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Bolsonaro’s foe in Covid plan to run for Brazil presidency

Bloomberg The governor of Brazil’s richest and most populous state was picked by the Brazilian Social Democracy Party as its candidate for next year’s election challenging President Jair Bolsonaro. Joao Doria, governor of Sao Paulo, was declared the winner of the primaries for the party known as PSDB, according to Bruno Araujo, who heads the group seeking to reemerge as ...

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Macron leading in first-round of election with 25% of votes: Poll

Bloomberg French President Emmanuel Macron would get 25% or more of the votes in the first round of the election, according to a poll carried out by Ifop-Fiducial for Le Journal du Dimanche newspaper and Sud Radio. Nationalist Marine Le Pen would win 19% to 20% of the first-round vote, depending on who else is running. Far-right commentator Eric Zemmour ...

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Clashes leave 20 Sudan troops dead at Ethiopian border

Bloomberg At least 20 Sudanese soldiers were killed in clashes with Ethiopian militias near a disputed border, a local official said, deepening a feud that risks turning into all-out conflict between the Horn of Africa’s most populous nations. Sudanese forces crossed the Atbara river in the al-Fashqa area in response to shelling and fell into an ambush, according to Alrasheed ...

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