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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 called to the industrial area due to a new fire.

– It’s burning in the same place now again. I don’t know whether it’s a new fire or the old fire that caught fire again, says police spokesperson Daniel Wikdahl.

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.

A minibus has driven into a ditch on a minor road outside Örkelljunga in Skåne after it swerved for a cat.

According to the police, the accident must have happened at a lower speed.

– We are on our way to the scene, says Evelina Olsson, press spokesperson at the police.

The driver had to be taken by ambulance to the hospital for a check-up. There were also two children in the minibus who did not suffer any physical injuries.

No crime is suspected.

30 percent of all shop employees live below the poverty line in Sweden, shows a new report from Handels.

– It is unacceptable that so many store employees cannot live on their salary. It creates insecurity throughout life. Many want to work more but don’t get the chance, says union president Linda Palmetzhofer in a press release.

– This will be an important issue for us in the negotiations.

According to the Consumer Agency’s estimate, a 20-year-old who lives alone needs SEK 19,200 in salary after tax to be able to cover his expenses.

According to the report, the average monthly income for store employees is SEK 19,120 before tax.

Thomas Homan. Photo: Matt Rourke

Donald Trump appoints ex-policeman and former director of immigration control Thomas Homan as the new head of the border control in the United States. The president-elect announced it himself on his social media platform Truth social.

“I have known Tom for a long time and there is no one better suited to monitor and control our borders,” Trump wrote in the post.

In addition to overseeing the southern and northern borders, Homan will be responsible for “all deportations of illegal refugees back to their home countries.”

On Friday night, 100,000 Chinese students embarked on a 5-mile bike ride to the city of Kaifeng in China to eat dumplings, reports The Guardian.

The event blocked major busy roads and congested the small town, causing police to be called out and local residents to rage.

Now authorities have imposed temporary restrictions on the roads and cycling apps have warned to remotely lock all bikes outside of Zhengzhou.

The trend started when four students from Zhengzhou cycled to Kaifeng in search of the little dough balls. The wholesome and apolitical activity was initially welcomed by Kaifeng authorities, who are trying to attract more domestic tourists.