Bloomberg Tunisian police arrested hundreds of people during several nights of unrest over growing economic hardships and political paralysis a decade after the protests that ignited the Arab Spring uprisings. The army has deployed troops in several cities, including the capital, to halt the looting of shops and banks and attacks on public buildings. Defying a curfew imposed to contain ...

Bloomberg Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte risks emerging weakened from a parliamentary showdown this week even if he can muster enough votes to hold on to power. Conte faces a confidence vote in the lower house of parliament, which he’s likely to win, but he could face a similar vote in the Senate on Tuesday, where he has less room ...

Bloomberg Philippine banks will recover faster from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic than they did from the Asian financial crisis due to record-low interest rates, higher capital and a stable economy, the head of the nation’s bankers group said. Lenders in the Southeast Asian nation may bounce back in three to four years — about half the time it ...