Bloomberg Peru is headed for days of political uncertainty as the second-placed candidate in a tight presidential runoff accused her contender of election fraud and promised to fight until the very last vote is counted. Keiko Fujimori, a market favourite who lost her initial lead to leftist Pedro Castillo as votes from Peru’s rural areas trickled in, said the rival ...

Bloomberg Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz is struggling to contain the political fallout from investigations into the inner workings of his government after a close ally who heads the state holding company was forced to resign in the wake of damaging message correspondence. Thomas Schmid stepped down as chief executive officer of OeBAG after leaked messages showed how he had orchestrated ...

Bloomberg United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres won support from the UN Security Council on Tuesday for a second five-year term at the world body he’s led since 2017. Guterres, a 72-year-old former prime minister of Portugal, has struggled to forge diplomatic compromises in troubled hot spots amid deepening rifts between the US and its key rivals, Russia and China. He ...