Bloomberg Japanese PM Yoshihide Suga declared his willingness to meet North Korea’s Kim Jong-un without preconditions, affirming the policy of his predecessor in his debut speech to the UN. Japan would seek to normalise ties with North Korea by resolving nuclear weapons and missile issues, as well as the past abductions of Japanese citizens, Suga told the General Assembly, in ...

Bloomberg An attack by unidentified gunmen in Ethiopia’s western Benishangul-Gumuz region left at least 15 people dead, including four women, in the third such raid this month, according to the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission. “Civilians are being subjected to repeated attacks with unmitigated cruelty in Benishangul-Gumuz,” Daniel Bekele, the chief commissioner said in an emailed statement. “Federal and regional authorities ...

Bloomberg Apple Inc.’s victory over a record back-tax order faces a challenge at the European Union’s top court as Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager seeks to rescue her crackdown on allegedly unfair fiscal deals doled out to multinational companies. The EU’s General Court “made a number of errors of law” when it sided with Apple in its ruling in July, the ...