Bloomberg Emmanuel Macron and Le Pen struggled to land a knockout blow during their one-and-only debate, an encounter that left the French president in the box seat four days before the final round of the presidential election. Some 15.6 million viewers watched the long and rather technical head-to-head during which both candidates confirmed their positions on key issues, from tech ...

  Bloomberg Former Botswanan President Ian Khama has been formally charged with 14 counts relating to the illegal possession of firearms in what is the first attempt at the criminal prosecution of a previous head of state. Khama, who is charged with three others, was not at the court in the capital, Gaborone, after having moved to South Africa in ...

  Bloomberg China said certain US companies were “political tools” after YouTube shut the campaign channel of John Lee, a former policeman in line to become Hong Kong’s next leader. The move showed the US was making “a vicious attempt to intervene in Hong Kong affairs and sabotage the chief executive election,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a ...