Bloomberg President Jair Bolsonaro officially kicks off his re-election campaign on Sunday, rallying thousands of his followers to Rio de Janeiro, after intensifying his attempts to discredit Brazil’s voting system. He’s calling on the government faithful to pack an Olympic arena in a working-class neighbourhood for an event billed as “United for the Good of Brazil.” But with just over ...

Bloomberg Former Chancellor Rishi Sunak pledged to fix the UK’s “broken” asylum system and crack down on illegal boat crossings from France if he becomes prime minister, while his rival, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, said she’ll push to send more migrants to third countries for processing. Sunak said he would tighten the statutory definition of who qualifies for asylum in ...

  Bloomberg Italy’s Democrats are weighing possible alliances for the country’s national elections in September and will decide in the coming days and weeks on the makeup of any new coalitions, party leader Enrico Letta said in an interview with la Repubblica published Sunday. Opinion polls show the Democrats, or PD, running a close second to the right-wing Brothers of ...