Bloomberg President Joe Biden said he told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that he supported the sale of F-16 jets to modernise Turkey’s air force. “We should sell them the F-16 jets and modernize those jets as well,” Biden said at the conclusion of a Nato summit in Madrid on Thursday. “It’s not in our interest not to do ...

  Bloomberg Russia confirmed it withdrew troops from Ukraine’s Snake Island in the Black Sea after the Ukrainian military said it had driven them out under massive attack. The Defense Ministry in Moscow called the decision a gesture aimed at easing grain shipments from Ukraine, but a top official in Kyiv dismissed that claim. There was no sign of a ...

Bloomberg Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the late Philippine dictator’s son and namesake, was to be officially sworn in as president on Thursday, completing his family’s political revival nearly four decades after his father’s ouster. Marcos met with President Rodrigo Duterte at the presidential palace, where the outgoing leader was also given departure honors. The incoming president will take the oath of ...