Bloomberg Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has taken the rare step of removing the director of the country’s top federal law enforcement agency and one of his deputies over “grave allegations of corruption.” Alok Kumar Verma, director of the Central Bureau of Investigation, or CBI, and Rakesh Asthana, a special director at the agency, have been relieved of their roles, ...

Bloomberg Potential explosive devices addressed to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were detected and intercepted by the US Secret Service, which has opened a criminal investigation into the incidents. “The packages were immediately identified during routine mail screening procedures as potential explosive devices and were appropriately handled as such,” the Secret Service said in an emailed statement on Wednesday. “The ...

Bloomberg UK Prime Minister Theresa May lost control over the warring factions within her government as the Cabinet descended into open conflict over her Brexit plans at an angry meeting. According to people familiar with the matter, seven senior pro-Brexit ministers spoke out against a proposal that could allow the UK to stay inside the European Union’s tariff regime indefinitely. ...