Bloomberg Defense ministers from India and China agreed to defuse tensions after the latest clash on their Himalayan border revived a conflict that had been largely dormant since June. India’s Rajnath Singh and his Chinese counterpart Wei Fenghe held “frank and in-depth discussions” in Moscow about developments on the border and on bilateral relations, according to a statement from India’s ...

Bloomberg Sudan declared a three-month national state of emergency following floods that killed dozens of people and damaged or destroyed more than 100,000 homes, state-owned news agency Suna reported. The floods have affected over 500,000 people this year, killing 99 and injuring 46 others, Suna cited Labor and Social Development Minister Lena Al-Sheikh as saying. The rate of floods and ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said that Serbia and Kosovo had agreed to “economic normalisation,” in what he said was a step towards ending a two-decade old conflict. But the deal fell short of Belgrade recognising its neighbour as an independent nation. “My administration proposed a new way of bridging the divide by focussing on job creation and economic growth,” Trump ...