Bloomberg A construction magnate who was little known at the start of the year surged into presidential runoff with a real chance at winning as voters coalesce against his leftist rival. Rodolfo Hernandez took 28% of the vote to 40% for Gustavo Petro, a former mayor of Bogota and onetime guerrilla, the electoral authority said. Hernandez beat out Federico Gutierrez, ...

  Bloomberg The United Nations’ human rights chief should resign for failing to condemn China after visiting its remote Xinjiang region where the US accuses Beijing of genocide, according to one prominent scholar. Adrian Zenz, senior fellow in China studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, told Bloomberg TV that he considered Michelle Bachelet’s trip to China’s far western ...

Bloomberg Northern Ireland’s devolved government remains effectively suspended after a move to elect speakers to the Assembly failed amid a stand-off over Brexit. “The Assembly has been unable to conduct its first business therefore we can proceed no further,” Acting Speaker Alex Maskey said. Until a speaker is elected, there can be no nominations to the region’s joint top ministerial ...