Bloomberg North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile just as its envoy was preparing to address the United Nations (UN), in a pointed gesture of defiance against international resolutions meant to prevent such launches. The projectile was fired from the northern province of Jagang around 6:40 am local time and landed in waters to the east, South Korea’s military said, without ...

Bloomberg Russian authorities said they’d opened another criminal case against jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny and his allies, this time alleging they created an illegal “extremist organisation.” If convicted, Navalny and his colleagues could face as much as a decade in prison. The probe is the latest in a rising tide of legal pressure prosecutors and investigators have put on ...

Bloomberg Top Pentagon officials will be pressed to explain whether they supported President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan and why the US didn’t foresee the Afghan military’s collapse to Taliban forces, forcing a hasty American withdrawal. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and General Frank MacKenzie, head of US Central Command, are expected to ...