Bloomberg Poland’s parliament started debate on legislation to raise the tax on petrol, reversing on an election promise even after producing a reported budget surplus in the first half. The ruling party proposed the tariff to provide as much as 5 billion zloty ($1.3 billion) a year to the budget, according to parliament’s website. Law & Justice, which vowed not ...

Bloomberg At least one media mogul is expecting to see a lot more deals like AT&T Inc.’s $85.4 billion purchase of Time Warner Inc., and the seeds for such megamergers could be planted this week in a resort town in Idaho. Pay-TV providers and phone companies like AT&T are realizing they need exclusive programming to set themselves apart in a ...

What lessons can we take from the IS’s defeat in Mosul and its coming eviction from Raqqa? The collapse of the ‘caliphate’ tells us that the US can succeed militarily in the Middle East if — and probably only if — it works with local forces who are prepared to do the fighting and dying. Where the massive US ground ...