Bloomberg Almost 80 percent of the 1.5 million customers who lost power in Hurricane Florence have had their electricity restored by Duke Energy Corp. It’s the remaining few hundred thousand that could be the test. “The first ones are the easiest ones,” Kit Konolige, a New York-based analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence, said.

Bloomberg Russia warned angrily it may respond to “hostile” actions by Israel after one of its military reconnaissance planes was downed mistakenly by Syrian forces fighting off an attack by Israeli warplanes. The spike in tensions came a day after Russia called off a campaign against the last major opposition-held area in Syria, preventing for now an escalation in the ...

Bloomberg Arab countries will step in to help the UN agency serving Palestinian refugees after the US’s decision to cut off funding, Egypt’s foreign minister said, as President Donald Trump’s allies seek to contain the fallout of his attempt to re-write the rules that have underpinned decades of peace talks. The Trump administration said last month it would not make ...