Bloomberg The new leftist leaders of Germany’s Social Democrats have failed to give Angela Merkel’s junior coalition partners a lift in the polls. The SPD were stuck on 13% in the final Insa survey of the year for Bild newspaper, the same as the previous week and down from 20.5% in the most recent general election in 2017. Merkel’s CDU/CSU ...

Bloomberg Tokyo prosecutors arrested a ruling party lawmaker on suspicion of receiving bribes from a Chinese company seeking to invest in the casino industry, dealing a blow to already unpopular plans to open the country to the gaming industry. Liberal Democratic Party politician Tsukasa Akimoto, who had served as a vice minister in charge of promoting the establishment of casinos ...

Bloomberg Typhoon Phanfone continues to bring destructive winds and intense rainfall over parts of central Philippines on Wednesday, a day after forcing hundreds of people to evacuate and stranding thousands of holiday travelers in Asia’s largest Catholic nation. Locally called Ursula, it packed maximum sustained winds of 140 kilometers (87 miles) per hour and gusts of up to 195 kph, ...