leaves the Swedish Academy after five years. Something that was the agreement right from the start.

– I was 72 years old when I took office and I decided then explicitly to join under that condition, says the Finnish-Swedish writer to Hufvudstadsbladet.

Tua Forsström took office as a member of the Swedish Academy in 2019. She herself says that there is no drama behind the decision to leave work. In the past, it has not been possible to withdraw from the Academy on one’s own initiative, only through death or expulsion could a member be allowed to give up his seat.

The author tells Hufvudstadsbladet that the new rules regarding membership were what made her accept.

– For me, it was an important starting point.

Tua Forsström was elected to the Swedish Academy on chair number 18, the place that the poet Katarina Frostenson had to leave via exclusion. Her close connections to the abused “cultural profile” formed the epicenter of the Academy crisis.

Smoke alarm on SAS plane

An SAS plane between Malaga and Arlanda was forced to go down in Paris on Friday evening after alarms about smoke developing in the cockpit.

– There was an indication in the cockpit that there could be smoke, says Rikard Steinholtz at SAS.

– The plane went down completely according to normal routine without any problems.

The passengers on flight SK1804 can now spend the night in Paris. They can travel on to Stockholm on another plane on Saturday.

This plan will now be investigated to find out the cause of the smoke alarm.

Cyclist dead – hit by truck

A 65-year-old man has died after being hit by a truck in Askersund.

Relatives have been notified.

Car drivers have driven into a crowd at a Christmas market

At least one car is said to have driven into a crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany.

German government spokesman Matthias Schuppe has confirmed the incident to Bild.de..

The driver was arrested immediately afterwards.

The attack is said to have resulted in many injured people and possibly also deaths, German media write.

According to eyewitnesses, the car must have driven directly into the crowd on its way to the city hall.

People ran away in panic, Bild reports.

The organizer of the Christmas market is said to have urged people to leave the city centre.

Trump wants NATO countries to pay more

Donald Trump will put pressure on NATO countries when he takes office as president in January.

He wants NATO members to spend at least five percent of their GDP on defense.

Officials in the various member states have recently been informed of this.

It reports the Financial Times and refers to sources.

Currently, NATO countries’ defense spending needs to be at least two percent of GDP.

Elon Musk: Only the far right can save Germany

One of the world’s richest men, Elon Musk, believes he has found the solution for Germany.

“Only the AfD can save Germany,” he writes on X.

AfD is the right-wing populist and nationalist party Alternative für Deutschland, or Alternative for Germany in Swedish.

The AfD is also close to Putin and Russia.

Among other things, they have opposed international sanctions against Russia.

The newspaper The Insider has been able to reveal how the Kremlin paid money to AfD politicians so that they would put sticks in the wheels for decisions on German arms deliveries to Ukraine.

It is unclear what is behind Musk’s post and what kind of relationship he has with the German nationalists.

Queen Silvia sick – cancels

Queen Silvia will not attend the Swedish Academy’s festive gathering this evening.

– The Queen has a slight cold and does not want to risk disrupting the festive gathering with a cough, says Hovet’s press manager Margareta Thorgren to The Express.

The King, Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel will be there as planned.

On Sunday, the idea is that Queen Silvia will attend a Christmas concert Storkyrkan.

Cyclist hit by truck

A cyclist has been hit by a truck on county road 205 in the area of ​​Stjärnsund in Askersund.

Emergency services, ambulance and police are on the scene.

– It is a very serious accident, says Sophia Jiglind, press spokesperson for the police in the Bergslagen region.

One lane will be kept open and where other traffic can pass alternately.

– It will be like this for quite a while, says Sophia Juiglind.

The police will investigate how the accident happened.

Woman was a nurse for 24 years without a license

Last summer, psychiatry in Lund did an overhaul of a computer system.

Then an unexpected discovery was made.

A woman who worked as a nurse for 24 years was found to lack identification.

– It is an employee who has been employed in the region since the 1980s. She then furthered her education and was employed as a nurse in 2000, says Eva-Lena Brönmark, head of psychiatry in Lund, to the newspaper.

It was never checked if she had ID when she got her current job.

Colleagues that Sydsvenskan spoke to are upset.

– She has fooled us all, says one.

The woman has now been fired.

O’boy shortage – again

Remember the O’boy crisis of 2018?

Now it can be back.

The reason is a lack of cocoa beans, reports In the middle of.

– Due to a temporary shortage of cocoa beans at one of our suppliers, we have unfortunately not been able to produce O’boy at the rate we wish, and we regret that there may be a shortage on store shelves, says Erik Lødding, press contact at Mondelez Norden to the newspaper .

The shortages at the stores look different, but both Coop and Hemköp expect to be able to replenish the shelves during the next week.

According to Mondelez, it is not possible to give any time-

– It is beyond our control, he says.

USA: IS leader killed in Syria

An IS leader in Syria has been killed in a US airstrike, US military command Centcom on X announces.

The attack took place on Thursday.