Bloomberg It will be a public trial by fire for new Exxon Mobil Corp. CEO Darren Woods. Presiding over his first annual meeting since predecessor Rex Tillerson left to become US secretary of state, Woods will be tested on Wednesday on everything from climate change to his own paycheck. Analysts and investors will be watching to see if he proves …

Bloomberg A suicide truck bomb in Kabul killed as many as 80 people and wounded 350 on Wednesday morning near a diplomatic enclave in the worst attack on the Afghan capital in 10 months. The explosion happened near the German embassy about 8:25 a.m. in the Wazir Akbar Khan area, a busy neighborhood that’s home to the presidential palace and …

Bloomberg Russia attacked IS targets in Syria with cruise missiles fired from a warship and submarine, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said. The Admiral Essen frigate and the Krasnodar submarine, operating in the Mediterranean Sea, hit sites around the Syrian city of Palmyra with four Kalibr missiles, the ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. The US, Turkey and Israel …