Bloomberg Hong Kong police arrested 14 people on Saturday on suspicion of organising and participating in an unauthorised assembly in 2019, when months of pro-democracy protests upended life in the city. The police action was connected to unauthorised assemblies on August 18, October 1 and 20 in Hong Kong Island and Kowloon last year, Superintendent Lam Wing-ho said at a ...

Bloomberg Abba Kyari, chief of staff to Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and an ardent supporter of state intervention in the economy, has died. His age wasn’t disclosed. “The Presidency regrets to announce the passage of the Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari,” presidential spokesman Garba Shehu said on Twitter. Kyari had been hospitalised in the commercial capital, ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s campaign boasts it needed just 24 hours to switch into virtual mode after coronavirus lockdowns ended his signature, high-energy rallies. For Joe Biden, who thrives on the personal connection of retail politics, the transition is taking much longer. Trump’s digital operation dominates the digital space in no small part thanks to the presidential bully pulpit and ...