Bloomberg Battling a resurgence in violence including a campaign of targeted killings of journalists, Afghanistan’s government resumes peace talks with the Taliban on Tuesday, with efforts expected to be focused on securing a cease-fire agreement in the dying days of Donald Trump’s presidency. Since the intra-Afghan talks began in September in the Qatari capital of Doha, where the Taliban has ...

Bloomberg Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak rolled out 4.6 billion pounds ($6.2 billion) of new support to help UK businesses forced to close during the pandemic, as the country enters its third lockdown. Retail, hospitality and leisure businesses will be entitled to one-off top up grants of as much as 9,000 pounds ($12,233) to tide them over until the ...

Bloomberg Not since the lead-up to the 2008 financial crisis has Denmark’s housing market faced a similar gap between supply and demand, according to the home finance unit of Nordea Bank Abp. The number of residential properties for sale has plunged to its lowest in over a decade, Nordea Kredit estimates, citing new figures compiled by the website boligsiden.dk. The ...