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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is declining the latest invitation to a new debate between him and Democratic rival Kamala Harris.
It was the television network Fox News that invited to a final debate before the presidential election, which will be held on November 5. The debate would have taken place at the end of October.
“It is very late in the process, (early) voting has already started – there will be no rematch!”, Trump writes in a post written entirely in capitals on his own platform Truth social.
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An industrial area in the city of Hassia outside Homs in Syria was attacked on Thursday night, according to state Syrian media.
According to initial information, a car factory has been attacked with material damage as a result, according to the regime-controlled news agency Sana.
Israel rarely comments on individual attacks in Syria, but has repeatedly said it will not allow Iran and its proxy groups to expand their presence in the region.
Iran and Hezbollah have been among the Syrian government’s most important allies in the country’s more than ten-year civil war.
The streets of Tampa, Florida are almost deserted. Photo: Rebecca Blackwell/AP/TT
An extremely strong and dangerous wind warning has been issued for the Tampa Bay area on Florida’s west coast as Hurricane Milton makes landfall.
“Consider these extreme winds as an approaching tornado and immediately seek an indoor shelter or storm shelter NOW,” the National Weather Service (NWS) in Tampa wrote on X.
Milton is now classified as a Category Three storm, having been up to five on the five-point scale.
It has been shot through gates to two stairwells in an apartment building in Kvillebäcken on Hisingen.
No one was injured in the shooting, which occurred just before 11 p.m.
The police have started a preliminary investigation into serious weapons offenses and serious illegal threats.
No one is arrested.
Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall within hours, but over 250,000 people are already without power in Florida, reports CNN referring to the site poweroutage.us.
Power outages are expected to increase during the evening in western Florida – the closer the hurricane comes to land. It is warned that up to a million households could be without power in the state.
The woman was haunted by up to 100 raccoons. Archive image. Photo: Patrick Pleul/AP/TT
A Washington state woman alerted police that she had to flee her home after 50 to 100 raccoons took over her yard and acted aggressively, a police spokesperson said.
The woman said that she started feeding a family of raccoons several decades ago. A few weeks ago, around 100 raccoons suddenly appeared instead of a handful.
According to the police, the animals became increasingly aggressive, “demanding food, stalking her day and night”, scratching her house and door and surrounding her car.
Since the police established that no crimes had been committed, the woman was referred to game wardens.
Israel’s military chief Herzi Halevi, left, vows to continue striking Hezbollah “without respite.” Archive image. Photo: Handout from the Israel Defense Forces/ TT
Israel’s military says it has killed a Hezbollah profiler in an airstrike in southwestern Syria.
Israel’s air force “attacked and eliminated” Adham Jahout, whom it describes in a statement as a terrorist within the Lebanese Shia militia Hezbollah’s terrorist cell in Syria.
Furthermore, Jahout is described as an intermediary who “passed information from the Syrian regime” to Iran-backed Hezbollah.
Israeli authorities do not usually comment on individual attacks in Syria, but have repeatedly said they will not allow Iran to expand its presence in the region.
Hezbollah has historically relied on ally Syria to transport weapons and other equipment from its main backer Iran.
The announcement of the strike comes hours after Israel’s military chief, Herzi Halevi, vowed to continue hitting Hezbollah and that attacks would continue “without respite” to prevent the group from recovering.
At least six people have been killed and eight injured in a Russian robot attack on the port of Odessa, according to Ukrainian authorities.
According to the region’s governor, Oleh Kiper, the attack hit a civilian container ship sailing under the flag of Panama.
“Six people were killed and eight were injured, four of them are in a serious condition. All the victims are citizens of Ukraine,” says Kiper on Telegram.
“This is the third attack on a civilian ship in the last four days,” he added.
Hurricane Milton was initially rated as a five on the five-point scale.
During the evening it was lowered to a four.
Now it has been lowered once again and is now at a third, writes AP.
Even so, the hurricane is still classified as a “serious threat” to Florida.
The man in his 30s who was injured in a shooting in the center of Sollentuna earlier today is no longer life-threateningly injured and will survive, writes P4 Stockholm and refers to the police.
No one has yet been arrested.
Jimmie Åkesson appeared today for an interview on the YouTube channel Riks.
The SD leader was asked about his wedding and about the guest Robert Hedarv, who is part of a criminal motorbike gang.
Åkesson said that he would have had to resign as party leader if he had known about the guest’s connection to the motorcycle gang.
– Then I wouldn’t be sitting here now. Then I would have been at home and my party leadership would have been history, he said.
Riks was founded by SD in 2020 through the web magazine “Samtiden”. The channel was sold in 2023.
Rescue services and an ambulance are on site at Rindö in the Stockholm archipelago due to a drowning alarm.
– But they are on site and checking to see if anyone is in the water. But we don’t know yet, they are still diving and investigating, says Sören Gustavsson at SOS Alarm.
The alarm came in at 9:22 p.m
Shortly after midnight, SOS Alarm says that all units have left the scene and that no one was taken to hospital by ambulance.
A passenger car has driven off the road on the E4 at the height of the Helsingborg Södra traffic area in the direction of Helsingborg.
The car must be parked outside in the terrain. Traffic was completely stopped and needed to be diverted towards Ekeby, but can now continue in an open lane on the road.
There are no reports of personal injuries.
Tow truck is ordered.
Ukrainian military cleans weapons in the Kherson region of Ukraine. Picture from earlier in October. Photo: Marko Ivkov/AP/TT
Ukraine’s army says it has destroyed a facility that stored hundreds of Iranian-type Shahed drones in the town of Oktiabrsky in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region.
About 400 attack drones were stored in the premises, the Ukrainian army said on the Telegram messaging app.
Donald Trump has had a Bible printed that he calls “God Bless the USA Bible”.
He sells his Bible for $59.99, but it can also be signed by the ex-president.
Then it costs 1,000 dollars.
But the Republican presidential candidate is now being criticized and called a hypocrite, according to The Independent.
It has been shown that the Bibles are printed in China.
The country Trump accused of stealing American jobs.
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