Bloomberg Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected British allegations that the Russians suspected of carrying out a nerve-agent attack on a former spy in the UK are intelligence agents and called on them to go public, taking a defiant tone in his first official comments on the charges. “We know who they are. We found them,” Putin told an an economic ...

Bloomberg Chancellor Angela Merkel offered implicit support for military action against Syria, upbraiding her coalition partner for ruling out German participation in a response to an offensive in the country’s last rebel stronghold. Germany’s Social Democrats, the junior partner in Merkel’s government, this week rejected a German role in any military strike should President Bashar al-Assad and his backers create ...

Bloomberg Anwar Ibrahim, who’s in line to become Malaysia’s next premier, blasted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s treatment of the Rohingya and called for formal talks on China’s crackdown against its Muslim minority. “I was appalled by the attitude of Suu Kyi these days,” Anwar said in an interview with Bloomberg Television’s Sophie Kamaruddin in Hong Kong. “Buddhists, Muslims, ...