Bloomberg Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s performance rating plunged, according to the latest poll, with the pandemic continuing to challenge the country’s resilience. Net satisfaction with the president fell 10 points to 52% in the third quarter, according to Social Weather Stations. That compares with 62% in June 2021 and is the lowest since Duterte’s 45% rating in June 2018. While ...

Bloomberg UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned that France may already be violating the terms of the post-Brexit trade deal and hinted at retaliation if Paris refuses to back down in a dispute over fishing rights. “We are a bit worried that France may be about to become in breach, or is already in breach,” Johnson said to broadcasters at ...

Bloomberg Hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators marched across cities in Sudan to protest the toppling of the joint civilian-military government by the army. Since the military removed the government led by Abdalla Hamdok as prime minister, doctors, oil workers, academics, bankers and others have staged protests. That’s thrown the North African nation’s democratic transition into chaos two years after ...