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Italy’s center-left coalition collapses days after agreement

Bloomberg An Italian centrist party quit its alliance with the Democrats, days after agreeing to join forces in a bid to prevent a right-wing landslide in September elections triggered by the fall of Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s government. The Azione party pulled out because “the pieces just didn’t fit together,” its leader, Carlo Calenda, said during an interview with national ...

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Russia invites nuclear monitors to visit shelled Ukrainian plant

  Bloomberg Russia told diplomats it’s ready to welcome international monitors into Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, whose safety is in doubt after coming under attack last week. International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors have said there’s a “very real risk of a nuclear disaster” at Europe’s biggest atomic power plant amid fighting in the area. The Zaporizhzhia site, with six ...

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South Korea minister offers to quit in another hit for president

  Bloomberg South Korea’s education minister offered to resign over a plan to reduce the school entry age a year to five, which ignited a backlash and dented already weak support for President Yoon Suk Yeol. Park Soon-ae, one of four women in Yoon’s 18-member cabinet, submitted her resignation Monday, saying she was stepping down after about a month on ...

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