Bloomberg The European Union agreed to grant the UK a three-month Brexit delay to January 31, removing the risk of a damaging no-deal split on Thursday as the British government tries to end the impasse in parliament. Prime Minister Boris Johnson was expected to push a vote in the House of Commons on Monday to trigger an early general election, ...

Bloomberg Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition faced a renewed setback with a resounding defeat in a state election and its main ally wavering over support for the government. Merkel’s Christian Democrats Union (CDU) plummeted nearly 12 percentage points from 2014 to 21.8% in an election for state assembly in the eastern state of Thuringia, according to preliminary results. At the same ...

Bloomberg Mozambique president Filipe Nyusi won a second term by a landslide in the natural-gas-rich nation’s October 15 elections that the main opposition rejected as a “mega fraud.” Nyusi won 73% of the vote, compared with rival Ossufo Momade’s 22%, the electoral commission announced in the capital Maputo. His party also won all 10 gubernatorial ballots and more than 70% ...