Bloomberg President Rodrigo Duterte pushed for corporate tax cuts and targeted support for pandemic-hit industries as part of a recovery plan, and told lawmakers on Monday he’d asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to help the Philippines get priority access to a Covid-19 vaccine. In his annual congressional address, Duterte also attacked the elite, while asking banks and property companies to ...

Bloomberg Ukraine pushed for progress to end the conflict with Russian-backed separatists over its easternmost regions as the latest ceasefire took effect after dozens of unsuccessful attempts. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy won last year’s elections on a promise to end the war that has killed more than 13,000 people since it began with Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and support for ...

Bloomberg Spain’s tourism industry is at increasing risk of being shut down as countries across Europe seek to restrict visits to the Mediterranean nation, following an order by the British government to quarantine visitors. A steady increase in new infections in Spain last week pushed Boris Johnson’s government to order a 14-day quarantine for all visitors from Spain. Other European ...