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Trump says he’s confident Kim will denuclearise

Bloomberg US President Donald Trump said he believed North Korean leader Kim Jong-un would keep his pledge to “denuclearise,” while suggesting that neighbouring China might be working to undermine talks. “I have confidence that Kim Jong-un will honour the contract we signed &, even more importantly, our handshake,” Trump said in a tweet, adding that Beijing “may be exerting negative ...

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230 killed in month of S Sudan attacks

Bloomberg At least 232 civilians were killed by South Sudanese government forces, their allies and armed youth in the country’s north in April and May, the United Nations said. Many more were injured in the raids on villages in opposition-controlled areas in Mayendit and Leer from April 16 to May 24, according to an investigation by UN human-rights monitors. The ...

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Scam names Pakistan’s former president

Bloomberg Pakistan’s ex-president and leader of one of the country’s main political parties, Asif Ali Zardari, was named in a money-laundering investigation weeks before national elections. The Supreme Court in a statement sent to Bloomberg listed Zardari and his sister Faryal Talpur along with 12 others as beneficiaries in an alleged scam “running into billions of rupees” that led to ...

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