Bloomberg National Front leaders are beginning to acknowledge that Marine Le Pen may be headed for defeat in Sunday’s presidential election after she failed to land the decisive blow she needs to overhaul Emmanuel Macron in Wednesday’s television debate. Scoring 40 percent in the runoff “would be an enormous victory,” the candidate’s niece and a fellow National Front lawmaker …

  Bloomberg Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said he called his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Wednesday “at the behest” of US President Donald Trump to discuss China’s role in promoting peace on the Korean peninsula. In a televised speech from Davao City on Thursday, Duterte said Trump, in a call at the weekend, asked whether Xi “could do something about …

  Bloomberg Bulgaria’s parliament gave the go-ahead to Prime Minister Boyko Borissov to head his third government in eight years, though uncertainty remains as to whether his coalition with a loose alliance of nationalist parties will last to serve a full term. Lawmakers voted 133-101, without abstentions, to back the Gerb party’s cabinet with the United Patriots, Parliament Speaker Dimitar …