Bloomberg Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is willing to drop his brother as prime minister, according to a top leader, as a fresh surge in inflation threatens to renew calls for the family to resign. Rajapaksa has agreed to form an all-party government with a new PM, local media reported citing Maithripala Sirisena, a former president who was part of ...

Bloomberg Sinn Fein looks set to become the largest party in Northern Ireland’s assembly, potentially marking a historic shift in the region’s political balance, according to a poll ahead of next week’s election. The nationalist party, whose ultimate goal is a united Ireland, drew 26% support in LucidTalk’s final poll for the Belfast Telegraph ahead of the May 5 vote. ...

Bloomberg The findings of a House select committee’s investigation into the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol will be presented to the nation in eight separate public hearings spread out over June, the panel’s chairman said. Planning is under way for a mixture of televised hearings in prime-time and others to occur during the daytime, Representative Bennie Thompson, a ...