Bloomberg Towns around France braced for the 24th Saturday of Yellow Vest protests in the first test of whether President Emmanuel Macron’s latest policy announcements will succeed in stilling months of unrest. Police prepared for a large turnout in Strasbourg after Yellow Vest organisers urged people from other countries to join the protest in the city that’s home to the ...

Bloomberg North Korea accused the US of pressuring South Korea to follow a policy of implementing sanctions against the regime, its state media reported. The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) report said there was a “serious situation of tension being created” on the peninsula amid halted denuclearisation talks with the US. The report was a commentary from the Committee for ...

Bloomberg Maria Butina, the self-styled Russian gun-rights activist who befriended senior officials from the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the Republican party in the run-up to the 2016 election, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for failing to register in the US as an agent of a foreign government. Butina told US District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington that ...