Bloomberg Mahathir Mohamad may be at least temporarily out of power, but the 94-year-old leader isn’t going down without a fight. Mahathir’s abrupt resignation kicked off a week of horse-trading that saw his fortunes rise and fall by the hour. He said he had the numbers to form a government, but by late afternoon the king appointed Muhyiddin Yassin — ...

Bloomberg The first person in the US to die from the novel coronavirus was a man in Washington state, authorities confirmed, after President Donald Trump briefed the nation on his administration’s response and urged people not to panic. Trump, at a press conference at the White House, described the victim was “a medically high-risk patient in her late 50s,” adding ...

Bloomberg Shinzo Abe has overcome countless political perils on the road to becoming Japan’s longest-serving prime minister. He may have met his match with the coronavirus. In a sign of mounting concern, Abe abandoned his relatively mild approach to the epidemic last week with a shock announcement urging schools to shut nationwide from Monday. The move sent millions of parents ...