Bloomberg New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern has voted two weeks before election day as part of a strategy to encourage people to cast their ballots in advance. Early voting began on Saturday at 450 locations across the nation, ahead of the October 17 election day. The Electoral Commission has estimated as many as 60% of votes could be cast early, ...

Bloomberg India’s coronavirus death toll passed the 100,000 mark on Saturday, a milestone reached only by the US and Brazil. The South Asian nation’s total number of positive cases is 6.47 million and the death toll from the virus is 100,842, according to the health ministry. India may overtake the US in the coming weeks to become the world’s worst-affected ...

Bloomberg Czech billionaire PM Andrej Babis’s party dominated regional elections, overcoming a drop in popularity over his mixed record in handling the resurgent coronavirus pandemic. Babis’s ANO party won the most mandates in 10 out of 13 regions in the vote, according to partial results. That compared with ANO’s victories in nine regions four years ago. While local administrations hold ...