Bloomberg Supporters of jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny are staging the second wave of national protests in a week as a Russian court prepares to hand President Vladimir Putin’s chief critic a possible 3 1/2 year prison term. Navalny, who defied threats of arrest to return in mid-January from Germany after a nerve-agent attack he said was an attempt by ...

Bloomberg Vietnam’s Communist Party re-elected Nguyen Phu Trong to a rare third term as general secretary, signalling no major shifts in the nation’s economic or geopolitical direction. The party’s newly elected central committee also elected 18 members of the Politburo, which in turn will nominate individual candidates to be prime minister, president and chair of the National Assembly. The parliament ...

Bloomberg A leader of South Africa’s biggest labour movement accused the ruling African National Congress (ANC) of failing to act on corruption, highlighting the fragility of a political alliance that’s been in place since the end of apartheid. “What is most concerning is the ANC’s refusal to engage on extending the ban on public servants and the executive from doing business ...