Bloomberg Three University of Maiduguri workers allegedly abducted by Boko Haram militants during an ambush on an oil exploration team this week pleaded in a YouTube video released Friday for the Nigerian government to meet their captors’ demands. The video shows three men identifying themselves as staff at university’s geology department. It was recorded on Friday and they are being ...

Bloomberg Donald Trump’s first meeting with Vladimir Putin this month seemed to give the US president everything he wanted. The two appeared to get along. There was a modest cease-fire deal on Syria. Moscow’s meddling in the US election was raised, but both leaders were eager to move on. Three weeks later, relations between the US and Russia are at ...

Bloomberg An attack in the northern city of Hamburg thrust Chancellor Angela Merkel’s refugee policy into the spotlight less than two months before Germany goes to the polls. Police were aware that the man suspected of a stabbing spree on Friday had shown of signs radicalization, Hamburg’s interior minister, Andy Grote, said in a press conference on Saturday. The attack ...