Bloomberg Russia recorded its largest daily increase in coronavirus infections, with the new cases rising by almost 5,000 in a single day. New infections jumped by 4,785 to 36,793, the official Russian coronavirus information center reported on its website. Forty people died in the past day, including 21 in Moscow, bringing the number of fatalities to 313. The pace of ...

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, ...