Bloomberg The Czech Republic blamed the same Russian agents accused of poisoning former spy Sergei Skripal in the UK for a deadly 2014 blast that has done the worst damage to Prague-Moscow ties since the fall of communism. After both sides expelled a record number of diplomats, the Czechs are pondering a further response after Russia left just a skeleton ...

Bloomberg China’s military is thought to have instructed a hacker group to conduct cyberattacks on nearly 200 Japanese research institutions and firms, public broadcaster NHK reported, citing unidentified people in a police investigation. The investigators found a member of China’s Communist Party made contracts under a false name for rental servers in Japan that were used in the attacks on ...

Bloomberg German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed concern at continued Russian troop deployments around Ukraine that the European Union estimates at 100,000, while the government in Kyiv appealed for sanctions to be tightened on its neighbour. The situation is “extremely tense and very worrying as a result of the concentration of forces on the Russian side of the Ukrainian border,” Merkel ...