Bloomberg UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will spend the next few weeks pressing the European Union to negotiate a better Brexit deal, his office said, while preparing the country to leave the bloc in case he fails. A messy no-deal divorce is a scenario that has concerned business leaders and weakened the pound since Johnson won the contest to become ...

Bloomberg US calls for Japan’s help protecting shipping from Iranian attacks have put Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in a bind between angering his country’s military ally and upsetting voters suspicious of overseas deployments. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo confirmed that the US has asked Japan to join naval patrols in the Strait of Hormuz, a subject of much speculation in ...

Bloomberg As some of the European Union‘s eastern members embrace more state-led economic models, Ukraine is turning to the playbook that helped rebuild the continent’s ex-communist wing back in the 1990s. With help from the International Monetary Fund, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy wants to sell state companies, trim the budget deficit and relax rules for land ownership. The ideas have been ...