Bloomberg The US killed three suspected IS extremists in an airstrike in Somalia as part of a long-running campaign to curb the activities of extremist groups in the country. The raid took place in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, the US military said in a statement on Saturday. The area is on the Gulf of Aden, near the key shipping ...

Bloomberg Towns around France braced for the 24th Saturday of Yellow Vest protests in the first test of whether President Emmanuel Macron’s latest policy announcements will succeed in stilling months of unrest. Police prepared for a large turnout in Strasbourg after Yellow Vest organisers urged people from other countries to join the protest in the city that’s home to the ...

Bloomberg North Korea accused the US of pressuring South Korea to follow a policy of implementing sanctions against the regime, its state media reported. The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) report said there was a “serious situation of tension being created” on the peninsula amid halted denuclearisation talks with the US. The report was a commentary from the Committee for ...