Bloomberg In the Philippines — where 76 million internet users stay online the longest in the world — just a handful of people spend a few hours each day to fight fake news about the upcoming midterm elections. The Commission on Elections has formed a team of 10 government workers to spot and report misleading online posts to Facebook, with ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump brushed off news of a possible weapons test by North Korea, vowing that leader Kim Jong-un “will do nothing to interfere” and that a denuclearisation deal with the US “will happen.” Saturday’s tweet, posted while Trump was in a motorcade to the Trump National Golf Club in Virginia, was the president’s first response to news that ...

Bloomberg Almost 150 rockets were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip on Saturday, with Israel returning the strikes, its military said. The flare-up marked the latest escalation between the two sides. Gaza’s barrage followed the killing of four Palestinians by Israel. Two of those who died were Hamas extremists killed in an airstrike and two were demonstrators taking part ...