Bloomberg Sweden may face weeks or even months of political gridlock after an inconclusive election result left the biggest Scandinavian economy without a clear candidate to form a government. Neither the Social Democrat-led coalition of Prime Minister Stefan Lofven nor the opposition Alliance bloc won enough votes to form majority governments, as a nationalist group that has talked of dragging ...

Bloomberg Libyan security forces overcame gunmen who attacked the state oil company’s headquarters as militias and government-backed forces clashed in the North African country’s capital. “A number of blasts” rocked National Oil Corp. headquarters in Tripoli, and several people were killed and injured, NOC Chairman Mustafa Sanalla told Libya Channel TV after he was evacuated from the building. Some of ...

This is indeed ‘Crazytown,’ as a quote from Bob Woodward’s new book describes it, and we are watching a ‘nervous breakdown.’ The problem is that it afflicts the country as a whole, and not just our narcissistic chief executive. President Trump has drawn America with him into ‘the devil’s workshop,’ as Woodward quotes former White House chief of staff Reince ...