Bloomberg The beatings of two men during a tense rally at Hong Kong’s airport highlights protesters’ growing fear of mainland intervention, as well as the risk that demonstrators’ violent tactics could undermine support for their movement. An otherwise peaceful sit-in at Hong Kong International Airport turned ugly when protesters attacked and detained a man they suspected of being a security ...

Bloomberg Pakistan called on the United Nations Security Council to convene an urgent meeting on India’s decision to revoke autonomy for the disputed Muslim-majority state of Kashmir, a move it says could spark a new conflict between the two South Asian nuclear powers. India’s recent actions “pose a threat to international peace and security, willfully undermine the internationally recognised disputed ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s staff talk about an imminent general election as though it were a fact, and a Conservative politician accidentally published a draft email about his “GE2019 team.” But amid growing expectations that the next chapter in the UK’s political crisis will see the country go to the polls, it’s still not clear how it will happen. ...