Bloomberg Calls are mounting for Lebanon to impose formal restrictions on the movement of money to defend the country’s dollar peg and prevent a run on the banks when they open their doors after nationwide protests. Banks have been closed since the start of the uprising two weeks ago and only plan to reopen once the political situation stabilises. The ...

Bloomberg The UK will hold an emergency election in six weeks’ time, in a critical poll that could finally settle the question of Brexit. Prime Minister Boris Johnson won backing in parliament to trigger the snap vote in an attempt to break the deadlock that has paralysed the country’s politics, weighed on its economy and left its citizens angry and ...

Bloomberg Dozens of Chileans have been partially blinded by rubber projectiles and gas canisters that police and soldiers fired into crowds of protesters — maimings that threaten to destroy what little common ground is left in a nation racked by the worst civil unrest in a generation. More than 140 people have suffered eye injuries since protests started on October ...