Bloomberg Malaysia’s court dismissed former leader Najib Razak’s application to add new evidence in the first of his 1MDB-linked trials, and maintained that the verdict on his appeal would be delivered on Wednesday. Najib was convicted last year of money laundering, corruption and criminal breach of trust over 42 million ringgit ($10 million) of funds belonging to SRC International, a ...

Bloomberg Ireland braced for a weather bomb, with Storm Barra’s violent winds and rain slamming the country through Wednesday. The Irish Meteorological Service issued a red wind warning for three counties in the west and south of the country, with people advised to shelter indoors and some transport and health services suspended. At least 12,000 homes and businesses had lost ...

Bloomberg A whistle-blower who worked on the UK’s response to the Afghanistan crisis has laid bare what the young diplomat says were serious shortcomings in how then-Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab — and even the ministry itself — handled the evacuation of vulnerable people from Kabul. Raphael Marshall, a junior officer in the British foreign service, told a parliamentary committee that ...