Bloomberg It was just a typical weekend in Hong Kong: tear gas, water cannons, petrol bombs and few signs that protests now in their fourth month would fizzle out anytime soon. Both demonstrators and police on Sunday appeared to get more aggressive earlier on than during the previous 14 weekends of protests. Demonstrators set fire to entrances to Wan Chai ...

Bloomberg South African President Cyril Ramaphosa dispatched three officials to seven African nations to discuss how the government is addressing a recent spate of xenophobic attacks in his country. Former minister Jeff Radebe, Ambassador Kingsley Mmabolo and Khulu Mbatha, a veteran leader of the ruling African National Congress, will visit Nigeria, Niger, Ghana, Senegal, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to defy a new law designed to stop him forcing the UK out of the European Union with no deal next month, and is braced for a fight to settle Brexit in the British courts. According to a senior official in the UK government, Johnson has resolved on a hard-line plan as he ...