Bloomberg Chancellor Angela Merkel said she’ll meet with Belarus’s exiled opposition leader as she condemned President Alexander Lukashenko’s crackdown on demonstrators protesting his disputed election victory. “We don’t recognise the election of President Lukashenko,” Merkel told lawmakers in Germany’s Bundestag, saying she would meet “soon” with Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. “We call on him to enter into a dialog with his people, ...

Bloomberg Boris Johnson struck a deal with rebels in his Conservative Party over giving the UK Parliament more power to scrutinise new emergency coronavirus laws, in a bid to curb a growing backlash over his handling of the pandemic. Health secretary Matt Hancock was expected to set out details of the agreement when he introduces a debate on the renewal ...

Bloomberg Armenia and Azerbaijan reported a fourth day of fierce fighting, defying growing international calls to halt the worst violence in decades over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. Artillery fire is taking place along the contact line between the two militaries, Armenian Defense Ministry spokeswoman Shushan Stepanyan said on Wednesday on Facebook. “Intense battles” continue with combat operations taking place ...