Bloomberg President-elect Joe Biden is delivering a not-so-subtle rebuke to President Donald Trump with his choices of nominees to lead two key national-security agencies. For his director of national intelligence, Biden has selected Avril Haines, a former top CIA official with years of experience in the espionage community who would fill a job that Trump had largely reserved for people ...

Bloomberg An informal militia made up of Tigrayan youths killed at least 600 Ethiopian civilians identified as belonging to other ethnic groups on November 9, according to a state-run human rights body. The massacre occurred less than a week after a conflict started between federal forces and Tigrayan soldiers in the northern Ethiopian region. The youths, known as Samri, and ...

Bloomberg Storm Nivar over the Bay of Bengal is likely to turn into a “very severe cyclone” by Wednesday and may cause widespread damage to crops, mud houses and electricity poles in some southern Indian states. The storm will have a sustained wind speed of 120 to 130 kilometres (75-81 miles) per hour, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD). ...