Bloomberg Theresa May said a challenge to her leadership would be a distraction from negotiating with the European Union, and that any new prime minister would face the same issues she does, as she urged Parliament to back her Brexit deal as the only offer available. May is in the midst of the toughest week of her difficult premiership. Her ...

Bloomberg Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena isn’t giving up on trying to install former strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa as prime minister, a quest that has plunged the country into a weeks-long political crisis. Sirisena called for a third no-confidence vote for Rajapaksa after lawmakers rejected him the first two times. On Monday, the parliament was adjourned until November 23 soon after ...

Bloomberg Chad’s army dislodged what it described as enemy fighters from a town near its northern border with Libya after heavy fighting in a conflict the government has so far given few details about. The central African nation’s announcement that the army was successful in fighting insurgents in the town of Miski came a week after President Idriss Deby replaced ...