Bloomberg Hong Kong went into near shutdown as businesses closed and rail services were suspended for the first time in more than 20 years after overnight violence described by Chief Executive Carrie Lam as a “very dark day.” A person was shot and injured during a scuffle between a plain-clothes police officer and demonstrators who had attacked his car. The ...

Bloomberg Cameroon president Paul Biya has ordered the release of opposition leader Maurice Kamto, who was detained in January for organising demonstrations in the central African nation. The president ordered all proceedings pending before the Yaounde Military Tribunal against Kamto discontinued, according to a statement read on state radio by the secretary general. Supporters of the Cameroon Renaissance Movement had ...

Bloomberg When Fabian Picardo became chief minister of Gibraltar — the rocky relic of British colonialism at the tip of Spain — he could scarcely have imagined that his main concern one day would be keeping shelves stocked at the local supermarkets. That was before Brexit posed the greatest risk to the tiny territory and its 32,000 inhabitants in decades. ...