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The concert attack in Moscow
Eleven are said to have been arrested after the attack in Moscow - four are said to be "directly involved"

A total of eleven people have been arrested after the attack on a concert venue in Moscow on Friday evening, Reuters reports with reference to Russian Interfax. Four of those arrested are said to be directly involved in the attack. According to the Kremlin, work is underway to identify more people involved.

At least two of the people are said to have been arrested after a car chase in the region of Bryansk, near the border with Ukraine and Belarus, nearly 38 kilometers from Moscow. According to MP Aleksander Khinshtein, a gun, a magazine for an AK-74 and passports of citizens of Tajikistan were found in the car.

SR's Russia correspondent Maria Persson Löfgren says at the same time that it is not possible to say for sure that those arrested are the people who committed the crime.

- The information about the arrest comes from the Russian security service, which would like to show that they have already actively found the right people, she says.

115 people have been confirmed dead in the attack and over 100 people are injured. Among the dead are three children.

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Political situation in Great Britain
Tory candidates hide party membership - 'damaging branding'

More and more local Tory candidates have begun to mask their links to the party and its leader Rishi Sunak in their campaigns, Bloomberg reports.

Even in advertisements that have the mandatory label "paid for by the Conservative Party", local politicians have begun to claim that they are "above party politics", writes the newspaper.

- The Conservative Party brand is harmful, and the Conservative Party itself is a sinkhole, says political scientist Sam Power at the University of Sussex.

The Tories are described as a party in deep crisis, and have recently been hit by a series of new scandals. According to an opinion poll, the party received 19 percent of voter support this week - compared to arch-enemy Labour's 44 percent.

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US economic policy
Senate agrees on budget after "difficult day"

The US Senate has made a "breakthrough" in negotiations on the budget required to avoid government shutdowns. This is stated by the Democratic majority leader Chuck Schumer, according to the New York Times.

- It has been a very long and difficult day, but we have just reached an agreement, he says just before midnight, American time.

According to the White House, Joe Biden will be able to sign the new budget of the equivalent of 12 trillion Swedish kronor on Saturday morning. According to the New York Times, this means that the authorities will be without funding for a couple of hours, a shutdown that the newspaper believes "will have no practical effect".