Bloomberg Twelve people are dead, including the shooter, in shooting at a municipal centre in Virginia Beach, the police said. In another such incident on October 1, 2017, about 58 were dead and 869 injured in a mass shooting in Las Vegas. Stephen Paddock opened fire on country music festival from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel; assailant ...

Bloomberg The US is looking to gather more intelligence in the South Pacific to counter China, which has expanded its influence among small island nations in recent years. Concerns are rising that Beijing’s leaders are seeking to win through coercion the allegiance of islands typically aligned with the US, Admiral Philip Davidson, commander of the US Indo-Pacific Command, told a ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s meetings in the UK with Prime Minister Theresa May next week likely will end the leaders’ relationship the same way it began: with awkward attempts to overcome a lack of personal chemistry. May was the first foreign leader to visit Trump after he was sworn in as president. He’ll become the last foreign leader to visit ...