Bloomberg India’s divided opposition has seized on a new way to counter Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s powerful Bharatiya Janata Party: bringing national and regional rivals together to take on the ruling party. The reversal of the BJP’s fortunes in the southern state of Karnataka — where it won the most seats but was ousted by a coalition composed of the ...

Bloomberg The way things are shaping up in Italy, the next prime minister will have to manage two heavyweight ministers with no power base of his own. And it’ll be his first proper job in politics. Five Star leader Luigi Di Maio said he’s proposed Giuseppe Conte, a 53-year-old law professor from Florence University to lead a coalition government after ...

Bloomberg Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has urged Theresa May not to contemplate calling another early election, after reports that members of parliament are preparing for a snap vote later this year because of the turmoil of Brexit. “We had a general election in June last year, which followed hard on the heels of a referendum, which itself followed hard on ...