Bloomberg Hong Kong’s police force is showing signs of attrition with resignations increasing and recruitments declining as the city deals with a coronavirus outbreak after months of sometimes violent anti-government protests. From June last year, when the city’s protests erupted against a China-backed extradition bill, to February a total of 446 police quit the force, an increase of 38% from ...

Bloomberg A 65-year-old malaria drug that hasn’t been proven to work against the new coronavirus appears to have captured the imagination of another president. France’s Emmanuel Macron unexpectedly flew to Marseille and spent more than three hours meeting with Didier Raoult, the researcher whose work has propelled a medicine called hydroxychloroquine from fringe to famous in just three weeks. Raoult’s ...

President Trump’s vengeful dismissal of the intelligence community’s inspector general was part of a relentless campaign — waged even in the midst of the pandemic — against people and institutions that can hold him accountable. Critics often describe Trump as disruptive, erratic and poorly focussed. But in concentrating on these weaknesses, opponents understate Trump’s success in using power aggressively to ...