Bloomberg When students at an elite university in Berlin charged the school with condoning racist attitudes, the administration had no formal procedures in place to deal with the spat. Even its diversity czar said it was out of her hands. The dispute at the Hertie School — one of Germany’s top training grounds for civil servants — was sparked by ...

Bloomberg US President Donald Trump offered praise for outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and both leaders may speak by phone next week. Abe is arranging to talk with Trump on Monday, and plans to convey directly his plans to step down as prime minister as well as stress the importance of the US-Japan alliance under a new leader, Kyodo ...

Bloomberg Burundian President Evariste Ndayishimiye’s pledge to undertake wholesale reform has raised hopes the East African nation is emerging from the turmoil of his late predecessor’s authoritarian rule. Ndayishimiye has spoken of overhauling the economic and political landscape and opening up the landlocked country that was reduced to an international pariah during Pierre Nkurunziza’s 15-year stranglehold on power. Unlike the ...