spread of infection around the world seriously, ” Hallengren said.... Authorities say 26% in that age

STOCKHOLM( REUTERS)-Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven caught the nation off guard on Sunday( Aug 22), saying he would resign in November ahead of a general election in September 2022 to give his successor a chance to improve the Social Democrats’ standing in the polls.Mr Lofven has been prime minister since 2014, but his two coalition governments with the Green Party have lurched from crisis to crisis, unable to command a majority in Parliament. The most recent setback saw Mr Lofven, a former

STOCKHOLM( Reuters)-Sweden's Social Democrats will pick a new leader in November to replace Prime Minister Stefan Lofven, needing to find a flag-bearer who can convince voters the party can stop a tide of gang violence and restore the welfare state after the pandemic. Lofven, who leads a minority government, will step down less than a year ahead of a election due in September 2022.... Polls so far show an even split between a broadly leftish grouping and a right-wing opposition alliance of part

EUROPE could face another Christmas lockdown as cases have exploded across the continent.... Meanwhile, in Belgium, Prime Minister Alexander De Croo announced a series of measures in a bid to avoid a winter lockdown." All the alarm signals are red.... 5 France is going through its fifth Covid wave Credit: Reuters 5 A nurse tends to a patient at a hospital in Brussels, Belgium Credit: EPA Travel restrictions on flights from Europe could return over new variant fears, minister says....

He also cites an August executive order signed by Gov.... Although Spain has little vaccine hesitancy, the government has launched campaigns on social media to motivate teenagers to get their shots. Officials are betting on in-class education for this year, with no remote classes.... She told reporters that “ we will open the( Finnish) society and keep it open.” She said her government’s updated COVID-19 strategy was pointed more towards reopening of society, rather than shutting parts of it u