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Belarus opposition says leaders missing after new protests

Bloomberg Three of the Belarusian opposition’s top organisers were reported missing on Monday, the day after tens of thousands joined protests in the country’s capital that kept up pressure on President Alexander Lukashenko to hold new elections. Contact with Maria Kalesnikava, one of the few leading opposition figures still in Belarus, has been lost, as well as with two other ...

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Pressure builds on UK’s Johnson as Covid cases surge

Bloomberg Two of Boris Johnson’s senior ministers laid bare the competing pressures facing the UK government as it attempts to drag the economy out of its worst recession in at least a century without triggering a new wave of coronavirus infections. Hours after Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab reiterated the government’s push to “get people back to work” and lamented the ...

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Biden holds lead over Trump

Bloomberg Democrat Joe Biden holds a 10-point lead over President Donald Trump two months before the November 3 election, with support for each candidate getting more solid as voting day approaches, a new CBS News poll shows. Among the survey’s findings were that four in 10 Democrats say Biden isn’t campaigning enough; half of independents agree. The top issue for ...

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