Bloomberg Chinese President Xi Jinping praised Hong Kong’s next leader for defending national security and upholding stability at their first meeting since John Lee was selected as chief executive earlier this month. The leader of the world’s second largest economy told Lee that the central government had “full confidence” in him, according to the official Xinhua News Agency. Xi also ...

  Bloomberg Hurricane Agatha was expected to strike Mexico’s Oaxaca state on Monday with damaging winds, heavy rain and a crashing storm surge, making it the strongest May storm to hit the eastern Pacific on record. Agatha was already raking the Pacific coastline with damaging gusts and heavy rain. The compact storm, just below Category 3 strength on the five-step ...

Bloomberg A construction magnate who was little known at the start of the year surged into presidential runoff with a real chance at winning as voters coalesce against his leftist rival. Rodolfo Hernandez took 28% of the vote to 40% for Gustavo Petro, a former mayor of Bogota and onetime guerrilla, the electoral authority said. Hernandez beat out Federico Gutierrez, ...