Bloomberg Defense Secretary Jim Mattis vouched for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s diplomatic efforts to defuse the North Korea crisis after President Donald Trump said Tillerson “is wasting his time.” “The Defense Department supports fully Secretary Tillerson’s efforts to find a diplomatic solution but remains focused on defense of the United States and our allies,” Mattis said in testimony on ...

Bloomberg At least 500 Spanish police officers were driven out of their hotels by angry locals last night as Catalan separatists pushed back against state forces after the crackdown on their illegal vote for independence. “This is a mafia behavior,” Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria said in a televised statement on Tuesday. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is fighting ...

Bloomberg Extremists who repeatedly watch terrorist content online could be jailed for as long as 15 years, UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd said on Tuesday, announcing an update of counter-terrorism laws. The move will expand the existing offense of possessing information likely to be useful to a terrorist so it does not only apply to downloaded or stored information. UK ...