Bloomberg Tens of thousands of demonstrators poured into central Hong Kong as organisers remained defiant even after the city’s leader suspended consideration of the China-backed extradition plan that sparked some of the biggest protests in the city in decades. Organisers pressed ahead with a march on Sunday afternoon, following the same route as last week’s demonstration, when hundreds of thousands ...

Bloomberg Libyan Prime Minister Fayez Al-Sarraj called on Sunday for a national conference to end a war that threatens to rip the North African oil producer apart amid an offensive by eastern-based strongman Khalifa Haftar. Al-Sarraj, in a televised news briefing in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, proposed the conference be held with the help of the United Nations and that ...

Bloomberg The Philippines has asked the United Nations to make protecting life at sea a priority after the collision this month between a Filipino fishing boat and a Chinese vessel in the South China Sea. Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin, in a post on his Twitter account, said he authorised the Philippine embassy in London to make an “appeal” to ...