Bloomberg President Donald Trump said Wednesday he’d prefer to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by creating two separate states, re-aligning himself with the traditional US position on an eventual peace deal. Trump also said his administration would produce its long-awaited attempt at a new Mideast peace plan within about four months. “I like two-state solution,” Trump said at a meeting with ...

Bloomberg Angela Merkel’s first foray into politics after the fall of the Berlin Wall was as spokeswoman for an East German party called Democratic Awakening. The last act of her political career may also be marked by a drive for a new beginning—this time from within her own parliamentary bloc. The defeat of Merkel’s candidate for caucus leader, Volker Kauder, ...

Bloomberg Theresa May ruled out a return to the ballot box to settle the UK’s political stalemate over Brexit and hunkered down on her plans for leaving the European Union. “It would not be in the national interest to have an election” before the scheduled Brexit date in March 2019, the prime minister told reporters en route to New York. ...