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Rescue workers in canoes search for dead in an area on the outskirts of Valencia. The picture was taken last Friday. Photo: Emilio Morenatti/AP/TT

Spain is spending an additional almost 3.8 billion euros, approximately 44 billion Swedish kronor, on relief efforts after the catastrophic floods, announced the Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchez.

The aid package comes after the government already promised help for 10.6 billion euros last week.

Spain will put “all the necessary resources as long as needed”, says Pedro Sánchez at a press conference.

At least 222 people died as a result of the storm that hit Spain a couple of weeks ago. The region of Valencia was hardest hit. Muddy waters destroyed roads and railways, cars floated away and farmland was submerged. Thousands of soldiers, police and others are working to repair destroyed infrastructure, distribute aid and search for people who are still missing.

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The Postnord car crashed. Photo: Carl Carlert

A van has driven into several parked cars in Alvesta, the police write on their website.

The car in question is a Postnord car, the driver has been taken to hospital.

– It has driven into five parked cars, says police spokesperson Katarina Rusin.

No crime is suspected in connection with the incident. The parked cars are said to have been empty.

For several weeks, discovered rat poo remained under the shelf of natural treats at Stora Coop in Jönköping, despite promises from the store managers about cleanup, reports the news agency Siren.

During a follow-up inspection, the municipality’s environmental inspectors also found additional rat poo in several places in the store – and a dead rodent in a trap on the store floor.

Now the municipal administration is demanding measures, otherwise the shop can receive ongoing fines for each control occasion in which rat poo is found.

Sweden’s Vattenfall plans to invest around SEK 60 billion in climate-friendly German energy over the next few years, Reuters reports.

The money is to be spent on charging stations, as well as solar and wind farms. Germany is described as the fastest growing market for renewable energy by Vattenfall.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar in a picture taken in Jerusalem in June 2021, when he was Minister of Justice. Photo: Emmanuel Dunand/AP/TT

It is not realistic to believe in the formation of an independent Palestinian state, claims Israel’s new foreign minister Gideon Sa’ar.

– I do not consider that position to be realistic today, and we must be realistic, he told reporters in Jerusalem.

A Palestinian state would constitute a “Hamas state”, Sa’ar further claims.

The move came in response to the question of what Sa’ar thinks about establishing a Palestinian state in exchange for normalized relations between Israel and the Arab countries in the region.

Israel has long hoped for thawed relations with Saudi Arabia, but the war in Gaza has put an end to all discussions on the matter.

A Chadian flag at half mast in the capital N’Djamena. Archive image. Photo: Sunday Alamba/AP/TT

More than 110 people have lost their lives in connection with a Boko Haram attack in western Chad, the Central African country’s military says.

More than 90 of those killed belonged to the Islamist group and 17 were soldiers, according to the army.

In the past year, the area around Lake Chad has been plagued by repeated terrorist attacks carried out by, among others, Boko Haram and IS in West Africa. Last month, 40 soldiers were killed in an attack on a military base in the country.

Jihadist Boko Haram was founded in the early 2000s in Chad’s neighboring country Nigeria, and has since spread to several countries in the region.

The World Health Organization (WHO) will decide whether mpox should remain a global health crisis, the WHO said in a statement on Monday, according to the Reuters news agency.

It was in August that the WHO declared the outbreak of mpox as an international public health crisis.

Two children were found dead in a home in Södertälje last spring.

Now a father in his 40s is charged with suffocating the children with helium, the prosecutor’s office says.

– My assessment is that the state of evidence is very good and is based on a comprehensive and robust investigation of the crime, says chamber prosecutor Ulrika Rosén.

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During Sunday, several international media reported that Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump should have spoken on the phone. It was the Washington Post that first wrote about the conversation in which Trump was said to have urged Putin not to expand the war in Ukraine.

But now the information is refuted by Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov, who says that it is all not true, Tass reports.

A woman in her 50s has been found dead in a forest area in Hällefors municipality.

A man of the same age is arrested, suspected of murder.

– I cannot go into whether there is any relationship between the people, says Lars Hedelin, press spokesperson at the police.

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During the night, a fire started in an electrical cabinet at a car company in Kungsängen, north of Stockholm.

The fire spread, the room was filled with smoke and the sprinkler system started. The police wrote a report of public dangerous negligence before they left the scene.

In the early morning, the police were again alerted to the industrial area, as witness statements indicate that the fire may have been started.

The case is therefore reclassified, and the fire scene is cordoned off and examined by police technicians.

Shortly before 09:00, the emergency services were ready at the scene.

– The biggest damage seems to be water damage as a result of the extinguishing work. There is extensive water damage in several planes, says line operator Adam Alm.

Two people have entered a home for the elderly in Sigtuna during the night and locked themselves in the kitchen.

There, they have started eating the resident’s food.

– The staff were quite upset when they called, they shouted and shouted to try to get the people out of the kitchen where they were standing and eating a lot of food, says police spokesperson Daniel Wikdahl.

There are no traces of how the people might have gotten into the nursing home.

The police write a report about illegal trespassing. When the patrol arrives, the people have left.

During the morning, Sveriges Radio had technical problems and several channels are said to have been down.

– There is something wrong. It is Teracom that has done something, I know nothing more than that, says Claes Bertilsson, press manager at Sveriges Radio.

Just before eight thirty the problem was fixed and everything started as usual again.

On Monday morning, there was a traffic accident in the Södertunnel in Stockholm.

– It’s a motorcycle accident. The driver has received an injury in the shoulder and is being taken to hospital by ambulance, says police spokesperson Daniel Wikdahl.

The accident happened in the northbound direction and, according to the police, has some impact on the morning traffic.

– The motorcycle needs to be recovered from the scene, so there will be some traffic problems in the tunnel.