Bloomberg Germany’s private sector is suffering its worst downturn in almost seven years as a manufacturing slump deepens, raising pressure on the government to add fiscal stimulus. A Purchasing Manager’s Index fell to 49.1 in September from 51.7 a month earlier, according to IHS Markit. The reading was worse than economists predicted and the lowest since October 2012. It’s also ...

Bloomberg The UK government deployed the “largest repatriation in peacetime history” to bring home more than 150,000 tourists stranded on overseas beaches and in vacation hotspots by the collapse of tour operator Thomas Cook Group. The massive airlift, using chartered jetliners, follows the collapse of the 178-year-old company after eleventh-hour fundraising talks with investors failed. The move saw all bookings, ...

Bloomberg Ukraine’s novice leader may have thought Vladimir Putin would pose his biggest diplomatic challenge. Five months after being elected, it’s Donald Trump who’s giving him a crash course in the perils of international politics. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is being pulled into the storm surrounding the 2020 US election over a July phone call during which media allege Trump repeatedly ...