Bloomberg Iran’s foreign ministry said new sanctions on Iran, announced by the US government, show President Donald Trump’s calls for negotiations with the Islamic Republic are empty, the semi-official Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA) reported. “It only took one week for the emptiness of the US president’s claim of wanting negotiations with Iran to be shown. The American policy of ...

Bloomberg The main UK opposition Labour Party unexpectedly held onto its Peterborough seat, slowing the march of Nigel Farage’s new pro-Brexit movement which bookmakers’ had expected to win the by-election. The result will alarm members of the UK’s ruling Conservatives — who were beaten into third place by Farage’s Brexit Party — as they weigh up who should take over ...

Behind the admission by a former CIA officer that he plotted to spy for China lies an astonishing tale of Beijing’s espionage against America — and the vindication of other CIA officers who were falsely suspected of being the Chinese mole. This saga has a classic thriller plot, in which a suspect must find the real villain to clear his ...