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Kim tests Trump’s limits with rockets and taunts

Bloomberg All year, President Donald Trump refused to respond as North Korea carried out short-range missile tests and chipped away at crippling international sanctions. He even ignored a new volley of insults branding him a “heedless and erratic old man.” That restraint may not last much longer as North Korea hints darkly that it will make a major move by ...

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Suu Kyi defends military against genocide charges

Bloomberg Myanmar’s de facto leader and noble laureate Aung San Suu Kyi addressed the International Court of Justice on Wednesday to deny allegations the country’s military had committed genocide against minority Rohingya Muslims. The small Muslim-majority nation of Gambia that brought the case against Myanmar had laid out a detailed and graphic case a day earlier, saying thousands of Rohingya ...

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Women turn to guerrilla tactics to bring equality into British vote

Bloomberg A century after the UK saw its first female member of Parliament, one political party is adopting non-traditional “guerrilla tactics” in its attempts to advance the debate over gender in British politics. The Women’s Equality Party is embracing its position as a non-partisan “political startup” of 35,000 members ahead of Thursday’s general election and using its small but media-savvy ...

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