Bloomberg Georgia’s final election for president was too close to call and a runoff appeared likely, according to an independent exit poll on Rustavi 2 television. The poll by Edison Research showed Grigol Vashadze of the Strength in Unity grouping of opposition parties and Salome Zurabishvili, backed by the ruling Georgian Dream party, each with 40 percent. Davit Bakradze of ...

Bloomberg The first summit on Syria to bring together the leaders from Germany, Russia, Turkey and France ended with a new appeal for a political solution to the country’s seven-year war but sidestepped more contentious issues including the future of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. A joint communique after talks in Istanbul called for a committee to be established and convened in ...

Bloomberg The UK government would need new tax and spending plans and may have to extend austerity policies if it fails to secure a deal with the European Union, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond said. With analysis last week showing a no-deal Brexit would drag the economy to a near standstill next year, Hammond said “frankly, we’d need to ...