Bloomberg Kenyan opposition supporters began protests in the western city of Kisumu to press their demands for an overhaul of the electoral authority before a rerun of an annulled presidential election. Police fired teargas to disperse National Super Alliance protesters, while anti-riot police were stationed outside the headquarters of the Independent Electoral & Boundaries Commission in the capital, Nairobi, in ...

Bloomberg Support for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe fell in two polls released on Monday, three weeks before a general election where Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike’s new Party of Hope threatens to eat into his majority. The premier’s approval rate dropped below his disapproval rate in polls by Kyodo News and the Asahi newspaper. Almost 46 percent of respondents to ...

Bloomberg Spain’s government will consider using all means at its disposal to uphold the law in Catalonia, the justice minister said, praising the police for their “exemplary” action in defense of the constitution. “We have always said that we would use all the force of the law and all the mechanisms that the constitution and laws grant to the government,” ...