Bloomberg The Trump administration escalated its attacks on China over the coronavirus, as US officials publicly alleged that Beijing concealed and minimised the spread of the disease within its borders until it was too late to stop a global outbreak. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Michael Pompeo called the disease the “Chinese virus” at a White House news ...

Bloomberg Mexico’s foreign minister said the country won’t yet suspend flights from Europe, contradicting US President Donald Trump, but it will restrict land travel across its northern border. Trump said in a news conference earlier on March 20 that Mexico had taken action to secure the border and suspend air travel from Europe. At his own news conference hours later, ...

Bloomberg North Korea appears to have fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea shared with Japan, hours after leader Kim Jong-un oversaw a military exercise. South Korea said it had detected the projectiles fired from North Pyongan Province near the West Sea and that they travelled 410 kilometers (255 miles). Japan’s coast guard confirmed that the projectiles fell outside ...