Bloomberg The world’s worst-performing major currency of 2016 is starting to win some friends. Old Mutual Asset Managers Plc., which oversees 327 billion pounds ($427 billion), said it turned bullish on the pound after U.K. economic data signaled the country was resilient in the wake of the June vote to leave the European Union. Sterling bulls were immediately rewarded ...

  Hasakeh / AFP Syrian government warplanes were in the air again on Saturday over the flashpoint northeastern city of Hasakeh, despite a US warning against new strikes that might endanger its military advisers. In another escalation of the five-year war, regime planes this week bombarded positions held by US-backed Kurdish forces in the city fighting the IS extremist group. ...

  Kunduz / AFP Taliban militants on Saturday captured a district in northeastern Kunduz province, near the provincial capital where militants scored their biggest victory in 14 years last September. The militants, waging a bloody insurgency to topple the Western-backed Kabul government, have intensified their attacks nationwide and tightened their grip on the besieged capital of Helmand province southwest of Kunduz ...