Bloomberg North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has dispatched one of his top aides to New York for talks ahead of his planned summit with Donald Trump next month, the president said on Twitter. “Meetings are currently taking place concerning Summit, and more,” Trump said in a Twitter posting that misspelled the envoy’s name. “Kim Young Chol, the Vice Chairman of ...

Bloomberg Libya’s competing powers reached a “consensus” on holding presidential and parliamentary elections in December, signalling a possible way out of the chaos that has gripped the nation for more than seven years. The leaders agreed to a statement that called for the “phasing out of parallel governments and institutions” and said that anyone who interferes in the election process ...

Bloomberg Italy’s Democratic Party signalled a return to campaign mode as it charged its rivals, the League and the Five Star Movement, with having prepared a plan to pull the country out of the euro if they had succeeded in forming a government together. The two parties gambled with the country’s well-being “with a project to take Italy out of ...