The world this week -- PoliticsTwo months after an election, a deal to form a new German government was unveiled.Olaf Scholz of the Social Democrats will lead a coalition with the Greens and the Free Democrats, a pro-business party.Mr Scholz will succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor in early December.The inclusion of the Greens has put climate change front and centre of the new government’s agenda.It also pledges to build 400,000 flats a year to ease a housing crisis.Magdalena Andersson resigned only hours after becoming Sweden’s first female prime minister.Her brief tenure ended when the Greens quit a new coalition with her Social Democratic Party in a row over the budget.Ms Andersson is expected to regain the job with the support of parties that want to keep the populist Sweden Democrats out of power.At least 27 migrants drowned off the coast of France trying to reach Britain.It was the biggest single loss of life in the English Channel since such figures started to be recorded in 2014.The number of illegal Channel landings, orchestrated by criminal gangs, is already three times higher this year than in all of 2020.The British and French governments promised to step up their fight against people-traffickers. But it is not yet clear who will pay to patrol the waves.Jose Antonio Kast, a candidate of the hard right, took first place in the first round of Chile’s presidential election.He will face Gabriel Boric, a candidate of the left, in a run-off next month.
