Bloomberg Venezuelan politics descended into disarray when security forces barred opposition leader Juan Guaido and his backers from entering the National Assembly, allowing loyalists to President Nicolas Maduro to choose an assembly president instead of Guaido. His suit torn from scaling a fence, Guaido and his supporters went elsewhere and re-elected him anyway, drawing backing from Washington and Latin American ...

Bloomberg Masked assailants stormed India’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi Sunday night in a violent attack on students that risked escalating protests against prime minister Narendra Modi’s government. Members of students groups allegedly affiliated with Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party attacked hostels in the university with rods and batons, injuring dozens of students and some professors, said N Sai ...

Bloomberg China’s new top official in Hong Kong said he is certain the city will stabilise following months of political unrest, backing leader Carrie Lam and her administration in his first public comments since being appointed. “I am fully confident about this,” Luo Huining, the new director of the Hong Kong Liaison office, said at a media briefing. “Everyone fervently ...