Bloomberg After the tightest election in over half a century, Finland looks set to get a more left-leaning government as voters rejected years of austerity. Former trade unionist Antti Rinne is poised to become Finland’s first Social Democrat prime minister in 16 years, winning by fewer than 7,000 votes. But he faces a tough set of coalition talks, after the ...

Bloomberg The US is ready to apply new sanctions on Venezuela’s leadership, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, as the government steps up pressure on Nicolas Maduro to relinquish power and allow new elections to be held. The US government will use all political and economic means at its disposal, including sanctions and visa revocations against those propping up the ...

Bloomberg When a colleague from Zuzana Caputova’s little-known political party suggested she run for president last year, she thought the idea absurd. But then the murder of a journalist friend — an act that launched Slovakia’s biggest protests since the fall of communism — made it personal. The former NGO lawyer ran and won by a landslide, and now she’s ...