Bloomberg Tens of thousands of people gathered near Bangkok’s Thammasat University campus for the biggest anti-government protest since the 2014 military coup. Demonstrators assembled in the light rain, wearing masks and holding umbrellas, and moved from within the university grounds to a field nearby as crowds swelled. As many as 100,000 people were expected to join the rally, according to ...

Bloomberg Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny said he’s on a clear road to recovery, “although not a short one,” and thanked his doctors in Germany in an Instagram post. A month after falling sick on a plane bound for Moscow from a campaign trip in Siberia, poisoned with what Germany identified as the weapons-grade nerve agent Novichok, Navalny said he ...

Bloomberg Covid-19 continues to kill close to 1,000 Americans a day. But for those who develop dangerous cases of the infection, advances in medical care and the growing experience of doctors are improving the chances of survival. Since the first case arrived in the US at the start of the year, medical professionals have gone from fumbling in the dark ...

Bloomberg France’s finance chief contracted Covid-19 amid the virus surge in his country and Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the UK may need tighter restrictions, signalling Europe’s growing risk of the kind of lockdowns that crippled the economy in the second quarter. Mayor Sadiq Khan sounded the alarm for London, saying it’s “increasingly likely” that “additional measures will soon be ...

Bloomberg Britain’s labour market took a turn for the worse in July even as the economy gradually reopened, taking total job losses under the pandemic to almost 700,000 and raising pressure on the government to extend support programs. Employment falls by 102,000, the first decline since April, the Office for National Statistics said. The single-month unemployment figure reached 4.4%, the ...

Bloomberg Ireland moved to tighten restrictions in Dublin, in an effort to contain a coronavirus surge in the capital. Under the new guidelines, people are advised not to travel to or from the Dublin region. Indoor dining in restaurants is banned, and gatherings of all types heavily restricted. The restrictions will come into force from midnight for at least the ...

Bloomberg Argentina’s latest crackdown on dollar purchases exposed a split between the nation’s top policy makers as they struggle to find a way back from the deepest crash on record. Argentina’s dollar bonds extended their drop, two days after central bank chief Miguel Pesce tightened already-strict currency controls. Pesce wanted to ban savers from buying any dollars at all, while ...

Bloomberg Tropical Storm Beta formed in the Gulf of Mexico, where it could menace the south Texas coast as a hurricane next week. Beta has winds of 60 miles (95 kilometers) per hour and was about 305 miles east of the mouth of the Rio Grande, the US National Hurricane Center said in an advisory at 11 pm New York ...

Bloomberg Rush hour is back with a vengeance in Mexico City, diners have returned to restaurants in Bogota and joggers have flocked to Buenos Aires’s parks. In Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, crowds have packed beaches and even the sprawling fake lawn beneath Alphabet Inc’s regional headquarters. In Latin America’s big cities, as in other places around the globe, ...

Bloomberg By the start of the next decade Google wants to make sure all the electricity it uses for its data centers and offices will be truly 100% carbon free. Under its previous pledge the tech giant has been offsetting its consumption with direct renewable electricity purchases and the associated certificates. On paper, that allowed it to claim it used ...