Bloomberg Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told a group of Israeli lawmakers and activists that President Donald Trump’s negotiating team had asked whether he would agree to a confederation with neighboring Jordan. Peace Now’s executive director Shaqued Morag, who attended the meeting, said Abbas told the US that he would agree to a trilateral confederation that includes Israel. Decades ago, ...

Bloomberg Eritrea says it will cut the size of its army as part of changes to a system of mandatory national service that the United Nations blames for propelling tens of thousands of people to flee to Europe and neighbouring countries. The official end to a two-decade war with neighbouring Ethiopia means the country that sits on a key shipping ...

Bloomberg Brazil’s imprisoned ex-leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is meeting with his aides on Monday to map out his party’s next moves after the country’s top electoral court banned him from running for president in October. Former Sao Paulo Mayor Fernando Haddad, Lula’s running mate and likely successor in the race, is in the southern city of Curitiba, where ...