Bloomberg China threatened retaliation against those questioning whether the coronavirus leaked from its labs, a warning that comes days before the US releases findings from an intelligence investigation into the pandemic’s origins. “We will continue to cooperate with international organisations like the WHO in their research and in their search for the origins,” said Fu Cong, director-general of the Foreign ...

Bloomberg The Taliban’s military takeover of Afghanistan was swift and decisive. Forming an inclusive government to avoid another civil war is proving to be much harder. The extremist group has been holding meetings in Kabul with Hamid Karzai, the first president after the US invasion, and Abdullah Abdullah, No. 2 in the ousted administration, after leader Ashraf Ghani fled the ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to introduce a two-year ban on foreign home buyers to tackle housing affordability in Canada if he’s re-elected. The proposed restriction is an attempt to cool a housing market that has soared during the Covid-19 pandemic. Surging prices have become a central issue in the campaign for the September 20 vote, in which Trudeau ...