Bloomberg Gold price’s slump to near a nine-month low is drawing jewelry shoppers in Asia to hunt for bargains. After a year of demand being in the doldrums, retailers are buying more of the precious metal to cater to people like Seema B, a 35-year-old housewife who ventured to Mumbai’s Zaveri Bazaar to get new bangles after months of putting ...

Bloomberg More than 20 Western diplomats staged a public show of unity outside a Canadian’s high-profile spying trial, highlighting their shared concern about the risk of arbitrary detention in the country. Representatives from the US, the UK, the European Union and numerous European countries were turned away en masse while attempting to attend the trial of Michael Kovrig. The International ...

Bloomberg The European Union (EU) signed off on a slate of punitive measures over human rights abuses including sanctions aimed at China. “The violations targeted include the large-scale arbitrary detentions of, in particular, Uyghurs in Xinjiang in China,” according to an EU statement on Monday. “The sanctions signal the EU’s strong determination to stand up for human rights and to ...