Sweden

The financial aid for returning refugees is now at 10,000 kronor per adult, 5,000 kronor per child, and 40,000 kronor per family. This increase hopes to jazz up an underutilized program, which saw just one taker last year, per the Swedish government.Ludvig Aspling from the Sweden Democrats mentioned that the assistance, around since 1984, hasn't hit the radar too much, owing to its low-key presence. "If more folks know about it, and with the extra dough, we expect more to go back," he noted. Aspling is optimistic this might…

Swedish health authorities said Thursday they had registered the first case outside Africa of the more dangerous variant of mpox, a viral infection spread through close contact. The announcement came a day after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared mpox a global health emergency for the second time in two years, warning that the virus could eventually spread across international borders. Sweden's public health authority confirmed to Agence France-Presse (AFP) that the case was the same…

The trial of the alleged killers of UN experts may soon end, almost four years after it was opened. The American Michael Sharp and the Swedish Zaïda Catalan were killed on March 12, 2017 in the province of Kasaï-Central, shaken at that time by an uprising of militiamen who claimed to be Chief Kamuina Nsapu, a customary chief who had rebelled against state authority and who had been killed . The…