Bloomberg Preceded by a group of carnival drummers, Federico Gutierrez and his entourage progressed slowly into a working-class neighbourhood of Bogota, the pulse of the drums drowning out insults yelled by groups of onlookers. Gutierrez is running for Colombia’s presidency, and the capital’s grittier districts are the heartland of his main rival, Gustavo Petro. But the candidate known as “Fico” ...

Bloomberg North Korea lifted a temporary lockdown it had imposed a day earlier after reports from across the country of cases of fevers of unknown origins, Yonhap News Agency reported, citing multiple South Korean government officials. The brief lockdown followed a military parade marking the anniversary of the founding of its army. Pyongyang also held festivities a few weeks ago ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said he would bring Japan’s virus-related border controls in line with other wealthy democracies next month, as he sought to boost consumer spending to fight an economic slowdown. Kishida credited the border controls with helping the country weather the pandemic relatively well, even as he announced their relaxation in a speech in the City of ...