Bloomberg Secretary of State Michael Pompeo met officials from the Taliban and Afghan government as the US seeks to keep peace negotiations on track amid renewed violence and a surprise move by the White House to accelerate the withdrawal of US troops. The Trump administration will “sit on the side and help where we can,” Pompeo said at a meeting ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong and former Demosisto members Agnes Chow and Ivan Lam plan to plead guilty to all charges related to a siege of police headquarters in June last year. Immediate detainment could follow, Wong wrote in a Facebook post, as a trial will be skipped and the hearing set to resume on Monday will proceed straight ...

Bloomberg Voting began in Burkina Faso, where President Roch Marc Christian Kabore has spent most of his five years in office fighting an insurgency that’s forced a million people to flee their homes. He’s likely to win a second term as the insecurity disrupts voting in opposition strongholds. Large swathes of the West African gold producer have become ungovernable since ...