Bloomberg France will pull troops out of Mali if the country moves towards radicalism, President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview with Le Journal du Dimanche. Macron told the newspaper during a trip to Africa that he had warned leaders in the west of the continent that the French government will not stand by a country where there is no ...

Bloomberg Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades’s center-right Disy party recorded its worst results in parliamentary elections in 40 years, as voters vented their frustration over the government’s handling of the country’s “golden passport” program. With presidential elections due in 2023, support for Disy fell to between 24% and 28% compared with 30.7% in the last vote in 2016, according to initial ...

Bloomberg Malaysia announced a two-week nationwide lockdown to curb a relentless surge in Covid cases. Only essential economic and service sectors will be allowed to operate from June 1-14, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement, days after Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin had ruled out a repeat of last year’s lockdown. The government will soon announce an aid package ...