Bloomberg The United Nations Security Council debated conflicts from Syria to Libya to Bosnia this week. Missing from the agenda: North Korea’s missile launches, explicitly prohibited by unanimous council resolutions. With the US and its allies offering a muted response to Kim Jong-un’s latest violation of international resolutions, UN attention on North Korea came at a small side event on ...

Bloomberg A week after an audacious attempt to topple Venezuelan autocrat Nicolas Maduro, his regime is cracking down on those it holds responsible, searching homes, issuing arrest warrants and sending opposition leaders into hiding. Top allies of Juan Guaido, the head of the powerless legislature who says he is the nation’s rightful president, are circulating among safe houses, holing up ...

Bloomberg Mexico detained thousands more migrants in April than a year ago after US President Donald Trump threatened to close the border, representing a shift in focus for the nation’s leftist president away from granting humanitarian visas. Under President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, 20,564 people were presented to immigration authorities in April compared with 11,486 in April 2018, an increase ...