Bloomberg The Palestinian Authority cabinet met in the Gaza Strip for the first time in three years as its members began to take charge of ministries from Hamas, and said they would start talks next week on the contentious issue of security forces. The government is “ready to take complete responsibility and extend its full control over Gaza, without exceptions,” …

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy stuck stubbornly to his script on Sunday night while the rest of the world watched an entirely different movie unfold in Catalonia. “There was no referendum. What we have seen was a mere dramatization,” Rajoy insisted. He sounded a little like a Kremlin spokesperson brushing aside a separatist uprising in, say, Chechnya. Nothing to see …

The relationship between the Democratic Party and big business this year has all the makings of a good romantic comedy. Based on their histories and values, these two couldn’t be more different. And yet, the fates seem to be drawing them together. All that’s missing is one party walking in, drenched from the rain, exclaiming, “You had me at ‘$15 …