Bloomberg Thousands of protesters marched through the capitals of Serbia and Montenegro as demonstrators kept up pressure on governments to curb corruption and allow more freedom in a region that hopes to integrate with the European Union. In Montenegro’s capital Podgorica, several thousand people took part in a fourth weekend rally in a row over allegations of corrupt practices of ...

Bloomberg The US will keep pressing its European allies to take back citizens caught fighting for IS in Syria if they’re released, National Security Adviser John Bolton said. The fate of the estimated 800 to 1,000 captives taken by Kurdish militias in northeastern Syria has been a sore point since President Donald Trump tweeted in February that the UK, France, ...

Bloomberg Muhammad Ridick would rather endure a back-breaking five hours of commuting on his motorbike each day than ride Jakarta’s public transport. “It’s very difficult to get a seat on a bus or train during rush hour,” said Ridick, 25, an employee at PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia, whose 80 kilometer round-trip journey to work and back means he often doesn’t reach ...