Bloomberg Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila is meeting members of his ruling coalition to discuss who will be the candidate in presidential elections this year, party and government officials said. The central African nation is scheduled to hold parliamentary and presidential votes on December 23 that have been delayed since 2016 by the electoral commission’s inability to organise ...

Bloomberg Estonia, the tiny eastern European nation that says it was the first target of state-sponsored cyber warfare from Russia, may soon be able to strike back. Mirroring larger NATO members, its military is assembling a cyber-command unit to combat virtual attacks that have been growing by as much as 20 percent a year. As well as defensive strategies, the ...

Bloomberg Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte took his cues from Donald Trump at their first White House meeting, backing the president’s views on trade, migration, security and defense spending and setting himself up as an advocate for US policy in the heart of the European Union. “We are two governments of change—many things unite us,” Conte said at a joint ...