Bloomberg South African President Jacob Zuma’s fate is set to be sealed when the top leadership of the ruling African National Congress meets to conclude the transition to a new administration. The National Executive Committee was expected to assemble on Monday in the capital, Pretoria, as Zuma, 75, has defied growing pressure to resign since his deputy, Cyril Ramaphosa, replaced ...

Bloomberg Israel is counting on Russian President Vladimir Putin to keep confrontations with Iran and Syria from spiraling into war as the Trump administration mostly watches from the sidelines, a senior aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. “The American part of the equation is to back us up,” but the US currently “has almost no leverage on the ground,” ...

Bloomberg Conservatives’ infighting over how to engage with the rest of a united Europe has helped bring down the party’s past three prime ministers. Now, Theresa May has given her government a few weeks to forge a position—and flesh out details—they can all get behind as the UK negotiates its way out of the European Union. With interlocutors in Brussels ...