Bloomberg In the days before Christmas, US officials in Boston unveiled insider trading charges against a Russian tech tycoon they had been pursuing for months. They accused Vladislav Klyushin, who’d been extradited from Switzerland on Dec. 18, of illegally making tens of millions of dollars trading on hacked corporate-earnings information. Yet as authorities laid out their securities fraud case, ...

  Bloomberg Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok resigned, saying that attempts to share power between the military and civilians had failed as deadly protests continued to rage against October’s coup. Without nationwide consensus on the way forward, the North African country risks sliding into chaos, Hamdok said in a televised address. His resignation, which had been expected for more than ...

  Bloomberg South Korea’s Moon Jae-in vowed to make another push for peace in his final months as president, despite fresh signs that Kim Jong Un has little interest in reciprocating. Moon used his last new year address as South Korea’s leader to press for a cause that has defined his political career. The former democracy campaigner and son of ...