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Honduras election row drags on with no winner

Bloomberg Honduras is headed into its third week without a winner in presidential elections amid a political standoff between the two leading candidates and few signs its worst crisis in a decade is about to end. The Central American country of 9 million has slipped into a full-blown constitutional emergency since a chaotic November 26 election ended in claims that ...

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Brexit deal lets May kick ‘questions of future’

Bloomberg The nail-biting finish to the first chapter of Brexit negotiations has left many Conservative lawmakers praising Prime Minister Theresa May as a winner who had, in the words of one prominent member of her Cabinet, “confounded her critics.” But like many of the key Brexit issues, the question of May’s future is merely delayed, not resolved and even the ...

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‘South Africa’s ruling ANC faces challenge to unite party’

Bloomberg Cyril Ramaphosa, one of two leading candidates to win a divisive contest for the presidency of South Africa’s ruling Afri- can National Congress, said the party’s leaders must unite the party after this month’s elective conference. “Our movement is divided and there are factions in our movement,” Ramaphosa, the country’s deputy president, said in a program on Johannesburg-based radio ...

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