Bloomberg Thai riot police sprayed water cannons at pro-democracy activists rallying near the parliament as lawmakers began a debate on a roadmap for amending the nation’s constitution. Hundreds of protesters, with some donning helmets and masks, tried to breach concrete barricades and barbed wire at an intersection outside the parliament building in central Bangkok, prompting the police to fire water ...

Bloomberg Bulgaria is poised to object to the official start of European Union accession talks with North Macedonia, hindering the former Yugoslav country’s efforts to open the long-delayed negotiations by year-end. Countries in the Western Balkan region, engulfed by bloody wars following the breakup of Yugoslavia, are all striving to join the EU to raise living standards. Albania and North ...

Bloomberg Ted Kaufman, the head of Joe Biden’s transition team, praised UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson for his early endorsement of the president-elect’s victory while other heads of government hung back. Johnson was the second world leader to receive a call from Biden after his win, a move welcomed in London as a sign the incoming White House team still ...