Bloomberg Burkina Faso said 39 people were killed in an attack by extremists on the northern village of Silgadji that appears to mark a shift from raids on mainly military targets to the execution of civilians. Security forces are helping residents to bury the victims after the “cowardly and barbaric” attack, in Soum province, the government said in a statement. ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump made sure Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu was standing alongside him at the White House as he presented his long-delayed “deal of the century” for Middle East peace, a welcome distraction for two leaders fighting for their political futures. Yet the proposal — which makes far more demands of Palestinian than Israeli leaders — generated little enthusiasm, ...

Bloomberg China’s armed forces accused the US of “ill intentions” in the South China Sea after an American warship entered waters near the contested Spratly Islands last week. “The US ship’s deliberate provocation during the traditional lunar Chinese New Year festival, which harboured ill intentions, is a naked act of navigational hegemony,” Senior Colonel Li Huamin, spokesman for the People’s ...