Bloomberg A South Korean court is set to start liquidating assets of a Japanese company to compensate Koreans conscripted to work during colonial occupation, straining ties between two key US partners just as the Trump administration needs their help in countering China. A district court in the eastern city of Pohang will start a process on Tuesday to seize shares ...

Bloomberg Poland’s Supreme Court ruled that the July 12 presidential election won by incumbent Andrzej Duda was valid and that minor irregularities didn’t affect the outcome. The ruling paves the way for Duda to start a new five-year term and defeats a legal challenge from the campaign of opposition-backed Warsaw mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, who lost to the president in the ...

Bloomberg Guyana’s electoral authorities declared opposition candidate Irfaan Ali president, ending a five-month constitutional crisis that threatened to turn the South American nation into an international pariah. The decision eases fears that the country might erupt in violence, or cease to be a democracy, as rival factions fought for control of its fast-growing economy and its massive offshore oil riches. ...