Trump has spoken to Scholz

The people of Valencia have demanded the resignation of regional president Carlos Mazón after the natural disaster that killed over 200 people.

But now his vice president Susana Camerero announces that he will stay on.

According to El País, Mazón has been difficult to get hold of during the crisis.

Something the 100,000 protesters who gathered in central Valencia on Saturday noticed.

– Mazón came out from your hiding place, they chanted.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Photo: Denes Erdos/AP/TT

Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his German minority government are under heavy pressure from the ongoing government crisis.

The opposition wants to see a vote of no confidence as early as next week. The Social Democrat Scholz says in an interview on the German public service channel ARD that he is not opposed to an early vote.

He himself, however, would rather see a vote “before Christmas”.

– For me, it is not a problem, he says.

Last week, Scholz announced a vote in January, which drew strong criticism.

In the interview, Scholz opposes the idea that he wants to remain as the country’s leader at all costs.

– I don’t cling to my post, he says.

Scholz’s announcement about a vote of confidence in January came shortly after the news that Finance Minister Christian Lindner (liberal FDP) had been fired, in the middle of work on next year’s state budget.

Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson. Photo: Christine Olsson/TT / TT News Agency

In a new Al Jazeera documentary, Sweden is once again accused of kidnapping children.

Now Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson is speaking out about the documentary.

“Today, al-Jazeera is spreading a documentary about, among other things, the Swedish social services. The documentary risks contributing to the same misinformation as the LVU campaign. This is dangerous for Sweden and also risks seriously damaging the important work of the social services in helping the children who really getting sick and needing care” he writes in a post on X.

In the documentary, called “Behind closed doors”, the care of children in several countries is highlighted, which is allegedly done on incorrect grounds, and where Sweden is one of several countries that are singled out.

However, court proceedings and other documents that Aftonbladet has seen show a completely different picture than the one the parents paint for Al Jazeera.

The LVU campaign in which the social service was accused of kidnapping children who do not fare well is considered to have strengthened the threat image against Sweden and was, among other things, one of several reasons why the Security Police raised the terror level in the country.

Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in 2019. Photo: Susan Walsh / AP

Donald Trump has spoken on the phone with Vladimir Putin, sources told the Washington Post.

Trump reportedly urged Putin not to escalate the war in Ukraine.

Read more here.

The police searched for a 12-year-old girl in Uppsala during the evening after she disappeared from her home. The police issued a wanted notice on their website.

But at 8:30 p.m., the girl was found at the travel center in Uppsala by security guards, the police say.

A major fire broke out at the Dollarstore in Lycksele during Sunday evening.

The emergency services went out.

– It is burning with open flames and we have alerted additional resources, said the rescue service’s alarm and line operator David Hedberg at around 8 p.m.

The store had closed for the day and according to the emergency services, no one should have been in the premises.

At midnight, it was clear that the building will not be saved, according to The north.

E12 has been closed as a result of the fire, the police told the newspaper. The incident is being investigated as arson.

A picture from Russian authorities from the fighting in Kursk. Photo: Russian Defense Ministry Press Service photo via AP

The Russian military is preparing a major offensive in the Kursk region, reports New York Timesciting Ukrainian and American sources.

According to the newspaper, 50,000 soldiers have been assembled, which includes North Korean troops.

Ukrainian sources say they expect an attack involving the North Korean troops in the coming days.

A car has started to burn on the E6 at the height of Varberg, reports HN.

The emergency services have been called to the scene.

– It is not a fully developed fire. There is a bit of fire under the car and everyone is out of it, says Johan Wallin, officer on duty at the rescue service, to the newspaper.

The road is closed in the northbound direction with the emergency services working on the scene.

There is still no forecast for when the work on site will be finished.

Update: At 6:30 p.m., traffic was allowed to open again.

Only 4 of Sweden’s 21 regions are currently connected to the mammography quality register – but more will join before the turn of the year, according to Ekot. Archive image. Photo: Christine Olsson/TT

Seventeen out of twenty-one regions are not connected to Sweden’s national quality register for mammography screening (NKM). It risks affecting research and knowledge about breast cancer, reports Ekot in Sveriges Radio.

– If we do not have national coverage, it will be difficult to draw reliable conclusions on a national level and difficult to systematically improve mammography operations, says Eric Arelöf, record keeper at NKM, to the radio.

Several regions plan to join the register before the turn of the year. By then, around half are estimated to be connected, according to Eric Arelöf.

Technical reasons must be a reason why the work to get regions connected to the register has been slow.

Benjamin Netanyahu. Photo: Ronen Zvulun / AP

Israel now admits that it was behind the deed with the exploding pagers in Beirut, AFP reports.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself approved the attack.

Police and emergency services were alerted to Västra hamnen in Malmö after the public saw clothes lying near the water.

A search effort on received at the location.

– There are clothes that were found on a bench near the water and we have not received any information about any person being in the water, but we are searching to rule out that someone has jumped in and bathed, says Fredrik Bratt, spokesperson for the police in region South.

No one was found and shortly after 5 p.m. the police announced that the rescue operation had been called off.

A woman has been hit in Solna north of Stockholm.

The extent of the damage is unclear.

Ambulance and emergency services are there now.

– She should be awake, but lying on the ground, says police spokesperson Anna Westberg.

Protests at the end of October against the removal of mayors in southeastern Turkey. Photo: Khalil Hamra/AP/TT

More than 30 people have been charged since they demonstrated against Turkey’s decision to oust three mayors in the Kurdish-majority southeast.

Formal charges have been brought against 33 of those arrested for participating in the protests. Another 37 people have been placed under surveillance, according to the Interior Ministry in Ankara.

The Turkish government replaced the three mayors with government loyalists just under a week ago. The three mayors are accused of “connections to terrorism”.

Unrest continues in Amsterdam after Thursday’s football match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv, when around 30 Israelis were attacked and beaten after leaving the stadium.

The violent clashes prompted authorities in Amsterdam to impose a three-day ban on demonstrations.

Despite that, a large pro-Palestinian demonstration has been going on during the day on Dam Square in central Amsterdam.

At least 20 people have been arrested, local media reports.