Bloomberg The European Union will challenge Theresa May on Wednesday when it publishes a draft Brexit treaty that ignores some of the UK prime minister’s most important demands. The bloc is planning to set out in legal detail how it expects the UK to depart in just over one year’s time, and the terms of a transition period that will ...

AMSTERDAM / Reuters The world’s chemical weapons watchdog is investigating recent attacks in the besieged, rebel-held Syrian region of eastern Ghouta to determine whether banned munitions were used, sources told Reuters. The Hague-based Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) opened an investigation into reports of the repeated use of chlorine bombs this month in the district near the ...

Bloomberg Joseph Yun, the US special representative for North Korea, is set to step down, the State Department said, in a move that comes as Kim Jong Un’s regime says it’s willing to hold talks with Washington. A North Korean official told South Korea this week that the door was open for dialogue, and Washington said it was willing to ...