Bloomberg US-led reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan since 2002 are linked to the deaths or injuries of more than 5,100 people in addition to more than $130 billion in financial costs, according to a new report on America’s longest war. Some 2,214 people were killed and another 2,921 wounded while taking part in reconstruction and stabilisation missions across the war-ravaged nation ...

Bloomberg Ukraine is pressing Iran to send the so-called black box recorders from the Boeing Co plane that crashed after taking off from Tehran last month, Ukrainian foreign minister Vadym Prystaiko said. “The black box and cooperation with Tehran was the very difficult issue from the beginning and we will try to keep the message” focussed on recovering the data, ...

Bloomberg The European Central Bank (ECB) has set out an ambitious timetable for its strategic review that could see a decision on whether to change its inflation goal by the summer, according to euro-area officials. Speaking on condition of anonymity because the process is confidential, the officials described a rushed agenda under President Christine Lagarde, who reached her 100th day ...