Bloomberg Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam defended disciplining teachers for promoting anti-China views, after the Asian financial center for the first time revoked an educator’s registration over the content of their lessons. Lam told reporters she was obliged to protect students from being drawn into the political disputes that have fuelled a historic wave of unrest in the former British ...

Bloomberg Europe’s drugs regulator started an early review of an experimental Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE, potentially speeding the shot’s assessment and reducing its time to market. Called a “rolling review,” the process will allow the European Medicines Agency to look at how the vaccine is performing in real time as data emerges from trials, instead of ...

Bloomberg Germany said European allies will weigh action against Russia — including possible sanctions — after an international chemical-weapons watchdog confirmed that a nerve agent from the banned Novichok group had been used in the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny. “Any use of chemical weapons is a grave act and cannot go without consequences,” German government spokesman Steffen Seibert ...