Bloomberg China said violent protests in Hong Kong wouldn’t be tolerated, its most high-profile response to unrest rocking the city after a chaotic weekend of unrest illustrated the government’s struggles in quelling a leaderless, unpredictable and widespread movement. The Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, which answers to China’s cabinet, reaffirmed its support for the city’s government and police in ...

Bloomberg Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny may have been exposed to “an unknown chemical substance” in prison that caused a severe allergic reaction for which he was hospitalised, according to his doctor, Anastasia Vasilieva. Navalny, 43, was taken by ambulance to a Moscow city hospital for what his spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, said was a major allergic reaction, something she said ...

Bloomberg Efforts to secure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz are ramping up as the UK said a second warship arrived in the area and South Korea may deploy its own unit as part of a multinational force. Tensions have flared in the strait in recent weeks as Iran pushes back against US sanctions that are crippling its oil ...