Bloomberg President Cyril Ramaphosa urged South Africans to safeguard against attacks on the independence and integrity of the judiciary, a week after one of his cabinet ministers criticized the nation’s top judges as “mentally colonized.” “We need to protect our Constitution, our democratic state and the electoral process from anyone who wants to weaken our democracy and deny the ...

  Bloomberg Alphabet Inc’s Google said it would spend $1 billion to buy up its own London offices, keeping a major presence in the UK capital at a time when firms wrestle with how to manage employee work habits. The purchase and renovation of the Central Saint Giles complex it moved into in 2011 are being undertaken as the company ...

  Bloomberg Norway’s exports surged to a record last year, helped by higher demand for fossil fuels, fish and metals. Western Europe’s largest oil and gas exporter sold 1.38 trillion kroner ($156 billion) worth of goods abroad in 2021, a 77% increase that led to a full-year trade surplus of 531 billion kroner, also the highest ever, Statistics Norway said ...