Bloomberg The two European leaders most closely allied to Russian President Vladimir Putin before he launched his invasion of Ukraine won decisive election victories on pledges to stay out of the war. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has spent 12 years consolidating his grip on power and clashing with the European Union over democratic values, clinched a fourth consecutive ...

Bloomberg Sri Lanka named a new finance minister as President Gotabaya Rajapaksa began reworking his cabinet to pull the economy out of its worst crisis in decades. Ali Sabry will take over from Basil Rajapaksa as the head of finance, while GL Pieris will continue as the foreign minister, Sudewa Hettiarachchi, director general of the Presidential Media Division, said by ...

Bloomberg White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain said Attorney General Merrick Garland, not President Joe Biden, will make decisions on prosecutions in the January 6th, 2021 insurrection and in other cases. Klain was responding to a New York Times report that Biden told his inner circle last year that former President Donald Trump should be prosecuted. The Times cited ...