Bloomberg The International Court of Justice (ICJ) rejected Kenya’s territorial claims in a maritime border dispute with Somalia, in a ruling that may inflame tensions between the nations eyeing the area’s oil and gas reserves. The ruling read by Judge Joan Donoghue was largely in favour of Somalia, with the Hague-based court saying that there isn’t a boundary agreement between ...

Bloomberg If Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov thought winning the Nobel Peace Prize may protect him against a sweeping Kremlin crackdown on media it considers “foreign agents,” then President Vladimir Putin offered a sobering warning on Wednesday. “If he doesn’t violate Russian law, and if he doesn’t give a reason to be declared a foreign agent, then he won’t be,” Putin ...

Bloomberg The European Union will offer a new package of concessions to the UK that would ease trade barriers in Northern Ireland, as the two sides prepare for a new round of contentious Brexit negotiations. Maros Sefcovic, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, was expected to offer to cut as much as 50% of the customs checks in Northern Ireland and ...