Lithuania is “ready to pay the bill” to permanently host US troops and has raised the issue with Washington as the Baltic nation seeks to lock in American security guarantees, Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevicius said.
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham said his government will scrap limits on state ownership of England and Wales’s major water companies, opening the door to greater public ownership as part of an overhaul of the troubled industry.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham vowed to reopen some of the UK’s most vexing debates, from Brexit to pensions to the electoral system, in a sweeping and at times tearful call for change that resets British politics.
Spain’s government is overhauling housing rules to head off mounting unrest over soaring costs, after protests swept the country the past week and demonstrators set up camp in central Madrid.
CNN, MS NOW and Politico asked a federal judge for a longer court order that would prevent President Donald Trump from banning their journalists from the White House.
French center-right presidential candidate Edouard Philippe said people will need to work longer to preserve pensions and purchasing power without further worsening public finances.
The UK’s Northern Ireland secretary called for British unionists and Irish nationalists to find compromise, as a stand-off over whether a unionist parade in a nationalist area can go ahead risks upending the region’s fragile government.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will address the nation Tuesday evening on the steps being taken by the government to confront gender-based violence and femicide, his office said in a statement.
The likely return to power of a separatist political party in Quebec is set to create a new challenge for Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, just as he tries to hold the country together in the midst of a trade war with the US.
Iranian officials have privately expressed pessimism about reaching a deal to end hostilities with the US before midterm elections in November, according to people familiar with the matter. The two nations made little progress during talks in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly last week, the people said. Bloomberg's Paul Wallace breaks down the situation. (Source: Bloomberg)
Ukraine is facing a financing shortfall of as much as $54 billion through 2029 as the war-torn nation seeks more funding from partners to repel Russia’s invasion, according to preliminary figures from the International Monetary Fund.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and right-wing challenger Flávio Bolsonaro are running neck and neck as Brazil’s presidential race enters its closing days, a new poll showed.
Friedrich Merz’s chief rival held back this month when an electoral debacle threatened the chancellor’s job. But an official visit to Turkey is keeping speculation warm that he’s laying the groundwork to challenge the beleaguered German leader.
UK Artificial Intelligence Minister Kanishka Narayan discusses government policy around the adoption of AI and safety concerns about the technology. Britain needs a "sovereign level of compute," Narayan tells Bloomberg's Caroline Hepker on the sidelines of the governing Labour Party's annual conference in Liverpool. "The way we have to build data centers in this country has to be with a sense of control and a sense of British values," he adds. (Source: Bloomberg)
South Africa told the Paris Club that it won’t seek full membership of the group of mostly rich-nation creditors, as it focuses on its involvement in a United Nations-backed coalition of borrower countries instead.
European officials criticized Moscow for allegedly being behind an arson attack against a defense manufacturing facility in Estonia, the latest in a series of sabotage incidents attributed to the Kremlin.
China has started offering low-cost funding to help local government-affiliated firms settle unpaid bills, according to people familiar with the matter, expanding efforts to mend corporate balance sheets and remove one of the biggest bottlenecks for investment.
Jordan Bardella, the head of the far-right National Rally, said he’s asked his lawyer to lodge a lawsuit after a French online news site published an article alleging he made a series of antisemitic comments over a decade ago.
