Bloomberg Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was released on his own recognizance by a court during a treason investigation that has ratcheted up political tension as the country confronts Russian troops amassing on its eastern border. The decision by the Kyiv court followed Poroshenko’s return from abroad on Monday to face charges over allegations he facilitated coal deals last ...

  Bloomberg An actress jailed for protesting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s controversial citizenship law, the mother of a rape survivor, and a beauty pageant winner. These are the women leading India’s once-dominant Congress party as it seeks to reinvent itself in a hotly contested state election. The slew of female candidates in India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh is ...

  Bloomberg Boris Johnson suffered a major setback as he seeks to hold onto power after a member of Parliament in his ruling UK Conservative Party defected to the main opposition. The move by Christian Wakeford, who was elected in 2019 in one of the many so-called red wall seats that swung from Labour to Johnson’s Tories in the general ...