Bloomberg Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar’s army plans to enter the capital Tripoli by the end of the year and will deal with United Nations-recognized Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj under the law, a senior ally said, despite international calls to stop the offensive. “We are in the final stage of the battle,” Abdulhadi Lahweej, self-styled foreign minister in the eastern government ...

Bloomberg North Korea took its most personal swipe at President Donald Trump in more than two years, saying the US leader’s recent comments made him sound like a “heedless and erratic old man.” The statement released by North Korean official Kim Yong Chol on Monday was the latest in an rhetorical tit-for-tat ahead of Pyongyang’s self-imposed year-end deadline for a ...

Bloomberg Despite finding himself in the eye of Donald Trump’s impeachment storm, Ukraine’s leader is set for an even tougher test of his fledgling presidency: his first face time with Vladimir Putin. Volodymyr Zelenskiy meets his Russian counterpart in Paris as he seeks progress towards resolving the war in eastern Ukraine that erupted after Russia annexed Crimea from its neighbor ...