Bloomberg Chinese authorities delayed renewing the press credentials of some journalists working for American media outlets, including Bloomberg News, CNN and the Wall Street Journal, in response to the Trump administration limiting visa terms for Chinese reporters in the US. The journalists in Beijing were told their residence permits will at this stage be extended until November 6, which appears ...

Bloomberg Three of the Belarusian opposition’s top organisers were reported missing on Monday, the day after tens of thousands joined protests in the country’s capital that kept up pressure on President Alexander Lukashenko to hold new elections. Contact with Maria Kalesnikava, one of the few leading opposition figures still in Belarus, has been lost, as well as with two other ...

Bloomberg Two of Boris Johnson’s senior ministers laid bare the competing pressures facing the UK government as it attempts to drag the economy out of its worst recession in at least a century without triggering a new wave of coronavirus infections. Hours after Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab reiterated the government’s push to “get people back to work” and lamented the ...