Bloomberg An Indian court has urged the federal election commission and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to postpone state polls due early next year and ban large political gatherings to avoid a possible surge of omicron-fueled infections. The Allahabad High Court, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, asked the Election Commission of India to defer elections by as much ...

  Bloomberg South Korea’s government will grant a special pardon to former President Park Geun-hye, releasing her from prison after she spent nearly five years behind bars of a 22-year sentence for corruption. Park, a conservative and a prominent rival of the current leader, will be released on December 31, the Justice Ministry said. “From the perspective of the national ...

  Bloomberg Poland’s government rejected fresh allegations that it illegally hacked the mobile phone of a senior opposition lawmaker during the 2019 parliamentary election campaign, the latest spying scandal hitting the country’s nationalist leaders. The Associated Press reported that Senator Krzysztof Brejza’s mobile phone was hacked with sophisticated spyware when he was running the main opposition party’s campaign, citing internet ...