Bloomberg Interpol asked China to clarify the status of the law enforcement group’s president, amid press reports that he’s been arrested in his home country. “Interpol has requested through official law enforcement channels clarification from China’s authorities on the status of Interpol President Meng Hongwei,” Juergen Stock, secretary general of the organisation based in Lyon, France, said in a statement. ...

Bloomberg Latvians go to the polls on Saturday, with an establishment-bashing upstart injecting drama into the country’s usually dull elections. The tiny Baltic nation is getting a taste of the populism that’s upended politics from London to Rome as a brash new party threatens to rip up the regular script. Its rise challenges the center-right coalitions that routinely prevail in ...

Bloomberg Beneath President Vladimir Putin’s angry denials that Russian spies were involved in attempted murder and hacking operations abroad, there’s palpable unease at the catalogue of sometimes laughable mishaps by his now-infamous GRU military-intelligence service. Accusations by the Netherlands, the UK and the US that four GRU agents were caught attempting to hack into a United Nations body investigating a ...