Bloomberg Bed Bath & Beyond Inc is looking to sell its Christmas Tree Shops and Cost Plus World Market chains, according to people familiar with the matter, part of an ongoing makeover of the home-goods company. The people declined to be identified because the process isn’t public. Activist investors pressured the company to oust Chief Executive Officer Steven Temares last ...

Bloomberg Vladimir Putin said he’ll consider running for a fifth presidential term in 2024, arguing that the hunt for any successor risks paralysing Russia’s government as the next election nears. “I don’t rule out such a possibility,” if the necessary amendment to the constitution is approved, Putin said in a Rossiya 1 television documentary broadcast. “I haven’t made up my ...

Bloomberg South Korea’s presidential office said John Bolton painted a distorted picture of diplomacy with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, joining the Trump administration in criticising a memoir from the US former national security adviser. “It does not depict accurate facts,” Chung Eui-yong, the director of national security, said in a statement on Monday from the office of President Moon ...