Bloomberg The US and UK embassies in Kenya offered to help investigate the murder of a key electoral official a week before the East African nation holds presidential elections. The body of Chris Msando, a systems development manager at the Independent Electoral & Boundaries Commission who went missing on the night of July 28, was found on Monday at a …

Bloomberg US engagement in Afghanistan has deteriorated to a new low, with personnel hunkered down behind blast walls as President Donald Trump struggles to define a vision for the war-torn country almost 16 years after American forces first arrived. While Defense Secretary James Mattis told lawmakers in June that the US is “not winning in Afghanistan right now” — despite …

Bloomberg BP Plc moved to calm investor concerns after debt rose to a record, saying lower oil-spill payments for the rest of the year and funds from asset sales will ease the burden. “This year debt is going up exactly in line with payments going out for Macondo,” Chief Financial Officer Brian Gilvary said on Tuesday by phone. “And it …