Bloomberg Olaf Scholz cleared the final hurdle on his path to becoming German chancellor when Green Party members overwhelmingly approved the coalition deal with his Social Democrats and the Free Democrats. The Greens said that 86% of some 71,000 members who voted backed the accord, which includes an ambitious climate agenda and plans to upgrade Germany’s technology infrastructure. The SPD ...

Bloomberg UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson won a court ruling over the way he dealt with allegations of bullying made against his Home Secretary Priti Patel. Johnson, the ultimate “arbiter” of the rules governing the behaviour of senior officials, didn’t “misdirect himself,” judges ruled in London. The claim was brought by the FDA trade union, which represents the most senior ...

Bloomberg The US Embassy in Tokyo issued a warning about foreigners being stopped and searched by Japanese police in what it said were suspected to be “racial profiling incidents.” The unusual move by the embassy of Tokyo’s only formal ally came after Japan closed its borders to new entries by foreigners amid concern over the omicron variant, just weeks after ...