Bloomberg A convoy of US troops was hit by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan’s province of Kandahar on Saturday, AP reported, citing unidentified NATO and local officials. Two US troops were killed and two injured when the explosive device hit the military vehicle, military officials said. The Taliban earlier claimed responsibility for the attack through its spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi. ...

Bloomberg President Tsai Ing-wen won a landslide victory over China-friendly opposition challenger Han Kuo-yu to clinch a second term in Taiwan’s presidential election, dealing a blow to Beijing, which has long sought to bring the democratically run island under its control. Han conceded defeat just before 9 pm at his headquarters in the southern city of Kaohsiung. Tsai had a ...

Bloomberg North Korea won’t rely on the personal relationship between its leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump as it doesn’t intend to trade its nuclear weapons for a lift of sanctions, its state-run media said, citing a foreign ministry adviser. “There will never be such negotiations as that in Vietnam, in which we proposed exchanging a core nuclear ...