Bloomberg A special court has acquitted senior leaders of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, including a former deputy prime minister, 28 years after a Hindu mob demolished a centuries old mosque that triggered deadly riots killing thousands, according to a lawyer involved in the case. The court in Lucknow, the capital of the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, on Wednesday ...

Bloomberg Chancellor Angela Merkel said she’ll meet with Belarus’s exiled opposition leader as she condemned President Alexander Lukashenko’s crackdown on demonstrators protesting his disputed election victory. “We don’t recognise the election of President Lukashenko,” Merkel told lawmakers in Germany’s Bundestag, saying she would meet “soon” with Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. “We call on him to enter into a dialog with his people, ...

Bloomberg Boris Johnson struck a deal with rebels in his Conservative Party over giving the UK Parliament more power to scrutinise new emergency coronavirus laws, in a bid to curb a growing backlash over his handling of the pandemic. Health secretary Matt Hancock was expected to set out details of the agreement when he introduces a debate on the renewal ...