Bloomberg ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ The United Nations Security Council approved new sanctions aimed at punishing North Korea for its latest missile and nuclear tests after the US dropped demands such as an oil embargo to win support from Russia and China. The 15-member council passed the resolution unanimously following a week of talks that began when Kim Jong Un’s regime tested its ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s renewed push to resolve a three-month showdown between Qatar and a Saudi-led coalition was spurred by a conviction that the impasse has distracted US Gulf allies from his attempt to challenge Iran. Trump told Kuwaiti officials visiting the White House last week that Gulf Arab nations can’t effectively counter growing Iranian regional influence if they’re busy ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Erna Solberg became Norway’s first Conservative Party leader in over three decades to be re-elected as a movement to stop further oil exploration in western Europe’s biggest petroleum producer fizzled. “We won support for four more years because we have delivered on what we have promised and also because we have met tough challenges,” Solberg said at ...