Bloomberg Burkina Faso said the army killed 80 militants in a two-pronged attack on a military post and the northern town of Arbinda, the latest deadly incident in an ongoing battle between the West African country and an extremist insurgency. Ground troops and fighter jets pursued the assailants following an intense battle that lasted several hours near the border with ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said he’s in a “very good position” in advance of an impeachment trial in the Republican-led Senate, and that Majority Leader Mitch McConnell can do “whatever he wants.” “We have the majority,” Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. “And it’s up to Mitch McConnell.” He praised the Kentucky Republican as a ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong riot police fired tear gas at crowds in popular shopping districts on Christmas Eve in confrontations that left about two dozen people injured as protesters took to streets and malls to demand greater democracy. Officers used the gas to disperse demonstrators in Mong Kok and outside the Peninsula Hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui. They also clashed with ...