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Guaido seeks coalition to oust Maduro regime

Bloomberg Venezuela National Assembly President Juan Guaido called for a broad coalition to form a “national emergency government” to replace Nicolas Maduro’s regime and get financing to save lives as the coronavirus crisis spreads. Such a government “must be broad and include all the necessary political and social sectors to confront this severe emergency,” Guaido said in a video message ...

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‘We will starve here’: India’s poor flee cities in mass exodus

Bloomberg In small groups and large crowds, through inner-city lanes and down interstate highways, hundreds of thousands of India’s poorest are slowly making a desperate journey on foot back to their villages in a mass exodus unseen since the days immediately after India’s independence in 1947. For many, it’s a matter of life and death. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s order ...

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Macron’s approval rating rises amid virus concerns

Bloomberg French President Emmanuel Macron’s approval rating surged in March, even though doubts about the government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis grew in recent days, two opinion polls show. Macron’s rating rose 11 percentage points from February to a nearly two-year high of 43% this month, according an Ifop poll published in Le Journal du Dimanche on March 29. The ...

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