Bloomberg The last time Rwanda held presidential elections, opposition leader Frank Habineza’s deputy was killed and he fled into European exile. Seven years on, he sees his candidacy in next month’s vote as a cautious step towards greater political freedoms in the tiny East African country. The August 4 election will be the first time Habineza, who leads the Democratic ...

Theresa May’s goal at this point in the Brexit negotiations was to be a strong British prime minister —between European Union leaders. It hasn’t quite worked out that way. Instead, as Brexit Secretary David Davis heads to Brussels for the second round of negotiations, EU officials and politicians are looking at a Britain where senior ministers openly disagree about their ...

Shareholders of Tencent Holdings Ltd., the world’s biggest video game company, panicked last week. People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, singled out ‘Honour of Kings,’ Tencent’s biggest game, for an unusually high-profile criticism. ‘Poison,’ the paper declared of a game played by roughly one in seven Chinese. “Constantly spreading ‘negative energy.’” It linked the game to ...