Bloomberg Rahul Gandhi announced his resignation as leader of India’s opposition Congress party, taking responsibility for its dismal result in the recent national election, which saw PM Narendra Modi returned for a second term with an increased majority. “Rebuilding the party requires hard decisions and numerous people have to be made accountable for the failure of 2019,” Gandhi wrote in ...

Bloomberg The US denounced as “coercive acts” Chinese anti-ship missile tests in the disputed South China Sea, underscoring continued strategic tensions between the two Pacific powers even as they restart trade talks. China fired at least one missile into the sea over the weekend and was expected to continue testing through a launch window that continued until on Wednesday, NBC ...

Bloomberg Russia said some crew members survived a fire that killed 14 sailors on a submersible research vessel, as the Kremlin refused to say whether a nuclear-powered submarine was involved. The sailors who died in the country’s worst naval incident in more than a decade “behaved like heroes” to save other crew members and the vessel, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu ...