Bloomberg Russia bolstered its offer to the US for a one-year extension to their last remaining nuclear arms treaty on Tuesday by saying it’s ready to freeze its current arsenal. President Donald Trump’s administration rejected a Russian proposal to prolong the New START treaty for 12 months without conditions before it expires in February. It said doing so without capping ...

Bloomberg China criticised a meeting between the US’s new Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues Robert Destro and Tibet’s president-in-exile Lobsang Sangay, accusing America of trying to destabilise the region. Destro “violated the commitment and the policy stance of the US side on not supporting Tibet’s independence and not acknowledging this government in exile,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told ...

Bloomberg The first trials to deliberately infect people with the coronavirus to accelerate the development of vaccines could occur in the UK next year as part of an agreement reached by the government. Britain signed a contract with Open Orphan Plc and its London-based unit, hVivo, that paves the way for human challenge trials, the company said on Tuesday. The ...