Bloomberg China’s Ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, said British politicians who have called for a re-setting of the ties between the two nations risk poisoning the relationship. Anti-China rhetoric is in danger of undermining international solidarity in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, he said in a webinar on Tuesday. The ambassador’s comment is a thinly veiled warning to ...

Bloomberg Rising cases of unexplained deaths have put Nigeria’s second-biggest city of Kano at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in Africa’s most populous country. Local news reports citing cemetery workers that emerged last month revealed a spike in mysterious deaths in the city with an estimated 8 million residents. Kano state Governor Abdullahi Ganduje initially blamed ailments such as ...

Bloomberg The European Union’s top court faced the most stinging attack in its 68-year history — not from Brexiteers, but from its German counterpart. In a long-awaited ruling on the European Central Bank’s quantitative easing (QE) program, Germany’s constitutional court in Karlsruhe accused the EU Court of Justice of overstepping its powers when it backed the ECB’s controversial policy. German ...