Bloomberg Malaysia Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob’s meeting with opposition leaders on Wednesday left Anwar Ibrahim positive about working with the new government to heal the nation that’s seen change of three administrations since 2018. The meeting, which lasted over an hour at the premier’s office, was focused on finding common ground to best handle the Covid crisis, save lives ...

Bloomberg China threatened retaliation against those questioning whether the coronavirus leaked from its labs, a warning that comes days before the US releases findings from an intelligence investigation into the pandemic’s origins. “We will continue to cooperate with international organisations like the WHO in their research and in their search for the origins,” said Fu Cong, director-general of the Foreign ...

Bloomberg The Taliban’s military takeover of Afghanistan was swift and decisive. Forming an inclusive government to avoid another civil war is proving to be much harder. The extremist group has been holding meetings in Kabul with Hamid Karzai, the first president after the US invasion, and Abdullah Abdullah, No. 2 in the ousted administration, after leader Ashraf Ghani fled the ...