Bloomberg After months of persistent street protests over fuel shortages, surging prices and financial mismanagement, Sri Lankan leader Gotabaya Rajapaksa is finally on the verge of being ousted. The president fled to an undisclosed location shortly before demonstrators stormed his official seaside residence in the face of tear gas and rubber bullets. In dramatic scenes, they wandered through the rooms, ...

Bloomberg Nearly two-thirds of Democratic voters say they would prefer someone other than President Joe Biden as their party’s candidate in the 2024 election, underscoring the political headwinds the White House faces as inflation soars and Americans sour on the president’s performance. Of the 64% of respondents who said they wanted a different candidate in the upcoming election, a third ...

Bloomberg US Secretary of State Antony Blinken blasted Beijing over its support of Russia after emerging from more than five hours of talks with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi. During a meeting on the sidelines of a Group of 20 foreign ministers meeting in Bali, Indonesia, Blinken said he told Wang that China wasn’t neutral on the Ukraine war because ...